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 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 118 117
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +30
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 17 5 27
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.77% 0.21% 0.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.43% 1.79% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 19
10th Percentile £384 £438 £355
25th Percentile £423 £517 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £642 £535
Median % change year-on-year -26.66% +20.05% -15.08%
75th Percentile £492 £719 £579
90th Percentile £578 £732 £625
England median daily rate £521 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -10.60% +1.30% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £96.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.75 £60.09 -
% change year-on-year -15.54% - -

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 313 280 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.26% 11.63% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 163 308
10th Percentile £267 £213 £320
25th Percentile £350 £360 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £575
90th Percentile £648 £650 £650
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 44
10th Percentile - £23.55 £17.98
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £39.14
Median hourly rate £18.87 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -59.14% - +112.03%
75th Percentile £63.40 £48.75 £47.11
90th Percentile £74.15 £90.80 £76.91
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% -27.62% +119.57%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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
Cheshire -14 11 £453 -36.38% 3
Manchester +4 5 £536 -6.46% 2
Merseyside - 1 £675 -
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 5 (29.41%) Apache
1 5 (29.41%) IIS
1 5 (29.41%) iPlanet
1 5 (29.41%) JBoss
1 5 (29.41%) WebSphere
1 5 (29.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.88%) Fastly
4 1 (5.88%) Heroku
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Kerberos
2 3 (17.65%) HTTPS
3 2 (11.76%) VSAN
4 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) 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
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) OAuth
2 8 (47.06%) LDAP
2 8 (47.06%) OpenID
3 6 (35.29%) SOAP
4 5 (29.41%) SAML
5 4 (23.53%) CSS
5 4 (23.53%) HTML
6 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
6 3 (17.65%) JDBC
6 3 (17.65%) OAuth2
6 3 (17.65%) REST
6 3 (17.65%) Web Services
7 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
7 1 (5.88%) Flask
7 1 (5.88%) HTML5
7 1 (5.88%) React
7 1 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (5.88%) Vue
7 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) PKI
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Taxonomies
2 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
1 5 (29.41%) Unix
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Scrum
4 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
4 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Zero Trust
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
6 3 (17.65%) Identity Management
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) ITSM
6 3 (17.65%) Open Source
6 3 (17.65%) Service Management
6 3 (17.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
1 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) Groovy
2 5 (29.41%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 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 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
1 5 (29.41%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
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 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) PowerCLI
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) 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%) ForgeRock
3 3 (17.65%) Ping Identity
3 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 3 (17.65%) VMware