SAML Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 67 93
Rank change year-on-year -13 +26 +27
Contract jobs citing SAML 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.12% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.49% 0.54% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £533
25th Percentile - - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £575
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -47.83% -11.54%
75th Percentile - - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £300 £575
% change year-on-year +66.67% -47.83% -11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 206 184 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 24.52% 22.69% 24.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 128 243
10th Percentile £375 £419 £408
25th Percentile £413 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £625
90th Percentile £681 £691 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £30.30
25th Percentile - £15.22 £35.59
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £44.39
Median % change year-on-year - -63.53% -11.22%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £53.20
90th Percentile - - £58.48
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 £44.39
% change year-on-year - +40.80% +5.89%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

SAML job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SAML

SAML
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Leeds -10 1 £500 +66.67% 3
Halifax - 1 £500 -
SAML
Yorkshire

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Log4j
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) JNDI
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO