Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Single Sign-On (SSO)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 108 114
Rank change year-on-year -41 +6 +66
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 16 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.51% 0.78% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.12% 7.66% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 10
10th Percentile £335 £444 £383
25th Percentile £368 £488 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year - +15.94% -28.13%
75th Percentile £572 £573 £564
90th Percentile £638 £625 £607
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Systems Management Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 513 235 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.19% 10.21% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 154 226
10th Percentile £253 £188 £219
25th Percentile £400 £357 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% +16.47% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £543
90th Percentile £650 £660 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £12.18 £15.34
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.94 £16.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.19 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +122.36% -8.63% -
75th Percentile £77.25 £17.89 £36.36
90th Percentile £77.40 £18.13 £47.54
England median hourly rate £48.00 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +77.78% -41.53% +31.94%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the Midlands

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
West Midlands -27 15 £443 -11.50% 20
East Midlands -21 1 £550 - 12
Single Sign-On
England

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.25%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) SaaS
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 2 (12.50%) IaaS
5 2 (12.50%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) BIG-IP
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) Ethereal
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) HTTP
1 3 (18.75%) HTTPS
1 3 (18.75%) IPsec
1 3 (18.75%) LAN
1 3 (18.75%) SSL
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
1 3 (18.75%) WAN
1 3 (18.75%) Wireless
1 3 (18.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) JIRA Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) SAML
2 5 (31.25%) LDAP
2 5 (31.25%) OAuth
3 3 (18.75%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.25%) OpenID
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (31.25%) Architectural Design
2 5 (31.25%) Building Information Modelling
2 5 (31.25%) Business Case
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Webhook
5 2 (12.50%) Coaching
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
1 2 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.25%) Groovy
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (18.75%) GDPR
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (12.50%) QA
4 1 (6.25%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Atlassian
2 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) F5
2 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) ForgeRock
4 1 (6.25%) Autodesk
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Ping Identity
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds