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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 333 333
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +124
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 260 145 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.60% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.76% 3.85% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 99 159
10th Percentile £300 £400 £350
25th Percentile £438 £475 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +8.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £638
90th Percentile £701 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £564 £513
% change year-on-year -6.91% +10.05% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 6
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.19 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile - - £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 5,457 3,765 4,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.43% 15.61% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,776 2,592 3,162
10th Percentile £316 £313 £256
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.24% -8.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £689 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 37 106
10th Percentile £20.09 £16.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £41.30 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £28.00 £25.74
Median % change year-on-year +101.79% +8.79% -52.49%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £80.40 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -53.15%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -9 111 £533 -7.32% 36
North of England -48 56 £513 +6.00% 9
South East -31 37 £493 -23.05% 18
Yorkshire -28 36 £550 +2.90%
South West -14 28 £525 +20.00% 5
Midlands -44 28 £450 -18.18% 6
North West -43 19 £438 -5.41% 8
West Midlands -52 15 £370 -32.73% 3
East Midlands -19 12 £594 - 3
North East -17 2 £413 -31.25% 1
East of England -35 2 £563 +12.50% 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 20 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 18 (6.92%) Confluence
3 16 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.46%) nginx
5 3 (1.15%) IIS
6 2 (0.77%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.77%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (11.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.77%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (50.38%) Azure
2 127 (48.85%) Entra ID
3 57 (21.92%) AWS
4 44 (16.92%) SaaS
5 39 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (10.38%) Serverless
7 26 (10.00%) GCP
8 18 (6.92%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.92%) PaaS
9 14 (5.38%) Google Workspace
10 13 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.85%) GitHub
13 9 (3.46%) IaaS
13 9 (3.46%) OneDrive
13 9 (3.46%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.46%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 71 (27.31%) DNS
2 34 (13.08%) VPN
3 33 (12.69%) Firewall
4 28 (10.77%) DHCP
5 26 (10.00%) Kerberos
6 25 (9.62%) SSL
7 22 (8.46%) TCP/IP
8 17 (6.54%) HTTP
9 16 (6.15%) IPsec
10 15 (5.77%) Network Security
11 14 (5.38%) LAN
12 13 (5.00%) BIG-IP
12 13 (5.00%) HTTPS
12 13 (5.00%) WAN
13 10 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (3.85%) Wireless
14 9 (3.46%) DKIM
14 9 (3.46%) DMARC
14 9 (3.46%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.92%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.54%) Metadata
4 3 (1.15%) CockroachDB
4 3 (1.15%) MySQL
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.15%) Pinecone
4 3 (1.15%) Power BI
5 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.77%) GIS
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (13.46%) JIRA
2 10 (3.85%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.69%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.69%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.31%) Git
4 6 (2.31%) GitLab
5 4 (1.54%) Postman
6 3 (1.15%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.38%) Gatling
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) JUnit
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 32 (12.31%) Documentation Skills
4 31 (11.92%) Finance
5 28 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.15%) Publishing
7 10 (3.85%) Banking
8 7 (2.69%) Legal
8 7 (2.69%) Retail
9 4 (1.54%) Military
10 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Aviation
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (18.08%) Architect
2 23 (8.85%) Administrator
2 23 (8.85%) Senior
3 21 (8.08%) Lead
4 18 (6.92%) Developer
4 18 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (4.62%) Technical Architect
6 11 (4.23%) Network Engineer
6 11 (4.23%) Support Engineer
7 10 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (3.85%) Project Manager
8 9 (3.46%) Consultant
8 9 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.08%) IAM Project Manager
10 7 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (2.69%) SAP Administrator
10 7 (2.69%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.31%) Analyst
11 6 (2.31%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (32.31%) OAuth
2 82 (31.54%) SAML
3 58 (22.31%) OpenID
4 57 (21.92%) LDAP
5 32 (12.31%) OAuth2
6 20 (7.69%) SailPoint
6 20 (7.69%) SAP Basis
7 15 (5.77%) REST
8 11 (4.23%) Web Services
9 10 (3.85%) Express.js
9 10 (3.85%) Node.js
10 9 (3.46%) CSS
10 9 (3.46%) React
11 8 (3.08%) ARM Templates
11 8 (3.08%) Entity Framework
12 7 (2.69%) HTML
12 7 (2.69%) Model Context Protocol
13 6 (2.31%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.31%) YAML
14 5 (1.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (18.46%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.31%) Replication
2 19 (7.31%) Taxonomies
3 12 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.85%) PKI
6 8 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.69%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.31%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.54%) Clustering
10 4 (1.54%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.54%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 46 (17.69%) Windows
2 32 (12.31%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.38%) Linux
4 9 (3.46%) Unix
5 5 (1.92%) CatOS
5 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.77%) Android
9 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.46%) Identity Access Management
2 65 (25.00%) DevOps
3 54 (20.77%) RBAC
4 53 (20.38%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 45 (17.31%) CI/CD
7 40 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (14.62%) Agile
9 34 (13.08%) Zero Trust
10 33 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (11.54%) High Availability
12 28 (10.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (10.77%) Validation
13 25 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (9.23%) Vulnerability Management
15 23 (8.85%) Migration
16 22 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (8.46%) Disaster Recovery
16 22 (8.46%) Microservices
17 21 (8.08%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 42 (16.15%) PowerShell
2 18 (6.92%) SQL
3 16 (6.15%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.15%) Python
4 11 (4.23%) Java
5 9 (3.46%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.69%) Bash
7 4 (1.54%) Bicep
7 4 (1.54%) Groovy
8 3 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.77%) C#
9 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.38%) Go
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (33.46%) Security Cleared
2 64 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.92%) Degree
4 14 (5.38%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.85%) CISSP
6 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.54%) CISM
9 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.15%) PMP
10 2 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.38%) CCSP
11 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.77%) GDPR
2 24 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (8.08%) NIST
4 20 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.23%) GRC
6 9 (3.46%) QA
7 8 (3.08%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.69%) Accessibility
9 6 (2.31%) PCI DSS
9 6 (2.31%) SLA
10 4 (1.54%) PMO
11 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.15%) NCSC
11 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 118 (45.38%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.54%) Docker
2 17 (6.54%) VMware NSX
3 16 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.85%) Squid
5 6 (2.31%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.92%) RACF
7 4 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.77%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.77%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.77%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.77%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.38%) Firmware
9 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (14.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 26 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.85%) Terraform
4 17 (6.54%) Grafana
5 13 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (4.23%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.46%) Ansible
7 9 (3.46%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.08%) Consul
9 7 (2.69%) PingFederate
10 6 (2.31%) Argo
10 6 (2.31%) CA Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.31%) SCCM
11 4 (1.54%) VxRail
12 3 (1.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.77%) CASB
13 2 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.38%) Packer
14 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (39.23%) Microsoft
2 48 (18.46%) Okta
3 30 (11.54%) SAP
4 29 (11.15%) VMware
5 17 (6.54%) Google
5 17 (6.54%) Red Hat
6 16 (6.15%) CyberArk
7 15 (5.77%) Palo Alto
8 13 (5.00%) F5
8 13 (5.00%) ServiceNow
9 12 (4.62%) Cisco
9 12 (4.62%) Zscaler
10 11 (4.23%) CheckPoint
11 10 (3.85%) Dynatrace
12 9 (3.46%) Oracle
13 7 (2.69%) Atlassian
14 6 (2.31%) Ping Identity
14 6 (2.31%) SolarWinds
15 5 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
15 5 (1.92%) Netskope
76 Single Sign-On jobs in England