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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 325 352
Rank change year-on-year -32 +27 +83
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 280 178 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.65% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.66% 4.23% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 118 155
10th Percentile £315 £373 £320
25th Percentile £434 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.35%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £638
90th Percentile £690 £700 £716
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
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 6,014 4,205 4,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.37% 15.45% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,118 2,791 3,344
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £407 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £608 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £516
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.20% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 54 84
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.22
25th Percentile £32.06 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -43.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £50.94
90th Percentile £79.30 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +43.75% +26.98% -45.22%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -13 130 £531 -5.18% 48
North of England -64 56 £538 +19.44% 7
South East -34 33 £520 -16.80% 22
Midlands -41 33 £450 +9.76% 4
North West -43 30 £496 +18.94% 4
South West -18 25 £525 -2.33% 6
Yorkshire -36 24 £550 +25.28% 2
West Midlands -54 20 £425 -5.56% 3
East Midlands -5 12 £550 +36.82% 1
East of England -16 5 £555 -17.78% 5
North East -31 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 (9.64%) SharePoint
2 25 (8.93%) Confluence
3 18 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (4.64%) nginx
5 2 (0.71%) IIS
5 2 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.71%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 144 (51.43%) Azure
2 120 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 73 (26.07%) AWS
4 46 (16.43%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (15.00%) SaaS
6 39 (13.93%) GCP
7 24 (8.57%) Serverless
8 18 (6.43%) GitHub
9 15 (5.36%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.29%) Google Workspace
11 12 (4.29%) PaaS
12 11 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.93%) IaaS
12 11 (3.93%) OpenShift
13 10 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (3.21%) OneDrive
14 9 (3.21%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 58 (20.71%) DNS
2 33 (11.79%) Firewall
3 30 (10.71%) TCP/IP
4 28 (10.00%) VPN
5 23 (8.21%) DHCP
6 20 (7.14%) SSL
7 18 (6.43%) Network Security
8 17 (6.07%) Kerberos
9 13 (4.64%) OpenVPN
10 11 (3.93%) HTTP
10 11 (3.93%) LAN
10 11 (3.93%) WAN
11 10 (3.57%) IPsec
12 9 (3.21%) DKIM
12 9 (3.21%) DMARC
13 8 (2.86%) HTTPS
14 7 (2.50%) Internet
14 7 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (2.14%) SD-WAN
16 5 (1.79%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.79%) Metadata
4 4 (1.43%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.43%) MySQL
4 4 (1.43%) Power BI
5 3 (1.07%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.07%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) Db2
7 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (15.00%) JIRA
2 11 (3.93%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.57%) Git
4 9 (3.21%) SonarQube
4 9 (3.21%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (2.14%) GitLab
6 6 (2.14%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.07%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.07%) Postman
8 2 (0.71%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.71%) Snyk
8 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 66 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.86%) Finance
3 45 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.64%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (5.71%) Banking
6 7 (2.50%) Legal
6 7 (2.50%) Military
6 7 (2.50%) Publishing
7 5 (1.79%) Retail
8 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Front Office
10 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (17.50%) Architect
2 27 (9.64%) Developer
3 20 (7.14%) Senior
4 18 (6.43%) Lead
4 18 (6.43%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (6.07%) Administrator
6 14 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 13 (4.64%) Technical Architect
8 11 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (3.93%) Consultant
9 10 (3.57%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.21%) Analyst
10 9 (3.21%) IAM Project Manager
10 9 (3.21%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.86%) Active Directory Engineer
11 8 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.50%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (27.50%) SAML
2 74 (26.43%) OAuth
3 67 (23.93%) OpenID
4 45 (16.07%) LDAP
5 33 (11.79%) OAuth2
6 22 (7.86%) SailPoint
7 21 (7.50%) REST
8 15 (5.36%) Web Services
9 14 (5.00%) SOAP
10 13 (4.64%) Node.js
11 12 (4.29%) Express.js
12 7 (2.50%) ActiveX
12 7 (2.50%) CSS
12 7 (2.50%) React
12 7 (2.50%) SAP Basis
12 7 (2.50%) XML
13 6 (2.14%) Middleware
14 5 (1.79%) .NET
14 5 (1.79%) HTML
15 4 (1.43%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.86%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (5.36%) PKI
4 10 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.57%) Replication
4 10 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.86%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.50%) Freedom of Information
6 7 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.50%) Taxonomies
7 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.43%) Clustering
9 4 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.21%) Windows
2 17 (6.07%) Linux
3 14 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.21%) Unix
5 8 (2.86%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.07%) Android
6 3 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) CatOS
8 1 (0.36%) VMS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
2 70 (25.00%) DevOps
3 51 (18.21%) RBAC
4 49 (17.50%) Roadmaps
5 48 (17.14%) Agile
5 48 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (16.43%) CI/CD
7 39 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (13.21%) Zero Trust
9 36 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (11.07%) Migration
11 28 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (8.93%) Privileged Access Management
12 25 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (8.21%) Analytics
13 23 (8.21%) ITSM
13 23 (8.21%) Microservices
13 23 (8.21%) Validation
14 21 (7.50%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 35 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 25 (8.93%) Java
3 16 (5.71%) Python
3 16 (5.71%) SQL
4 13 (4.64%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.50%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.50%) VB
5 7 (2.50%) VB6
5 7 (2.50%) VBA
6 6 (2.14%) Bash
7 4 (1.43%) Bicep
8 2 (0.71%) C#
8 2 (0.71%) Groovy
8 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.36%) Go
9 1 (0.36%) PHP
9 1 (0.36%) R
9 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 62 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.21%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.14%) Degree
4 16 (5.71%) CISSP
5 9 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.79%) CISM
9 5 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.79%) PMP
10 3 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.07%) GIAC
11 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.71%) CEH
11 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.71%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.14%) GDPR
2 33 (11.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (9.64%) NIST
4 15 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.93%) QA
6 10 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.57%) GRC
7 9 (3.21%) Data Quality
8 7 (2.50%) PMO
9 6 (2.14%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.79%) SLA
11 4 (1.43%) PCI DSS
12 3 (1.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (1.07%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.71%) ITGC
13 2 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 111 (39.64%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.00%) Docker
3 9 (3.21%) Squid
4 6 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.14%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.43%) RACF
7 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.71%) vSphere
9 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.36%) Terraform
3 21 (7.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (6.43%) Grafana
5 15 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (5.00%) Ansible
7 10 (3.57%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.21%) Argo
8 9 (3.21%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.86%) Consul
10 6 (2.14%) CA Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.79%) CASB
11 5 (1.79%) PingFederate
12 4 (1.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (1.07%) SELinux
14 2 (0.71%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.71%) SCCM
14 2 (0.71%) VxRail
15 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (38.21%) Microsoft
2 42 (15.00%) Okta
3 26 (9.29%) ServiceNow
4 25 (8.93%) CyberArk
5 22 (7.86%) Red Hat
6 16 (5.71%) SAP
7 15 (5.36%) Google
8 14 (5.00%) Zscaler
9 12 (4.29%) Oracle
9 12 (4.29%) VMware
10 10 (3.57%) Cisco
10 10 (3.57%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.50%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.50%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (2.50%) Ping Identity
12 6 (2.14%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.79%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.79%) F5
13 5 (1.79%) Netskope
14 4 (1.43%) Citrix