SAML Contracts in the North of England

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring SAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 174 211
Rank change year-on-year +23 +37 +3
Contract jobs citing SAML 15 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.19% 1.22% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 5
10th Percentile £448 £380 £415
25th Percentile £511 £432 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% -4.62% +12.07%
75th Percentile £544 £650 £706
90th Percentile £621 £675 £718
England median daily rate £594 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.04% - +3.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the North of England

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SAML in the North of England

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the North of England

SAML
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire +10 9 £469 +8.56% 15
North West +19 6 £525 -17.32% 19
SAML
England

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (26.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (26.67%) Lucidchart
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Kerberos
2 2 (13.33%) HTTP
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Data Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) LDAP Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) OAuth
2 10 (66.67%) OpenID
3 6 (40.00%) OAuth2
4 4 (26.67%) Kafka
4 4 (26.67%) LDAP
5 2 (13.33%) Ajax
5 2 (13.33%) JWT
5 2 (13.33%) Middleware
5 2 (13.33%) REST
5 2 (13.33%) SOAP
5 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) RBAC
2 9 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
5 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (26.67%) Data Security
5 4 (26.67%) Digital Twin
5 4 (26.67%) ETL
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
6 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) ForgeRock
1 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft