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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 351 323
Rank change year-on-year +49 -28 +128
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 262 138 246
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.52% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.16% 3.54% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 92 186
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 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £566
% change year-on-year -10.29% +3.40% +2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £51.50 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £57.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
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 5,076 3,901 4,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.66% 14.63% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,529 2,526 3,508
10th Percentile £312 £313 £255
25th Percentile £413 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -0.09% -9.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 49 159
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.68 £14.65
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.36 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.49% -42.62% +19.95%
75th Percentile £62.52 £62.50 £62.25
90th Percentile £78.63 £75.05 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +23.15%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +25 111 £525 -12.50% 23
South West +28 49 £524 +23.29% 15
North of England -30 43 £471 -5.80% 21
South East -9 29 £490 -24.62% 24
Yorkshire -21 28 £525 -12.50% 11
Midlands -48 16 £447 -23.91% 11
North West -26 15 £400 -20.00% 8
West Midlands -47 13 £420 -28.51% 6
East of England -17 5 £625 +42.86% 11
East Midlands -28 3 £447 - 5
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 14 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.58%) Confluence
3 7 (2.67%) IIS
4 6 (2.29%) Apache
4 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.91%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.91%) JBoss
5 5 (1.91%) nginx
5 5 (1.91%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.91%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.76%) CMS
6 2 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (2.29%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.53%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.76%) Windchill
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.38%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (5.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 127 (48.47%) Azure
2 117 (44.66%) Entra ID
3 59 (22.52%) AWS
4 39 (14.89%) SaaS
5 36 (13.74%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (7.63%) PaaS
7 16 (6.11%) GCP
8 13 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.58%) IaaS
10 11 (4.20%) Serverless
11 10 (3.82%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.44%) GitHub
13 8 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.67%) OneDrive
14 7 (2.67%) OpenShift
15 6 (2.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 62 (23.66%) DNS
2 35 (13.36%) Firewall
3 33 (12.60%) VPN
4 28 (10.69%) Kerberos
5 25 (9.54%) DHCP
6 14 (5.34%) SSL
6 14 (5.34%) TCP/IP
7 9 (3.44%) HTTPS
7 9 (3.44%) LAN
7 9 (3.44%) Wireshark
8 8 (3.05%) BIG-IP
8 8 (3.05%) Network Security
8 8 (3.05%) WAN
9 7 (2.67%) IPsec
9 7 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.67%) Wireless
10 6 (2.29%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (2.29%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (2.29%) Ethereal
10 6 (2.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.91%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.15%) CockroachDB
4 3 (1.15%) MySQL
4 3 (1.15%) Pinecone
4 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.76%) GIS
5 2 (0.76%) Power BI
5 2 (0.76%) SQLite
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 18 (6.87%) JIRA
2 17 (6.49%) Git
3 11 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.91%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.91%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.53%) GitLab
6 3 (1.15%) MSI
7 2 (0.76%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.76%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.76%) fastlane
7 2 (0.76%) Postman
7 2 (0.76%) Xcode
8 1 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.38%) Gatling
8 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 65 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.69%) Finance
3 25 (9.54%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.82%) Publishing
7 7 (2.67%) Banking
8 5 (1.91%) Aviation
9 3 (1.15%) Legal
9 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.15%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.76%) Electronics
10 2 (0.76%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (18.32%) Architect
2 30 (11.45%) Senior
3 20 (7.63%) Developer
3 20 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (6.11%) Administrator
4 16 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (4.96%) Consultant
6 11 (4.20%) Analyst
6 11 (4.20%) Technical Architect
7 10 (3.82%) Lead
8 9 (3.44%) Network Engineer
9 8 (3.05%) IAM Consultant
9 8 (3.05%) Senior Developer
10 7 (2.67%) ForgeRock Developer
10 7 (2.67%) IAM Specialist
10 7 (2.67%) SAP Administrator
10 7 (2.67%) Security Architect
10 7 (2.67%) Security Engineer
