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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 337 340
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +106
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 287 176 215
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.75% 4.20% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 118 155
10th Percentile £300 £375 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £692 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00

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 6,047 4,186 4,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 15.49% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,159 2,785 3,378
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £508 £515
% change year-on-year +1.48% -1.46% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 53 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.52
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £21.68
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +74.40% -44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £49.06
90th Percentile £76.95 £78.46 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £35.14 £32.50
% change year-on-year +57.96% +8.11% -43.48%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -11 133 £550 -1.79% 68
North of England -68 54 £550 +17.27% 9
Midlands -42 34 £450 -
South East -37 33 £520 -16.80% 31
South West -9 30 £525 -2.33% 13
North West -35 27 £500 +19.90% 7
Yorkshire -42 25 £550 +17.27% 1
West Midlands -62 20 £425 -19.05%
East Midlands -6 13 £463 +15.05%
East of England -29 5 £555 -17.78% 7
North East -36 3 £413 -31.25% 1
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 25 (8.71%) SharePoint
2 21 (7.32%) Confluence
3 18 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.14%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) IIS
5 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.57%) 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
1 147 (51.22%) Azure
2 124 (43.21%) Entra ID
3 71 (24.74%) AWS
4 47 (16.38%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (13.94%) GCP
5 40 (13.94%) SaaS
6 24 (8.36%) Serverless
7 15 (5.23%) Amazon S3
7 15 (5.23%) GitHub
8 14 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.18%) Google Workspace
9 12 (4.18%) PaaS
10 11 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (3.83%) IaaS
10 11 (3.83%) OpenShift
10 11 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.14%) OneDrive
12 9 (3.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 70 (24.39%) DNS
2 38 (13.24%) Firewall
3 32 (11.15%) VPN
4 30 (10.45%) DHCP
5 26 (9.06%) TCP/IP
6 23 (8.01%) Kerberos
6 23 (8.01%) SSL
7 19 (6.62%) Network Security
8 14 (4.88%) HTTP
8 14 (4.88%) LAN
8 14 (4.88%) WAN
9 13 (4.53%) IPsec
10 11 (3.83%) HTTPS
11 9 (3.14%) BIG-IP
11 9 (3.14%) DKIM
11 9 (3.14%) DMARC
11 9 (3.14%) OpenVPN
12 8 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.44%) Internet
13 7 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.74%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.74%) Metadata
4 4 (1.39%) MySQL
4 4 (1.39%) Power BI
5 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.35%) Db2
7 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (14.63%) JIRA
2 11 (3.83%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (3.14%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.44%) GitLab
4 7 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.09%) Git
5 6 (2.09%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.05%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.05%) Postman
8 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.70%) Snyk
8 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 68 (23.69%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.38%) Finance
3 41 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.06%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (5.23%) Banking
7 8 (2.79%) Legal
7 8 (2.79%) Publishing
8 6 (2.09%) Military
9 5 (1.74%) Retail
10 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Front Office
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (17.42%) Architect
2 26 (9.06%) Developer
3 21 (7.32%) Senior
4 19 (6.62%) Lead
4 19 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.27%) Administrator
6 13 (4.53%) Project Manager
6 13 (4.53%) Technical Architect
7 12 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (3.83%) Consultant
9 10 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.48%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.14%) Analyst
10 9 (3.14%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.79%) Active Directory Engineer
11 8 (2.79%) IAM Project Manager
11 8 (2.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (2.79%) Network Engineer
12 7 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.09%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (29.27%) SAML
2 80 (27.87%) OAuth
3 67 (23.34%) OpenID
4 52 (18.12%) LDAP
5 34 (11.85%) OAuth2
6 20 (6.97%) REST
6 20 (6.97%) SailPoint
7 13 (4.53%) Node.js
7 13 (4.53%) Web Services
8 12 (4.18%) Express.js
8 12 (4.18%) SOAP
9 8 (2.79%) SAP Basis
10 7 (2.44%) CSS
10 7 (2.44%) React
11 6 (2.09%) Keycloak
11 6 (2.09%) Middleware
12 5 (1.74%) .NET
12 5 (1.74%) ActiveX
12 5 (1.74%) HTML
12 5 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.47%) Onboarding
2 23 (8.01%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.92%) Replication
4 15 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.88%) PKI
6 10 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.14%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.79%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.79%) Taxonomies
9 7 (2.44%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.44%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.09%) Freedom of Information
11 5 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.39%) Clustering
12 4 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.07%) Windows
2 26 (9.06%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.53%) Linux
4 9 (3.14%) Unix
5 8 (2.79%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.05%) Android
7 3 (1.05%) CatOS
8 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.01%) Identity Access Management
2 68 (23.69%) DevOps
3 53 (18.47%) RBAC
4 51 (17.77%) Cybersecurity
5 49 (17.07%) Roadmaps
6 47 (16.38%) Agile
6 47 (16.38%) CI/CD
7 41 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (12.89%) Zero Trust
10 32 (11.15%) Migration
11 29 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (9.06%) High Availability
12 26 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (8.71%) Validation
14 24 (8.36%) Privileged Access Management
15 23 (8.01%) Microservices
16 22 (7.67%) Disaster Recovery
17 21 (7.32%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.62%) Java
3 16 (5.57%) SQL
4 14 (4.88%) Python
5 13 (4.53%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.09%) Bash
8 5 (1.74%) Bicep
8 5 (1.74%) VB
8 5 (1.74%) VB6
8 5 (1.74%) VBA
9 2 (0.70%) C#
9 2 (0.70%) Groovy
9 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.35%) Go
10 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.35%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) R
10 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.62%) Degree
4 16 (5.57%) CISSP
5 11 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.79%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.74%) CISM
9 4 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.39%) PMP
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.05%) GIAC
11 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.70%) CEH
11 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.94%) GDPR
2 31 (10.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (8.71%) NIST
4 20 (6.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.83%) GRC
5 11 (3.83%) QA
6 9 (3.14%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.44%) PMO
7 7 (2.44%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.09%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.74%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.74%) SLA
10 3 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.05%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 118 (41.11%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.88%) Docker
3 11 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.48%) VMware NSX
5 9 (3.14%) Squid
6 6 (2.09%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.39%) RACF
9 3 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.70%) vSphere
11 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (11.85%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 27 (9.41%) Terraform
4 18 (6.27%) Grafana
5 16 (5.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.48%) Ansible
6 10 (3.48%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.14%) Argo
7 9 (3.14%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.79%) Consul
9 6 (2.09%) CA Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.74%) CASB
10 5 (1.74%) PingFederate
10 5 (1.74%) VxRail
11 4 (1.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (1.05%) SCCM
13 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.35%) Packer
14 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 112 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 49 (17.07%) Okta
3 23 (8.01%) CyberArk
4 21 (7.32%) ServiceNow
5 20 (6.97%) VMware
6 18 (6.27%) Red Hat
7 16 (5.57%) SAP
8 15 (5.23%) Google
9 14 (4.88%) Zscaler
10 13 (4.53%) Cisco
11 11 (3.83%) Oracle
12 10 (3.48%) Dynatrace
13 9 (3.14%) F5
13 9 (3.14%) Palo Alto
14 8 (2.79%) CheckPoint
15 7 (2.44%) Atlassian
15 7 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
16 6 (2.09%) Dell
16 6 (2.09%) Ping Identity
17 5 (1.74%) Netskope