SAML Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 272 277
Rank change year-on-year +19 +5 +134
Permanent jobs citing SAML 6 15 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.056% 0.17% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.97% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 2
10th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £41,345
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £44,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £69,308 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -45.89% +31.39% -4.09%
75th Percentile £43,750 £74,144 £62,788
90th Percentile £64,000 £74,144 £66,995
England median annual salary £72,500 £69,308 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.61% +10.89% -2.72%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,088 1,553 2,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.16% 17.12% 24.33%
Number of salaries quoted 892 919 1,701
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.39% -3.70%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SAML job vacancy trend in the North of England

SAML
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SAML

SAML
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAML in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SAML in the North of England

SAML
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Yorkshire - 5 £37,500 - 3
North West +22 1 £75,000 +8.21% 11
SAML
England

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (66.67%) Anypoint
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Security Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) JWT
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth
2 4 (66.67%) OpenAPI
2 4 (66.67%) RAML
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (16.67%) Fintech
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (16.67%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) DataWeave
1 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) CloudHub
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk