Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Single Sign-On (SSO)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 45 55
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 +32
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 10 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.00% 0.19% 1.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.24% 1.82% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 6
10th Percentile £438 - £373
25th Percentile £467 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £496
75th Percentile £656 - £625
90th Percentile £672 - -
England median daily rate £525 £583 £500
% change year-on-year -9.99% +16.65% -4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

Single Sign-On falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 89 55 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.89% 10.50% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 34 62
10th Percentile £199 £185 £163
25th Percentile £213 £322 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £435 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +2.35% -
75th Percentile £556 £500 £573
90th Percentile £660 £533 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £14.35 - £19.00
25th Percentile £15.57 - £25.38
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £25.77
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.72%
75th Percentile £18.64 - £26.15
90th Percentile £22.03 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -18.46% -40.01%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Single Sign-On relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the East Midlands

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Single Sign-On within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire - 5 £638 - 1
Northamptonshire - 4 £442 - 2
Single Sign-On
England

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (60.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Workstream Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (30.00%) OpenID
1 3 (30.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (90.00%) Security Operations
2 9 (90.00%) Validation
3 8 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (70.00%) Analytics
5 6 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 6 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
6 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
6 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (40.00%) Programme Governance
8 3 (30.00%) DevOps
8 3 (30.00%) Network Segmentation
8 3 (30.00%) Remediation Plan
8 3 (30.00%) SABSA
8 3 (30.00%) SDLC
8 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) GRC
2 6 (60.00%) QA
3 3 (30.00%) GDPR
3 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (30.00%) NIST
3 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (30.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Google