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 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 296 390 439
Rank change year-on-year +94 +49 +175
Permanent jobs citing SAML 78 50 47
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.31% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.89% 0.99% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 20 37 38
10th Percentile £54,683 £50,000 £49,425
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,308 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% +10.89% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,225
90th Percentile £78,125 £88,100 £74,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £69,308 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.61% +10.89% +4.17%

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 2,697 5,056 6,682
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.94% 30.89% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 3,221 5,733
10th Percentile £40,634 £41,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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

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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 13 January 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 17 (21.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 19 (24.36%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (14.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (10.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 61 (78.21%) Azure
2 36 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 32 (41.03%) Google Workspace
4 18 (23.08%) GitHub
5 17 (21.79%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (21.79%) GitHub Copilot
5 17 (21.79%) OCI
5 17 (21.79%) Power Platform
6 16 (20.51%) SaaS
7 8 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (10.26%) Boomi
8 2 (2.56%) AWS
8 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.56%) Serverless
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.28%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (41.03%) Broadband
2 2 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.79%) Power BI
1 17 (21.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (32.05%) JIRA
2 17 (21.79%) Git
2 17 (21.79%) Jenkins
2 17 (21.79%) Oracle Forms
General
1 34 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 32 (41.03%) Organisational Skills
3 26 (33.33%) Finance
4 20 (25.64%) Games
5 15 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.13%) Automotive
7 2 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (35.90%) Senior
2 26 (33.33%) Developer
3 19 (24.36%) Applications Engineer
4 17 (21.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (19.23%) IAM Developer
6 11 (14.10%) SAP Developer
6 11 (14.10%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.26%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) Integration Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
10 4 (5.13%) ABAP Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Product Manager
10 4 (5.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Systems Developer
11 2 (2.56%) Architect
11 2 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 2 (2.56%) Security Engineer
11 2 (2.56%) Senior Architect
12 1 (1.28%) AWS Engineer
12 1 (1.28%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (85.90%) OAuth
2 55 (70.51%) REST
2 55 (70.51%) SOAP
3 36 (46.15%) OpenID
4 32 (41.03%) GraphQL
4 32 (41.03%) LDAP
5 18 (23.08%) OAuth2
6 17 (21.79%) RESTful
7 11 (14.10%) BAPI
7 11 (14.10%) IBM Integration Bus
7 11 (14.10%) JMS
7 11 (14.10%) Middleware
8 8 (10.26%) Web Services
9 4 (5.13%) JSON
9 4 (5.13%) XML
10 2 (2.56%) Node.js
10 2 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (1.28%) .NET
11 1 (1.28%) AWS CDK
11 1 (1.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (43.59%) Cyber Threat
2 32 (41.03%) Cyberattack
3 28 (35.90%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (21.79%) Cloud Native
5 8 (10.26%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.56%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Linux
1 2 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (56.41%) Roadmaps
2 40 (51.28%) Mentoring
3 35 (44.87%) Identity Access Management
4 34 (43.59%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (41.03%) Programme Delivery
5 32 (41.03%) Regulatory Compliance
6 28 (35.90%) Event-Driven
6 28 (35.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 27 (34.62%) Agile
8 25 (32.05%) Asset Management
8 25 (32.05%) Coaching
9 23 (29.49%) Analytics
10 20 (25.64%) RBAC
11 19 (24.36%) CI/CD
11 19 (24.36%) ERP
12 18 (23.08%) AI
13 17 (21.79%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (21.79%) DevOps
13 17 (21.79%) SOA
13 17 (21.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (51.28%) PowerShell
2 33 (42.31%) SQL
3 32 (41.03%) Bash
3 32 (41.03%) T-SQL
4 25 (32.05%) Python
5 17 (21.79%) Java
5 17 (21.79%) PL/SQL
5 17 (21.79%) Shell Script
6 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.13%) ABAP
8 2 (2.56%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.28%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (41.03%) NCSC
1 32 (41.03%) NIST
2 12 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (10.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (43.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (44.87%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (24.36%) Oracle
2 17 (21.79%) Microsoft
3 11 (14.10%) IBM
3 11 (14.10%) SAP
4 8 (10.26%) MuleSoft
4 8 (10.26%) ServiceNow
4 8 (10.26%) Workday
5 1 (1.28%) Okta