SAML Contracts in the Midlands

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring SAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 108 164
Rank change year-on-year +2 +56 +30
Contract jobs citing SAML 5 25 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.91% 0.087%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.57% 6.51% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 2
10th Percentile £522 £573 £576
25th Percentile £563 £576 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £622 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -2.43% +15.91%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £672
90th Percentile £599 - £689
England median daily rate £594 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.04% - +3.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

SAML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.67% 13.93% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 272 464
10th Percentile £319 £276 £313
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the Midlands

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SAML in the Midlands

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SAML in the Midlands

SAML
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +9 3 £588 -9.62% 10
East Midlands -5 2 £558 -10.08% 11
SAML
England

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IAM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth
2 2 (40.00%) LDAP
2 2 (40.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) JWT
3 1 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Key Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) OCP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce