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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 338 349
Rank change year-on-year -49 +11 +71
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 255 183 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.66% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.27% 4.30% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 122 145
10th Percentile £320 £375 £350
25th Percentile £431 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £645
90th Percentile £696 £698 £746
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £561
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.00% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00

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 5,969 4,257 4,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.26% 15.42% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 2,830 3,266
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -7.49%
75th Percentile £606 £610 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £709
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.49% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 55 74
10th Percentile £19.39 £19.88 £17.72
25th Percentile £35.06 £26.45 £22.12
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +78.69% -44.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.04 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.38 £81.78 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £58.62 £37.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +56.31% +20.97% -46.09%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -30 115 £522 -5.56% 53
North of England -62 52 £538 +19.44% 14
Midlands -38 33 £450 +9.76% 5
South East -53 29 £600 - 13
North West -41 28 £500 +19.90% 9
South West -24 23 £525 -5.75% 8
Yorkshire -43 22 £558 +26.99% 5
West Midlands -45 21 £425 -5.56% 5
East Midlands -5 11 £638 +58.58%
East of England -16 5 £555 -17.78% 5
North East -38 3 £413 -31.25% 1
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 26 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 20 (7.84%) Confluence
3 17 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.14%) nginx
5 2 (0.78%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (6.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.78%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (50.98%) Azure
2 106 (41.57%) Entra ID
3 62 (24.31%) AWS
4 43 (16.86%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (14.90%) SaaS
6 37 (14.51%) GCP
7 18 (7.06%) GitHub
7 18 (7.06%) Serverless
8 11 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.31%) Google Workspace
9 10 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.92%) OpenShift
9 10 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.14%) OneDrive
12 7 (2.75%) Google Drive
12 7 (2.75%) PaaS
12 7 (2.75%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (2.35%) Asana
13 6 (2.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (18.04%) DNS
2 29 (11.37%) Firewall
3 25 (9.80%) TCP/IP
4 23 (9.02%) VPN
5 19 (7.45%) SSL
6 16 (6.27%) Network Security
7 15 (5.88%) DHCP
8 11 (4.31%) HTTP
8 11 (4.31%) LAN
8 11 (4.31%) WAN
9 10 (3.92%) Kerberos
10 9 (3.53%) DKIM
10 9 (3.53%) DMARC
10 9 (3.53%) IPsec
11 8 (3.14%) HTTPS
11 8 (3.14%) OpenVPN
12 7 (2.75%) Internet
13 6 (2.35%) SD-WAN
13 6 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (1.96%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.96%) Metadata
3 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.57%) Power BI
4 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.18%) MySQL
4 3 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.39%) Db2
6 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (13.33%) JIRA
2 11 (4.31%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.92%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (3.14%) Git
6 5 (1.96%) GitLab
6 5 (1.96%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.57%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.18%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.78%) Postman
9 2 (0.78%) Snyk
9 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
General
1 56 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.61%) Finance
3 43 (16.86%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (6.27%) Banking
7 7 (2.75%) Military
7 7 (2.75%) Publishing
8 6 (2.35%) Legal
9 5 (1.96%) Retail
10 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Front Office
12 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Local Government
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (15.69%) Architect
2 26 (10.20%) Developer
3 18 (7.06%) Lead
4 17 (6.67%) Administrator
5 16 (6.27%) Senior
6 15 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.10%) Project Manager
8 11 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.31%) Consultant
9 10 (3.92%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.53%) IAM Project Manager
10 9 (3.53%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.14%) Active Directory Engineer
11 8 (3.14%) Analyst
11 8 (3.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) IAM Specialist
12 7 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (26.27%) SAML
2 60 (23.53%) OAuth
3 58 (22.75%) OpenID
4 33 (12.94%) LDAP
5 30 (11.76%) OAuth2
6 22 (8.63%) SailPoint
7 19 (7.45%) REST
8 15 (5.88%) SOAP
9 14 (5.49%) Web Services
10 13 (5.10%) Node.js
11 12 (4.71%) Express.js
12 9 (3.53%) ActiveX
12 9 (3.53%) XML
13 7 (2.75%) SAP Basis
14 6 (2.35%) Middleware
14 6 (2.35%) React
15 5 (1.96%) CSS
16 4 (1.57%) .NET
16 4 (1.57%) boto
16 4 (1.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.78%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (5.88%) PKI
5 10 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.14%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.75%) Freedom of Information
7 7 (2.75%) Taxonomies
8 6 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.35%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.96%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.57%) Clustering
10 4 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.57%) Replication
11 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.76%) Windows
2 15 (5.88%) Linux
3 9 (3.53%) Mac OS
3 9 (3.53%) Unix
4 7 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.18%) Android
5 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.39%) CatOS
7 1 (0.39%) VMS
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (29.02%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (22.75%) DevOps
3 45 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (17.25%) Agile
5 43 (16.86%) RBAC
6 42 (16.47%) Roadmaps
7 40 (15.69%) CI/CD
8 37 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (12.94%) Zero Trust
11 30 (11.76%) Migration
12 28 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (10.20%) Privileged Access Management
13 26 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (9.02%) Analytics
16 20 (7.84%) Microservices
16 20 (7.84%) Runbook
17 19 (7.45%) Change Management
17 19 (7.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.20%) Java
1 26 (10.20%) PowerShell
2 17 (6.67%) Python
3 14 (5.49%) SQL
4 10 (3.92%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.53%) VB
5 9 (3.53%) VB6
5 9 (3.53%) VBA
6 6 (2.35%) Bash
6 6 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.78%) Bicep
7 2 (0.78%) Groovy
8 1 (0.39%) C#
8 1 (0.39%) Go
8 1 (0.39%) Korn
8 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.39%) R
8 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.45%) Degree
4 14 (5.49%) CISSP
5 9 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.96%) CISM
7 5 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.96%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.96%) PMP
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.18%) GIAC
9 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.78%) CEH
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (9.80%) GDPR
2 25 (9.80%) NIST
3 11 (4.31%) QA
4 10 (3.92%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (2.75%) GRC
6 7 (2.75%) PMO
7 4 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (1.18%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.18%) SLA
9 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.78%) ITGC
9 2 (0.78%) NCSC
9 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (38.43%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.49%) Docker
3 6 (2.35%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.57%) Squid
6 3 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.18%) RACF
7 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.78%) vSphere
8 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (8.63%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.84%) Terraform
3 16 (6.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (5.10%) Grafana
5 12 (4.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 12 (4.71%) Ansible
6 9 (3.53%) Argo
7 5 (1.96%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.96%) CASB
7 5 (1.96%) PingFederate
7 5 (1.96%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.57%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (1.18%) Consul
9 3 (1.18%) SELinux
10 2 (0.78%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.78%) SCCM
10 2 (0.78%) VxRail
11 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (36.47%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.12%) Okta
3 25 (9.80%) CyberArk
4 24 (9.41%) ServiceNow
5 17 (6.67%) SAP
6 16 (6.27%) Red Hat
7 14 (5.49%) Google
7 14 (5.49%) Zscaler
8 11 (4.31%) Oracle
8 11 (4.31%) VMware
9 10 (3.92%) Cisco
10 8 (3.14%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (2.75%) Ping Identity
12 6 (2.35%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.96%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.96%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.96%) F5
13 5 (1.96%) Netskope
13 5 (1.96%) Workday
14 4 (1.57%) Fortinet