SAML Contract Job Trends in the North East

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAML 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.33% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -5.42% -3.08% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 121 53 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.07% 16.46% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 41 16
10th Percentile £378 £335 £324
25th Percentile £413 £375 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £418
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +10.05% -26.34%
75th Percentile £550 £490 £507
90th Percentile £588 £573 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 4
10th Percentile £56.50 - -
25th Percentile £61.88 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £20.77
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.61%
75th Percentile - - £27.12
90th Percentile - - £38.56
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SAML job vacancy trend in the North East

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SAML

SAML
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the North East region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 2 £413 - 1
SAML
England

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
2 1 (50.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk