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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 355 328
Rank change year-on-year +61 -27 +137
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 274 134 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.51% 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.37% 3.43% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 89 185
10th Percentile £363 £408 £363
25th Percentile £438 £500 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £695 £650
90th Percentile £688 £771 £733
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £565
% change year-on-year -10.29% +3.58% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile £44.48 - £37.23
25th Percentile £51.75 - £47.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £65.75
75th Percentile £57.44 - £83.19
90th Percentile £67.68 - £93.28
UK median hourly rate £56.50 - £65.75
% change year-on-year - - +1.94%

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 5,102 3,906 4,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.51% 14.74% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,526 3,500
10th Percentile £312 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +1.95% -10.26%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 47 152
10th Percentile £17.67 £14.13 £14.08
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.49 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -42.62% -2.78%
75th Percentile £63.32 £61.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.66 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +13.81%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +19 114 £525 -12.50% 35
South West +20 49 £524 +23.29% 10
North of England -26 49 £473 -5.40% 8
Yorkshire -22 31 £525 -12.50% 4
South East -4 30 £488 -25.00% 19
North West -22 18 £400 -20.00% 4
Midlands -54 18 £442 -24.72% 6
West Midlands -40 14 £420 -28.51% 6
East of England -18 6 £575 +31.43% 4
East Midlands -24 4 £442 -
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 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.38%) Confluence
3 7 (2.55%) IIS
4 6 (2.19%) Apache
4 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.82%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.82%) JBoss
5 5 (1.82%) nginx
5 5 (1.82%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.82%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (2.19%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.73%) Windchill
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 16 (5.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.73%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 137 (50.00%) Azure
2 126 (45.99%) Entra ID
3 62 (22.63%) AWS
4 43 (15.69%) SaaS
5 38 (13.87%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (8.76%) PaaS
7 17 (6.20%) GCP
8 15 (5.47%) IaaS
9 14 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.01%) Serverless
11 10 (3.65%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.28%) GitHub
13 8 (2.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 8 (2.92%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (2.92%) OneDrive
13 8 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 62 (22.63%) DNS
2 35 (12.77%) Firewall
3 34 (12.41%) VPN
4 29 (10.58%) Kerberos
5 26 (9.49%) DHCP
6 15 (5.47%) SSL
7 14 (5.11%) TCP/IP
8 9 (3.28%) HTTPS
8 9 (3.28%) LAN
8 9 (3.28%) Network Security
8 9 (3.28%) Wireshark
9 8 (2.92%) BIG-IP
9 8 (2.92%) IPsec
9 8 (2.92%) WAN
9 8 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.55%) Wireless
11 6 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.19%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (2.19%) Ethereal
11 6 (2.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
4 3 (1.09%) MySQL
4 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.73%) GIS
5 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.73%) Power BI
5 2 (0.73%) SQLite
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.30%) JIRA
2 18 (6.57%) Git
3 11 (4.01%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.82%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.82%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.46%) GitLab
6 3 (1.09%) MSI
7 2 (0.73%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.73%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.73%) fastlane
7 2 (0.73%) Postman
7 2 (0.73%) Xcode
8 1 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.36%) Gatling
8 1 (0.36%) gulp
8 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
General
1 69 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.58%) Finance
3 27 (9.85%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.01%) Publishing
7 7 (2.55%) Banking
8 5 (1.82%) Aviation
9 4 (1.46%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.09%) Retail
10 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (18.98%) Architect
2 31 (11.31%) Senior
3 22 (8.03%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (7.30%) Developer
5 18 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (6.20%) Administrator
6 17 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.74%) Analyst
8 12 (4.38%) Consultant
8 12 (4.38%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.01%) Lead
10 9 (3.28%) Network Engineer
11 8 (2.92%) IAM Consultant
11 8 (2.92%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.92%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.55%) ForgeRock Developer
