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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 363 361
Rank change year-on-year +37 -2 +102
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 196 164 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.70% 0.50% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.48% 3.63% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 115 187
10th Percentile £383 £372 £400
25th Percentile £413 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £600 £681 £650
90th Percentile £675 £765 £693
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.50% +4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £30.56 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £40.14 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.09 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £84.05 -
90th Percentile - £96.02 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £60.09 -
% change year-on-year -20.95% - -

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 4,375 4,512 6,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 13.69% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,900 3,076 4,476
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 53 160
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.48
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.18 £26.69
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -19.78% +108.55%
75th Percentile £63.49 £62.50 £75.13
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.00 £78.79
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On 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 19 September 2025.

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
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 19 September 2025. 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 +15 104 £537 -6.61% 54
North of England -4 29 £469 -24.35% 19
Midlands -19 21 £450 -27.65% 15
North West +4 18 £471 -24.03% 12
West Midlands -2 17 £550 +5.77% 8
Yorkshire -6 11 £439 +46.33% 6
South West +23 10 £500 +11.11% 13
South East +1 10 £525 -16.00% 36
East of England +4 6 £688 +25.00% 14
East Midlands -15 4 £402 -35.37% 6
Single Sign-On
UK

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (10.20%) Confluence
2 16 (8.16%) SharePoint
3 13 (6.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (4.08%) WebSphere
4 8 (4.08%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (3.06%) JBoss
6 5 (2.55%) Apache
6 5 (2.55%) IIS
6 5 (2.55%) iPlanet
7 1 (0.51%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.02%) Windchill
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (6.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.02%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.51%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.92%) Azure
2 67 (34.18%) Entra ID
3 64 (32.65%) AWS
4 36 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (18.37%) SaaS
5 33 (16.84%) GCP
6 13 (6.63%) GitHub
7 12 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (6.12%) PaaS
8 11 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (5.10%) Serverless
10 9 (4.59%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.59%) IaaS
10 9 (4.59%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.08%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.22%) SSL
2 17 (8.67%) Firewall
3 15 (7.65%) VPN
4 13 (6.63%) DNS
5 11 (5.61%) HTTPS
6 10 (5.10%) Kerberos
7 6 (3.06%) SMTP
8 4 (2.04%) Network Security
8 4 (2.04%) POP3
9 3 (1.53%) BGP
9 3 (1.53%) OSPF
9 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.53%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.02%) DKIM
10 2 (1.02%) DMARC
10 2 (1.02%) Internet
10 2 (1.02%) VSAN
10 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.51%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.06%) Power BI
2 5 (2.55%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.55%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.02%) Metadata
4 2 (1.02%) MySQL
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) Redis
5 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (13.78%) JIRA
2 15 (7.65%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.61%) Git
4 5 (2.55%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (2.55%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.04%) GitLab
6 3 (1.53%) Log4j
7 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.02%) MSI
7 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.51%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.51%) Liquibase
General
1 55 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.65%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.12%) Finance
5 6 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.06%) Marketing
6 4 (2.04%) Banking
6 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.02%) French Language
7 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.51%) Electronics
8 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Local Government
8 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Police
8 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (18.88%) Architect
2 28 (14.29%) Senior
3 18 (9.18%) Developer
4 13 (6.63%) Consultant
5 11 (5.61%) Administrator
6 10 (5.10%) Analyst
6 10 (5.10%) Business Analyst
6 10 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (5.10%) Senior Architect
6 10 (5.10%) ServiceNow Architect
7 8 (4.08%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 8 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (4.08%) Lead
7 8 (4.08%) ServiceNow Developer
8 7 (3.57%) IAM Specialist
8 7 (3.57%) Project Manager
8 7 (3.57%) Software Engineer
8 7 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.06%) AWS Specialist
9 6 (3.06%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (38.78%) SAML
2 75 (38.27%) OAuth
3 63 (32.14%) OpenID
4 53 (27.04%) LDAP
5 32 (16.33%) REST
6 31 (15.82%) OAuth2
6 31 (15.82%) SOAP
7 26 (13.27%) JDBC
8 22 (11.22%) HTML
9 21 (10.71%) AngularJS
9 21 (10.71%) JSON
9 21 (10.71%) SailPoint
9 21 (10.71%) Web Services
10 16 (8.16%) HTML5
11 15 (7.65%) jQuery
12 13 (6.63%) Apache Camel
12 13 (6.63%) ODBC
12 13 (6.63%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (6.12%) CSS
14 8 (4.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.76%) Onboarding
2 21 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 18 (9.18%) PKI
4 15 (7.65%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.10%) Taxonomies
6 9 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.55%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.51%) Freedom of Information
12 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.51%) Replication
12 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.69%) Windows
2 15 (7.65%) Linux
3 14 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.08%) Unix
5 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.02%) Android
6 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (33.16%) Agile
2 64 (32.65%) DevOps
3 63 (32.14%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (28.57%) Identity Management
5 42 (21.43%) RBAC
6 38 (19.39%) CI/CD
7 36 (18.37%) Zero Trust
8 35 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (16.84%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 32 (16.33%) Scrum
11 31 (15.82%) Migration
12 29 (14.80%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (11.22%) Microservices
14 20 (10.20%) API Integration
14 20 (10.20%) ITSM
15 19 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (9.69%) User Experience
16 16 (8.16%) Roadmaps
16 16 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (7.65%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.90%) JavaScript
2 34 (17.35%) PowerShell
3 24 (12.24%) Java
3 24 (12.24%) Python
4 9 (4.59%) Shell Script
5 8 (4.08%) Bicep
6 6 (3.06%) C#
6 6 (3.06%) Groovy
7 5 (2.55%) Bash
8 4 (2.04%) SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Ruby
10 1 (0.51%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.51%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 49 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.61%) Azure Certification
3 11 (5.61%) Degree
4 9 (4.59%) CISSP
5 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.04%) CISM
6 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.02%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.02%) MCITP
8 2 (1.02%) MCP
8 2 (1.02%) MCSA
8 2 (1.02%) MCSE
8 2 (1.02%) MCTS
8 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Master
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.76%) GDPR
2 21 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (6.63%) NIST
4 10 (5.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (4.08%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.57%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.53%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.02%) QA
9 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.51%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.51%) NCSC
9 1 (0.51%) PMO
9 1 (0.51%) PSD2
9 1 (0.51%) SLA
9 1 (0.51%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (47.45%) Active Directory
2 21 (10.71%) Docker
3 6 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.55%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (1.53%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.02%) vSphere
7 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.51%) NFS
Systems Management
1 37 (18.88%) Terraform
2 27 (13.78%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (5.61%) Ansible
5 6 (3.06%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.55%) CA Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.55%) CA Wily
6 5 (2.55%) PingFederate
6 5 (2.55%) Tivoli
7 4 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.53%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.53%) SCCM
8 3 (1.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.02%) Kibana
9 2 (1.02%) logstash
9 2 (1.02%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.02%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.51%) HP Operations Orchestration
10 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 66 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.80%) ServiceNow
3 27 (13.78%) Okta
4 21 (10.71%) ForgeRock
5 17 (8.67%) CyberArk
5 17 (8.67%) Ping Identity
6 14 (7.14%) HP
7 13 (6.63%) BMC
7 13 (6.63%) Ivanti
7 13 (6.63%) Remedy
7 13 (6.63%) Splunk
8 11 (5.61%) Google
9 9 (4.59%) IBM
9 9 (4.59%) Oracle
10 8 (4.08%) Alibaba
10 8 (4.08%) Salesforce
10 8 (4.08%) VMware
10 8 (4.08%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.55%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.55%) Broadcom