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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 325 338
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +116
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 273 158 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.66% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.92% 4.18% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 106 161
10th Percentile £300 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £464 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +7.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £667 £638
90th Percentile £687 £733 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £564 £513
% change year-on-year -6.91% +10.05% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 6
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile £81.25 - £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 5,546 3,784 4,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.27% 15.77% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,812 2,577 3,289
10th Percentile £316 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £708 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.34% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 38 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.22 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £38.75 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +45.81% +34.78% -45.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.89 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +89.66% -3.33% -47.83%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -16 124 £525 -7.57% 63
North of England -51 56 £525 +10.53% 14
Yorkshire -33 37 £550 +10.00% 4
South East -38 34 £500 -23.08% 21
Midlands -47 34 £450 -18.18% 12
South West -16 26 £525 +20.00% 9
West Midlands -57 19 £425 -22.73% 9
North West -33 18 £465 +3.33% 8
East Midlands -14 14 £506 +25.93% 3
North East -28 2 £413 -31.25% 2
East of England -33 1 £575 -2.13% 9
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 22 (8.06%) SharePoint
2 18 (6.59%) Confluence
3 15 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.30%) nginx
5 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.73%) IIS
5 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.10%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (10.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.73%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 144 (52.75%) Azure
2 133 (48.72%) Entra ID
3 62 (22.71%) AWS
4 48 (17.58%) SaaS
5 42 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (10.99%) GCP
7 27 (9.89%) Serverless
8 18 (6.59%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.59%) PaaS
9 13 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.76%) Google Workspace
10 12 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.40%) GitHub
10 12 (4.40%) OpenShift
10 12 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.66%) IaaS
13 9 (3.30%) Route 53
14 8 (2.93%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 67 (24.54%) DNS
2 30 (10.99%) DHCP
2 30 (10.99%) Firewall
3 27 (9.89%) VPN
4 26 (9.52%) Kerberos
5 23 (8.42%) TCP/IP
6 22 (8.06%) SSL
7 16 (5.86%) Network Security
8 14 (5.13%) HTTP
8 14 (5.13%) IPsec
9 11 (4.03%) HTTPS
9 11 (4.03%) LAN
9 11 (4.03%) WAN
10 10 (3.66%) BIG-IP
11 9 (3.30%) DKIM
11 9 (3.30%) DMARC
11 9 (3.30%) OpenVPN
12 7 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.83%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.83%) Metadata
4 4 (1.47%) MySQL
4 4 (1.47%) Power BI
5 3 (1.10%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.10%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.73%) GIS
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.37%) DB2
7 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (12.45%) JIRA
2 10 (3.66%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.56%) Git
3 7 (2.56%) SonarQube
3 7 (2.56%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.20%) GitLab
5 5 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.10%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.10%) Postman
7 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.37%) JUnit
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.12%) Public Sector
3 32 (11.72%) Finance
4 30 (10.99%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.86%) Publishing
7 8 (2.93%) Banking
8 6 (2.20%) Legal
9 5 (1.83%) Military
10 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.47%) Retail
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Aviation
12 1 (0.37%) Front Office
12 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (17.22%) Architect
2 25 (9.16%) Administrator
2 25 (9.16%) Senior
3 24 (8.79%) Developer
4 19 (6.96%) Lead
5 18 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (4.76%) Technical Architect
7 12 (4.40%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.03%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.93%) Consultant
10 8 (2.93%) IAM Project Manager
10 8 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (2.93%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.56%) SAP Administrator
11 7 (2.56%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.56%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.20%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (31.14%) OAuth
1 85 (31.14%) SAML
2 61 (22.34%) OpenID
3 55 (20.15%) LDAP
4 33 (12.09%) OAuth2
5 23 (8.42%) SailPoint
6 20 (7.33%) SAP Basis
7 15 (5.49%) REST
8 13 (4.76%) Node.js
9 12 (4.40%) Express.js
10 11 (4.03%) React
10 11 (4.03%) Web Services
11 10 (3.66%) CSS
11 10 (3.66%) SOAP
12 8 (2.93%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.93%) Entity Framework
12 8 (2.93%) HTML
13 7 (2.56%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.56%) Model Context Protocol
14 6 (2.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.78%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.96%) Replication
2 19 (6.96%) Taxonomies
3 17 (6.23%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.03%) PKI
6 9 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.93%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.20%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.47%) Clustering
10 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.47%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 44 (16.12%) Windows
2 26 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.13%) Linux
4 9 (3.30%) Unix
5 6 (2.20%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.10%) Android
6 3 (1.10%) CatOS
6 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (27.47%) Identity Access Management
2 70 (25.64%) DevOps
3 55 (20.15%) Roadmaps
4 52 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 51 (18.68%) RBAC
6 48 (17.58%) Cybersecurity
7 42 (15.38%) Agile
7 42 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (12.82%) Zero Trust
9 33 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (10.26%) High Availability
13 26 (9.52%) Validation
14 25 (9.16%) Migration
15 24 (8.79%) Vulnerability Management
16 23 (8.42%) Data Governance
16 23 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
16 23 (8.42%) Microservices
17 22 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 40 (14.65%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.96%) SQL
3 16 (5.86%) JavaScript
3 16 (5.86%) Python
4 15 (5.49%) Java
5 10 (3.66%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.56%) Bash
7 5 (1.83%) Bicep
7 5 (1.83%) VB
7 5 (1.83%) VB6
7 5 (1.83%) VBA
8 3 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.73%) C#
9 2 (0.73%) Groovy
9 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Go
10 1 (0.37%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) R
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 79 (28.94%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.33%) Degree
4 12 (4.40%) CISSP
5 11 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.83%) CISM
7 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.10%) PMP
9 2 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) CEH
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.02%) GDPR
2 25 (9.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.69%) NIST
3 21 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (4.03%) GRC
5 9 (3.30%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.93%) QA
6 8 (2.93%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.56%) SLA
8 6 (2.20%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.83%) PMO
10 4 (1.47%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.73%) NCSC
System Software
1 114 (41.76%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.23%) Docker
3 11 (4.03%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.66%) Squid
4 10 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.83%) RACF
6 4 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (12.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 30 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.89%) Terraform
4 19 (6.96%) Grafana
5 14 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (4.03%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.30%) Ansible
7 9 (3.30%) Argo
7 9 (3.30%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.93%) Consul
9 6 (2.20%) CA Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.83%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.47%) SCCM
11 4 (1.47%) VxRail
12 3 (1.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.73%) CASB
13 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.37%) Packer
14 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 56 (20.51%) Okta
3 30 (10.99%) SAP
4 19 (6.96%) Red Hat
5 18 (6.59%) CyberArk
5 18 (6.59%) VMware
6 17 (6.23%) Google
6 17 (6.23%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.03%) Cisco
7 11 (4.03%) Oracle
8 10 (3.66%) Dynatrace
8 10 (3.66%) F5
8 10 (3.66%) Zscaler
9 9 (3.30%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.93%) CheckPoint
11 7 (2.56%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.56%) Ping Identity
12 5 (1.83%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (1.83%) Dell
12 5 (1.83%) Netskope