Single Sign-On Contracts in England

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Single Sign-On skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Single Sign-On over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 336 453
Rank change year-on-year +8 +117 +50
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 157 208 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.56% 0.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.15% 4.74% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 150 150
10th Percentile £395 £350 £374
25th Percentile £475 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -
75th Percentile £655 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £568 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +8.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £28.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.25 -

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 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in England

Single Sign-On
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in England.

Daily rate trend for Single Sign-On in England

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in England

Single Sign-On
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 May 2025. 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 +14 71 £585 -2.50% 107
North of England +31 38 £484 -2.22% 23
North West +26 26 £463 -6.99% 15
Midlands -1 14 £588 -5.24% 17
West Midlands +6 13 £588 -2.08% 9
South East +43 11 £640 +43.02% 32
South West +33 10 £438 -0.39% 11
Yorkshire +10 10 £535 +12.53% 5
East of England +31 4 £438 -20.45% 9
North East +1 2 £600 - 3
East Midlands -5 1 - - 7
Single Sign-On
UK

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (10.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (9.55%) Confluence
3 11 (7.01%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (5.73%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.64%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 89 (56.69%) Azure
2 74 (47.13%) Entra ID
3 28 (17.83%) AWS
4 27 (17.20%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (14.01%) SaaS
6 15 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (6.37%) IaaS
7 10 (6.37%) PaaS
8 9 (5.73%) GCP
8 9 (5.73%) Serverless
9 7 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.46%) Google Workspace
10 6 (3.82%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.82%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (2.55%) Lucidchart
11 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.55%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.91%) Azure API Management
12 3 (1.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.28%) VPN
2 12 (7.64%) Firewall
3 9 (5.73%) HTTPS
4 8 (5.10%) Kerberos
4 8 (5.10%) POP3
4 8 (5.10%) SMTP
4 8 (5.10%) SSL
5 5 (3.18%) HTTP
6 4 (2.55%) DNS
7 2 (1.27%) IPsec
7 2 (1.27%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.27%) Network Security
8 1 (0.64%) DHCP
8 1 (0.64%) FTP
8 1 (0.64%) NGFW
8 1 (0.64%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.64%) VSAN
8 1 (0.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.10%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.55%) Power BI
2 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.91%) SSDT
4 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.27%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.64%) Metadata
5 1 (0.64%) MySQL
5 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (10.83%) JIRA
2 3 (1.91%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.27%) Maven
4 1 (0.64%) MSI
4 1 (0.64%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (21.02%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.83%) Finance
4 11 (7.01%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.82%) Marketing
6 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.91%) Banking
8 2 (1.27%) French Language
8 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.64%) Local Government
9 1 (0.64%) Military
9 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (25.48%) Architect
2 17 (10.83%) Developer
3 13 (8.28%) Senior
4 11 (7.01%) Lead
5 10 (6.37%) Analyst
5 10 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (6.37%) Security Architect
6 9 (5.73%) Administrator
7 8 (5.10%) Consultant
7 8 (5.10%) IAM Specialist
8 7 (4.46%) AWS Specialist
8 7 (4.46%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 7 (4.46%) ServiceNow Developer
9 6 (3.82%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.18%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.18%) IT Security Officer
10 5 (3.18%) Security Officer
10 5 (3.18%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.18%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (32.48%) OAuth
1 51 (32.48%) SAML
2 41 (26.11%) OpenID
3 39 (24.84%) LDAP
4 23 (14.65%) SOAP
5 21 (13.38%) Web Services
6 20 (12.74%) REST
6 20 (12.74%) SailPoint
7 13 (8.28%) AngularJS
8 12 (7.64%) CSS
8 12 (7.64%) OAuth2
9 11 (7.01%) HTML
9 11 (7.01%) JDBC
9 11 (7.01%) JSON
10 8 (5.10%) Bootstrap
10 8 (5.10%) CSS3
11 6 (3.82%) Ajax
11 6 (3.82%) XML
12 4 (2.55%) ODBC
12 4 (2.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.29%) Onboarding
2 19 (12.10%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (8.28%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (7.01%) PKI
5 7 (4.46%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.46%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.46%) Taxonomies
6 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.64%) BYOD
9 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.29%) Windows
2 11 (7.01%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.82%) Linux
4 4 (2.55%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.27%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Unix
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.48%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (31.21%) Agile
2 49 (31.21%) Identity Access Management
3 43 (27.39%) RBAC
4 37 (23.57%) Identity Management
4 37 (23.57%) Migration
5 27 (17.20%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 25 (15.92%) DevOps
7 23 (14.65%) ITIL
8 22 (14.01%) Scrum
9 17 (10.83%) Privileged Access Management
9 17 (10.83%) Roadmaps
10 16 (10.19%) User Experience
11 15 (9.55%) ITSM
11 15 (9.55%) Zero Trust
12 14 (8.92%) Analytics
12 14 (8.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (8.28%) Project Management
13 13 (8.28%) Task Automation
14 12 (7.64%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 41 (26.11%) PowerShell
2 27 (17.20%) JavaScript
3 21 (13.38%) Java
4 20 (12.74%) Python
5 13 (8.28%) SQL
6 6 (3.82%) Bicep
7 5 (3.18%) C#
8 4 (2.55%) Ruby
9 2 (1.27%) Bash
10 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.64%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.64%) C
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (24.20%) Security Cleared
2 34 (21.66%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.37%) Degree
4 9 (5.73%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.10%) CISSP
6 4 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.27%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.27%) ACSP
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.27%) CISM
8 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.55%) GDPR
2 12 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (7.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (7.01%) HIPAA
4 7 (4.46%) NIST
5 3 (1.91%) QA
5 3 (1.91%) SLA
6 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.64%) NCSC
7 1 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 79 (50.32%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.01%) Docker
3 4 (2.55%) BitLocker
3 4 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.91%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.91%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.27%) RACF
6 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.64%) NFS
6 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (8.92%) Terraform
3 9 (5.73%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.55%) Ansible
4 4 (2.55%) PingFederate
5 3 (1.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.27%) Packer
6 2 (1.27%) SCCM
7 1 (0.64%) Argo
7 1 (0.64%) Grafana
7 1 (0.64%) Istio
7 1 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.64%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 52 (33.12%) Microsoft
2 27 (17.20%) ServiceNow
3 24 (15.29%) Okta
4 22 (14.01%) Ping Identity
5 18 (11.46%) CyberArk
6 14 (8.92%) Google
7 11 (7.01%) ForgeRock
8 7 (4.46%) SAP
9 6 (3.82%) Qualtrics
9 6 (3.82%) Zscaler
10 5 (3.18%) Citrix
10 5 (3.18%) Splunk
10 5 (3.18%) VMware
11 4 (2.55%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.55%) OpenText
11 4 (2.55%) Oracle
12 3 (1.91%) Cisco
12 3 (1.91%) UiPath
13 2 (1.27%) OneLogin
13 2 (1.27%) Varonis