SAML Job Trends in the North West

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 198 201
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +90
Permanent jobs citing SAML 1 7 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.016% 0.14% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.80% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,308 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +71.13% -26.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £41,750
90th Percentile - £78,187 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £69,308 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.61% +10.89% -

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 542 880 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.51% 17.41% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 468 552 902
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,550 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,013
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,125 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

SAML job vacancy trend in the North West

SAML
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SAML

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 14 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
Manchester +22 1 £75,000 +8.21% 1
SAML
England

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform