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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 335 328
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 +120
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 274 154 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.61% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.08% 3.92% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 105 172
10th Percentile £363 £385 £350
25th Percentile £463 £488 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +15.20% -7.27%
75th Percentile £605 £680 £650
90th Percentile £688 £789 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £582 £500
% change year-on-year -9.72% +16.31% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 4
10th Percentile £51.20 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £49.56
90th Percentile - - £79.83
UK median hourly rate £57.25 - £28.25
% change year-on-year - - -56.20%

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 5,392 3,933 4,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.92% 15.61% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,717 2,609 3,309
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 41 143
10th Percentile £18.88 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% -28.07% -30.15%
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.95 £85.25 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £38.16
% change year-on-year +111.76% -33.17% -26.81%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -6 111 £533 -11.18% 42
North of England -35 55 £492 -1.60% 6
South West +23 49 £524 +23.29% 2
Yorkshire -29 37 £525 -12.50% 3
South East -26 32 £520 -25.71% 18
Midlands -63 20 £475 -21.65% 9
North West -38 18 £400 -11.11% 2
West Midlands -58 11 £340 -43.92% 3
East Midlands -23 9 £638 - 6
East of England -28 3 £563 +28.57% 1
North East -10 1 - - 2
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 15 (5.47%) Confluence
2 14 (5.11%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.92%) nginx
4 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.82%) IIS
6 3 (1.09%) Apache
7 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.73%) CMS
7 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.73%) iPlanet
7 2 (0.73%) JBoss
7 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (2.19%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 23 (8.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (51.09%) Azure
2 132 (48.18%) Entra ID
3 60 (21.90%) AWS
4 39 (14.23%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (13.50%) SaaS
6 21 (7.66%) PaaS
7 20 (7.30%) Serverless
8 16 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.47%) IaaS
10 12 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.38%) GCP
11 11 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (3.65%) OneDrive
13 9 (3.28%) GitHub
14 8 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (2.92%) Route 53
15 7 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 65 (23.72%) DNS
2 36 (13.14%) Firewall
3 32 (11.68%) VPN
4 29 (10.58%) Kerberos
5 28 (10.22%) DHCP
6 17 (6.20%) TCP/IP
7 15 (5.47%) SSL
8 11 (4.01%) IPsec
8 11 (4.01%) Network Security
9 9 (3.28%) BIG-IP
9 9 (3.28%) HTTP
9 9 (3.28%) HTTPS
9 9 (3.28%) LAN
9 9 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.92%) OpenVPN
10 8 (2.92%) WAN
11 7 (2.55%) Wireless
12 6 (2.19%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.19%) Ethereal
12 6 (2.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.55%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.82%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.46%) Power BI
5 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.09%) MySQL
5 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.73%) GIS
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.73%) SQLite
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.76%) JIRA
2 13 (4.74%) Git
3 7 (2.55%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.55%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.19%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.46%) GitLab
5 4 (1.46%) Postman
6 3 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.09%) MSI
7 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.73%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (0.73%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.73%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.73%) fastlane
7 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.73%) Xcode
8 1 (0.36%) Gatling
8 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
General
1 76 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.41%) Finance
3 30 (10.95%) Documentation Skills
4 27 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.74%) Publishing
7 9 (3.28%) Banking
8 5 (1.82%) Aviation
9 4 (1.46%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Retail
11 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (19.34%) Architect
2 32 (11.68%) Senior
3 21 (7.66%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (6.93%) Developer
5 16 (5.84%) Administrator
5 16 (5.84%) Lead
6 15 (5.47%) Analyst
6 15 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (5.47%) Technical Architect
7 13 (4.74%) Consultant
7 13 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (3.28%) IAM Consultant
8 9 (3.28%) Senior Developer
9 8 (2.92%) Support Engineer
10 7 (2.55%) IAM Specialist
