Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in England

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 371 332
Rank change year-on-year +70 -39 +120
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 246 140 271
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.45% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.18% 3.19% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 96 209
10th Percentile £398 £400 £372
25th Percentile £425 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% +4.35% -0.35%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £792 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.01% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.75 - -

All Systems Management Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,745 4,390 5,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 14.23% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,160 2,841 4,198
10th Percentile £306 £315 £301
25th Percentile £413 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £663
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 51 163
10th Percentile £18.55 £19.95 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.13 £23.80 £28.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -22.52% +93.60%
75th Percentile £64.69 £63.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.13 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £35.08 £49.73
% change year-on-year -22.33% -29.45% +98.92%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in England

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in England over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in England

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
London +31 108 £525 -9.87% 105
North of England +4 39 £471 -33.85% 10
South West +45 37 £517 -1.48% 27
Midlands -21 21 £500 -1.96% 19
Yorkshire - 21 £518 - 3
South East -4 19 £560 -20.00% 110
North West +3 18 £446 -37.36% 7
West Midlands -25 17 £550 +7.84% 8
East of England -13 5 £700 +40.00% 8
East Midlands -9 4 £402 - 9
Single Sign-On
UK

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 22 (8.94%) Confluence
2 18 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.25%) WebSphere
4 8 (3.25%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (2.44%) Apache
5 6 (2.44%) JBoss
6 5 (2.03%) IIS
6 5 (2.03%) iPlanet
7 2 (0.81%) CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.41%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Windchill
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (5.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.41%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 114 (46.34%) Azure
2 94 (38.21%) Entra ID
3 74 (30.08%) AWS
4 45 (18.29%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (16.26%) SaaS
6 32 (13.01%) GCP
7 17 (6.91%) GitHub
8 14 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.88%) Azure AKS
9 12 (4.88%) PaaS
10 10 (4.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.66%) IaaS
11 9 (3.66%) OpenShift
11 9 (3.66%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.85%) OneDrive
14 6 (2.44%) Serverless
15 5 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (2.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.38%) DNS
2 25 (10.16%) Firewall
3 24 (9.76%) SSL
4 16 (6.50%) VPN
5 13 (5.28%) Kerberos
6 7 (2.85%) DHCP
6 7 (2.85%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.44%) Network Security
8 5 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.63%) HTTPS
10 3 (1.22%) BGP
10 3 (1.22%) Internet
10 3 (1.22%) LAN
10 3 (1.22%) OSPF
10 3 (1.22%) SMTP
10 3 (1.22%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.22%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.81%) VLAN
11 2 (0.81%) WAN
11 2 (0.81%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.85%) Power BI
2 6 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.03%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.81%) MySQL
4 2 (0.81%) SQLite
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.41%) Big Data
5 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.41%) Metadata
5 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.41%) Redis
5 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (12.60%) JIRA
2 16 (6.50%) Git
3 15 (6.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (2.03%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (2.03%) MSI
4 5 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.22%) GitLab
5 3 (1.22%) Log4j
6 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.81%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.81%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.81%) fastlane
6 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.81%) Xcode
7 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.41%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.41%) gulp
7 1 (0.41%) Maven
7 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 75 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.38%) Finance
3 27 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.72%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.25%) Banking
7 4 (1.63%) Aviation
7 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.22%) Marketing
9 2 (0.81%) Electronics
9 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Police
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (19.51%) Architect
2 34 (13.82%) Senior
3 20 (8.13%) Developer
4 19 (7.72%) Consultant
5 17 (6.91%) Analyst
6 15 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.69%) Business Analyst
8 13 (5.28%) Administrator
9 12 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) Senior Architect
11 10 (4.07%) ServiceNow Architect
12 9 (3.66%) IAM Specialist
13 8 (3.25%) Lead
14 7 (2.85%) IAM Consultant
14 7 (2.85%) Security Engineer
15 6 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 6 (2.44%) Product Owner
15 6 (2.44%) Security Architect
15 6 (2.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (41.87%) SAML
2 94 (38.21%) OAuth
3 73 (29.67%) OpenID
4 55 (22.36%) LDAP
5 45 (18.29%) OAuth2
6 32 (13.01%) REST
7 25 (10.16%) SailPoint
8 23 (9.35%) SOAP
9 22 (8.94%) JSON
10 21 (8.54%) HTML
11 19 (7.72%) JDBC
12 18 (7.32%) AngularJS
12 18 (7.32%) Web Services
13 16 (6.50%) HTML5
14 15 (6.10%) jQuery
15 13 (5.28%) Apache Camel
15 13 (5.28%) ODBC
15 13 (5.28%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (5.28%) RESTful
16 10 (4.07%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.07%) Onboarding
2 21 (8.54%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.69%) PKI
4 13 (5.28%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.88%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.85%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.85%) Replication
7 6 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.44%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.81%) Animation
11 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.04%) Windows
2 27 (10.98%) Windows Server
3 23 (9.35%) Linux
4 7 (2.85%) Unix
5 4 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.81%) Android
7 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.52%) Identity Access Management
2 68 (27.64%) Agile
2 68 (27.64%) RBAC
3 66 (26.83%) DevOps
4 63 (25.61%) Identity Management
5 48 (19.51%) Zero Trust
6 46 (18.70%) CI/CD
7 38 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.63%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 31 (12.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (10.98%) Migration
12 26 (10.57%) ITSM
13 24 (9.76%) Privileged Access Management
14 23 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (9.35%) Microservices
15 22 (8.94%) Scrum
15 22 (8.94%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
17 20 (8.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 54 (21.95%) PowerShell
2 33 (13.41%) JavaScript
3 28 (11.38%) Python
4 17 (6.91%) Java
5 9 (3.66%) Shell Script
6 7 (2.85%) Groovy
7 5 (2.03%) Bicep
7 5 (2.03%) C#
7 5 (2.03%) SQL
7 5 (2.03%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.63%) Bash
8 4 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.81%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.81%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.81%) Swift
10 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 83 (33.74%) Security Cleared
2 61 (24.80%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.76%) CISSP
4 18 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (6.91%) DV Cleared
6 16 (6.50%) CISM
7 14 (5.69%) Azure Certification
8 13 (5.28%) Degree
9 7 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.44%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.22%) PhD
13 2 (0.81%) CCSP
13 2 (0.81%) IBM Certification
13 2 (0.81%) MCP
13 2 (0.81%) MCSA
13 2 (0.81%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (15.04%) GDPR
2 31 (12.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (6.50%) NIST
4 13 (5.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (3.66%) HIPAA
6 8 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.25%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.44%) PSD2
9 5 (2.03%) NCSC
9 5 (2.03%) SLA
10 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
11 3 (1.22%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.81%) QA
12 2 (0.81%) WCAG
13 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.41%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 115 (46.75%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.72%) Docker
3 8 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.03%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.81%) vSphere
6 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (16.67%) Terraform
2 29 (11.79%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (9.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (5.28%) Ansible
6 12 (4.88%) PingFederate
7 6 (2.44%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.03%) CA Wily
8 5 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.03%) Tivoli
9 4 (1.63%) SCCM
10 3 (1.22%) Grafana
10 3 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.22%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.81%) Kibana
11 2 (0.81%) logstash
11 2 (0.81%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.81%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 104 (42.28%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.98%) Okta
2 27 (10.98%) ServiceNow
3 26 (10.57%) CyberArk
4 19 (7.72%) ForgeRock
5 17 (6.91%) Ping Identity
6 16 (6.50%) Splunk
7 15 (6.10%) VMware
8 14 (5.69%) HP
9 13 (5.28%) BMC
9 13 (5.28%) Ivanti
9 13 (5.28%) Remedy
10 11 (4.47%) Google
11 9 (3.66%) IBM
11 9 (3.66%) Oracle
12 8 (3.25%) Alibaba
12 8 (3.25%) Salesforce
12 8 (3.25%) Zscaler
13 5 (2.03%) Broadcom
13 5 (2.03%) Cisco