Single Sign-On Contracts in England

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Single Sign-On skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Single Sign-On over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 350 443
Rank change year-on-year +28 +93 +32
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 174 217 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.23% 4.61% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 159 150
10th Percentile £379 £340 £360
25th Percentile £450 £421 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £516 £550
% change year-on-year +6.54% -6.14% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £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 4,114 4,707 7,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.61% 12.60% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,738 3,383 5,194
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 95 163
10th Percentile £20.13 £16.47 £18.80
25th Percentile £26.45 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.97% -42.73% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.38 £74.38
90th Percentile £79.35 £71.25 £84.75
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.43% -43.48% +155.56%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in England

Single Sign-On
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in England.

Daily rate trend for Single Sign-On in England

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in England

Single Sign-On
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 4 July 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 0 77 £560 -0.88% 259
North of England +26 41 £460 -7.59% 76
North West +8 20 £450 -19.64% 48
Yorkshire +17 19 £469 +21.03% 26
Midlands -9 19 £450 -27.42% 78
West Midlands +2 14 £550 +4.76% 51
South East +33 12 £630 +15.07% 84
South West +24 9 £500 +13.84% 31
East Midlands -4 5 £402 -35.37% 27
East of England +23 2 £675 +22.73% 39
North East - 2 £600 - 2
Single Sign-On
UK

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.77%) Confluence
2 16 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (6.32%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.72%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.72%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
5 1 (0.57%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 93 (53.45%) Azure
2 79 (45.40%) Entra ID
3 54 (31.03%) AWS
4 31 (17.82%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (17.24%) SaaS
6 28 (16.09%) GCP
7 14 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.90%) GitHub
9 10 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (5.75%) Serverless
10 9 (5.17%) Azure AKS
11 8 (4.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (4.60%) IaaS
11 8 (4.60%) PaaS
12 7 (4.02%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (2.87%) Google Workspace
15 4 (2.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 4 (2.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.34%) Firewall
2 14 (8.05%) SSL
3 13 (7.47%) VPN
4 10 (5.75%) HTTPS
5 8 (4.60%) Kerberos
6 4 (2.30%) DNS
6 4 (2.30%) POP3
6 4 (2.30%) SMTP
7 2 (1.15%) DKIM
7 2 (1.15%) DMARC
7 2 (1.15%) HTTP
7 2 (1.15%) Network Security
8 1 (0.57%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.57%) Internet
8 1 (0.57%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.57%) NGFW
8 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.57%) VSAN
8 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.45%) Power BI
2 5 (2.87%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.30%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.15%) Metadata
4 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.15%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.57%) Big Data
5 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.57%) MySQL
5 1 (0.57%) Redis
5 1 (0.57%) SSDT
5 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (11.49%) JIRA
2 7 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.30%) Git
3 4 (2.30%) GitLab
4 3 (1.72%) Log4j
5 2 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.57%) MSI
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.57%) ScriptRunner
General
1 50 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.32%) Finance
5 7 (4.02%) Marketing
6 4 (2.30%) Banking
6 4 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.72%) Retail
8 2 (1.15%) French Language
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Local Government
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (24.71%) Architect
2 13 (7.47%) Developer
3 12 (6.90%) Analyst
3 12 (6.90%) Consultant
3 12 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (6.32%) IAM Specialist
5 10 (5.75%) AWS Specialist
5 10 (5.75%) Business Analyst
5 10 (5.75%) Senior
6 9 (5.17%) Administrator
6 9 (5.17%) Security Architect
7 8 (4.60%) Lead
8 7 (4.02%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 6 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.45%) Product Owner
9 6 (3.45%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) ServiceNow Developer
10 5 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.30%) ServiceNow Administrator
11 4 (2.30%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (37.36%) SAML
2 64 (36.78%) OAuth
3 56 (32.18%) OpenID
4 46 (26.44%) LDAP
5 27 (15.52%) REST
6 26 (14.94%) SOAP
7 24 (13.79%) OAuth2
8 21 (12.07%) SailPoint
8 21 (12.07%) Web Services
9 18 (10.34%) JDBC
9 18 (10.34%) JSON
10 16 (9.20%) AngularJS
10 16 (9.20%) HTML
11 14 (8.05%) CSS
12 8 (4.60%) ODBC
13 7 (4.02%) XML
14 6 (3.45%) FIDO
14 6 (3.45%) jQuery
15 5 (2.87%) HTML5
15 5 (2.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.22%) Onboarding
2 18 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (9.20%) PKI
4 14 (8.05%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (6.32%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.02%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.02%) Taxonomies
7 6 (3.45%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.87%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.57%) Freedom of Information
12 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.64%) Windows
2 13 (7.47%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.02%) Linux
4 4 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.72%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.76%) Identity Access Management
2 54 (31.03%) Agile
3 53 (30.46%) Identity Management
4 49 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (27.59%) RBAC
6 40 (22.99%) DevOps
7 36 (20.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 35 (20.11%) Migration
9 31 (17.82%) Scrum
10 26 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (13.79%) Zero Trust
12 20 (11.49%) Privileged Access Management
12 20 (11.49%) Roadmaps
13 18 (10.34%) CI/CD
13 18 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (10.34%) ITSM
14 17 (9.77%) Analytics
14 17 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (9.77%) ITIL
15 16 (9.20%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 37 (21.26%) PowerShell
2 30 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 22 (12.64%) Java
3 22 (12.64%) Python
4 7 (4.02%) Bicep
4 7 (4.02%) C#
4 7 (4.02%) SQL
5 4 (2.30%) Bash
5 4 (2.30%) Ruby
6 2 (1.15%) Groovy
7 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.57%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.57%) C
7 1 (0.57%) PHP
7 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.32%) Azure Certification
3 11 (6.32%) Degree
4 7 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) CISSP
5 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.15%) CISM
8 2 (1.15%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (8.62%) GDPR
3 14 (8.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 13 (7.47%) HIPAA
4 13 (7.47%) NIST
5 3 (1.72%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.72%) QA
6 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.15%) SLA
6 2 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 85 (48.85%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.20%) Docker
3 5 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.72%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.72%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.72%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.57%) NFS
6 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (14.94%) Terraform
2 25 (14.37%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.30%) Ansible
4 4 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (1.15%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (1.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.57%) Argo
7 1 (0.57%) Grafana
7 1 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.57%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.22%) Okta
2 23 (13.22%) ServiceNow
3 22 (12.64%) Ping Identity
4 20 (11.49%) CyberArk
5 16 (9.20%) ForgeRock
6 14 (8.05%) Google
7 8 (4.60%) Alibaba
7 8 (4.60%) SAP
8 7 (4.02%) VMware
9 6 (3.45%) IBM
9 6 (3.45%) Qualtrics
9 6 (3.45%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.87%) Ivanti
11 4 (2.30%) Cisco
11 4 (2.30%) HP
11 4 (2.30%) OpenText
11 4 (2.30%) Oracle
11 4 (2.30%) Remedy
11 4 (2.30%) Splunk