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

 6 months to
19 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 327 315
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 +144
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 257 151 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.69% 4.00% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 102 162
10th Percentile £300 £400 £350
25th Percentile £431 £471 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £518
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +8.99% -5.91%
75th Percentile £613 £656 £638
90th Percentile £700 £747 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £552 £513
% change year-on-year -4.89% +7.71% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 6
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.19 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile - - £102.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £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 5,484 3,777 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.36% 15.53% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,599 3,218
10th Percentile £318 £311 £258
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £513
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 39 105
10th Percentile £20.09 £17.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £22.60 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £28.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +101.79% +8.67% -50.75%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.27 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.25 £25.77
% change year-on-year +101.83% +5.76% -52.44%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -12 113 £525 -8.70% 35
North of England -50 55 £525 +8.58% 11
Yorkshire -26 36 £550 +2.90% 1
South East -37 35 £493 -23.05% 17
Midlands -48 29 £450 -14.29% 11
South West -10 25 £525 +20.00% 6
North West -47 18 £450 -2.70% 9
West Midlands -55 15 £370 -29.52% 7
East Midlands -18 13 £550 - 4
North East -21 2 £413 -31.25% 2
East of England -30 1 £575 +15.00% 7
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 22 (8.56%) SharePoint
2 18 (7.00%) Confluence
3 16 (6.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.50%) nginx
5 3 (1.17%) IIS
6 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.78%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (11.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.78%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (51.36%) Azure
2 128 (49.81%) Entra ID
3 57 (22.18%) AWS
4 45 (17.51%) SaaS
5 39 (15.18%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (10.51%) Serverless
7 26 (10.12%) GCP
8 18 (7.00%) Amazon S3
8 18 (7.00%) PaaS
9 14 (5.45%) Google Workspace
10 13 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.28%) GitHub
13 10 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.50%) IaaS
14 9 (3.50%) OneDrive
14 9 (3.50%) OpenShift
14 9 (3.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 69 (26.85%) DNS
2 32 (12.45%) Firewall
2 32 (12.45%) VPN
3 28 (10.89%) DHCP
4 26 (10.12%) Kerberos
5 25 (9.73%) SSL
6 22 (8.56%) TCP/IP
7 17 (6.61%) HTTP
8 16 (6.23%) IPsec
9 15 (5.84%) Network Security
10 14 (5.45%) LAN
11 13 (5.06%) BIG-IP
11 13 (5.06%) HTTPS
11 13 (5.06%) WAN
12 10 (3.89%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (3.89%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (3.89%) Wireless
13 9 (3.50%) DKIM
13 9 (3.50%) OpenVPN
13 9 (3.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.95%) Metadata
4 4 (1.56%) MySQL
5 3 (1.17%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.17%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.17%) Power BI
6 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.78%) GIS
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.39%) DB2
7 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (13.62%) JIRA
2 10 (3.89%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.72%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.72%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.33%) Git
4 6 (2.33%) GitLab
5 4 (1.56%) Postman
6 3 (1.17%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.39%) Gatling
8 1 (0.39%) JMeter
8 1 (0.39%) JUnit
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.18%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.06%) Documentation Skills
3 31 (12.06%) Finance
4 28 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.23%) Publishing
6 10 (3.89%) Banking
7 7 (2.72%) Legal
8 5 (1.95%) Retail
9 4 (1.56%) Military
10 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Aviation
12 1 (0.39%) Front Office
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (17.90%) Architect
2 24 (9.34%) Administrator
3 22 (8.56%) Senior
4 19 (7.39%) Lead
5 18 (7.00%) Developer
5 18 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.67%) Technical Architect
7 11 (4.28%) Network Engineer
7 11 (4.28%) Support Engineer
8 10 (3.89%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Consultant
10 8 (3.11%) IAM Project Manager
11 7 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.72%) SAP Administrator
11 7 (2.72%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.33%) Analyst
12 6 (2.33%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (32.30%) OAuth
2 82 (31.91%) SAML
3 57 (22.18%) LDAP
3 57 (22.18%) OpenID
4 31 (12.06%) OAuth2
5 21 (8.17%) SailPoint
6 20 (7.78%) SAP Basis
7 15 (5.84%) REST
8 11 (4.28%) Web Services
9 10 (3.89%) Express.js
9 10 (3.89%) Node.js
10 9 (3.50%) CSS
10 9 (3.50%) React
11 8 (3.11%) ARM Templates
11 8 (3.11%) Entity Framework
12 7 (2.72%) HTML
12 7 (2.72%) Model Context Protocol
13 6 (2.33%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.33%) YAML
14 5 (1.95%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.07%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.39%) Replication
2 19 (7.39%) Taxonomies
3 12 (4.67%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.50%) PKI
5 8 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.72%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.33%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.56%) Clustering
9 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.12%) Windows
2 30 (11.67%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.45%) Linux
4 9 (3.50%) Unix
5 5 (1.95%) CatOS
6 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.17%) Android
7 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (28.40%) Identity Access Management
2 66 (25.68%) DevOps
3 52 (20.23%) RBAC
3 52 (20.23%) Roadmaps
4 51 (19.84%) Cybersecurity
5 46 (17.90%) CI/CD
6 39 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (14.79%) Agile
8 34 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (12.84%) Zero Trust
10 30 (11.67%) High Availability
11 28 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (10.89%) Validation
12 25 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (9.34%) Vulnerability Management
14 23 (8.95%) Migration
15 22 (8.56%) Data Governance
15 22 (8.56%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (8.56%) Disaster Recovery
15 22 (8.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 41 (15.95%) PowerShell
2 19 (7.39%) SQL
3 16 (6.23%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.23%) Python
4 11 (4.28%) Java
5 9 (3.50%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.72%) Bash
7 5 (1.95%) Bicep
8 4 (1.56%) Groovy
9 3 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.78%) C#
10 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.39%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) Korn
11 1 (0.39%) PHP
11 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 62 (24.12%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) Degree
4 12 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.89%) CISSP
6 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.56%) CISM
9 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.17%) PMP
10 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.39%) CCSP
11 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.95%) GDPR
2 25 (9.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.56%) NIST
4 20 (7.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.28%) GRC
6 9 (3.50%) QA
7 8 (3.11%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.72%) Accessibility
9 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
9 6 (2.33%) SLA
10 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.56%) PMO
11 3 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.17%) NCSC
11 3 (1.17%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 115 (44.75%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.61%) Docker
3 15 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.84%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.89%) Squid
5 6 (2.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.95%) RACF
7 4 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.78%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.78%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.78%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.39%) Firmware
9 1 (0.39%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (14.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 26 (10.12%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.34%) Terraform
4 17 (6.61%) Grafana
5 13 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (4.28%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.50%) Ansible
7 9 (3.50%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.11%) Consul
9 6 (2.33%) Argo
9 6 (2.33%) CA Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.33%) PingFederate
9 6 (2.33%) SCCM
10 4 (1.56%) VxRail
11 3 (1.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.78%) CASB
12 2 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.39%) Packer
13 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 101 (39.30%) Microsoft
2 49 (19.07%) Okta
3 30 (11.67%) SAP
4 25 (9.73%) VMware
5 17 (6.61%) CyberArk
5 17 (6.61%) Google
5 17 (6.61%) Red Hat
6 13 (5.06%) F5
6 13 (5.06%) Palo Alto
6 13 (5.06%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.67%) Cisco
8 11 (4.28%) CheckPoint
9 10 (3.89%) Dynatrace
9 10 (3.89%) Oracle
9 10 (3.89%) Zscaler
10 7 (2.72%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.33%) Ping Identity
11 6 (2.33%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.95%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (1.95%) Netskope
76 Single Sign-On jobs in England