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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 327 329
Rank change year-on-year -58 +2 +85
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 253 183 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.66% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.22% 4.25% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 122 148
10th Percentile £318 £375 £350
25th Percentile £431 £407 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £613 £650
90th Percentile £700 £680 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 4
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.43
25th Percentile £66.25 - £24.80
Median hourly rate £71.25 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £44.75
90th Percentile - - £80.30
UK median hourly rate £71.25 - £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 5,998 4,305 4,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 15.50% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,087 2,863 3,232
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £610 £625
90th Percentile £694 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £516 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.74% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 55 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £20.50
25th Percentile £38.50 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +56.77% -31.55%
75th Percentile £70.11 £66.04 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.78 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +65.33% +15.38% -43.48%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -36 115 £522 -5.13% 85
North of England -61 50 £525 +16.67% 19
Midlands -32 33 £450 +9.76% 8
North West -44 29 £513 +22.90% 13
South East -49 29 £600 +9.09% 18
South West -20 24 £525 -5.75% 6
West Midlands -53 21 £425 -5.56% 7
Yorkshire -45 19 £550 +25.28% 6
East Midlands -8 11 £638 +58.58% 1
East of England -13 4 £543 -19.63% 2
North East -36 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 25 (9.88%) SharePoint
2 21 (8.30%) Confluence
3 17 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.16%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (5.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.79%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 126 (49.80%) Azure
2 107 (42.29%) Entra ID
3 60 (23.72%) AWS
4 42 (16.60%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (14.62%) GCP
6 36 (14.23%) SaaS
7 18 (7.11%) GitHub
8 16 (6.32%) Serverless
9 11 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (4.35%) Google Workspace
10 10 (3.95%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.95%) OpenShift
10 10 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.77%) Google Drive
12 7 (2.77%) OneDrive
13 6 (2.37%) Asana
13 6 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.37%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (1.98%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 47 (18.58%) DNS
2 30 (11.86%) Firewall
3 25 (9.88%) TCP/IP
4 23 (9.09%) VPN
5 17 (6.72%) SSL
6 16 (6.32%) Network Security
7 15 (5.93%) DHCP
8 11 (4.35%) HTTP
8 11 (4.35%) LAN
8 11 (4.35%) WAN
9 9 (3.56%) DKIM
9 9 (3.56%) DMARC
10 8 (3.16%) HTTPS
10 8 (3.16%) Kerberos
10 8 (3.16%) OpenVPN
11 7 (2.77%) Internet
11 7 (2.77%) IPsec
12 6 (2.37%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (1.98%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.77%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.98%) Metadata
3 4 (1.58%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.19%) MySQL
4 3 (1.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.19%) Power BI
5 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.40%) Db2
6 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (13.83%) JIRA
2 11 (4.35%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.95%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (3.16%) Git
6 5 (1.98%) GitLab
6 5 (1.98%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.58%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.19%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.79%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.79%) Postman
9 2 (0.79%) Snyk
9 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
General
1 55 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.16%) Finance
3 42 (16.60%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.72%) Banking
7 7 (2.77%) Military
8 6 (2.37%) Legal
8 6 (2.37%) Publishing
8 6 (2.37%) Retail
9 4 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Front Office
11 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (15.42%) Architect
2 26 (10.28%) Developer
3 17 (6.72%) Lead
3 17 (6.72%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (6.32%) Administrator
5 14 (5.53%) Senior
6 13 (5.14%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (4.35%) Consultant
7 11 (4.35%) Support Engineer
8 9 (3.56%) IAM Project Manager
8 9 (3.56%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.16%) Active Directory Engineer
9 8 (3.16%) IAM Specialist
