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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 349 326
Rank change year-on-year +49 -23 +124
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 248 140 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.52% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.96% 3.57% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 96 181
10th Percentile £363 £418 £363
25th Percentile £427 £500 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £695 £650
90th Percentile £688 £773 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £594 £575
% change year-on-year -11.58% +3.26% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £51.50 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £57.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +55.04%

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 4,998 3,926 4,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.71% 14.61% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,474 2,548 3,473
10th Percentile £310 £313 £260
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -2.33% -8.51%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 53 152
10th Percentile £18.57 £15.22 £14.90
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.05 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +98.11% -42.62% +19.95%
75th Percentile £63.32 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.80 £76.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +108.82% -44.78% +23.61%

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 18 January 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Single Sign-On in England over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Single Sign-On in England

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 18 January 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +22 100 £525 -12.50% 28
South West +38 49 £524 +23.29% 10
North of England -24 43 £482 -3.70% 11
Yorkshire -23 28 £525 -12.50% 6
South East -15 26 £508 -21.92% 16
North West -25 15 £423 -15.40% 4
Midlands -49 15 £469 -20.21% 5
West Midlands -39 13 £420 -28.51% 5
East of England -13 5 £625 +42.86% 3
East Midlands -23 2 £494 -
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 15 (6.05%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.03%) Confluence
3 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.42%) Apache
4 6 (2.42%) IIS
5 5 (2.02%) iPlanet
5 5 (2.02%) JBoss
5 5 (2.02%) WebSphere
5 5 (2.02%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.81%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.81%) CMS
6 2 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (2.42%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.61%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.81%) Windchill
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (6.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 119 (47.98%) Azure
2 109 (43.95%) Entra ID
3 52 (20.97%) AWS
4 37 (14.92%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (14.92%) SaaS
5 18 (7.26%) PaaS
6 15 (6.05%) GCP
7 10 (4.03%) IaaS
8 9 (3.63%) GitHub
9 7 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.82%) OneDrive
9 7 (2.82%) Serverless
10 6 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (2.42%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.02%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.02%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 51 (20.56%) DNS
2 30 (12.10%) Firewall
3 28 (11.29%) VPN
4 22 (8.87%) Kerberos
5 18 (7.26%) DHCP
6 17 (6.85%) SSL
7 9 (3.63%) HTTPS
7 9 (3.63%) LAN
7 9 (3.63%) TCP/IP
7 9 (3.63%) Wireshark
8 8 (3.23%) BIG-IP
8 8 (3.23%) WAN
9 7 (2.82%) IPsec
9 7 (2.82%) Network Security
9 7 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.82%) Wireless
10 6 (2.42%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (2.42%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (2.42%) Ethereal
10 6 (2.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.02%) Oracle Database
1 5 (2.02%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.21%) CockroachDB
3 3 (1.21%) Pinecone
4 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.81%) GIS
4 2 (0.81%) MySQL
4 2 (0.81%) Power BI
4 2 (0.81%) SQLite
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (6.45%) Git
1 16 (6.45%) JIRA
2 10 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.02%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (2.02%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.61%) MSI
5 3 (1.21%) GitLab
6 2 (0.81%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.81%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.81%) fastlane
6 2 (0.81%) Xcode
7 1 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.40%) Gatling
7 1 (0.40%) JMeter
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
7 1 (0.40%) Maven
7 1 (0.40%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 56 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.89%) Finance
3 20 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.03%) Publishing
6 7 (2.82%) Banking
7 5 (2.02%) Aviation
8 3 (1.21%) Legal
8 3 (1.21%) Retail
8 3 (1.21%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.81%) Electronics
9 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.81%) Marketing
10 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (16.53%) Architect
2 31 (12.50%) Senior
3 21 (8.47%) Developer
4 18 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (6.85%) Administrator
