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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 350 318
Rank change year-on-year +43 -32 +141
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 274 138 244
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.52% 0.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.33% 3.53% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 92 185
10th Percentile £363 £412 £363
25th Percentile £438 £500 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £695 £650
90th Percentile £688 £750 £733
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £567
% change year-on-year -10.29% +3.17% +3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £51.75 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £57.44 - -
90th Percentile £67.68 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +55.04%

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 5,141 3,912 4,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.64% 14.70% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,565 2,535 3,443
10th Percentile £311 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% -10.26%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 48 150
10th Percentile £17.67 £14.40 £14.68
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.74 £21.44
Median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +87.38% -43.70% +0.16%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.36 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +16.80%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +25 114 £525 -12.50% 28
South West +28 49 £524 +23.29% 10
North of England -29 48 £471 -5.80% 7
Yorkshire -23 31 £525 -12.50% 3
South East -17 30 £488 -25.00% 19
Midlands -58 18 £442 -24.72% 4
North West -20 17 £400 -20.00% 4
West Midlands -36 14 £420 -28.51% 4
East of England -12 6 £575 +31.43% 4
East Midlands -28 4 £442 -
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 15 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.38%) Confluence
3 7 (2.55%) IIS
4 6 (2.19%) Apache
4 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.82%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.82%) JBoss
5 5 (1.82%) nginx
5 5 (1.82%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.82%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (2.19%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.73%) Windchill
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 16 (5.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.73%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 136 (49.64%) Azure
2 125 (45.62%) Entra ID
3 62 (22.63%) AWS
4 43 (15.69%) SaaS
5 38 (13.87%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (8.76%) PaaS
7 17 (6.20%) GCP
8 15 (5.47%) IaaS
9 14 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.38%) Serverless
11 10 (3.65%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.28%) GitHub
13 8 (2.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 8 (2.92%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (2.92%) OneDrive
13 8 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (22.99%) DNS
2 35 (12.77%) Firewall
3 34 (12.41%) VPN
4 29 (10.58%) Kerberos
5 26 (9.49%) DHCP
6 15 (5.47%) SSL
7 14 (5.11%) TCP/IP
8 9 (3.28%) HTTPS
8 9 (3.28%) LAN
8 9 (3.28%) Network Security
8 9 (3.28%) Wireshark
9 8 (2.92%) BIG-IP
9 8 (2.92%) IPsec
9 8 (2.92%) WAN
9 8 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.55%) Wireless
11 6 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.19%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (2.19%) Ethereal
11 6 (2.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
4 3 (1.09%) MySQL
4 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
4 3 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.73%) GIS
5 2 (0.73%) Power BI
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%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.30%) JIRA
2 18 (6.57%) Git
3 11 (4.01%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.82%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.82%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.46%) GitLab
6 3 (1.09%) MSI
7 2 (0.73%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.73%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.73%) fastlane
7 2 (0.73%) Postman
7 2 (0.73%) Xcode
8 1 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.36%) Gatling
8 1 (0.36%) gulp
8 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 68 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.22%) Finance
3 27 (9.85%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.01%) Publishing
7 7 (2.55%) Banking
8 5 (1.82%) Aviation
9 4 (1.46%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.09%) Retail
10 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (18.61%) Architect
2 32 (11.68%) Senior
3 22 (8.03%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (7.30%) Developer
5 18 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (6.20%) Administrator
6 17 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.74%) Consultant
8 12 (4.38%) Analyst
8 12 (4.38%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.01%) Lead
10 9 (3.28%) Network Engineer
11 8 (2.92%) IAM Consultant
11 8 (2.92%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.92%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.55%) ForgeRock Developer
