SAML Jobs in the North West

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring SAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SAML over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 266 243
Rank change year-on-year -14 -23 +95
Permanent jobs citing SAML 2 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.026% 0.045% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.25% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile £57,100 £40,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,375 £45,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +12.50% -24.40%
75th Percentile £77,875 £70,099 £59,375
90th Percentile £81,700 £72,526 £72,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £69,654 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.09% +16.09% -13.36%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,183 1,618 1,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.46% 18.26% 23.21%
Number of salaries quoted 482 1,119 937
10th Percentile £35,854 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,688 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £84,700
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAML in the North West.

Salary trend for SAML in the North West

SAML
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAML in the North West over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Salary histogram for SAML in the North West

SAML
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +38 1 £57,500 -8.00% 1
Cheshire - 1 £74,500 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FIDO
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Defensive Programming
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Ping Identity