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

 6 months to
18 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 331 352
Rank change year-on-year -58 +21 +30
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 261 171 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.62% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.30% 4.01% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 115 133
10th Percentile £327 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £608 £612 £650
90th Percentile £708 £688 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 3
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.34
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.75 £24.59
Median hourly rate £71.25 £47.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +90.00% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £64.50
90th Percentile - - £88.20
UK median hourly rate £71.25 £47.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +90.00% -

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 6,075 4,261 4,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.43% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,140 2,833 3,195
10th Percentile £322 £303 £309
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.23%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £711
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 61 68
10th Percentile £20.65 £18.87 £20.35
25th Percentile £44.86 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.78%
75th Percentile £73.38 £66.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £83.14 £82.96 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -37.63%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -38 119 £531 -3.89% 96
North of England -59 53 £525 +22.24% 22
Midlands -37 33 £463 +12.80% 10
North West -35 30 £525 +13.41% 17
South East -54 29 £600 +9.09% 19
South West -25 21 £525 -7.24% 10
West Midlands -39 21 £425 -5.56% 9
Yorkshire -41 18 £550 +34.97% 4
East Midlands -11 11 £638 +58.58% 1
North East - 5 £481 - 1
East of England -22 4 £543 -19.63% 4
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 (9.96%) SharePoint
2 20 (7.66%) Confluence
3 18 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.30%) nginx
5 2 (0.77%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (5.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.77%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 129 (49.43%) Azure
2 113 (43.30%) Entra ID
3 59 (22.61%) AWS
4 42 (16.09%) GCP
5 41 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (13.03%) SaaS
7 22 (8.43%) GitHub
8 14 (5.36%) Google Workspace
9 13 (4.98%) Serverless
10 11 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.83%) OpenShift
11 10 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.07%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.68%) Google Drive
15 6 (2.30%) Asana
15 6 (2.30%) OneDrive
15 6 (2.30%) SuccessFactors
16 5 (1.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 52 (19.92%) DNS
2 31 (11.88%) Firewall
3 24 (9.20%) TCP/IP
3 24 (9.20%) VPN
4 18 (6.90%) SSL
5 16 (6.13%) Network Security
6 15 (5.75%) DHCP
7 13 (4.98%) WAN
8 12 (4.60%) HTTP
9 11 (4.21%) LAN
10 9 (3.45%) DKIM
10 9 (3.45%) DMARC
11 8 (3.07%) HTTPS
11 8 (3.07%) Kerberos
11 8 (3.07%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.30%) BIG-IP
12 6 (2.30%) Internet
12 6 (2.30%) IPsec
12 6 (2.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.30%) Metadata
3 3 (1.15%) MySQL
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.15%) Power BI
4 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.77%) Tableau
5 1 (0.38%) Db2
5 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.38%) Redis
5 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (13.41%) JIRA
2 11 (4.21%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.83%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.45%) GitLab
4 9 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (3.07%) Git
6 6 (2.30%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.15%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.77%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.77%) Snyk
9 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 55 (21.07%) Finance
2 53 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 45 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.20%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.51%) Banking
7 8 (3.07%) Retail
8 7 (2.68%) Military
9 6 (2.30%) Legal
9 6 (2.30%) Publishing
10 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Local Government
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (14.94%) Architect
2 25 (9.58%) Developer
3 17 (6.51%) Administrator
3 17 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (6.13%) Lead
5 13 (4.98%) Senior
6 12 (4.60%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.21%) Support Engineer
8 10 (3.83%) Consultant
9 9 (3.45%) Active Directory Engineer
9 9 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.45%) IAM Project Manager
10 8 (3.07%) IAM Specialist
10 8 (3.07%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.07%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.68%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (2.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.30%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (26.82%) SAML
2 57 (21.84%) OAuth
3 52 (19.92%) OpenID
4 31 (11.88%) LDAP
5 26 (9.96%) OAuth2
6 22 (8.43%) REST
7 21 (8.05%) SailPoint
8 15 (5.75%) SOAP
9 12 (4.60%) Web Services
10 11 (4.21%) Node.js
11 10 (3.83%) Express.js
12 9 (3.45%) ActiveX
12 9 (3.45%) XML
13 8 (3.07%) Middleware
14 7 (2.68%) React
15 6 (2.30%) CSS
15 6 (2.30%) SAP Basis
16 4 (1.53%) .NET
16 4 (1.53%) boto
16 4 (1.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (21.46%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.66%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.13%) PKI
5 12 (4.60%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.07%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.68%) Freedom of Information
7 7 (2.68%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.30%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.92%) Clustering
9 5 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.92%) Replication
10 4 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.26%) Windows
2 16 (6.13%) Linux
3 11 (4.21%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.83%) Unix
5 7 (2.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.15%) Android
6 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.38%) CatOS
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.27%) Identity Access Management
2 53 (20.31%) RBAC
3 52 (19.92%) DevOps
4 44 (16.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 43 (16.48%) Cybersecurity
6 42 (16.09%) CI/CD
6 42 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (14.94%) Agile
8 37 (14.18%) Roadmaps
9 34 (13.03%) Migration
10 32 (12.26%) Privileged Access Management
10 32 (12.26%) Zero Trust
11 29 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (9.20%) Analytics
14 24 (9.20%) Change Management
15 22 (8.43%) ITIL
15 22 (8.43%) Runbook
15 22 (8.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.49%) PowerShell
2 26 (9.96%) Python
3 25 (9.58%) Java
4 12 (4.60%) Bash
5 10 (3.83%) SQL
6 9 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.45%) VB
6 9 (3.45%) VB6
6 9 (3.45%) VBA
7 5 (1.92%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.15%) Go
9 2 (0.77%) Bicep
9 2 (0.77%) Groovy
9 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.38%) C#
10 1 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.38%) R
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (18.77%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.28%) Degree
4 14 (5.36%) CISSP
5 11 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.92%) CISM
8 5 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.92%) PMP
9 3 (1.15%) GIAC
10 2 (0.77%) CEH
10 2 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (9.58%) NIST
3 22 (8.43%) GDPR
4 13 (4.98%) QA
5 11 (4.21%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.83%) Data Quality
7 9 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.68%) GRC
8 7 (2.68%) PMO
9 4 (1.53%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.15%) SLA
11 2 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.77%) ITGC
11 2 (0.77%) NCSC
12 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 105 (40.23%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.75%) Docker
3 6 (2.30%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.77%) Squid
5 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.77%) vSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.81%) Terraform
3 19 (7.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (5.75%) Grafana
5 14 (5.36%) Ansible
6 9 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (3.45%) Argo
7 6 (2.30%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.92%) CASB
8 5 (1.92%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.53%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (1.15%) Consul
10 3 (1.15%) SELinux
11 2 (0.77%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.77%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.77%) Packer
11 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 101 (38.70%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.56%) Okta
3 24 (9.20%) CyberArk
3 24 (9.20%) ServiceNow
4 20 (7.66%) Google
5 16 (6.13%) SAP
6 14 (5.36%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.98%) Zscaler
8 12 (4.60%) BeyondTrust
8 12 (4.60%) Oracle
9 10 (3.83%) VMware
10 9 (3.45%) Cisco
11 8 (3.07%) Ping Identity
12 6 (2.30%) F5
12 6 (2.30%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.92%) Netskope
13 5 (1.92%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.92%) Workday
14 4 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.53%) Dynatrace
155 Single Sign-On jobs in England