10 7 (2.55%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.55%) Project Manager
10 7 (2.55%) SAP Administrator
10 7 (2.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (39.05%) OAuth
2 100 (36.50%) SAML
3 76 (27.74%) OpenID
4 50 (18.25%) LDAP
4 50 (18.25%) OAuth2
5 22 (8.03%) SailPoint
6 16 (5.84%) SAP Basis
7 13 (4.74%) React
7 13 (4.74%) RESTful
8 10 (3.65%) Entity Framework
9 8 (2.92%) ARM Templates
9 8 (2.92%) CSS
9 8 (2.92%) REST
9 8 (2.92%) YAML
10 7 (2.55%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (2.19%) .NET
11 6 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.19%) HTML
12 5 (1.82%) Node.js
12 5 (1.82%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (18.25%) Onboarding
2 22 (8.03%) Replication
3 18 (6.57%) Taxonomies
4 15 (5.47%) PKI
5 10 (3.65%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.28%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.92%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.55%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.55%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.46%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.09%) CMDB
11 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.73%) Animation
12 2 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.99%) Windows
2 49 (17.88%) Windows Server
3 16 (5.84%) Linux
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.46%) CatOS
5 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.09%) Unix
7 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Android
8 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.48%) Identity Access Management
2 76 (27.74%) RBAC
3 56 (20.44%) DevOps
4 44 (16.06%) CI/CD
5 42 (15.33%) Agile
6 41 (14.96%) Identity Management
7 40 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (13.50%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (13.50%) Roadmaps
9 34 (12.41%) Zero Trust
10 31 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (10.22%) Validation
13 27 (9.85%) Vulnerability Management
14 26 (9.49%) Disaster Recovery
14 26 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (8.76%) High Availability
15 24 (8.76%) Microservices
16 23 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 23 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (24.09%) PowerShell
2 24 (8.76%) Python
3 21 (7.66%) SQL
4 20 (7.30%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.74%) Java
5 13 (4.74%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.19%) Groovy
8 5 (1.82%) C#
9 4 (1.46%) Bash
9 4 (1.46%) Bicep
10 2 (0.73%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.73%) Swift
10 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.36%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 105 (38.32%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.91%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.85%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.12%) CISSP
5 19 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.20%) Degree
7 15 (5.47%) CISM
8 10 (3.65%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.09%) PhD
13 2 (0.73%) CCSP
13 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.73%) PMP
14 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.69%) GDPR
2 25 (9.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (4.38%) NIST
5 9 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (3.28%) SLA
6 8 (2.92%) GRC
6 8 (2.92%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.55%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.55%) QA
8 6 (2.19%) NCSC
8 6 (2.19%) PSD2
9 4 (1.46%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.46%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.73%) PMO
12 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 127 (46.35%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.84%) Docker
4 12 (4.38%) VMware NSX
5 9 (3.28%) Squid
6 6 (2.19%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.82%) RACF
8 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.73%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.73%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.73%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.73%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.73%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (19.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (10.58%) Terraform
3 24 (8.76%) Kubernetes
4 21 (7.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (4.38%) Grafana
6 11 (4.01%) PingFederate
7 9 (3.28%) FortiGate
7 9 (3.28%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.92%) SCCM
9 7 (2.55%) Consul
10 5 (1.82%) Ansible
10 5 (1.82%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.46%) VxRail
12 2 (0.73%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.73%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 140 (51.09%) Microsoft
2 46 (16.79%) Okta
3 32 (11.68%) VMware
4 25 (9.12%) SAP
5 18 (6.57%) CyberArk
6 13 (4.74%) Ping Identity
7 12 (4.38%) ForgeRock
8 11 (4.01%) Cisco
8 11 (4.01%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.65%) Google
9 10 (3.65%) Red Hat
9 10 (3.65%) Zscaler
10 9 (3.28%) F5
11 8 (2.92%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.92%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.92%) Splunk
12 7 (2.55%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.19%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (2.19%) Oracle
14 5 (1.82%) ServiceNow