Single Sign-On Contracts in the West Midlands

Single Sign-On (SSO)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 90 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 +43 +36
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 13 21 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 1.08% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.95% 11.41% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 5
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £469 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +44.58%
75th Percentile £638 £638 -
90th Percentile - £653 £630
England median daily rate £570 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.64% - -

All Systems Management Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 187 184 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.90% 9.45% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 147 209
10th Percentile £200 £200 £310
25th Percentile £310 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £673
90th Percentile £700 £647 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £12.18 £23.52 £17.25
25th Percentile £12.94 £35.33 £17.72
Median hourly rate £16.19 £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +197.30% +14.76%
75th Percentile £17.89 - £43.59
90th Percentile £18.13 - £66.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in the West Midlands

Single Sign-On
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Single Sign-On in the West Midlands

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

Single Sign-On
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Single Sign-On in the West Midlands

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire - 8 £613 - 1
Birmingham +1 3 £500 -20.00% 3
Coventry - 2 - - 1
Single Sign-On
England

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Entra ID
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business IT Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) IAM Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) IT Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) IT Security Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Security Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) LDAP
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Axis
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Onboarding
2 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) Security Posture
2 4 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) CCTV
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (30.77%) RBAC
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (30.77%) Zero Trust
4 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) ITSM
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) SOA
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CISSP
1 3 (23.08%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) CyberArk
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
1 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Varonis