Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Single Sign-On (SSO)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 152 146
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 +65
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 40 13 45
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.85% 0.37% 0.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.30% 2.24% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 34
10th Percentile £381 £418 £336
25th Percentile £400 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.91% -18.25%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £581
90th Percentile £573 £534 £609
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £47.25 - -
25th Percentile £52.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.75 - £100.00
75th Percentile £57.25 - -
90th Percentile £57.63 - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.64%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 930 580 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.68% 16.30% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 337 477
10th Percentile £304 £250 £270
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £580 £586
90th Percentile £632 £656 £650
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 11 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.75
25th Percentile £19.15 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £53.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +15.31% - +73.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.28 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £47.75 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.85% -41.53% +27.89%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in the North of England

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the North of England

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
Yorkshire -22 23 £525 - 9
North West -24 17 £423 -15.40% 7
Single Sign-On
England

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (15.00%) IIS
2 5 (12.50%) Apache
2 5 (12.50%) iPlanet
2 5 (12.50%) JBoss
2 5 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 5 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (10.00%) Confluence
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) Entra ID
2 22 (55.00%) Azure
3 11 (27.50%) AWS
4 10 (25.00%) SaaS
5 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) OpenShift
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.50%) IaaS
7 3 (7.50%) PaaS
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.50%) Fastly
9 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) Kerberos
2 5 (12.50%) DNS
3 3 (7.50%) DHCP
3 3 (7.50%) Firewall
3 3 (7.50%) VPN
4 2 (5.00%) VSAN
5 1 (2.50%) Internet
5 1 (2.50%) SSL
5 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.50%) JIRA
2 5 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 8 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (10.00%) Publishing
2 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Senior
2 9 (22.50%) Administrator
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) SAP Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) Design Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (2.50%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (42.50%) OAuth
2 13 (32.50%) SAML
3 7 (17.50%) LDAP
4 6 (15.00%) OpenID
4 6 (15.00%) SAP Basis
5 4 (10.00%) React
6 2 (5.00%) .NET
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (5.00%) OAuth2
6 2 (5.00%) RESTful
6 2 (5.00%) YAML
7 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.50%) CSS
7 1 (2.50%) HTML
7 1 (2.50%) JSON
7 1 (2.50%) SailPoint
7 1 (2.50%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (17.50%) Taxonomies
3 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.50%) PKI
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.00%) NHS
5 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Windows
2 8 (20.00%) Linux
3 5 (12.50%) Unix
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
2 11 (27.50%) DevOps
2 11 (27.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 10 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (22.50%) Identity Management
5 8 (20.00%) BPMN
5 8 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 8 (20.00%) Technical Debt
6 7 (17.50%) Data Governance
6 7 (17.50%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (17.50%) Incident Response
6 7 (17.50%) Risk Management
6 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
7 6 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (15.00%) Cryptography
7 6 (15.00%) Secrets Management
7 6 (15.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) Groovy
1 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.50%) Python
4 2 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) CISSP
2 6 (15.00%) CISM
2 6 (15.00%) Degree
3 5 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (7.50%) Master's Degree
5 3 (7.50%) PhD
6 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.50%) GIAC
6 1 (2.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) SOC 1
3 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 3 (7.50%) vSphere
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (12.50%) CA Single Sign-On
2 5 (12.50%) CA Wily
2 5 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 5 (12.50%) Tivoli
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (5.00%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) SAP
3 7 (17.50%) Okta
3 7 (17.50%) Splunk
4 5 (12.50%) AppDynamics
4 5 (12.50%) Broadcom
4 5 (12.50%) IBM
4 5 (12.50%) Oracle
5 3 (7.50%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (7.50%) VMware
6 2 (5.00%) Cribl.io
7 1 (2.50%) Alibaba
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.50%) Google
7 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.50%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds