Hybrid/Remote SAML Job Trends

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 388 537
Rank change year-on-year +66 +149 +33
Permanent jobs citing SAML 94 37 48
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 0.87% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 17 34 33
10th Percentile - £31,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,620
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +21.91% +24.99%
75th Percentile £77,500 £98,474 £93,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +19.15%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,433 4,274 8,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.70% 28.46% 26.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,495 2,878 7,713
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -11.11%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAML and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SAML job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SAML
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SAML

SAML
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SAML over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

SAML salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (2.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (75.53%) Azure
2 68 (72.34%) Entra ID
3 52 (55.32%) Google Workspace
4 7 (7.45%) SaaS
5 6 (6.38%) AWS
6 5 (5.32%) GCP
7 4 (4.26%) PaaS
8 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.13%) GitHub
8 2 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.13%) OCI
8 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.06%) Apigee
9 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.06%) Kong
9 1 (1.06%) Serverless
9 1 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 52 (55.32%) Broadband
2 11 (11.70%) DNS
2 11 (11.70%) Network Security
3 10 (10.64%) DHCP
3 10 (10.64%) Kerberos
4 9 (9.57%) SMTP
4 9 (9.57%) SSL
5 7 (7.45%) Firewall
6 6 (6.38%) BGP
6 6 (6.38%) IPsec
6 6 (6.38%) VPN
7 5 (5.32%) FTP
7 5 (5.32%) HTTP
7 5 (5.32%) ICMP
7 5 (5.32%) MPLS
7 5 (5.32%) SD-WAN
7 5 (5.32%) SNMP
7 5 (5.32%) SSH
7 5 (5.32%) VLAN
7 5 (5.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) Power BI
1 2 (2.13%) Tableau
2 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Git
1 7 (7.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.19%) JIRA
3 2 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.06%) Postman
General
1 52 (55.32%) Organisational Skills
2 40 (42.55%) Social Skills
3 28 (29.79%) Games
4 12 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (11.70%) Finance
6 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.32%) Law
7 5 (5.32%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (36.17%) Senior
2 24 (25.53%) Developer
3 23 (24.47%) Architect
4 18 (19.15%) IAM Developer
5 16 (17.02%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (15.96%) Consultant
7 11 (11.70%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.57%) CyberArk Consultant
9 8 (8.51%) Professional Services Consultant
9 8 (8.51%) Senior Architect
9 8 (8.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 8 (8.51%) Systems Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Network Architect
10 5 (5.32%) Security Architect
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Manager
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 5 (5.32%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (5.32%) Technical Manager
10 5 (5.32%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (82.98%) OAuth
2 73 (77.66%) REST
3 71 (75.53%) OpenID
4 66 (70.21%) LDAP
5 54 (57.45%) SOAP
6 52 (55.32%) GraphQL
7 7 (7.45%) RESTful
8 3 (3.19%) JDBC
8 3 (3.19%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.19%) Web Services
9 2 (2.13%) BAPI
9 2 (2.13%) IBM Integration Bus
9 2 (2.13%) JMS
9 2 (2.13%) Middleware
10 1 (1.06%) .NET
10 1 (1.06%) AWS CDK
10 1 (1.06%) JSON
10 1 (1.06%) JWT
10 1 (1.06%) React
10 1 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 57 (60.64%) Cyberattack
2 52 (55.32%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.06%) PKI
5 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.64%) Windows
2 9 (9.57%) Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (69.15%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (67.02%) Roadmaps
3 62 (65.96%) Identity Access Management
4 57 (60.64%) Programme Delivery
5 53 (56.38%) Mentoring
6 52 (55.32%) Regulatory Compliance
7 29 (30.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (25.53%) Change Control
9 20 (21.28%) RBAC
10 12 (12.77%) Computer Science
11 11 (11.70%) Privileged Access Management
11 11 (11.70%) Zero Trust
12 10 (10.64%) Biometrics
12 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (10.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 10 (10.64%) SIEM
12 10 (10.64%) Threat Detection
13 8 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (7.45%) Coaching
14 7 (7.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 64 (68.09%) PowerShell
2 54 (57.45%) Bash
3 52 (55.32%) T-SQL
4 28 (29.79%) SQL
5 4 (4.26%) Python
6 3 (3.19%) Java
7 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.06%) Bicep
8 1 (1.06%) C#
8 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.06%) Lua
8 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (17.02%) CISSP
2 14 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 12 (12.77%) Degree
4 9 (9.57%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.32%) GIAC
6 5 (5.32%) ISACA
6 5 (5.32%) SANS
7 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.06%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (65.96%) NIST
2 52 (55.32%) NCSC
3 30 (31.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.06%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (81.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (21.28%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (6.38%) CASB
2 6 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.32%) Ansible
3 5 (5.32%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.19%) Terraform
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 26 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.57%) CyberArk
3 7 (7.45%) Okta
4 5 (5.32%) Cisco
4 5 (5.32%) ForgeRock
4 5 (5.32%) Google
4 5 (5.32%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.26%) Oracle
6 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.13%) IBM
7 2 (2.13%) SAP
8 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.06%) Foundry
8 1 (1.06%) Palantir
8 1 (1.06%) Salesforce