12 7 (2.55%) IAM Specialist
12 7 (2.55%) SAP Administrator
12 7 (2.55%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.19%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (39.42%) OAuth
2 105 (38.32%) SAML
3 72 (26.28%) OpenID
4 52 (18.98%) LDAP
5 44 (16.06%) OAuth2
6 21 (7.66%) SailPoint
7 14 (5.11%) SAP Basis
8 12 (4.38%) React
9 11 (4.01%) REST
9 11 (4.01%) RESTful
10 9 (3.28%) Entity Framework
11 8 (2.92%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.92%) CSS
11 8 (2.92%) YAML
12 7 (2.55%) SOAP
13 6 (2.19%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.19%) HTML
14 5 (1.82%) .NET
14 5 (1.82%) Vue
15 4 (1.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.88%) Onboarding
2 21 (7.66%) Replication
3 16 (5.84%) Taxonomies
4 15 (5.47%) PKI
5 11 (4.01%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.65%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.28%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.92%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.55%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.46%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 2 (0.73%) Animation
14 2 (0.73%) CMDB
14 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (24.09%) Windows
2 52 (18.98%) Windows Server
3 24 (8.76%) Linux
4 7 (2.55%) Unix
5 4 (1.46%) CatOS
5 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.12%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (27.37%) RBAC
3 55 (20.07%) DevOps
4 52 (18.98%) CI/CD
5 47 (17.15%) Identity Management
6 41 (14.96%) Agile
7 40 (14.60%) Zero Trust
8 36 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (10.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 28 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (9.85%) Roadmaps
13 26 (9.49%) High Availability
14 24 (8.76%) Disaster Recovery
15 23 (8.39%) Privileged Access Management
15 23 (8.39%) Task Automation
16 22 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (7.66%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.82%) PowerShell
2 29 (10.58%) Python
3 19 (6.93%) JavaScript
4 17 (6.20%) SQL
5 13 (4.74%) Java
6 9 (3.28%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.92%) Groovy
7 8 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.55%) Bicep
8 7 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.46%) C#
10 3 (1.09%) Bash
11 2 (0.73%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.73%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.73%) Swift
12 1 (0.36%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (39.05%) Security Cleared
2 73 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.49%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.12%) CISSP
5 21 (7.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.84%) Degree
7 15 (5.47%) CISM
8 12 (4.38%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.09%) MCP
13 3 (1.09%) PhD
14 2 (0.73%) CCSP
14 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.36%) CCNA
15 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (18.61%) GDPR
2 30 (10.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (5.11%) NIST
5 11 (4.01%) SOC 2
6 9 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (2.92%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.92%) SLA
8 6 (2.19%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.19%) NCSC
8 6 (2.19%) PSD2
9 5 (1.82%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.46%) GRC
10 4 (1.46%) QA
11 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.73%) WCAG
13 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.36%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.36%) SOC 1
System Software
1 130 (47.45%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.57%) Docker
3 16 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.01%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.19%) Squid
6 5 (1.82%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 2 (0.73%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.73%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.73%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.73%) RACF
7 2 (0.73%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (18.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 35 (12.77%) Terraform
3 25 (9.12%) Kubernetes
4 19 (6.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.11%) PingFederate
6 9 (3.28%) Grafana
7 8 (2.92%) Ansible
8 7 (2.55%) CA Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.19%) FortiGate
9 6 (2.19%) Prometheus
9 6 (2.19%) SCCM
10 5 (1.82%) CA Wily
10 5 (1.82%) Consul
10 5 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.82%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.46%) VxRail
12 3 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.73%) logstash
14 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 148 (54.01%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.69%) Okta
3 32 (11.68%) VMware
4 19 (6.93%) SAP
5 18 (6.57%) CyberArk
6 16 (5.84%) Splunk
7 14 (5.11%) Ping Identity
8 13 (4.74%) Google
9 12 (4.38%) ForgeRock
10 10 (3.65%) Palo Alto
11 9 (3.28%) Cisco
11 9 (3.28%) Zscaler
12 8 (2.92%) F5
12 8 (2.92%) Oracle
12 8 (2.92%) Salesforce
13 7 (2.55%) Red Hat
13 7 (2.55%) ServiceNow
14 6 (2.19%) Atlassian
14 6 (2.19%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (2.19%) CheckPoint