SAML Contracts in the North West

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 123 139
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SAML 7 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.58% 1.03% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £305 - £333
25th Percentile £305 £620 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £635 £450
Median % change year-on-year -43.31% +41.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £482 £656 £581
90th Percentile £576 £668 £593
England median daily rate £550 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -5.34% -3.17% -2.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 443 387 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.13% 16.03% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 271 457
10th Percentile £313 £350 £337
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £537 £611 £613
90th Percentile £614 £825 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 22
10th Percentile £27.20 £42.11 £38.60
25th Percentile £29.00 £46.18 £45.96
Median hourly rate £51.00 £67.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -23.88% +45.08% -34.03%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.69 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £72.92 £64.88
England median hourly rate £55.00 £58.91 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.63% -1.83% -

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the North West

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in the North West over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the North West

SAML
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire -17 5 £308 -50.40% 2
Manchester -4 2 £511 -22.83% 1
SAML
England

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (71.43%) Apache
1 5 (71.43%) IIS
1 5 (71.43%) JBoss
1 5 (71.43%) WebSphere
2 4 (57.14%) iPlanet
2 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Kerberos
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (71.43%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) OAuth
2 6 (85.71%) LDAP
2 6 (85.71%) OpenID
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) PMI
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Boundary Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 1 (14.29%) OWASP
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Groovy
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CBAP
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) CA Single Sign-On
2 4 (57.14%) CA Wily
2 4 (57.14%) Progress Chef
3 3 (42.86%) Tivoli
4 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Broadcom
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) AppDynamics
2 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Okta
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow