SAML Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 127 167
Rank change year-on-year +25 +40 -38
Contract jobs citing SAML 9 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.44% 0.090% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.11% 0.57% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £558 £576 £550
25th Percentile £625 £597 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £688
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -7.27% +27.91%
75th Percentile £675 £672 £803
90th Percentile - £689 £813
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 289 352 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.15% 15.91% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 243 437
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £580
90th Percentile £750 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £14.23 - £56.51
25th Percentile £39.92 - £56.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £58.14
Median % change year-on-year - - +142.05%
75th Percentile £56.25 - £59.82
90th Percentile £60.00 - £59.88
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the West Midlands

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SAML in the West Midlands

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the West Midlands

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 13 June 2024. 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
Coventry +14 5 £650 -7.14%
Birmingham - 2 £650 - 3
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £400 -
SAML
England

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) CloudFront
3 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
3 5 (55.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (22.22%) Boomi
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) Network Security
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Retail
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Development Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) IAM Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) OAuth
2 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) Visualforce
3 2 (22.22%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (55.56%) Application Security
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
2 5 (55.56%) Data Security
2 5 (55.56%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
2 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (55.56%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
2 5 (55.56%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Release Management
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Apex Code
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) SOQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Google