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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 318 331
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +123
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 286 160 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.66% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.08% 4.16% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 108 161
10th Percentile £300 £400 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +7.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £664 £638
90th Percentile £687 £726 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £556 £513
% change year-on-year -5.58% +8.49% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 6
10th Percentile £51.33 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile £80.88 - £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 5,631 3,849 4,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.79% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,857 2,612 3,349
10th Percentile £320 £310 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -1.46% - -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 37 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.04 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £40.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% +39.13% -45.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £33.25 £31.50
% change year-on-year +65.41% +5.56% -45.22%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -14 130 £525 -7.57% 39
North of England -48 59 £513 +6.00% 9
Yorkshire -32 37 £550 +10.00% 4
South East -33 36 £500 -23.08% 18
Midlands -47 34 £450 -14.29% 9
South West -9 28 £525 +20.00% 7
North West -37 21 £438 -2.78% 4
West Midlands -56 19 £425 -22.73% 6
East Midlands -18 14 £506 +25.93% 3
North East -25 2 £413 -31.25% 1
East of England -32 1 £575 -2.13% 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 24 (8.39%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.64%) Confluence
3 16 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.15%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.70%) IIS
5 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (10.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.70%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 149 (52.10%) Azure
2 138 (48.25%) Entra ID
3 63 (22.03%) AWS
4 49 (17.13%) SaaS
5 46 (16.08%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (10.49%) GCP
7 27 (9.44%) Serverless
8 18 (6.29%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.29%) PaaS
9 13 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.55%) GitHub
9 13 (4.55%) Google Workspace
10 12 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.20%) OpenShift
10 12 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.50%) IaaS
12 9 (3.15%) OneDrive
12 9 (3.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 68 (23.78%) DNS
2 31 (10.84%) Firewall
3 30 (10.49%) DHCP
4 28 (9.79%) VPN
5 26 (9.09%) Kerberos
6 24 (8.39%) TCP/IP
7 23 (8.04%) SSL
8 16 (5.59%) Network Security
9 14 (4.90%) HTTP
9 14 (4.90%) IPsec
10 12 (4.20%) LAN
10 12 (4.20%) WAN
11 11 (3.85%) HTTPS
12 10 (3.50%) BIG-IP
13 9 (3.15%) DKIM
13 9 (3.15%) DMARC
13 9 (3.15%) OpenVPN
14 8 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (2.45%) Cisco Nexus
15 7 (2.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.45%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.75%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.75%) Metadata
4 4 (1.40%) MySQL
4 4 (1.40%) Power BI
5 3 (1.05%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.05%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.70%) GIS
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (12.24%) JIRA
2 10 (3.50%) Browser DevTools
3 8 (2.80%) GitLab
3 8 (2.80%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.45%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.45%) Git
4 7 (2.45%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.05%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.05%) Postman
8 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.35%) JUnit
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.35%) Snyk
9 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.73%) Public Sector
3 37 (12.94%) Finance
4 31 (10.84%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.59%) Publishing
7 8 (2.80%) Banking
8 6 (2.10%) Legal
8 6 (2.10%) Military
9 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.40%) Retail
10 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Aviation
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (16.43%) Architect
2 25 (8.74%) Administrator
2 25 (8.74%) Senior
3 24 (8.39%) Developer
4 19 (6.64%) Lead
5 18 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 12 (4.20%) Project Manager
7 12 (4.20%) Support Engineer
8 11 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.15%) Consultant
9 9 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.80%) IAM Project Manager
10 8 (2.80%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (2.80%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.45%) Analyst
11 7 (2.45%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (30.42%) SAML
2 86 (30.07%) OAuth
3 63 (22.03%) OpenID
4 56 (19.58%) LDAP
5 34 (11.89%) OAuth2
6 24 (8.39%) SailPoint
7 20 (6.99%) SAP Basis
8 15 (5.24%) REST
9 13 (4.55%) Node.js
10 12 (4.20%) Express.js
10 12 (4.20%) Web Services
11 11 (3.85%) React
12 10 (3.50%) CSS
12 10 (3.50%) SOAP
13 8 (2.80%) ARM Templates
13 8 (2.80%) Entity Framework
13 8 (2.80%) HTML
14 7 (2.45%) AngularJS
14 7 (2.45%) Model Context Protocol
15 6 (2.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.63%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.64%) Replication
2 19 (6.64%) Taxonomies
3 13 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (4.20%) PKI
5 9 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.10%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.40%) Clustering
9 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.43%) Windows
2 28 (9.79%) Windows Server
3 14 (4.90%) Linux
4 9 (3.15%) Unix
5 7 (2.45%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.05%) Android
7 3 (1.05%) CatOS
7 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (27.97%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (25.17%) DevOps
3 55 (19.23%) Roadmaps
4 53 (18.53%) CI/CD
5 52 (18.18%) RBAC
6 50 (17.48%) Cybersecurity
7 43 (15.03%) Agile
8 42 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (12.24%) Zero Trust
10 34 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (10.14%) High Availability
13 29 (10.14%) Migration
14 26 (9.09%) Validation
15 25 (8.74%) Vulnerability Management
16 24 (8.39%) Disaster Recovery
16 24 (8.39%) Microservices
17 23 (8.04%) Data Governance
17 23 (8.04%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.64%) SQL
3 17 (5.94%) Python
4 16 (5.59%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.24%) Java
6 10 (3.50%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.45%) Bash
8 5 (1.75%) Bicep
8 5 (1.75%) VB
8 5 (1.75%) VB6
8 5 (1.75%) VBA
9 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.70%) C#
10 2 (0.70%) Groovy
10 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.35%) Korn
11 1 (0.35%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) R
11 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 81 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.34%) Degree
4 13 (4.55%) CISSP
5 12 (4.20%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.75%) CISM
9 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.05%) PMP
10 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) CCSP
11 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.34%) GDPR
2 28 (9.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (8.04%) NIST
4 21 (7.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.85%) GRC
6 9 (3.15%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.80%) QA
7 8 (2.80%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.45%) SLA
9 6 (2.10%) PCI DSS
9 6 (2.10%) PMO
10 5 (1.75%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (1.05%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 120 (41.96%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.29%) Docker
3 11 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.85%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.50%) Squid
5 6 (2.10%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.75%) RACF
7 4 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.35%) Firmware
9 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (12.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 32 (11.19%) Kubernetes
3 28 (9.79%) Terraform
4 19 (6.64%) Grafana
5 15 (5.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.85%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.15%) Ansible
7 9 (3.15%) Argo
7 9 (3.15%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.80%) Consul
9 6 (2.10%) CA Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.75%) PingFederate
10 5 (1.75%) VxRail
11 4 (1.40%) SCCM
12 3 (1.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.70%) CASB
13 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.35%) Packer
14 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (39.86%) Microsoft
2 57 (19.93%) Okta
3 30 (10.49%) SAP
4 20 (6.99%) VMware
5 19 (6.64%) Red Hat
6 18 (6.29%) CyberArk
6 18 (6.29%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.94%) Google
8 12 (4.20%) Cisco
9 11 (3.85%) Oracle
10 10 (3.50%) Dynatrace
10 10 (3.50%) F5
10 10 (3.50%) Zscaler
11 9 (3.15%) Palo Alto
12 8 (2.80%) CheckPoint
13 7 (2.45%) Atlassian
13 7 (2.45%) Ping Identity
14 6 (2.10%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (2.10%) Dell
15 5 (1.75%) Thales