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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 315 323
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +139
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 275 153 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.64% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.95% 4.08% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 105 160
10th Percentile £294 £400 £346
25th Percentile £425 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -7.04%
75th Percentile £607 £656 £638
90th Percentile £690 £736 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £552 £513
% change year-on-year -4.81% +7.61% -8.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 6
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.56 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile £70.00 - £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 5,561 3,752 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.78% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 2,579 3,236
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -7.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 35 97
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.69 £21.39 £17.78
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +7.41% -48.39%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.40 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.78 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -45.45%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -13 120 £525 -8.14% 53
North of England -50 57 £525 +11.23% 10
Yorkshire -26 37 £550 +2.90% 3
South East -33 36 £488 -23.83% 17
Midlands -55 35 £442 -19.59% 8
South West -12 28 £525 +20.00% 6
West Midlands -58 20 £418 -24.09% 6
North West -45 19 £458 +1.67% 6
East Midlands -20 14 £506 +25.93% 2
North East -24 2 £413 -31.25% 2
East of England -30 1 £575 -2.13% 8
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 23 (8.36%) SharePoint
2 18 (6.55%) Confluence
3 16 (5.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.27%) nginx
5 3 (1.09%) IIS
6 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (2.91%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (10.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.73%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 143 (52.00%) Azure
2 136 (49.45%) Entra ID
3 61 (22.18%) AWS
4 47 (17.09%) SaaS
5 42 (15.27%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (10.18%) GCP
7 27 (9.82%) Serverless
8 18 (6.55%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.55%) PaaS
9 14 (5.09%) Google Workspace
10 13 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.36%) GitHub
11 12 (4.36%) OpenShift
11 12 (4.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.64%) IaaS
14 9 (3.27%) OneDrive
14 9 (3.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 70 (25.45%) DNS
2 34 (12.36%) Firewall
3 32 (11.64%) VPN
4 28 (10.18%) DHCP
5 26 (9.45%) Kerberos
5 26 (9.45%) SSL
6 23 (8.36%) TCP/IP
7 17 (6.18%) HTTP
7 17 (6.18%) IPsec
8 16 (5.82%) Network Security
9 14 (5.09%) HTTPS
9 14 (5.09%) LAN
9 14 (5.09%) WAN
10 13 (4.73%) BIG-IP
11 10 (3.64%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.64%) Cisco Nexus
11 10 (3.64%) Wireless
12 9 (3.27%) DKIM
12 9 (3.27%) OpenVPN
12 9 (3.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.82%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.82%) Metadata
4 4 (1.45%) MySQL
5 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.09%) Power BI
6 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.73%) GIS
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) DB2
7 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (12.73%) JIRA
2 10 (3.64%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.55%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.55%) SonarQube
3 7 (2.55%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.18%) Git
4 6 (2.18%) GitLab
5 5 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.45%) Postman
7 3 (1.09%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.36%) Gatling
9 1 (0.36%) JMeter
9 1 (0.36%) JUnit
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.36%) Selenium
9 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 33 (12.00%) Finance
4 32 (11.64%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.82%) Publishing
7 10 (3.64%) Banking
8 7 (2.55%) Legal
9 5 (1.82%) Military
9 5 (1.82%) Retail
10 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (17.09%) Architect
2 25 (9.09%) Administrator
3 24 (8.73%) Senior
4 23 (8.36%) Developer
5 21 (7.64%) Lead
6 17 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.73%) Technical Architect
8 12 (4.36%) Support Engineer
9 11 (4.00%) Network Engineer
10 10 (3.64%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) IAM Project Manager
12 8 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Consultant
13 7 (2.55%) SAP Administrator
14 6 (2.18%) Analyst
14 6 (2.18%) Lead Architect
14 6 (2.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (32.73%) SAML
2 87 (31.64%) OAuth
3 64 (23.27%) OpenID
4 58 (21.09%) LDAP
5 34 (12.36%) OAuth2
6 23 (8.36%) SailPoint
7 20 (7.27%) SAP Basis
8 16 (5.82%) REST
9 13 (4.73%) Node.js
10 12 (4.36%) Express.js
11 11 (4.00%) React
11 11 (4.00%) Web Services
12 10 (3.64%) CSS
12 10 (3.64%) SOAP
13 8 (2.91%) ARM Templates
13 8 (2.91%) Entity Framework
13 8 (2.91%) HTML
14 7 (2.55%) AngularJS
14 7 (2.55%) Model Context Protocol
15 6 (2.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.27%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.91%) Replication
2 19 (6.91%) Taxonomies
3 16 (5.82%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.64%) PKI
6 9 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.18%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.45%) Clustering
10 4 (1.45%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 44 (16.00%) Windows
2 28 (10.18%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.09%) Linux
4 9 (3.27%) Unix
5 5 (1.82%) CatOS
5 5 (1.82%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.09%) Android
7 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (27.64%) Identity Access Management
2 69 (25.09%) DevOps
3 54 (19.64%) Roadmaps
4 52 (18.91%) CI/CD
4 52 (18.91%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (18.91%) RBAC
5 43 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (15.27%) Agile
7 35 (12.73%) Zero Trust
8 33 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (10.55%) High Availability
11 27 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (9.82%) Validation
12 25 (9.09%) Migration
13 24 (8.73%) Vulnerability Management
14 23 (8.36%) Data Governance
14 23 (8.36%) Microservices
15 22 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
15 22 (8.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.27%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.91%) SQL
3 17 (6.18%) JavaScript
3 17 (6.18%) Python
4 16 (5.82%) Java
5 10 (3.64%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.55%) Bash
7 5 (1.82%) Bicep
7 5 (1.82%) VB
7 5 (1.82%) VB6
7 5 (1.82%) VBA
8 3 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.73%) C#
9 2 (0.73%) Groovy
9 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.36%) Go
10 1 (0.36%) Korn
10 1 (0.36%) PHP
10 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 61 (22.18%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.27%) Degree
4 13 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.36%) CISSP
6 7 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.82%) CISM
9 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.09%) PMP
10 2 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CCSP
11 1 (0.36%) CEH
11 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.91%) GDPR
2 25 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.64%) NIST
4 20 (7.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.00%) GRC
6 9 (3.27%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.91%) QA
7 8 (2.91%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.55%) SLA
9 6 (2.18%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.45%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.45%) PMO
11 3 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.09%) NCSC
11 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 118 (42.91%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.18%) Docker
3 15 (5.45%) VMware NSX
4 13 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (3.64%) Squid
6 5 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.82%) RACF
7 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) Firmware
8 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (13.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (10.55%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.82%) Terraform
4 19 (6.91%) Grafana
5 13 (4.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (4.00%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.27%) Ansible
7 9 (3.27%) Argo
7 9 (3.27%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.91%) Consul
9 6 (2.18%) CA Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.82%) PingFederate
10 5 (1.82%) SCCM
11 4 (1.45%) VxRail
12 3 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.73%) CASB
13 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.36%) Packer
14 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 109 (39.64%) Microsoft
2 54 (19.64%) Okta
3 30 (10.91%) SAP
4 24 (8.73%) VMware
5 19 (6.91%) Red Hat
6 18 (6.55%) CyberArk
6 18 (6.55%) Google
7 14 (5.09%) Cisco
7 14 (5.09%) ServiceNow
8 13 (4.73%) F5
8 13 (4.73%) Palo Alto
9 11 (4.00%) CheckPoint
9 11 (4.00%) Oracle
9 11 (4.00%) Zscaler
10 10 (3.64%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.55%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.55%) Ping Identity
12 6 (2.18%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.82%) Dell
13 5 (1.82%) Netskope