SAML Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SAML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 170 185
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing SAML 23 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.57% 0.048% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 0.28% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 9
10th Percentile £305 £332 £325
25th Percentile £405 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £460 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +15.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £484 £540 £575
90th Percentile £523 £588 £725
England median daily rate £499 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.88% - -4.00%

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 887 709 1,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 22.00% 17.09% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 470 802
10th Percentile £338 £350 £369
25th Percentile £385 £421 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £550 £589 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 32
10th Percentile £27.60 £14.28 £45.88
25th Percentile £30.00 £28.88 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £47.14
90th Percentile £93.85 £73.60 £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.13% -9.86%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the North of England

SAML
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SAML

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 26 September 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
North West 0 12 £448 -27.74% 2
Yorkshire -2 11 £442 +47.33% 9
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 12 (52.17%) WebSphere
2 11 (47.83%) Apache
2 11 (47.83%) IIS
2 11 (47.83%) JBoss
2 11 (47.83%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (43.48%) iPlanet
4 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) Entra ID
3 10 (43.48%) OpenShift
4 9 (39.13%) GCP
4 9 (39.13%) SaaS
5 8 (34.78%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (34.78%) Azure AKS
5 8 (34.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.35%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 11 (47.83%) Bitbucket Server
2 11 (47.83%) CA Release Automation
2 11 (47.83%) Git
3 8 (34.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Log4j
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Business Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (95.65%) OAuth
2 19 (82.61%) OpenID
3 13 (56.52%) LDAP
4 7 (30.43%) JSON
5 6 (26.09%) OAuth2
6 2 (8.70%) SailPoint
7 1 (4.35%) JDBC
7 1 (4.35%) JMS
7 1 (4.35%) JNDI
7 1 (4.35%) Kafka
7 1 (4.35%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (26.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) PMI
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
2 11 (47.83%) Windows
3 9 (39.13%) Windows Server
4 8 (34.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Identity Management
2 10 (43.48%) RBAC
3 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) GAP Analysis
3 9 (39.13%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (34.78%) Workshop Facilitation
5 7 (30.43%) Privileged Identity Management
6 5 (21.74%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
9 2 (8.70%) Agile
9 2 (8.70%) Business Analysis
9 2 (8.70%) Migration
9 2 (8.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Groovy
2 8 (34.78%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CBAP
2 1 (4.35%) CISM
2 1 (4.35%) CISSP
2 1 (4.35%) IBM Certification
2 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (78.26%) Active Directory
2 10 (43.48%) Docker
3 8 (34.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (47.83%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (43.48%) CA Wily
3 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
4 9 (39.13%) Progress Chef
5 8 (34.78%) Tivoli
6 7 (30.43%) Terraform
7 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (47.83%) Broadcom
2 11 (47.83%) IBM
2 11 (47.83%) Splunk
3 10 (43.48%) AppDynamics
3 10 (43.48%) Oracle
4 8 (34.78%) Alibaba
5 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.35%) Okta
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.35%) TIBCO