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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 357 309
Rank change year-on-year +41 -48 +141
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 237 145 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.75% 3.56% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 99 188
10th Percentile £368 £420 £368
25th Percentile £425 £503 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £586 £700 £650
90th Percentile £688 £789 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £43.38 - -
25th Percentile £49.19 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £57.25 - -
90th Percentile £57.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +55.04%

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 4,993 4,078 4,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.75% 14.51% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,427 2,644 3,552
10th Percentile £310 £313 £273
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -8.05%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.19% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 51 152
10th Percentile £18.72 £15.22 £16.59
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.61 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.98% -42.62% +27.89%
75th Percentile £66.19 £61.25 £67.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.24% -46.21% +31.94%

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 January 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
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 January 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 +4 97 £519 -13.54% 27
South West +34 44 £525 +23.53% 3
North of England -26 41 £492 -1.60% 16
South East -8 24 £508 -24.81% 20
Yorkshire -29 24 £525 - 11
North West -21 17 £423 -15.40% 5
Midlands -40 15 £500 - 9
West Midlands -31 14 £500 - 6
East of England -16 6 £625 +42.86% 5
East Midlands -21 1 £550 - 3
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 16 (6.75%) Confluence
1 16 (6.75%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.53%) Apache
3 6 (2.53%) IIS
4 5 (2.11%) iPlanet
4 5 (2.11%) JBoss
4 5 (2.11%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.11%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.84%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.84%) CMS
5 2 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.84%) Windchill
4 1 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (4.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.84%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.42%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 106 (44.73%) Azure
2 95 (40.08%) Entra ID
3 51 (21.52%) AWS
4 38 (16.03%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (13.92%) SaaS
6 17 (7.17%) PaaS
7 14 (5.91%) GCP
8 10 (4.22%) IaaS
9 8 (3.38%) GitHub
10 7 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.95%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.95%) Serverless
11 6 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.53%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 38 (16.03%) DNS
2 25 (10.55%) Firewall
2 25 (10.55%) VPN
3 20 (8.44%) SSL
4 14 (5.91%) Kerberos
5 10 (4.22%) DHCP
6 9 (3.80%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.53%) HTTPS
7 6 (2.53%) LAN
7 6 (2.53%) Network Security
7 6 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (2.53%) Wireshark
8 5 (2.11%) WAN
9 4 (1.69%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.69%) IPsec
9 4 (1.69%) Wireless
10 3 (1.27%) BGP
10 3 (1.27%) Ethereal
10 3 (1.27%) HTTP
10 3 (1.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.11%) Oracle Database
1 5 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.69%) Power BI
3 3 (1.27%) CockroachDB
3 3 (1.27%) Pinecone
4 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.84%) GIS
4 2 (0.84%) MySQL
4 2 (0.84%) SQLite
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (10.55%) JIRA
2 17 (7.17%) Git
3 11 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (2.11%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (2.11%) MSI
4 5 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.84%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.84%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.84%) fastlane
5 2 (0.84%) GitLab
5 2 (0.84%) Xcode
6 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.42%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.42%) gulp
6 1 (0.42%) JMeter
6 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.42%) Maven
6 1 (0.42%) Selenium
6 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 56 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.39%) Finance
3 22 (9.28%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.95%) Banking
7 6 (2.53%) Publishing
8 4 (1.69%) Aviation
8 4 (1.69%) Retail
8 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.84%) Electronics
9 2 (0.84%) Legal
9 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.84%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Police
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (18.57%) Architect
2 35 (14.77%) Senior
3 20 (8.44%) Developer
4 17 (7.17%) Administrator
4 17 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (5.91%) Consultant
7 13 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.22%) Analyst
9 9 (3.80%) Lead
10 8 (3.38%) IAM Consultant
10 8 (3.38%) Senior Architect
11 7 (2.95%) ForgeRock Developer
11 7 (2.95%) IAM Specialist
11 7 (2.95%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.95%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.53%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.53%) Security Architect
12 6 (2.53%) ServiceNow Architect
12 6 (2.53%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (37.97%) SAML
2 85 (35.86%) OAuth
3 59 (24.89%) OpenID
4 41 (17.30%) LDAP
5 39 (16.46%) OAuth2
6 20 (8.44%) REST
7 19 (8.02%) SailPoint
8 15 (6.33%) AngularJS
8 15 (6.33%) HTML
8 15 (6.33%) SOAP
9 12 (5.06%) HTML5
9 12 (5.06%) JDBC
9 12 (5.06%) React
10 11 (4.64%) JSON
10 11 (4.64%) Web Services
11 10 (4.22%) RESTful
12 9 (3.80%) Apache Camel
12 9 (3.80%) jQuery
12 9 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.80%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.30%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.33%) PKI
3 11 (4.64%) Taxonomies
4 9 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.38%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.38%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.95%) Replication
7 6 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.53%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.53%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.84%) Animation
8 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.57%) Windows
2 31 (13.08%) Windows Server
3 22 (9.28%) Linux
4 7 (2.95%) Unix
5 4 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.27%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.84%) Android
7 2 (0.84%) CatOS
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.54%) Identity Access Management
2 60 (25.32%) RBAC
3 52 (21.94%) DevOps
4 51 (21.52%) Agile
5 45 (18.99%) CI/CD
6 44 (18.57%) Identity Management
7 40 (16.88%) Zero Trust
8 27 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (10.97%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 26 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (10.13%) Microservices
11 23 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 22 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (8.02%) ITSM
15 18 (7.59%) Analytics
15 18 (7.59%) Privileged Access Management
15 18 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (7.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.94%) PowerShell
2 31 (13.08%) Python
3 26 (10.97%) JavaScript
4 14 (5.91%) Java
5 13 (5.49%) SQL
6 9 (3.80%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.38%) Groovy
7 8 (3.38%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.69%) Bicep
10 3 (1.27%) Bash
10 3 (1.27%) C#
11 2 (0.84%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.84%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.84%) Swift
Qualifications
1 91 (38.40%) Security Cleared
2 65 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.70%) CISSP
4 20 (8.44%) DV Cleared
4 20 (8.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (6.33%) CISM
6 11 (4.64%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.64%) Degree
7 7 (2.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.11%) MCP
9 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.27%) PhD
11 2 (0.84%) CCSP
11 2 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.84%) MCSA
11 2 (0.84%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.77%) GDPR
2 25 (10.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.64%) NIST
4 9 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.38%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (2.53%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.53%) NCSC
7 6 (2.53%) PSD2
7 6 (2.53%) SLA
8 5 (2.11%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.11%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.69%) QA
10 2 (0.84%) WCAG
11 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.42%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.42%) SOC 1
System Software
1 106 (44.73%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.59%) Docker
3 13 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.80%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.11%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.84%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.84%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.84%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.84%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.42%) RACF
8 1 (0.42%) Squid
8 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (13.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 28 (11.81%) Terraform
3 20 (8.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (6.33%) Kubernetes
5 14 (5.91%) PingFederate
6 10 (4.22%) Ansible
7 6 (2.53%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.11%) CA Wily
8 5 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.11%) SCCM
8 5 (2.11%) Tivoli
9 4 (1.69%) Grafana
10 2 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.84%) Kibana
10 2 (0.84%) logstash
10 2 (0.84%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.42%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 112 (47.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.39%) Okta
3 25 (10.55%) VMware
4 18 (7.59%) CyberArk
4 18 (7.59%) ServiceNow
5 14 (5.91%) Ping Identity
5 14 (5.91%) SAP
6 13 (5.49%) ForgeRock
6 13 (5.49%) Splunk
7 12 (5.06%) Google
8 10 (4.22%) HP
8 10 (4.22%) Zscaler
9 9 (3.80%) BMC
9 9 (3.80%) Ivanti
9 9 (3.80%) Remedy
10 8 (3.38%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.95%) Oracle
11 7 (2.95%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.53%) Cisco
13 5 (2.11%) IBM