Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Single Sign-On (SSO)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 86 98
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +40
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.49% 0.084% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.31% 0.69% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £474 - £484
25th Percentile £495 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 - £531
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.61%
75th Percentile £570 - £688
90th Percentile £588 - £750
North West median daily rate £471 £620 £535
% change year-on-year -24.03% +15.89% -15.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £96.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £96.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 151 144 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.91% 12.12% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 91 203
10th Percentile £312 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £575
90th Percentile £691 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £464 £513
% change year-on-year -2.96% -9.51% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £19.32 £32.85 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £37.88 £18.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +137.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £84.50 £76.38 £55.31
90th Percentile £90.80 £92.95 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -56.69% - +112.03%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in Manchester

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in Manchester

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) iPlanet
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Fastly
2 1 (20.00%) Heroku
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (20.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Flask
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
1 1 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Edge Computing
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Minimum Viable Product
1 3 (60.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (60.00%) Validation
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Domain Models
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Development
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) CA Wily
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk