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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 314 341
Rank change year-on-year -30 +27 +114
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 264 159 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.65% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.78% 4.15% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 111 152
10th Percentile £335 £400 £350
25th Percentile £452 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £613 £669 £650
90th Percentile £712 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £543 £570 £533
% change year-on-year -4.75% +7.04% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 6
10th Percentile £53.50 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 - £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 5,521 3,835 4,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.96% 15.65% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,817 2,662 3,187
10th Percentile £315 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £423 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £521
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.77% -9.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 35 121
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £37.89 £22.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -9.17% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.41 £78.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.75
% change year-on-year +107.74% -13.90% -46.52%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -18 103 £541 -9.85% 40
North of England -41 61 £525 +8.58% 9
South West +2 40 £560 +28.00% 3
Yorkshire -27 40 £525 -1.78% 1
South East -28 36 £525 -17.97% 24
Midlands -60 23 £449 -23.66% 3
North West -51 21 £413 -10.81% 8
West Midlands -64 13 £340 -42.13% 1
East Midlands -21 10 £638 - 2
East of England -34 2 £563 +28.57% 6
North East -18 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 19 (7.20%) Confluence
1 19 (7.20%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.41%) nginx
4 3 (1.14%) IIS
5 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 28 (10.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (51.52%) Azure
2 134 (50.76%) Entra ID
3 54 (20.45%) AWS
4 45 (17.05%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (15.15%) SaaS
6 25 (9.47%) Serverless
7 20 (7.58%) PaaS
8 19 (7.20%) GCP
9 17 (6.44%) Amazon S3
10 15 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (5.30%) GitHub
12 13 (4.92%) Google Workspace
13 12 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (4.55%) IaaS
14 11 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (3.41%) OneDrive
16 9 (3.41%) Route 53
17 7 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 78 (29.55%) DNS
2 45 (17.05%) Firewall
3 36 (13.64%) VPN
4 31 (11.74%) DHCP
5 23 (8.71%) Kerberos
5 23 (8.71%) SSL
6 21 (7.95%) TCP/IP
7 14 (5.30%) Network Security
8 13 (4.92%) HTTP
8 13 (4.92%) IPsec
9 12 (4.55%) LAN
10 11 (4.17%) BIG-IP
10 11 (4.17%) WAN
11 10 (3.79%) HTTPS
12 9 (3.41%) OpenVPN
12 9 (3.41%) Wireless
13 8 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (3.03%) Ethereal
13 8 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.89%) Power BI
4 4 (1.52%) Metadata
5 3 (1.14%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.14%) MySQL
5 3 (1.14%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.76%) GIS
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 34 (12.88%) JIRA
2 9 (3.41%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.65%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.65%) Git
3 7 (2.65%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.89%) GitLab
5 4 (1.52%) Postman
6 3 (1.14%) MSI
7 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.76%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.76%) 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%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 68 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.26%) Documentation Skills
3 30 (11.36%) Finance
4 29 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 28 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.06%) Publishing
7 8 (3.03%) Banking
8 7 (2.65%) Retail
9 6 (2.27%) Legal
10 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Aviation
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (19.32%) Architect
2 25 (9.47%) Administrator
3 24 (9.09%) Senior
4 22 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (7.95%) Lead
6 14 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.92%) Technical Architect
8 11 (4.17%) Developer
9 10 (3.79%) Consultant
9 10 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.79%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.41%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Support Engineer
12 7 (2.65%) IAM Project Manager
12 7 (2.65%) SAP Administrator
12 7 (2.65%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.27%) Analyst
13 6 (2.27%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (34.85%) OAuth
2 87 (32.95%) SAML
3 63 (23.86%) OpenID
4 48 (18.18%) LDAP
5 42 (15.91%) OAuth2
6 20 (7.58%) SAP Basis
7 18 (6.82%) SailPoint
8 11 (4.17%) REST
9 10 (3.79%) React
10 9 (3.41%) Entity Framework
11 8 (3.03%) ARM Templates
12 7 (2.65%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.65%) YAML
13 6 (2.27%) CSS
13 6 (2.27%) Web Services
14 5 (1.89%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.89%) XACML
15 4 (1.52%) Express.js
15 4 (1.52%) Node.js
15 4 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.91%) Onboarding
2 23 (8.71%) Replication
3 19 (7.20%) Taxonomies
4 11 (4.17%) PKI
5 10 (3.79%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.79%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.65%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.52%) Clustering
9 4 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.76%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 65 (24.62%) Windows
2 46 (17.42%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.17%) Linux
4 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.52%) CatOS
5 4 (1.52%) Unix
5 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (29.55%) Identity Access Management
2 67 (25.38%) RBAC
3 65 (24.62%) DevOps
4 51 (19.32%) Roadmaps
5 49 (18.56%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (15.15%) CI/CD
8 38 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (14.39%) Zero Trust
9 36 (13.64%) Agile
10 33 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (11.74%) Identity Management
12 29 (10.98%) High Availability
12 29 (10.98%) Validation
13 26 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
16 23 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 22 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
18 21 (7.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 55 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.58%) SQL
3 14 (5.30%) Python
4 13 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.79%) Java
7 5 (1.89%) Bash
8 4 (1.52%) Bicep
9 3 (1.14%) C#
9 3 (1.14%) Groovy
9 3 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.38%) Korn
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (37.12%) Security Cleared
2 64 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.85%) DV Cleared
4 19 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (5.68%) Degree
6 10 (3.79%) CISSP
7 8 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.52%) CISM
9 3 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.14%) PMP
10 2 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.38%) CCSP
11 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.77%) GDPR
2 21 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (7.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 18 (6.82%) NIST
5 9 (3.41%) GRC
5 9 (3.41%) QA
6 8 (3.03%) SOC 2
7 6 (2.27%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.27%) SLA
8 4 (1.52%) PMO
9 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.14%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 135 (51.14%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.68%) Docker
3 15 (5.68%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.79%) Squid
5 6 (2.27%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.89%) RACF
7 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.76%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.76%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.76%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.76%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.38%) Firmware
9 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (19.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 28 (10.61%) Terraform
3 24 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 18 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.92%) Grafana
6 10 (3.79%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.41%) FortiGate
7 9 (3.41%) PingFederate
8 8 (3.03%) Ansible
9 7 (2.65%) Consul
9 7 (2.65%) SCCM
10 6 (2.27%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.52%) VxRail
12 3 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 1 (0.38%) CASB
14 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 124 (46.97%) Microsoft
2 48 (18.18%) Okta
3 34 (12.88%) VMware
4 28 (10.61%) SAP
5 16 (6.06%) CyberArk
6 15 (5.68%) Google
7 13 (4.92%) Palo Alto
7 13 (4.92%) Zscaler
8 12 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 11 (4.17%) Cisco
9 11 (4.17%) F5
9 11 (4.17%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.41%) CheckPoint
10 9 (3.41%) Dynatrace
11 8 (3.03%) Atlassian
12 6 (2.27%) Oracle
12 6 (2.27%) Ping Identity
12 6 (2.27%) Splunk
13 5 (1.89%) Netskope
13 5 (1.89%) SolarWinds