9 8 (3.16%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 8 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (2.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (2.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.37%) IT Engineer
11 6 (2.37%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (26.48%) SAML
2 59 (23.32%) OAuth
3 57 (22.53%) OpenID
4 33 (13.04%) LDAP
5 30 (11.86%) OAuth2
6 22 (8.70%) SailPoint
7 19 (7.51%) REST
8 14 (5.53%) SOAP
9 13 (5.14%) Node.js
9 13 (5.14%) Web Services
10 12 (4.74%) Express.js
11 9 (3.56%) ActiveX
11 9 (3.56%) XML
12 7 (2.77%) Middleware
13 6 (2.37%) React
13 6 (2.37%) SAP Basis
14 5 (1.98%) CSS
15 4 (1.58%) .NET
15 4 (1.58%) boto
15 4 (1.58%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.95%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.72%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.32%) PKI
5 10 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.77%) Freedom of Information
6 7 (2.77%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.37%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.37%) Taxonomies
8 5 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.58%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.58%) Clustering
9 4 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.58%) Replication
10 3 (1.19%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.86%) Windows
2 15 (5.93%) Linux
3 9 (3.56%) Mac OS
3 9 (3.56%) Unix
4 7 (2.77%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.19%) Android
5 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) CatOS
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.43%) Identity Access Management
2 55 (21.74%) DevOps
3 47 (18.58%) RBAC
4 44 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
5 42 (16.60%) Agile
6 40 (15.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (15.42%) Roadmaps
8 37 (14.62%) CI/CD
8 37 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (13.04%) Zero Trust
10 29 (11.46%) Migration
11 27 (10.67%) Privileged Access Management
11 27 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (9.49%) Analytics
13 23 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (8.30%) Runbook
15 20 (7.91%) Change Management
16 19 (7.51%) ITSM
16 19 (7.51%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.07%) PowerShell
2 26 (10.28%) Java
3 18 (7.11%) Python
4 11 (4.35%) SQL
5 10 (3.95%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.56%) VB
6 9 (3.56%) VB6
6 9 (3.56%) VBA
7 6 (2.37%) Bash
7 6 (2.37%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.79%) Bicep
8 2 (0.79%) Groovy
9 1 (0.40%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) Go
9 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.40%) R
9 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.51%) Degree
4 14 (5.53%) CISSP
5 9 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.77%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.37%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.98%) CISM
9 5 (1.98%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.98%) PMP
10 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.19%) GIAC
11 2 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.79%) CEH
11 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (10.28%) NIST
3 25 (9.88%) GDPR
4 11 (4.35%) QA
5 10 (3.95%) Accessibility
6 9 (3.56%) Data Quality
6 9 (3.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (2.77%) GRC
7 7 (2.77%) PMO
8 4 (1.58%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.19%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.19%) SLA
10 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.79%) ITGC
10 2 (0.79%) NCSC
10 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 102 (40.32%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.14%) Docker
3 6 (2.37%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.58%) Squid
6 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.79%) vSphere
7 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.40%) Firmware
7 1 (0.40%) RACF
Systems Management
1 22 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.91%) Terraform
3 16 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (5.14%) Grafana
5 12 (4.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 12 (4.74%) Ansible
6 9 (3.56%) Argo
7 5 (1.98%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.98%) CASB
7 5 (1.98%) PingFederate
7 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.58%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (1.19%) Consul
9 3 (1.19%) SELinux
10 2 (0.79%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.40%) Packer
11 1 (0.40%) SCCM
11 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (36.76%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.02%) Okta
3 25 (9.88%) CyberArk
4 23 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.32%) Red Hat
5 16 (6.32%) SAP
6 14 (5.53%) Google
6 14 (5.53%) Zscaler
7 12 (4.74%) Oracle
8 10 (3.95%) Cisco
8 10 (3.95%) VMware
9 9 (3.56%) BeyondTrust
10 8 (3.16%) Ping Identity
11 6 (2.37%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.98%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.98%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.98%) F5
12 5 (1.98%) Netskope
12 5 (1.98%) Workday
13 4 (1.58%) CrowdStrike