6 16 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (5.24%) Consultant
9 10 (4.03%) Analyst
9 10 (4.03%) Lead
10 9 (3.63%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.63%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.23%) IAM Consultant
12 7 (2.82%) ForgeRock Developer
12 7 (2.82%) IAM Specialist
12 7 (2.82%) SAP Administrator
12 7 (2.82%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.82%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.42%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (38.71%) SAML
2 94 (37.90%) OAuth
3 62 (25.00%) OpenID
4 44 (17.74%) LDAP
5 41 (16.53%) OAuth2
6 20 (8.06%) SailPoint
7 13 (5.24%) SAP Basis
8 11 (4.44%) React
8 11 (4.44%) REST
9 10 (4.03%) RESTful
10 9 (3.63%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.63%) HTML
10 9 (3.63%) SOAP
11 7 (2.82%) CSS
11 7 (2.82%) Entity Framework
11 7 (2.82%) YAML
12 6 (2.42%) HTML5
12 6 (2.42%) JDBC
13 5 (2.02%) JSON
13 5 (2.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.34%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.05%) PKI
2 15 (6.05%) Replication
2 15 (6.05%) Taxonomies
3 9 (3.63%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.63%) Private Cloud
4 8 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.42%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.02%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.81%) Animation
8 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.98%) Windows
2 44 (17.74%) Windows Server
3 22 (8.87%) Linux
4 7 (2.82%) Unix
5 4 (1.61%) CatOS
5 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Android
8 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.45%) Identity Access Management
2 68 (27.42%) RBAC
3 46 (18.55%) CI/CD
3 46 (18.55%) DevOps
4 45 (18.15%) Identity Management
5 42 (16.94%) Agile
6 38 (15.32%) Zero Trust
7 29 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (10.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 24 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (8.87%) Privileged Access Management
10 22 (8.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (8.06%) Roadmaps
11 20 (8.06%) Vulnerability Management
12 19 (7.66%) Analytics
12 19 (7.66%) High Availability
12 19 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.79%) PowerShell
2 30 (12.10%) Python
3 20 (8.06%) JavaScript
4 14 (5.65%) SQL
5 12 (4.84%) Java
6 9 (3.63%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.23%) Groovy
8 7 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.02%) Bicep
9 5 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.21%) Bash
10 3 (1.21%) C#
11 2 (0.81%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.81%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 95 (38.31%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.08%) DV Cleared
4 23 (9.27%) CISSP
5 21 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (6.05%) CISM
7 14 (5.65%) Degree
8 11 (4.44%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.02%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.61%) MCP
12 3 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.21%) PhD
13 2 (0.81%) CCSP
13 2 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.40%) CCNA
14 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.34%) GDPR
2 26 (10.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (4.84%) NIST
5 9 (3.63%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (2.42%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.42%) NCSC
7 6 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.42%) PSD2
7 6 (2.42%) SLA
8 5 (2.02%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.61%) QA
10 2 (0.81%) WCAG
11 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.40%) GRC
11 1 (0.40%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.40%) SOC 1
System Software
1 118 (47.58%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.85%) Docker
3 15 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.44%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.02%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.02%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (0.81%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.81%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.81%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.81%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.40%) RACF
7 1 (0.40%) Squid
7 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (16.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 26 (10.48%) Terraform
3 19 (7.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (6.05%) Kubernetes
5 14 (5.65%) PingFederate
6 6 (2.42%) Ansible
6 6 (2.42%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.42%) SCCM
7 5 (2.02%) CA Wily
7 5 (2.02%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.02%) Tivoli
8 4 (1.61%) Grafana
9 3 (1.21%) VxRail
10 2 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.81%) logstash
11 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.40%) Kibana
11 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 129 (52.02%) Microsoft
2 37 (14.92%) Okta
3 30 (12.10%) VMware
4 18 (7.26%) CyberArk
4 18 (7.26%) SAP
5 14 (5.65%) Ping Identity
5 14 (5.65%) Splunk
6 12 (4.84%) ForgeRock
6 12 (4.84%) Google
7 11 (4.44%) ServiceNow
8 10 (4.03%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.63%) Cisco
9 9 (3.63%) Zscaler
10 8 (3.23%) F5
10 8 (3.23%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.82%) Oracle
12 6 (2.42%) CheckPoint
13 5 (2.02%) AppDynamics
13 5 (2.02%) Broadcom
13 5 (2.02%) IBM