Single Sign-On Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 290 335
Rank change year-on-year -10 +45 +11
Permanent jobs citing Single Sign-On 31 12 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.15% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.36% 0.84% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27 3 56
10th Percentile £36,250 £57,950 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £60,500 £45,714
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £74,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -32.89% +18.66% -6.99%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,250 £84,919
90th Percentile £77,424 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% +8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 922 1,423 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.63% 17.41% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 714 497 1,056
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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

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

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

Single Sign-On
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Single Sign-On.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Single Sign-On in the North of England

Single Sign-On
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Single Sign-On within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +20 24 £65,000 -12.75% 11
North East - 4 £41,722 - 2
Yorkshire -37 3 £48,445 - 5
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 7 (22.58%) SharePoint
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.45%) Apache
3 2 (6.45%) JBoss
3 2 (6.45%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (80.65%) Azure
2 17 (54.84%) Entra ID
3 11 (35.48%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (22.58%) AWS
5 5 (16.13%) OCI
5 5 (16.13%) OneDrive
5 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
6 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (12.90%) SaaS
7 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (6.45%) Datadog
8 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (6.45%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) VPN
2 4 (12.90%) SSL
3 3 (9.68%) Firewall
4 2 (6.45%) DHCP
4 2 (6.45%) DNS
4 2 (6.45%) Network Security
4 2 (6.45%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (6.45%) SNMP
5 1 (3.23%) Ethernet
5 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) Subversion
General
1 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Architect
2 8 (25.81%) IT Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Security Architect
3 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) IT Security Architect
7 2 (6.45%) IT Security Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) OAuth
1 4 (12.90%) OpenID
2 3 (9.68%) SAML
3 2 (6.45%) CSS
3 2 (6.45%) CSS3
3 2 (6.45%) HTML
3 2 (6.45%) HTML5
3 2 (6.45%) Keycloak
3 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
3 2 (6.45%) React
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (22.58%) Onboarding
3 5 (16.13%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) PKI
4 2 (6.45%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.45%) VMS
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.23%) Linux
4 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Identity Access Management
1 11 (35.48%) RBAC
2 8 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
2 8 (25.81%) Microservices
3 7 (22.58%) Coaching
3 7 (22.58%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (19.35%) Data Loss Prevention
4 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (19.35%) Security Architecture
5 5 (16.13%) Agile
5 5 (16.13%) AI
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (16.13%) Secrets Management
6 4 (12.90%) High Availability
6 4 (12.90%) Migration
6 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (9.68%) DevOps
7 3 (9.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
2 5 (16.13%) Bash
3 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.45%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) CISSP
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) NIST
2 8 (25.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (6.45%) GDPR
3 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (51.61%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (6.45%) FortiGate
3 2 (6.45%) Nagios
4 1 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) CyberArk
2 5 (16.13%) New Relic
2 5 (16.13%) Splunk
3 4 (12.90%) VMware
4 2 (6.45%) Aderant
4 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) iManage
4 2 (6.45%) Okta
4 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.23%) Dell
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow