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

 6 months to
23 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 329 346
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 +101
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 257 158 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.64% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.66% 4.12% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 110 151
10th Percentile £327 £398 £350
25th Percentile £438 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +4.09% -
75th Percentile £613 £666 £648
90th Percentile £714 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 6
10th Percentile £51.70 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £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 5,511 3,836 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.88% 15.61% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,817 2,661 3,203
10th Percentile £320 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £407
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 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -8.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 35 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £22.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -48.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.50 £52.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -18 103 £541 -9.85% 38
North of England -40 61 £525 +8.58% 5
Yorkshire -22 40 £525 -1.78% 1
South East -27 36 £510 -20.31% 18
South West -11 30 £523 +19.43% 5
Midlands -51 25 £450 -23.40% 2
North West -42 20 £425 -8.11% 3
West Midlands -61 13 £340 -42.13% 2
East Midlands -23 11 £638 -
North East -19 2 £413 -31.25% 1
East of England -28 2 £563 +28.57% 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 19 (7.39%) SharePoint
2 18 (7.00%) Confluence
3 13 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.50%) nginx
5 3 (1.17%) IIS
6 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 29 (11.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 138 (53.70%) Azure
2 135 (52.53%) Entra ID
3 57 (22.18%) AWS
4 43 (16.73%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (16.34%) SaaS
6 26 (10.12%) Serverless
7 20 (7.78%) GCP
7 20 (7.78%) PaaS
8 18 (7.00%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (5.84%) GitHub
10 13 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.67%) Google Workspace
11 12 (4.67%) IaaS
11 12 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.50%) Route 53
14 8 (3.11%) OneDrive
15 7 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 71 (27.63%) DNS
2 37 (14.40%) Firewall
3 36 (14.01%) VPN
4 31 (12.06%) DHCP
5 24 (9.34%) SSL
6 23 (8.95%) Kerberos
7 22 (8.56%) TCP/IP
8 14 (5.45%) HTTP
8 14 (5.45%) Network Security
9 13 (5.06%) IPsec
10 12 (4.67%) LAN
11 11 (4.28%) BIG-IP
11 11 (4.28%) WAN
12 10 (3.89%) HTTPS
13 9 (3.50%) OpenVPN
13 9 (3.50%) Wireless
14 8 (3.11%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (3.11%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (3.11%) Ethereal
14 8 (3.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.95%) Power BI
4 4 (1.56%) Metadata
5 3 (1.17%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.17%) MySQL
5 3 (1.17%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.78%) GIS
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
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%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (12.84%) JIRA
2 9 (3.50%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.72%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.72%) Git
3 7 (2.72%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.33%) GitLab
5 4 (1.56%) Postman
6 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.17%) MSI
7 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.78%) Fiddler
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%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.45%) Documentation Skills
2 32 (12.45%) Public Sector
3 30 (11.67%) Finance
4 28 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.23%) Publishing
6 8 (3.11%) Banking
7 7 (2.72%) Retail
8 6 (2.33%) Legal
9 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.17%) Military
10 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Aviation
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (18.68%) Architect
2 25 (9.73%) Senior
3 24 (9.34%) Administrator
4 21 (8.17%) Lead
5 19 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (4.67%) Technical Architect
8 11 (4.28%) Consultant
8 11 (4.28%) Developer
8 11 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.89%) Network Engineer
9 10 (3.89%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.50%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.11%) IAM Project Manager
12 7 (2.72%) SAP Administrator
12 7 (2.72%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.33%) Analyst
13 6 (2.33%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (32.30%) OAuth
2 79 (30.74%) SAML
3 55 (21.40%) OpenID
4 50 (19.46%) LDAP
5 34 (13.23%) OAuth2
6 20 (7.78%) SAP Basis
7 18 (7.00%) SailPoint
8 12 (4.67%) REST
9 10 (3.89%) React
10 9 (3.50%) Entity Framework
11 8 (3.11%) ARM Templates
11 8 (3.11%) Web Services
12 7 (2.72%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.72%) YAML
13 6 (2.33%) CSS
14 5 (1.95%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.95%) XACML
15 4 (1.56%) Express.js
15 4 (1.56%) Node.js
15 4 (1.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.34%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.39%) Replication
2 19 (7.39%) Taxonomies
3 11 (4.28%) PKI
4 10 (3.89%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.11%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.72%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.95%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Clustering
9 4 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.78%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.40%) Windows
2 37 (14.40%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.45%) Linux
4 7 (2.72%) Unix
5 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.56%) CatOS
6 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.18%) Identity Access Management
2 67 (26.07%) DevOps
3 58 (22.57%) RBAC
4 51 (19.84%) Roadmaps
5 50 (19.46%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (15.95%) CI/CD
7 40 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (15.18%) Zero Trust
9 36 (14.01%) Agile
10 34 (13.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (11.67%) High Availability
13 28 (10.89%) Identity Management
14 27 (10.51%) Validation
15 26 (10.12%) Disaster Recovery
16 24 (9.34%) Vulnerability Management
17 22 (8.56%) Data Pipeline
17 22 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 22 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 21 (8.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.90%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.78%) SQL
3 17 (6.61%) Python
4 14 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.67%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.89%) Java
7 6 (2.33%) Bash
8 4 (1.56%) Bicep
8 4 (1.56%) Groovy
9 3 (1.17%) C#
9 3 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
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 91 (35.41%) Security Cleared
2 66 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.61%) DV Cleared
4 16 (6.23%) Degree
5 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.89%) CISSP
7 8 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.56%) CISM
9 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.17%) PMP
10 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CCSP
11 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.18%) GDPR
2 22 (8.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (7.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 19 (7.39%) NIST
5 10 (3.89%) GRC
6 9 (3.50%) QA
7 8 (3.11%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.33%) SLA
9 4 (1.56%) PMO
10 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.17%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.78%) NCSC
12 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 124 (48.25%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (6.23%) Docker
4 15 (5.84%) VMware NSX
5 10 (3.89%) Squid
6 6 (2.33%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.95%) RACF
8 4 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.78%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.78%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.78%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.78%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.39%) Firmware
10 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (15.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (11.28%) Terraform
3 25 (9.73%) Kubernetes
4 17 (6.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.45%) Grafana
6 11 (4.28%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.50%) Ansible
7 9 (3.50%) FortiGate
7 9 (3.50%) PingFederate
8 8 (3.11%) Consul
9 7 (2.72%) SCCM
10 6 (2.33%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.56%) VxRail
12 3 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 1 (0.39%) CASB
14 1 (0.39%) Packer
14 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (44.75%) Microsoft
2 48 (18.68%) Okta
3 29 (11.28%) SAP
4 28 (10.89%) VMware
5 15 (5.84%) CyberArk
6 14 (5.45%) Google
7 13 (5.06%) Palo Alto
7 13 (5.06%) Zscaler
8 12 (4.67%) ServiceNow
9 11 (4.28%) F5
9 11 (4.28%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.89%) Cisco
10 10 (3.89%) Dynatrace
11 9 (3.50%) CheckPoint
12 7 (2.72%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.72%) Oracle
12 7 (2.72%) Splunk
13 6 (2.33%) Ping Identity
14 5 (1.95%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (1.95%) Netskope
62 Single Sign-On jobs in England