SAML Job Trends in England

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 583 726
Rank change year-on-year +27 +143 +37
Permanent jobs citing SAML 112 55 110
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 0.72% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 48 45 63
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,462 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £90,938 £80,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £120,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +10.00% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,998 7,691 16,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.90% 19.74% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,048 5,682 14,134
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,177 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SAML job vacancy trend in England

SAML
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAML

SAML
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAML in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SAML in England

SAML
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +34 74 £75,000 -1.96% 20
South East -13 12 £50,000 +53.85% 10
North of England -57 9 £80,000 +60.00% 11
Midlands -34 8 £75,000 -
South West -43 8 - - 1
West Midlands -32 6 £75,000 -
North West -17 5 £85,000 +70.00% 7
Yorkshire -49 4 £75,000 - 4
East Midlands - 2 - -
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (3.57%) Anypoint
1 4 (3.57%) Moodle
2 1 (0.89%) Apache
2 1 (0.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.89%) nginx
2 1 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (65.18%) Azure
2 59 (52.68%) Entra ID
3 26 (23.21%) Google Workspace
4 25 (22.32%) GitHub
5 24 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (18.75%) Datadog
6 21 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (11.61%) AWS
7 13 (11.61%) SaaS
8 12 (10.71%) Azure AKS
8 12 (10.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (10.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (10.71%) GCP
9 8 (7.14%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.46%) Apigee
10 5 (4.46%) Serverless
11 4 (3.57%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.57%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (3.57%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 25 (22.32%) Broadband
2 23 (20.54%) Firewall
3 14 (12.50%) Network Security
3 14 (12.50%) VPN
4 12 (10.71%) WAN
5 11 (9.82%) Kerberos
6 9 (8.04%) DNS
6 9 (8.04%) SMTP
7 7 (6.25%) DHCP
8 5 (4.46%) SSL
9 4 (3.57%) LTE
10 1 (0.89%) BGP
10 1 (0.89%) CTI
10 1 (0.89%) DKIM
10 1 (0.89%) DMARC
10 1 (0.89%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.89%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.89%) IPsec
10 1 (0.89%) OSPF
10 1 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (12.50%) Git
2 9 (8.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.14%) GitLab
4 5 (4.46%) Postman
5 1 (0.89%) JIRA
General
1 31 (27.68%) Finance
2 25 (22.32%) Organisational Skills
2 25 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.46%) Law
6 5 (4.46%) Legal
7 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.89%) Advertising
8 1 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (21.43%) Architect
2 21 (18.75%) Senior
3 20 (17.86%) Developer
4 16 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (13.39%) Consultant
6 11 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) CyberArk Consultant
7 9 (8.04%) IAM Developer
7 9 (8.04%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Professional Services Consultant
9 6 (5.36%) Identity Management Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Integration Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Manager
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 5 (4.46%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (4.46%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (82.14%) OAuth
2 64 (57.14%) OpenID
3 58 (51.79%) REST
4 41 (36.61%) LDAP
5 33 (29.46%) SOAP
6 25 (22.32%) GraphQL
7 12 (10.71%) ADO
7 12 (10.71%) OAuth2
7 12 (10.71%) YAML
8 10 (8.93%) JWT
9 8 (7.14%) JMS
9 8 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (5.36%) JSON
11 5 (4.46%) Swagger
12 4 (3.57%) RESTful
13 3 (2.68%) IBM Integration Bus
13 3 (2.68%) Middleware
13 3 (2.68%) SailPoint
13 3 (2.68%) Spring Boot
13 3 (2.68%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.79%) Cyberattack
2 25 (22.32%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (7.14%) Security Posture
5 6 (5.36%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.79%) PKI
9 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.89%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.89%) IoT
9 1 (0.89%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.29%) Windows
2 12 (10.71%) Linux
2 12 (10.71%) VMS
3 5 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.79%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.18%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (39.29%) Identity Access Management
3 40 (35.71%) RBAC
3 40 (35.71%) Roadmaps
4 36 (32.14%) DevOps
5 33 (29.46%) CI/CD
6 31 (27.68%) Mentoring
6 31 (27.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (26.79%) Programme Delivery
8 29 (25.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (23.21%) Regulatory Compliance
11 25 (22.32%) Change Control
11 25 (22.32%) Zero Trust
12 23 (20.54%) Observability
13 18 (16.07%) Identity Management
14 17 (15.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 16 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
16 14 (12.50%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 57 (50.89%) PowerShell
2 39 (34.82%) SQL
3 37 (33.04%) Bash
4 25 (22.32%) T-SQL
5 12 (10.71%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (8.04%) Java
6 9 (8.04%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.36%) Python
8 4 (3.57%) DataWeave
9 3 (2.68%) PHP
10 2 (1.79%) Lua
11 1 (0.89%) Bicep
11 1 (0.89%) Groovy
11 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.86%) CISSP
3 13 (11.61%) Degree
4 12 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (9.82%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.46%) GIAC
7 5 (4.46%) ISACA
7 5 (4.46%) SANS
8 3 (2.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.89%) OSCP
9 1 (0.89%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (34.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (26.79%) NIST
3 26 (23.21%) NCSC
4 14 (12.50%) SOC 2
5 13 (11.61%) GDPR
6 5 (4.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.89%) QA
7 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (60.71%) Active Directory
2 22 (19.64%) Docker
3 12 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.89%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.89%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.89%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 27 (24.11%) Single Sign-On
1 27 (24.11%) Terraform
2 25 (22.32%) Kubernetes
3 18 (16.07%) Ansible
4 8 (7.14%) Grafana
4 8 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.89%) CASB
7 1 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 42 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.61%) CyberArk
3 12 (10.71%) Palo Alto
3 12 (10.71%) Zscaler
4 10 (8.93%) Okta
5 9 (8.04%) Google
5 9 (8.04%) Red Hat
6 8 (7.14%) Dynatrace
7 6 (5.36%) ForgeRock
8 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
9 4 (3.57%) MuleSoft
10 3 (2.68%) IBM
10 3 (2.68%) SAP
10 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.79%) Cognizant
11 2 (1.79%) Oracle
12 1 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.89%) Genesys
12 1 (0.89%) New Relic
12 1 (0.89%) Pega