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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 336 340
Rank change year-on-year -23 +4 +76
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 271 178 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.65% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.53% 4.24% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 118 152
10th Percentile £323 £373 £350
25th Percentile £431 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £645
90th Percentile £695 £700 £724
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.79% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £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 5,976 4,200 4,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.32% 15.39% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,086 2,787 3,331
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £611 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £518
% change year-on-year +1.98% -2.51% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 54 81
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.72
25th Percentile £35.22 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +85.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £53.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £59.37 £39.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +52.22% +25.81% -46.09%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -34 121 £525 -5.41% 57
North of England -58 57 £525 +16.67% 15
Midlands -39 34 £450 +9.76% 4
North West -38 31 £492 +17.99% 9
South East -40 31 £520 -13.33% 20
South West -16 25 £525 -2.33% 8
Yorkshire -42 24 £550 +25.28% 5
West Midlands -49 21 £425 -5.56% 4
East Midlands -4 12 £619 +53.92%
East of England -17 5 £555 -17.78% 4
North East -34 3 £413 -31.25% 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 27 (9.96%) SharePoint
2 25 (9.23%) Confluence
3 18 (6.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (4.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.74%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.74%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (50.55%) Azure
2 114 (42.07%) Entra ID
3 70 (25.83%) AWS
4 46 (16.97%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (15.13%) SaaS
6 38 (14.02%) GCP
7 24 (8.86%) Serverless
8 18 (6.64%) GitHub
9 15 (5.54%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.43%) Google Workspace
13 11 (4.06%) PaaS
14 10 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.69%) IaaS
14 10 (3.69%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.32%) OneDrive
15 9 (3.32%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 52 (19.19%) DNS
2 33 (12.18%) Firewall
3 30 (11.07%) TCP/IP
4 28 (10.33%) VPN
5 20 (7.38%) SSL
6 17 (6.27%) DHCP
6 17 (6.27%) Network Security
7 13 (4.80%) OpenVPN
8 11 (4.06%) HTTP
8 11 (4.06%) Kerberos
8 11 (4.06%) LAN
8 11 (4.06%) WAN
9 10 (3.69%) IPsec
10 9 (3.32%) DKIM
10 9 (3.32%) DMARC
11 8 (2.95%) HTTPS
12 7 (2.58%) Internet
12 7 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (2.21%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.85%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.58%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.85%) Metadata
4 4 (1.48%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.48%) Power BI
5 3 (1.11%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.11%) MySQL
5 3 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.37%) Db2
7 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (15.50%) JIRA
2 11 (4.06%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.69%) Git
4 9 (3.32%) SonarQube
4 9 (3.32%) Visual Studio
5 8 (2.95%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (2.58%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.85%) GitLab
7 5 (1.85%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.11%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.74%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.74%) Postman
9 2 (0.74%) Snyk
9 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
General
1 65 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.45%) Finance
3 45 (16.61%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.33%) Documentation Skills
5 27 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.90%) Banking
7 7 (2.58%) Legal
7 7 (2.58%) Military
7 7 (2.58%) Publishing
8 5 (1.85%) Retail
9 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Front Office
11 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Local Government
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (18.08%) Architect
2 25 (9.23%) Developer
3 18 (6.64%) Lead
3 18 (6.64%) Senior
3 18 (6.64%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (6.27%) Administrator
5 14 (5.17%) Project Manager
6 13 (4.80%) Technical Architect
7 11 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (4.06%) Consultant
8 10 (3.69%) Support Engineer
9 9 (3.32%) Analyst
9 9 (3.32%) IAM Project Manager
9 9 (3.32%) Security Engineer
10 8 (2.95%) Active Directory Engineer
10 8 (2.95%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.58%) IAM Specialist
11 7 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (25.83%) SAML
2 66 (24.35%) OpenID
3 65 (23.99%) OAuth
4 39 (14.39%) LDAP
5 32 (11.81%) OAuth2
6 22 (8.12%) SailPoint
7 19 (7.01%) REST
8 15 (5.54%) SOAP
8 15 (5.54%) Web Services
9 13 (4.80%) Node.js
10 12 (4.43%) Express.js
11 8 (2.95%) ActiveX
11 8 (2.95%) XML
12 7 (2.58%) SAP Basis
13 6 (2.21%) Middleware
13 6 (2.21%) React
14 5 (1.85%) CSS
15 4 (1.48%) .NET
15 4 (1.48%) boto
15 4 (1.48%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.66%) Onboarding
2 21 (7.75%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.90%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (5.54%) PKI
5 10 (3.69%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.95%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.58%) Freedom of Information
7 7 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.58%) Taxonomies
8 6 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.21%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.48%) Clustering
10 4 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.48%) Replication
11 3 (1.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.07%) Windows
2 17 (6.27%) Linux
3 9 (3.32%) Unix
4 8 (2.95%) Mac OS
4 8 (2.95%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.11%) Android
5 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) CatOS
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.15%) Identity Access Management
2 67 (24.72%) DevOps
3 49 (18.08%) Roadmaps
4 48 (17.71%) Agile
5 47 (17.34%) Cybersecurity
6 45 (16.61%) RBAC
7 44 (16.24%) CI/CD
8 38 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (12.92%) Zero Trust
11 30 (11.07%) Migration
12 27 (9.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (9.59%) Privileged Access Management
13 26 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (8.49%) Analytics
15 22 (8.12%) ITSM
16 21 (7.75%) Decision-Making
16 21 (7.75%) ITIL
16 21 (7.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.70%) PowerShell
2 25 (9.23%) Java
3 16 (5.90%) Python
4 15 (5.54%) SQL
5 11 (4.06%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.95%) VB
6 8 (2.95%) VB6
6 8 (2.95%) VBA
7 6 (2.21%) Bash
7 6 (2.21%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.11%) Bicep
9 2 (0.74%) Groovy
10 1 (0.37%) C#
10 1 (0.37%) Go
10 1 (0.37%) Korn
10 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.37%) R
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.38%) Degree
4 15 (5.54%) CISSP
5 10 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.95%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.21%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.85%) CISM
9 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.85%) PMP
10 3 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.11%) GIAC
11 2 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.74%) CEH
11 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (9.59%) GDPR
2 26 (9.59%) NIST
3 11 (4.06%) QA
4 10 (3.69%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.32%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.32%) GRC
5 9 (3.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (2.58%) PMO
7 5 (1.85%) SLA
7 5 (1.85%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.11%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.74%) ITGC
10 2 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 105 (38.75%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.17%) Docker
3 9 (3.32%) Squid
4 6 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.21%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.48%) RACF
7 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.74%) vSphere
9 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (10.70%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.33%) Terraform
3 18 (6.64%) Grafana
4 15 (5.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (5.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.17%) Ansible
6 10 (3.69%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.32%) Argo
7 9 (3.32%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.95%) Consul
9 6 (2.21%) CA Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.85%) CASB
10 5 (1.85%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (1.11%) SELinux
13 2 (0.74%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.74%) SCCM
13 2 (0.74%) VxRail
14 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (37.64%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.28%) Okta
3 26 (9.59%) ServiceNow
4 25 (9.23%) CyberArk
5 21 (7.75%) Red Hat
6 17 (6.27%) SAP
7 15 (5.54%) Google
8 14 (5.17%) Zscaler
9 12 (4.43%) Oracle
9 12 (4.43%) VMware
10 10 (3.69%) Cisco
10 10 (3.69%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.95%) BeyondTrust
12 7 (2.58%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.58%) Ping Identity
13 6 (2.21%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.85%) CheckPoint
14 5 (1.85%) F5
14 5 (1.85%) Netskope
14 5 (1.85%) Workday