SAML Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 102
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing SAML 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.28% - 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.50% - 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £332 - £366
25th Percentile £343 - £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.19%
75th Percentile £428 - £397
90th Percentile £460 - £399
North West median daily rate £446 - £388
% change year-on-year - - -26.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

SAML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 200 219 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 18.69% 18.83% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 134 325
10th Percentile £319 £332 £363
25th Percentile £389 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £643 £668 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £63.20 £60.50
25th Percentile - £64.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +1.09% -2.14%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - £74.20 £79.88
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £56.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +31.22% +22.54% -38.43%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

SAML job vacancy trend in Manchester

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SAML

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) iPlanet
1 2 (66.67%) JBoss
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (66.67%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
2 2 (66.67%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CA Single Sign-On
1 2 (66.67%) CA Wily
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Broadcom
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk