Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in the North West

Single Sign-On (SSO)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 108 107
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +42
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 17 12 30
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.68% 0.56% 1.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.19% 4.05% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 22
10th Percentile £307 £418 £363
25th Percentile £392 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% -3.38% -17.86%
75th Percentile £480 £513 £573
90th Percentile £491 £534 £598
England median daily rate £523 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.83% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £100.00
England median hourly rate £54.50 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.64%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 406 296 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.18% 13.69% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 163 279
10th Percentile £300 £250 £300
25th Percentile £358 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £580 £571 £582
90th Percentile £650 £653 £670
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 46
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.74
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £24.39
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -3.44% -11.41%
75th Percentile £61.25 £62.68 £56.56
90th Percentile £72.56 £78.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.85% -42.62% +31.94%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in the North West

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the North West over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the North West

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester -11 8 £400 -20.00% 11
Cheshire -16 7 £453 +6.59% 6
Merseyside -5 2 £488 -2.50% 2
Single Sign-On
England

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (35.29%) IIS
2 5 (29.41%) Apache
2 5 (29.41%) iPlanet
2 5 (29.41%) JBoss
2 5 (29.41%) WebSphere
2 5 (29.41%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
4 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.88%) Fastly
7 1 (5.88%) Heroku
7 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
7 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Kerberos
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) VSAN
3 1 (5.88%) Internet
3 1 (5.88%) SSL
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (29.41%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) OAuth
2 5 (29.41%) LDAP
2 5 (29.41%) OpenID
2 5 (29.41%) SAML
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
3 2 (11.76%) Entity Framework
3 2 (11.76%) React
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 2 (11.76%) YAML
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) Flask
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) HTML5
4 1 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) PKI
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Unix
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
5 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Debt
5 3 (17.65%) Validation
5 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
6 2 (11.76%) Application Security
6 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
6 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
6 2 (11.76%) Edge Computing
6 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Groovy
1 5 (29.41%) Shell Script
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.88%) SOC 1
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 5 (29.41%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 3 (17.65%) vSphere
4 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) CA Single Sign-On
1 5 (29.41%) CA Wily
1 5 (29.41%) Progress Chef
1 5 (29.41%) Tivoli
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) PowerCLI
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) AppDynamics
2 5 (29.41%) Broadcom
2 5 (29.41%) IBM
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Splunk
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Proofpoint
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds