Single Sign-On Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Single Sign-On skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Single Sign-On over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 159 202
Rank change year-on-year +29 +43 +5
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 38 26 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.15% 0.56% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.23% 4.89% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 12
10th Percentile £230 £408 £384
25th Percentile £406 £484 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £497 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% -13.52% -2.54%
75th Percentile £578 £643 £678
90th Percentile £625 £693 £721
England median daily rate £564 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +8.99% -5.91% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £98.00 -
England median hourly rate - £28.25 -

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 610 532 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.41% 11.48% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 375 618
10th Percentile £251 £237 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £549
Median % change year-on-year - -13.44% +4.52%
75th Percentile £563 £576 £638
90th Percentile £638 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 22 51
10th Percentile £55.33 £16.89 £16.25
25th Percentile £62.86 £17.72 £22.27
Median hourly rate £63.40 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +181.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £84.69 £48.75 £49.52
90th Percentile £88.18 £80.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £25.77 £52.32
% change year-on-year +8.67% -50.75% +143.33%

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

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

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in the North of England

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in the North of England.

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

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 19 May 2025.

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

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

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Single Sign-On in the North of England

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 19 May 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
North West +21 26 £463 -17.41% 15
Yorkshire +16 10 £535 +37.94% 3
North East - 2 £600 - 5
Single Sign-On
England

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (28.95%) SharePoint
3 6 (15.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (10.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (68.42%) Azure
2 25 (65.79%) Entra ID
3 14 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (23.68%) SaaS
5 4 (10.53%) Google Workspace
5 4 (10.53%) Lucidchart
5 4 (10.53%) OneDrive
6 3 (7.89%) AWS
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Kerberos
2 4 (10.53%) VPN
3 3 (7.89%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.63%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) MSI
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Security Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) IT Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) IT Security Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) OAuth
2 9 (23.68%) OpenID
3 8 (21.05%) SAML
4 6 (15.79%) SOAP
5 4 (10.53%) LDAP
5 4 (10.53%) OAuth2
6 3 (7.89%) JDBC
6 3 (7.89%) REST
7 2 (5.26%) Ajax
7 2 (5.26%) Web Services
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.16%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (13.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.53%) PKI
4 3 (7.89%) Taxonomies
5 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
2 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.53%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Agile
1 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
2 12 (31.58%) RBAC
3 11 (28.95%) Identity Management
3 11 (28.95%) Privileged Access Management
4 10 (26.32%) Migration
5 8 (21.05%) ITIL
6 7 (18.42%) ITSM
7 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (13.16%) Problem Management
8 5 (13.16%) User Experience
8 5 (13.16%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 4 (10.53%) Scrum
9 4 (10.53%) Task Automation
10 3 (7.89%) API Integration
10 3 (7.89%) Data Loss Prevention
10 3 (7.89%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.89%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.63%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) CISM
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.89%) NIST
3 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.63%) GDPR
4 1 (2.63%) NCSC
4 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (57.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.53%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.63%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (31.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) CyberArk
3 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
3 4 (10.53%) Citrix
3 4 (10.53%) Google
3 4 (10.53%) Ping Identity
3 4 (10.53%) Zscaler
4 3 (7.89%) ForgeRock
5 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.26%) Varonis
6 1 (2.63%) Centrify
6 1 (2.63%) Okta
6 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) Thycotic
6 1 (2.63%) Veeam
6 1 (2.63%) VMware