Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Single Sign-On (SSO)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +23
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.80% 0.88% 2.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.69% 7.69% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £336 - -
25th Percentile £391 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +53.85% -23.53%
75th Percentile £591 £513 -
90th Percentile £649 - -
North West median daily rate £423 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -15.40% -2.44% -18.65%

All Systems Management Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 26 26 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.36% 11.45% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 15
10th Percentile £282 £163 £243
25th Percentile £300 £250 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +28.57% -26.32%
75th Percentile £510 £506 £484
90th Percentile £598 £565 £519
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.86%
75th Percentile - - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £19.43
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -0.73% -6.89% -2.78%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in Merseyside over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in Merseyside

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 16 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
Liverpool -3 2 £488 -2.50%
Single Sign-On
North West

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 1
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) VMware