12 7 (2.55%) IAM Specialist
12 7 (2.55%) SAP Administrator
12 7 (2.55%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.19%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (39.78%) OAuth
2 106 (38.69%) SAML
3 73 (26.64%) OpenID
4 52 (18.98%) LDAP
5 44 (16.06%) OAuth2
6 21 (7.66%) SailPoint
7 14 (5.11%) SAP Basis
8 12 (4.38%) React
8 12 (4.38%) REST
9 11 (4.01%) RESTful
10 9 (3.28%) Entity Framework
11 8 (2.92%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.92%) CSS
11 8 (2.92%) SOAP
11 8 (2.92%) YAML
12 6 (2.19%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.19%) HTML
13 5 (1.82%) .NET
13 5 (1.82%) Vue
14 4 (1.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 50 (18.25%) Onboarding
2 21 (7.66%) Replication
3 16 (5.84%) Taxonomies
4 15 (5.47%) PKI
5 11 (4.01%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.65%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.55%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.46%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.09%) CMDB
12 3 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.73%) Animation
13 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 66 (24.09%) Windows
2 52 (18.98%) Windows Server
3 24 (8.76%) Linux
4 7 (2.55%) Unix
5 4 (1.46%) CatOS
5 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.12%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (27.37%) RBAC
3 55 (20.07%) DevOps
4 51 (18.61%) CI/CD
5 47 (17.15%) Identity Management
6 41 (14.96%) Agile
7 40 (14.60%) Zero Trust
8 36 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (10.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 28 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (10.22%) Roadmaps
12 27 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (9.49%) High Availability
14 24 (8.76%) Disaster Recovery
15 23 (8.39%) Privileged Access Management
15 23 (8.39%) Task Automation
16 22 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (7.66%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.82%) PowerShell
2 28 (10.22%) Python
3 19 (6.93%) JavaScript
4 17 (6.20%) SQL
5 13 (4.74%) Java
6 9 (3.28%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.92%) Groovy
7 8 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.55%) Bicep
8 7 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.46%) C#
10 3 (1.09%) Bash
11 2 (0.73%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.73%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.73%) Swift
12 1 (0.36%) Korn
12 1 (0.36%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (38.69%) Security Cleared
2 72 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.49%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.12%) CISSP
5 21 (7.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.84%) Degree
7 15 (5.47%) CISM
8 12 (4.38%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.09%) PhD
14 2 (0.73%) CCSP
14 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.36%) CCNA
15 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (18.25%) GDPR
2 30 (10.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (5.11%) NIST
5 11 (4.01%) SOC 2
6 9 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (2.92%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.92%) SLA
8 6 (2.19%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.19%) NCSC
8 6 (2.19%) PSD2
9 5 (1.82%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.46%) GRC
10 4 (1.46%) QA
11 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.73%) WCAG
13 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.36%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.36%) SOC 1
System Software
1 130 (47.45%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.57%) Docker
3 16 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.01%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.19%) Squid
6 5 (1.82%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 2 (0.73%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.73%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.73%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.73%) RACF
7 2 (0.73%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (18.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 35 (12.77%) Terraform
3 25 (9.12%) Kubernetes
4 19 (6.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.11%) PingFederate
6 9 (3.28%) Grafana
7 8 (2.92%) Ansible
8 7 (2.55%) CA Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.19%) FortiGate
9 6 (2.19%) Prometheus
9 6 (2.19%) SCCM
10 5 (1.82%) CA Wily
10 5 (1.82%) Consul
10 5 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.82%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.46%) VxRail
12 3 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.73%) logstash
14 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 148 (54.01%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.69%) Okta
3 32 (11.68%) VMware
4 19 (6.93%) SAP
5 18 (6.57%) CyberArk
6 16 (5.84%) Splunk
7 14 (5.11%) Ping Identity
8 13 (4.74%) Google
9 12 (4.38%) ForgeRock
10 10 (3.65%) Palo Alto
11 9 (3.28%) Cisco
11 9 (3.28%) Zscaler
12 8 (2.92%) F5
12 8 (2.92%) Oracle
12 8 (2.92%) Salesforce
13 7 (2.55%) Red Hat
13 7 (2.55%) ServiceNow
14 6 (2.19%) Atlassian
14 6 (2.19%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (2.19%) CheckPoint