SAML Job Trends in the South East

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 294 273
Rank change year-on-year +34 -21 +128
Permanent jobs citing SAML 11 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.011% 0.097%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 0.049% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £69,308 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.61% +10.89% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 957 2,043 1,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.25% 22.39% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 762 1,170 1,395
10th Percentile £34,075 £36,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SAML job vacancy trend in the South East

SAML
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAML

SAML
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAML in the South East over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SAML in the South East

SAML
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Surrey - 5 £45,000 - 10
Hampshire - 4 £62,500 -
Thames Valley +11 2 £57,500 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 2 £57,500 -
SAML
England

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (36.36%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (36.36%) OneDrive
3 4 (36.36%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Broadband
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Automotive
3 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Product Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) OAuth
2 7 (63.64%) OpenID
3 6 (54.55%) REST
4 5 (45.45%) OAuth2
4 5 (45.45%) SOAP
5 4 (36.36%) JSON
5 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (36.36%) XML
6 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 1 (9.09%) LDAP
6 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) B2B
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
2 4 (36.36%) ETL
2 4 (36.36%) GTM Strategy
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Product Management
2 4 (36.36%) Product Operations
2 4 (36.36%) Product Strategy
2 4 (36.36%) Product Vision
2 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Change Control
5 1 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Groovy
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft