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

 6 months to
1 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 328 336
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +117
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 261 157 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.64% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.71% 4.16% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 109 150
10th Percentile £313 £395 £350
25th Percentile £431 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £613 £655 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £568 £525
% change year-on-year -7.57% +8.19% -4.55%
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 5,536 3,778 4,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.71% 15.52% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,835 2,613 3,174
10th Percentile £319 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £625
90th Percentile £694 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.90% -8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 34 120
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £41.93 £23.64 £17.74
Median hourly rate £57.50 £27.38 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +110.05% +0.46% -52.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.44 £51.13
90th Percentile £74.20 £76.09 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +113.61% -11.83% -47.83%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -17 108 £525 -10.26% 45
North of England -45 59 £525 +8.58% 7
Yorkshire -23 39 £538 +0.56% 3
South East -29 38 £500 -21.88% 17
Midlands -62 28 £450 -23.40% 1
South West -13 27 £525 +20.00% 5
North West -48 19 £425 -8.11% 4
West Midlands -60 15 £370 -37.02% 1
East Midlands -19 12 £594 -
North East -19 2 £413 -31.25%
East of England -29 2 £563 +28.57% 11
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 18 (6.90%) Confluence
1 18 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.45%) nginx
4 3 (1.15%) IIS
5 2 (0.77%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.77%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (3.07%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (11.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.77%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (52.49%) Azure
1 137 (52.49%) Entra ID
2 57 (21.84%) AWS
3 43 (16.48%) SaaS
4 41 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (10.34%) Serverless
6 21 (8.05%) GCP
7 20 (7.66%) PaaS
8 18 (6.90%) Amazon S3
9 14 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.36%) GitHub
10 13 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.60%) Google Workspace
11 12 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (4.21%) IaaS
13 10 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.45%) Route 53
15 8 (3.07%) OneDrive
16 7 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 73 (27.97%) DNS
2 36 (13.79%) Firewall
2 36 (13.79%) VPN
3 31 (11.88%) DHCP
4 26 (9.96%) Kerberos
5 25 (9.58%) SSL
6 23 (8.81%) TCP/IP
7 17 (6.51%) HTTP
8 16 (6.13%) IPsec
9 14 (5.36%) LAN
9 14 (5.36%) Network Security
10 13 (4.98%) BIG-IP
10 13 (4.98%) HTTPS
10 13 (4.98%) WAN
11 10 (3.83%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.83%) Cisco Nexus
11 10 (3.83%) Wireless
12 9 (3.45%) OpenVPN
12 9 (3.45%) Wireshark
13 8 (3.07%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.92%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.53%) Metadata
3 4 (1.53%) Power BI
4 3 (1.15%) CockroachDB
4 3 (1.15%) MySQL
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.15%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.77%) GIS
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (12.64%) JIRA
2 9 (3.45%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.68%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.68%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.30%) Git
4 6 (2.30%) GitLab
5 4 (1.53%) Postman
6 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.15%) MSI
7 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.77%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.38%) Gatling
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) JUnit
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.41%) Public Sector
3 33 (12.64%) Documentation Skills
4 31 (11.88%) Finance
5 28 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.13%) Publishing
7 8 (3.07%) Banking
8 7 (2.68%) Legal
8 7 (2.68%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.15%) Military
10 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Aviation
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (18.01%) Architect
2 24 (9.20%) Senior
3 23 (8.81%) Administrator
4 21 (8.05%) Lead
5 18 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.98%) Developer
8 12 (4.60%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.21%) Network Engineer
10 10 (3.83%) Consultant
10 10 (3.83%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.83%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) IAM Project Manager
12 7 (2.68%) SAP Administrator
12 7 (2.68%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.30%) Analyst
13 6 (2.30%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (31.80%) OAuth
1 83 (31.80%) SAML
2 56 (21.46%) LDAP
2 56 (21.46%) OpenID
3 33 (12.64%) OAuth2
4 20 (7.66%) SAP Basis
5 19 (7.28%) SailPoint
6 14 (5.36%) REST
7 10 (3.83%) React
7 10 (3.83%) Web Services
8 8 (3.07%) ARM Templates
8 8 (3.07%) Entity Framework
9 7 (2.68%) CSS
9 7 (2.68%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (2.30%) Express.js
10 6 (2.30%) Node.js
10 6 (2.30%) YAML
11 5 (1.92%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.92%) SOAP
11 5 (1.92%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.28%) Replication
2 19 (7.28%) Taxonomies
3 11 (4.21%) PKI
4 10 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.07%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.07%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.92%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.53%) Clustering
9 4 (1.53%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.53%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.77%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 50 (19.16%) Windows
2 34 (13.03%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.75%) Linux
4 8 (3.07%) Unix
5 5 (1.92%) CatOS
5 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (29.12%) Identity Access Management
2 68 (26.05%) DevOps
3 55 (21.07%) RBAC
4 53 (20.31%) Roadmaps
5 51 (19.54%) Cybersecurity
6 43 (16.48%) CI/CD
7 39 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (14.56%) Zero Trust
9 37 (14.18%) Agile
10 33 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (11.49%) High Availability
12 29 (11.11%) Validation
13 27 (10.34%) Identity Management
14 24 (9.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (9.20%) Vulnerability Management
15 23 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (8.43%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (8.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 45 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 19 (7.28%) Python
2 19 (7.28%) SQL
3 16 (6.13%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.60%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.83%) Java
6 7 (2.68%) Bash
7 4 (1.53%) Bicep
7 4 (1.53%) Groovy
8 3 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.77%) C#
9 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.38%) Go
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (34.10%) Security Cleared
2 65 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.90%) Degree
4 15 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.83%) CISSP
6 8 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.53%) CISM
9 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.15%) PMP
10 2 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.38%) CCSP
11 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.33%) GDPR
2 24 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (8.05%) NIST
4 20 (7.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.21%) GRC
6 9 (3.45%) QA
7 8 (3.07%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.30%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.30%) SLA
9 4 (1.53%) PMO
10 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.15%) NCSC
10 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 125 (47.89%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.51%) VMware NSX
3 16 (6.13%) Docker
3 16 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.83%) Squid
5 6 (2.30%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.92%) RACF
7 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.77%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.77%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.77%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.77%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.38%) Firmware
9 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (14.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 28 (10.73%) Terraform
3 25 (9.58%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.13%) Grafana
4 16 (6.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (4.21%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.45%) Ansible
6 9 (3.45%) FortiGate
7 8 (3.07%) Consul
8 7 (2.68%) PingFederate
9 6 (2.30%) CA Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.30%) SCCM
10 4 (1.53%) VxRail
11 2 (0.77%) Argo
11 2 (0.77%) CASB
11 2 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.38%) Packer
12 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 112 (42.91%) Microsoft
2 47 (18.01%) Okta
3 30 (11.49%) SAP
4 29 (11.11%) VMware
5 15 (5.75%) CyberArk
5 15 (5.75%) Palo Alto
6 14 (5.36%) Google
7 13 (4.98%) F5
7 13 (4.98%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.98%) Zscaler
8 12 (4.60%) Cisco
8 12 (4.60%) ServiceNow
9 11 (4.21%) CheckPoint
10 10 (3.83%) Dynatrace
11 9 (3.45%) Oracle
12 7 (2.68%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.68%) Splunk
13 6 (2.30%) Ping Identity
13 6 (2.30%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
73 Single Sign-On jobs in England