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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 315 324
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +134
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 265 152 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.80% 4.07% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 104 163
10th Percentile £300 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £474 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +9.02% -7.90%
75th Percentile £609 £655 £638
90th Percentile £693 £740 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £552 £511
% change year-on-year -4.81% +7.87% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 6
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.38 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £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 5,524 3,739 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.38% 15.59% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 2,571 3,218
10th Percentile £316 £308 £258
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 37 101
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £39.65 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +12.56% -50.58%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year +98.20% +2.78% -48.98%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -12 111 £533 -6.75% 42
North of England -52 56 £525 +8.58% 9
South East -29 38 £485 -24.22% 19
Yorkshire -26 36 £550 +2.90% 3
Midlands -51 34 £447 -18.73% 8
South West -10 27 £525 +20.00% 5
West Midlands -52 20 £418 -24.09% 6
North West -50 19 £458 -1.08% 5
East Midlands -12 13 £550 - 2
North East -28 2 £413 -31.25% 2
East of England -29 1 £575 -2.13% 10
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 22 (8.30%) SharePoint
2 18 (6.79%) Confluence
3 17 (6.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.40%) nginx
5 3 (1.13%) IIS
6 2 (0.75%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.75%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (3.02%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (11.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.75%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 137 (51.70%) Azure
2 131 (49.43%) Entra ID
3 59 (22.26%) AWS
4 45 (16.98%) SaaS
5 40 (15.09%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (10.19%) Serverless
7 26 (9.81%) GCP
8 18 (6.79%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.79%) PaaS
9 14 (5.28%) Google Workspace
10 13 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.53%) GitHub
11 12 (4.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.15%) OpenShift
13 10 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.77%) IaaS
14 9 (3.40%) OneDrive
14 9 (3.40%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 69 (26.04%) DNS
2 33 (12.45%) Firewall
3 32 (12.08%) VPN
4 28 (10.57%) DHCP
5 26 (9.81%) Kerberos
6 25 (9.43%) SSL
7 22 (8.30%) TCP/IP
8 17 (6.42%) HTTP
9 16 (6.04%) IPsec
10 15 (5.66%) Network Security
11 14 (5.28%) LAN
12 13 (4.91%) BIG-IP
12 13 (4.91%) HTTPS
12 13 (4.91%) WAN
13 10 (3.77%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (3.77%) Wireless
14 9 (3.40%) DKIM
14 9 (3.40%) DMARC
14 9 (3.40%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.89%) Metadata
4 4 (1.51%) MySQL
5 3 (1.13%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.13%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.13%) Power BI
6 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.75%) GIS
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.38%) DB2
7 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (13.21%) JIRA
2 10 (3.77%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.64%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.64%) SonarQube
3 7 (2.64%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.26%) Git
4 6 (2.26%) GitLab
5 5 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.51%) Postman
7 3 (1.13%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.13%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.38%) Gatling
9 1 (0.38%) JMeter
9 1 (0.38%) JUnit
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.38%) Selenium
9 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 43 (16.23%) Public Sector
3 31 (11.70%) Documentation Skills
3 31 (11.70%) Finance
4 28 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.04%) Publishing
6 10 (3.77%) Banking
7 7 (2.64%) Legal
8 5 (1.89%) Military
8 5 (1.89%) Retail
9 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Aviation
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (17.74%) Architect
2 24 (9.06%) Administrator
3 23 (8.68%) Developer
4 22 (8.30%) Senior
5 21 (7.92%) Lead
6 17 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.91%) Technical Architect
8 11 (4.15%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.15%) Support Engineer
9 10 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.77%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.02%) IAM Project Manager
12 7 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) Consultant
12 7 (2.64%) SAP Administrator
13 6 (2.26%) Analyst
13 6 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (2.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (31.70%) OAuth
2 83 (31.32%) SAML
3 58 (21.89%) OpenID
4 57 (21.51%) LDAP
5 33 (12.45%) OAuth2
6 23 (8.68%) SailPoint
7 20 (7.55%) SAP Basis
8 15 (5.66%) REST
9 13 (4.91%) Node.js
10 12 (4.53%) Express.js
11 11 (4.15%) React
11 11 (4.15%) Web Services
12 10 (3.77%) CSS
12 10 (3.77%) SOAP
13 8 (3.02%) ARM Templates
13 8 (3.02%) Entity Framework
13 8 (3.02%) HTML
14 7 (2.64%) Model Context Protocol
15 6 (2.26%) AngularJS
15 6 (2.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.49%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.17%) Replication
2 19 (7.17%) Taxonomies
3 13 (4.91%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.40%) PKI
5 9 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.02%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.02%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.02%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.26%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.51%) Clustering
9 4 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.51%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.51%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 44 (16.60%) Windows
2 30 (11.32%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.28%) Linux
4 9 (3.40%) Unix
5 5 (1.89%) CatOS
6 4 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.13%) Android
7 3 (1.13%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (27.92%) Identity Access Management
2 67 (25.28%) DevOps
3 54 (20.38%) Roadmaps
4 53 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (19.62%) RBAC
6 50 (18.87%) CI/CD
7 41 (15.47%) Agile
7 41 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (12.45%) Zero Trust
9 32 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (11.32%) High Availability
10 30 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (9.81%) Validation
13 25 (9.43%) Migration
14 24 (9.06%) Vulnerability Management
15 23 (8.68%) Microservices
16 22 (8.30%) Data Governance
16 22 (8.30%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (8.30%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.85%) PowerShell
2 19 (7.17%) SQL
3 17 (6.42%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.04%) Python
5 15 (5.66%) Java
6 9 (3.40%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.64%) Bash
8 5 (1.89%) Bicep
8 5 (1.89%) VB
8 5 (1.89%) VB6
8 5 (1.89%) VBA
9 3 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.75%) C#
10 2 (0.75%) Groovy
10 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.38%) Go
11 1 (0.38%) Korn
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 83 (31.32%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.55%) Degree
4 12 (4.53%) CISSP
4 12 (4.53%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.89%) CISM
7 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.13%) PMP
8 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) CSPO
9 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.85%) GDPR
2 25 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.30%) NIST
4 20 (7.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.15%) GRC
6 9 (3.40%) Accessibility
6 9 (3.40%) QA
7 8 (3.02%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.26%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.26%) SLA
9 4 (1.51%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.51%) PMO
10 3 (1.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.13%) NCSC
10 3 (1.13%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 116 (43.77%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.42%) Docker
3 15 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.66%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.77%) Squid
5 6 (2.26%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.89%) RACF
7 4 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.38%) Firmware
8 1 (0.38%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (13.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 27 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.81%) Terraform
4 19 (7.17%) Grafana
5 14 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (4.15%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.40%) Ansible
7 9 (3.40%) Argo
7 9 (3.40%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.02%) Consul
9 6 (2.26%) CA Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.26%) SCCM
10 5 (1.89%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.51%) VxRail
12 3 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.75%) CASB
13 2 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.38%) Packer
14 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 51 (19.25%) Okta
3 30 (11.32%) SAP
4 26 (9.81%) VMware
5 19 (7.17%) Red Hat
6 18 (6.79%) CyberArk
7 17 (6.42%) Google
8 13 (4.91%) Cisco
8 13 (4.91%) F5
8 13 (4.91%) Palo Alto
8 13 (4.91%) ServiceNow
9 11 (4.15%) CheckPoint
10 10 (3.77%) Dynatrace
10 10 (3.77%) Oracle
10 10 (3.77%) Zscaler
11 7 (2.64%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.64%) Ping Identity
12 6 (2.26%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (1.89%) Netskope