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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 334 334
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 +101
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 278 178 215
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.65% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.65% 4.24% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 118 156
10th Percentile £313 £375 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.35%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £691 £700 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 5
10th Percentile £60.25 - £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 5,974 4,201 4,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.46% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,098 2,786 3,351
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £407 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £608 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £518
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.51% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 55 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.98
25th Percentile £32.06 £26.60 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +74.40% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.04 £49.69
90th Percentile £79.30 £81.78 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £37.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +52.32% +16.15% -43.48%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -18 132 £538 -4.70% 48
North of England -67 55 £550 +22.22% 10
South East -38 33 £523 -16.40% 26
Midlands -49 31 £450 - 3
North West -44 28 £513 +22.90% 6
South West -8 25 £525 -2.33% 7
Yorkshire -45 25 £550 +25.28% 3
West Midlands -53 18 £425 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -4 12 £550 +36.82% 1
East of England -18 5 £555 -17.78% 7
North East -36 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 (9.71%) SharePoint
2 24 (8.63%) Confluence
3 18 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (4.32%) nginx
5 2 (0.72%) IIS
5 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.72%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 145 (52.16%) Azure
2 121 (43.53%) Entra ID
3 72 (25.90%) AWS
4 46 (16.55%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (14.75%) SaaS
6 39 (14.03%) GCP
7 24 (8.63%) Serverless
8 17 (6.12%) GitHub
9 15 (5.40%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (4.32%) Google Workspace
12 12 (4.32%) PaaS
13 11 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.96%) IaaS
13 11 (3.96%) OpenShift
14 10 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (3.24%) OneDrive
15 9 (3.24%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 62 (22.30%) DNS
2 33 (11.87%) Firewall
3 29 (10.43%) TCP/IP
4 28 (10.07%) VPN
5 27 (9.71%) DHCP
6 20 (7.19%) Kerberos
6 20 (7.19%) SSL
7 18 (6.47%) Network Security
8 12 (4.32%) OpenVPN
9 11 (3.96%) HTTP
9 11 (3.96%) LAN
9 11 (3.96%) WAN
10 10 (3.60%) IPsec
11 9 (3.24%) DKIM
11 9 (3.24%) DMARC
12 8 (2.88%) HTTPS
13 7 (2.52%) Internet
13 7 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (2.16%) BIG-IP
14 6 (2.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.80%) Metadata
4 4 (1.44%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.44%) MySQL
4 4 (1.44%) Power BI
5 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (15.11%) JIRA
2 11 (3.96%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (3.24%) Git
3 9 (3.24%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.52%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.52%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.16%) GitLab
5 6 (2.16%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.08%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.08%) Postman
8 2 (0.72%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.72%) Snyk
8 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 67 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.91%) Finance
3 43 (15.47%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.99%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.76%) Banking
7 8 (2.88%) Publishing
8 7 (2.52%) Legal
8 7 (2.52%) Military
9 5 (1.80%) Retail
10 4 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (17.63%) Architect
2 25 (8.99%) Developer
3 20 (7.19%) Senior
4 19 (6.83%) Lead
5 18 (6.47%) Administrator
5 18 (6.47%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.04%) Project Manager
7 13 (4.68%) Technical Architect
8 11 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (3.96%) Consultant
9 10 (3.60%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.24%) Analyst
10 9 (3.24%) IAM Project Manager
10 9 (3.24%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.88%) Active Directory Engineer
11 8 (2.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 7 (2.52%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.16%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (27.70%) SAML
2 76 (27.34%) OAuth
3 66 (23.74%) OpenID
4 47 (16.91%) LDAP
5 32 (11.51%) OAuth2
6 21 (7.55%) SailPoint
7 20 (7.19%) REST
8 14 (5.04%) Web Services
9 13 (4.68%) Node.js
10 12 (4.32%) Express.js
10 12 (4.32%) SOAP
11 8 (2.88%) SAP Basis
12 7 (2.52%) CSS
12 7 (2.52%) React
13 6 (2.16%) Middleware
14 5 (1.80%) .NET
14 5 (1.80%) ActiveX
14 5 (1.80%) HTML
14 5 (1.80%) XML
15 4 (1.44%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.42%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.40%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (5.40%) PKI
4 13 (4.68%) Replication
5 10 (3.60%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.88%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.88%) Taxonomies
7 7 (2.52%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.16%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.44%) Clustering
10 4 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.08%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.75%) Windows
2 18 (6.47%) Windows Server
3 16 (5.76%) Linux
4 9 (3.24%) Unix
5 8 (2.88%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.08%) Android
8 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.36%) CatOS
9 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.29%) Identity Access Management
2 69 (24.82%) DevOps
3 51 (18.35%) RBAC
4 50 (17.99%) Roadmaps
5 48 (17.27%) Agile
6 47 (16.91%) Cybersecurity
7 45 (16.19%) CI/CD
8 40 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (13.31%) Zero Trust
10 36 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (11.15%) Migration
12 28 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (8.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (8.27%) Microservices
14 23 (8.27%) Privileged Access Management
14 23 (8.27%) Validation
15 22 (7.91%) ITSM
16 21 (7.55%) Analytics
16 21 (7.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.31%) PowerShell
2 22 (7.91%) Java
3 16 (5.76%) SQL
4 15 (5.40%) Python
5 13 (4.68%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.52%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.16%) Bash
8 5 (1.80%) VB
8 5 (1.80%) VB6
8 5 (1.80%) VBA
9 4 (1.44%) Bicep
10 2 (0.72%) C#
10 2 (0.72%) Groovy
10 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) R
11 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (23.02%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.06%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.19%) Degree
4 16 (5.76%) CISSP
5 8 (2.88%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.80%) CISM
7 5 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.80%) PMP
8 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.08%) GIAC
9 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.72%) CEH
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.95%) GDPR
2 32 (11.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (9.35%) NIST
4 18 (6.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.96%) QA
6 10 (3.60%) GRC
7 9 (3.24%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.52%) Data Quality
8 7 (2.52%) PMO
9 6 (2.16%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.80%) SLA
11 4 (1.44%) PCI DSS
12 3 (1.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (1.08%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.72%) ITGC
13 2 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 111 (39.93%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.04%) Docker
3 9 (3.24%) Squid
4 7 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.52%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.44%) RACF
7 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.72%) vSphere
9 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (11.51%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.07%) Terraform
3 24 (8.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (6.47%) Grafana
5 16 (5.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (4.68%) Ansible
7 10 (3.60%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.24%) Argo
8 9 (3.24%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.88%) Consul
10 6 (2.16%) CA Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.80%) CASB
11 5 (1.80%) PingFederate
12 4 (1.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (1.08%) SCCM
13 3 (1.08%) SELinux
14 2 (0.72%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.72%) VxRail
15 1 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 104 (37.41%) Microsoft
2 46 (16.55%) Okta
3 25 (8.99%) CyberArk
4 24 (8.63%) ServiceNow
5 21 (7.55%) Red Hat
6 16 (5.76%) SAP
7 15 (5.40%) Google
8 14 (5.04%) Zscaler
9 13 (4.68%) VMware
10 11 (3.96%) Oracle
11 10 (3.60%) Cisco
11 10 (3.60%) Dynatrace
12 7 (2.52%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.52%) Ping Identity
13 6 (2.16%) F5
13 6 (2.16%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.80%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (1.80%) CheckPoint
14 5 (1.80%) Netskope
15 4 (1.44%) Citrix