11 6 (2.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (39.69%) OAuth
2 102 (38.93%) SAML
3 69 (26.34%) OpenID
4 52 (19.85%) LDAP
5 42 (16.03%) OAuth2
6 20 (7.63%) SailPoint
7 13 (4.96%) SAP Basis
8 12 (4.58%) React
9 11 (4.20%) REST
9 11 (4.20%) RESTful
10 8 (3.05%) CSS
10 8 (3.05%) Entity Framework
11 7 (2.67%) SOAP
11 7 (2.67%) YAML
12 6 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.29%) ARM Templates
12 6 (2.29%) HTML
13 5 (1.91%) .NET
13 5 (1.91%) Vue
14 4 (1.53%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.79%) Onboarding
2 21 (8.02%) Replication
3 15 (5.73%) PKI
3 15 (5.73%) Taxonomies
4 11 (4.20%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.67%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.91%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.76%) Animation
11 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.76%) NHS
11 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (24.81%) Windows
2 51 (19.47%) Windows Server
3 23 (8.78%) Linux
4 7 (2.67%) Unix
5 4 (1.53%) CatOS
5 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.44%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (28.63%) RBAC
3 51 (19.47%) DevOps
4 48 (18.32%) CI/CD
5 46 (17.56%) Identity Management
6 39 (14.89%) Zero Trust
7 38 (14.50%) Agile
8 35 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (10.31%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 26 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (9.54%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (9.54%) High Availability
12 25 (9.54%) Roadmaps
13 24 (9.16%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (8.78%) Task Automation
15 22 (8.40%) Privileged Access Management
15 22 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 20 (7.63%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (25.19%) PowerShell
2 29 (11.07%) Python
3 19 (7.25%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.73%) SQL
5 13 (4.96%) Java
6 9 (3.44%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.05%) Groovy
7 8 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.29%) Bicep
8 6 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.53%) C#
10 3 (1.15%) Bash
11 2 (0.76%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.76%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.76%) Swift
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (40.08%) Security Cleared
2 72 (27.48%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.92%) DV Cleared
4 24 (9.16%) CISSP
5 21 (8.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (5.73%) CISM
7 14 (5.34%) Degree
8 12 (4.58%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.91%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.15%) MCP
12 3 (1.15%) PhD
13 2 (0.76%) CCSP
13 2 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.38%) CCNA
14 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (19.08%) GDPR
2 28 (10.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 13 (4.96%) NIST
5 10 (3.82%) SOC 2
6 8 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (2.67%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.67%) SLA
8 6 (2.29%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.29%) NCSC
8 6 (2.29%) PSD2
9 5 (1.91%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.53%) QA
11 3 (1.15%) GRC
12 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.76%) WCAG
13 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.38%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.38%) SOC 1
System Software
1 125 (47.71%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.49%) Docker
3 16 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.20%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.29%) Squid
6 5 (1.91%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.91%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 2 (0.76%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.76%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.76%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.76%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.38%) RACF
8 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (18.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 33 (12.60%) Terraform
3 23 (8.78%) Kubernetes
4 18 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.34%) PingFederate
6 9 (3.44%) Grafana
7 7 (2.67%) Ansible
8 6 (2.29%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.29%) FortiGate
8 6 (2.29%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.29%) SCCM
9 5 (1.91%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.91%) Consul
9 5 (1.91%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.91%) Tivoli
10 3 (1.15%) VxRail
11 2 (0.76%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.76%) logstash
12 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 138 (52.67%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.03%) Okta
3 31 (11.83%) VMware
4 18 (6.87%) CyberArk
4 18 (6.87%) SAP
5 15 (5.73%) Splunk
6 14 (5.34%) Ping Identity
7 12 (4.58%) ForgeRock
7 12 (4.58%) Google
8 10 (3.82%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.44%) Cisco
9 9 (3.44%) Zscaler
10 8 (3.05%) F5
10 8 (3.05%) Oracle
10 8 (3.05%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.67%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.67%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.29%) Atlassian
12 6 (2.29%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.91%) IBM