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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 319 338
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +100
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 275 153 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.02% 3.97% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 104 160
10th Percentile £350 £383 £312
25th Percentile £447 £474 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £503
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +14.18% -4.29%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £639
90th Percentile £700 £784 £713
UK median daily rate £539 £571 £500
% change year-on-year -5.73% +14.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 4
10th Percentile £51.50 - -
25th Percentile £55.56 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £49.56
90th Percentile - - £79.83
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
% change year-on-year - - -56.20%

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 5,481 3,857 4,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.59% 15.89% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,777 2,629 3,274
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £419 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 40 131
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.09 £21.05 £18.89
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.81 £57.75
90th Percentile £77.18 £77.62 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year +115.69% -20.93% -41.36%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 0 109 £550 -8.33% 43
North of England -42 59 £518 +6.81% 9
South West +13 47 £525 +23.53% 3
Yorkshire -24 39 £525 -1.78% 4
South East -32 33 £525 -19.23% 17
Midlands -55 22 £450 -17.24% 3
North West -43 20 £400 -11.11% 4
West Midlands -64 12 £340 -37.47% 1
East Midlands -24 10 £638 - 2
East of England -31 2 £563 +28.57% 3
North East -13 1 - - 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 16 (5.82%) Confluence
2 14 (5.09%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.27%) nginx
4 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.09%) IIS
6 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.36%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (9.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 145 (52.73%) Azure
2 139 (50.55%) Entra ID
3 62 (22.55%) AWS
4 40 (14.55%) SaaS
5 39 (14.18%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (8.36%) Serverless
7 21 (7.64%) PaaS
8 17 (6.18%) Amazon S3
9 16 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (5.45%) GCP
10 15 (5.45%) IaaS
11 13 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (4.00%) GitHub
14 10 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.64%) OneDrive
15 9 (3.27%) Google Workspace
15 9 (3.27%) Route 53
16 8 (2.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 69 (25.09%) DNS
2 43 (15.64%) Firewall
3 35 (12.73%) VPN
4 29 (10.55%) DHCP
5 27 (9.82%) Kerberos
6 20 (7.27%) TCP/IP
7 18 (6.55%) SSL
8 14 (5.09%) Network Security
9 12 (4.36%) IPsec
10 11 (4.00%) HTTP
11 10 (3.64%) BIG-IP
11 10 (3.64%) LAN
11 10 (3.64%) WAN
12 9 (3.27%) OpenVPN
12 9 (3.27%) Wireless
13 8 (2.91%) HTTPS
13 8 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (2.55%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (2.55%) Ethereal
14 7 (2.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.82%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.82%) Power BI
4 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
4 3 (1.09%) MySQL
4 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.73%) GIS
5 2 (0.73%) SQLite
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (10.18%) JIRA
2 9 (3.27%) Git
3 7 (2.55%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.55%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.45%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.45%) GitLab
4 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.45%) Postman
5 3 (1.09%) MSI
6 2 (0.73%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.73%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.73%) fastlane
6 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.73%) Xcode
7 1 (0.36%) Gatling
7 1 (0.36%) JMeter
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
7 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 74 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.36%) Documentation Skills
2 34 (12.36%) Finance
3 29 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.45%) Publishing
6 11 (4.00%) Banking
7 5 (1.82%) Aviation
8 4 (1.45%) Legal
9 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.09%) Retail
10 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Electronics
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Military
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (21.09%) Architect
2 29 (10.55%) Senior
3 22 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (6.91%) Administrator
5 18 (6.55%) Lead
6 16 (5.82%) Developer
6 16 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.45%) Technical Architect
8 13 (4.73%) Consultant
9 11 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.64%) Analyst
11 9 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.27%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.91%) IAM Consultant
12 8 (2.91%) Network Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) IAM Project Manager
13 7 (2.55%) IAM Specialist
13 7 (2.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (35.27%) OAuth
2 95 (34.55%) SAML
3 69 (25.09%) OpenID
4 47 (17.09%) LDAP
5 44 (16.00%) OAuth2
6 20 (7.27%) SailPoint
7 19 (6.91%) SAP Basis
8 11 (4.00%) React
9 10 (3.64%) REST
9 10 (3.64%) RESTful
10 9 (3.27%) Entity Framework
11 8 (2.91%) ARM Templates
12 7 (2.55%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.55%) YAML
13 6 (2.18%) CSS
13 6 (2.18%) Web Services
14 5 (1.82%) .NET
14 5 (1.82%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.82%) Node.js
14 5 (1.82%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 21 (7.64%) Replication
3 18 (6.55%) Taxonomies
4 13 (4.73%) PKI
5 10 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.64%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.27%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.91%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.45%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.09%) CMDB
13 2 (0.73%) Animation
13 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 66 (24.00%) Windows
2 48 (17.45%) Windows Server
3 17 (6.18%) Linux
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.45%) CatOS
5 4 (1.45%) Unix
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.82%) Identity Access Management
2 74 (26.91%) RBAC
3 62 (22.55%) DevOps
4 46 (16.73%) Cybersecurity
5 43 (15.64%) Roadmaps
6 42 (15.27%) Agile
6 42 (15.27%) CI/CD
7 41 (14.91%) Zero Trust
8 40 (14.55%) Identity Management
8 40 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (11.64%) Vulnerability Management
12 29 (10.55%) Validation
13 28 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (9.45%) Disaster Recovery
14 26 (9.45%) Microservices
15 25 (9.09%) Decision-Making
15 25 (9.09%) High Availability
16 24 (8.73%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.55%) PowerShell
2 22 (8.00%) SQL
3 20 (7.27%) Python
4 14 (5.09%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.73%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.64%) Java
7 7 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.82%) Bicep
9 4 (1.45%) Bash
9 4 (1.45%) C#
9 4 (1.45%) Groovy
10 2 (0.73%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.73%) Swift
10 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.36%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 102 (37.09%) Security Cleared
2 69 (25.09%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.82%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.00%) CISSP
5 20 (7.27%) Degree
6 19 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.00%) CISM
8 10 (3.64%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.09%) CCSP
12 3 (1.09%) PhD
13 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.73%) PMP
14 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.27%) GDPR
2 29 (10.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (8.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 18 (6.55%) NIST
5 9 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (3.27%) GRC
5 9 (3.27%) QA
5 9 (3.27%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.91%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.91%) SLA
7 4 (1.45%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.45%) NCSC
7 4 (1.45%) PMO
8 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.09%) PSD2
9 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 130 (47.27%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.55%) Docker
2 18 (6.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.73%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.64%) Squid
5 7 (2.55%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.82%) RACF
7 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.73%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.73%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.73%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.73%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.36%) Firmware
9 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (18.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 30 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.91%) Terraform
3 21 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.73%) Grafana
5 10 (3.64%) FortiGate
5 10 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.27%) PingFederate
7 7 (2.55%) Consul
7 7 (2.55%) SCCM
8 6 (2.18%) Ansible
9 4 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.45%) VxRail
10 3 (1.09%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) CASB
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 133 (48.36%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.45%) Okta
3 33 (12.00%) VMware
4 28 (10.18%) SAP
5 19 (6.91%) CyberArk
6 13 (4.73%) Google
7 12 (4.36%) Palo Alto
8 11 (4.00%) Cisco
8 11 (4.00%) Red Hat
9 10 (3.64%) F5
9 10 (3.64%) Ping Identity
9 10 (3.64%) Zscaler
10 9 (3.27%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.91%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.91%) CheckPoint
11 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow
12 7 (2.55%) ForgeRock
13 6 (2.18%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (2.18%) Splunk
14 5 (1.82%) Netskope