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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 360 324
Rank change year-on-year +39 -36 +129
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 234 145 248
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.50% 0.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.69% 3.47% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 99 187
10th Percentile £391 £400 £379
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £650
90th Percentile £684 £798 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £43.25 - -
25th Percentile £47.38 - -
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £100.00
75th Percentile £57.13 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.64%

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 4,994 4,175 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.98% 14.41% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,423 2,690 3,743
10th Percentile £310 £313 £292
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.32% -6.38%
75th Percentile £610 £639 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 52 162
10th Percentile £18.72 £15.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £23.75 £21.44
Median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%
75th Percentile £66.19 £63.00 £68.63
90th Percentile £80.20 £77.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.73 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +53.68% -42.62% +34.83%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 +12 93 £525 -12.50% 19
South West +40 45 £524 +23.29% 13
North of England -24 39 £492 -1.60% 28
Yorkshire -19 22 £525 - 17
South East -22 22 £538 -23.21% 26
North West -13 17 £423 -15.40% 10
Midlands -39 17 £450 -10.00% 19
West Midlands -30 15 £443 -11.50% 13
East of England -20 6 £625 +42.86% 14
East Midlands -18 2 £475 - 6
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 17 (7.26%) Confluence
1 17 (7.26%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.56%) Apache
3 6 (2.56%) IIS
4 5 (2.14%) iPlanet
4 5 (2.14%) JBoss
4 5 (2.14%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.14%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.85%) CMS
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.85%) Windchill
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.85%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 106 (45.30%) Azure
2 95 (40.60%) Entra ID
3 51 (21.79%) AWS
4 42 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (14.10%) SaaS
6 18 (7.69%) GCP
7 14 (5.98%) GitHub
8 12 (5.13%) PaaS
9 9 (3.85%) IaaS
10 8 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.99%) OneDrive
12 6 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.56%) Google Workspace
12 6 (2.56%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.56%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.14%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 38 (16.24%) DNS
2 26 (11.11%) Firewall
3 23 (9.83%) VPN
4 21 (8.97%) SSL
5 13 (5.56%) Kerberos
6 9 (3.85%) DHCP
6 9 (3.85%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.99%) HTTPS
7 7 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.56%) LAN
8 6 (2.56%) Network Security
8 6 (2.56%) Wireshark
9 5 (2.14%) WAN
10 4 (1.71%) Internet
10 4 (1.71%) Wireless
11 3 (1.28%) BGP
11 3 (1.28%) HTTP
11 3 (1.28%) IPsec
11 3 (1.28%) OSPF
11 3 (1.28%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.14%) Oracle Database
1 5 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (2.14%) Power BI
1 5 (2.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.85%) MySQL
2 2 (0.85%) SQLite
3 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (11.97%) JIRA
2 14 (5.98%) Git
3 11 (4.70%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.14%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (2.14%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (2.14%) MSI
4 5 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.85%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.85%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.85%) fastlane
5 2 (0.85%) Xcode
6 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.43%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.43%) Gatling
6 1 (0.43%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) gulp
6 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.43%) Maven
6 1 (0.43%) Selenium
6 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 62 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.97%) Finance
3 21 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.42%) Banking
7 4 (1.71%) Aviation
7 4 (1.71%) Retail
7 4 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.28%) Publishing
9 2 (0.85%) Electronics
9 2 (0.85%) Legal
9 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Police
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (17.52%) Architect
2 33 (14.10%) Senior
3 19 (8.12%) Developer
4 18 (7.69%) Administrator
5 17 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.98%) Consultant
7 13 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.13%) Analyst
8 12 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.27%) Lead
10 8 (3.42%) IAM Consultant
10 8 (3.42%) IAM Specialist
11 7 (2.99%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.99%) ForgeRock Developer
11 7 (2.99%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.99%) Senior Architect
12 6 (2.56%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.56%) Security Architect
12 6 (2.56%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (39.74%) SAML
2 86 (36.75%) OAuth
3 63 (26.92%) OpenID
4 44 (18.80%) LDAP
5 39 (16.67%) OAuth2
6 21 (8.97%) REST
6 21 (8.97%) SailPoint
7 15 (6.41%) SOAP
8 13 (5.56%) JSON
9 12 (5.13%) AngularJS
9 12 (5.13%) HTML
9 12 (5.13%) HTML5
9 12 (5.13%) JDBC
10 10 (4.27%) RESTful
10 10 (4.27%) Web Services
11 9 (3.85%) Apache Camel
11 9 (3.85%) jQuery
11 9 (3.85%) ODBC
11 9 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.95%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.98%) PKI
3 10 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.42%) Private Cloud
4 8 (3.42%) Taxonomies
5 7 (2.99%) Replication
6 6 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) Animation
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.23%) Windows
2 32 (13.68%) Windows Server
3 21 (8.97%) Linux
4 7 (2.99%) Unix
5 4 (1.71%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.28%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.85%) Android
7 2 (0.85%) CatOS
7 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.43%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.20%) Identity Access Management
2 60 (25.64%) RBAC
3 52 (22.22%) Agile
4 49 (20.94%) DevOps
4 49 (20.94%) Identity Management
5 42 (17.95%) Zero Trust
6 37 (15.81%) CI/CD
7 30 (12.82%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 27 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (8.97%) Privileged Access Management
13 19 (8.12%) ITSM
13 19 (8.12%) Microservices
14 18 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (7.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 56 (23.93%) PowerShell
2 26 (11.11%) Python
3 23 (9.83%) JavaScript
4 14 (5.98%) Java
5 9 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.42%) Groovy
6 8 (3.42%) SQL
7 5 (2.14%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.71%) Bicep
8 4 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.28%) C#
10 2 (0.85%) Bash
10 2 (0.85%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.85%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 87 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 63 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.83%) CISSP
4 20 (8.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (7.69%) DV Cleared
6 15 (6.41%) CISM
7 11 (4.70%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.42%) Degree
9 7 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.28%) PhD
13 2 (0.85%) CCSP
13 2 (0.85%) MCP
13 2 (0.85%) MCSA
13 2 (0.85%) MCSE
13 2 (0.85%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.24%) GDPR
2 27 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.56%) NIST
4 12 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.42%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.99%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.56%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.56%) NCSC
7 6 (2.56%) PSD2
8 5 (2.14%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.71%) QA
9 4 (1.71%) SLA
10 2 (0.85%) WCAG
11 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.43%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.43%) SOC 1
System Software
1 110 (47.01%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.98%) Docker
3 13 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.42%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.14%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.28%) vSphere
7 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.85%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.85%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.85%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.85%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (12.82%) Terraform
2 28 (11.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 22 (9.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (7.26%) Kubernetes
5 14 (5.98%) PingFederate
6 10 (4.27%) Ansible
7 6 (2.56%) CA Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.56%) SCCM
8 5 (2.14%) CA Wily
8 5 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.14%) Tivoli
9 3 (1.28%) Grafana
10 2 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.85%) Kibana
10 2 (0.85%) logstash
10 2 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.85%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 110 (47.01%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.54%) Okta
3 26 (11.11%) VMware
4 23 (9.83%) CyberArk
5 18 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 14 (5.98%) Google
6 14 (5.98%) Ping Identity
7 13 (5.56%) ForgeRock
7 13 (5.56%) Splunk
8 11 (4.70%) Zscaler
9 10 (4.27%) HP
10 9 (3.85%) BMC
10 9 (3.85%) Ivanti
10 9 (3.85%) Remedy
10 9 (3.85%) SAP
11 8 (3.42%) Cisco
11 8 (3.42%) Salesforce
12 7 (2.99%) Oracle
12 7 (2.99%) Palo Alto
13 5 (2.14%) AppDynamics