SAML Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 94 108
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 +58
Contract jobs citing SAML 17 11 9
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.75% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.75% 3.46% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £321 £494 -
25th Percentile £500 £577 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £597 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +40.53% -22.73%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £600
90th Percentile £598 £643 -
England median daily rate £512 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.67% - -6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 453 318 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.12% 19.12% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 191 178
10th Percentile £368 £380 £300
25th Percentile £449 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +20.55% -8.75%
75th Percentile £601 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £738 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.20
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £30.63
90th Percentile £77.25 - £38.50
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

SAML job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the West Midlands

SAML
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SAML

SAML
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Warwickshire -4 10 £569 -6.30%
Shropshire - 4 - - 3
Coventry - 2 £275 - 2
SAML
England

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Kerberos
1 5 (29.41%) SSH
2 3 (17.65%) BIG-IP
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) Ethereal
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) HTTP
2 3 (17.65%) HTTPS
2 3 (17.65%) IPsec
2 3 (17.65%) LAN
2 3 (17.65%) SSL
2 3 (17.65%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) WAN
2 3 (17.65%) Wireless
2 3 (17.65%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Selenium
1 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (58.82%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Consultant
1 5 (29.41%) Management Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Business Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Technical Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Technical Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SailPoint Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) LDAP
2 10 (58.82%) OAuth
3 5 (29.41%) SailPoint
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.88%) OpenID
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) AIX
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
1 5 (29.41%) Solaris
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Privileged Access Management
2 7 (41.18%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (41.18%) Requirements Gathering
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
4 5 (29.41%) Key Management
4 5 (29.41%) RBAC
4 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
5 4 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (23.53%) BPMN
5 4 (23.53%) Business Process Modelling
5 4 (23.53%) Change Management
5 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (23.53%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Strategic Planning
7 2 (11.76%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) Groovy
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (23.53%) NIST
3 3 (17.65%) GDPR
3 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
3 3 (17.65%) SOC 2
4 1 (5.88%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) CyberArk
2 5 (29.41%) BeyondTrust
3 4 (23.53%) Okta
4 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco
4 3 (17.65%) F5
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
4 3 (17.65%) VMware
5 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock
5 1 (5.88%) Ping Identity
5 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds