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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 345 345
Rank change year-on-year -31 0 +47
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 260 172 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.62% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.28% 4.03% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 115 136
10th Percentile £327 £375 £350
25th Percentile £431 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +3.14%
75th Percentile £608 £612 £650
90th Percentile £708 £688 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £583
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.58% +5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 3
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.34
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.75 £24.59
Median hourly rate £71.25 £47.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +90.00% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £64.50
90th Percentile - - £88.20
UK median hourly rate £71.25 £47.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +90.00% -

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 6,076 4,265 4,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 15.43% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,127 2,838 3,210
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £691 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 61 67
10th Percentile £20.65 £18.87 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.11 £26.45 £24.59
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +43.42% -23.26%
75th Percentile £72.50 £66.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.96 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +75.38% -4.00% -31.82%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -39 121 £525 -4.98% 96
North of England -45 52 £525 +22.24% 22
Midlands -34 32 £456 +11.28% 8
North West -31 29 £512 +10.76% 18
South East -50 29 £600 +9.09% 14
South West -31 21 £525 -7.24% 5
West Midlands -47 20 £425 -5.56% 7
Yorkshire -36 18 £550 +34.97% 4
East Midlands -13 11 £638 +58.58% 1
North East - 5 £481 -
East of England -17 4 £543 -19.63% 3
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 26 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 21 (8.08%) Confluence
3 18 (6.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.31%) nginx
5 2 (0.77%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (5.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.77%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (50.00%) Azure
2 113 (43.46%) Entra ID
3 58 (22.31%) AWS
4 42 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (15.38%) GCP
6 35 (13.46%) SaaS
7 21 (8.08%) GitHub
8 14 (5.38%) Google Workspace
9 12 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.62%) Serverless
10 10 (3.85%) OpenShift
11 9 (3.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.69%) Google Drive
13 6 (2.31%) Asana
13 6 (2.31%) OneDrive
13 6 (2.31%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (1.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.62%) DNS
2 33 (12.69%) Firewall
3 24 (9.23%) TCP/IP
3 24 (9.23%) VPN
4 18 (6.92%) SSL
5 17 (6.54%) Network Security
6 15 (5.77%) DHCP
7 13 (5.00%) WAN
8 12 (4.62%) HTTP
9 11 (4.23%) LAN
10 9 (3.46%) DKIM
10 9 (3.46%) DMARC
11 8 (3.08%) HTTPS
11 8 (3.08%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.69%) Internet
12 7 (2.69%) Kerberos
13 6 (2.31%) BIG-IP
13 6 (2.31%) IPsec
13 6 (2.31%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.31%) Metadata
3 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.15%) MySQL
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.15%) Power BI
4 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (13.85%) JIRA
2 11 (4.23%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.85%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.46%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (3.08%) Git
5 8 (3.08%) GitLab
6 6 (2.31%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.15%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.77%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.77%) Postman
8 2 (0.77%) Snyk
9 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
General
1 55 (21.15%) Finance
2 54 (20.77%) Social Skills
3 46 (17.69%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.85%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.54%) Banking
7 8 (3.08%) Retail
8 7 (2.69%) Military
9 6 (2.31%) Legal
9 6 (2.31%) Publishing
10 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Local Government
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (14.62%) Architect
2 26 (10.00%) Developer
3 17 (6.54%) Administrator
3 17 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (6.15%) Lead
5 13 (5.00%) Senior
6 12 (4.62%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.23%) Consultant
7 11 (4.23%) Support Engineer
8 9 (3.46%) Active Directory Engineer
8 9 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (3.46%) IAM Project Manager
8 9 (3.46%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.08%) IAM Specialist
9 8 (3.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 8 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (2.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.31%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (26.54%) SAML
2 56 (21.54%) OAuth
3 51 (19.62%) OpenID
4 31 (11.92%) LDAP
5 26 (10.00%) OAuth2
6 21 (8.08%) REST
6 21 (8.08%) SailPoint
7 15 (5.77%) SOAP
8 12 (4.62%) Web Services
9 11 (4.23%) Node.js
10 10 (3.85%) Express.js
11 9 (3.46%) ActiveX
11 9 (3.46%) Middleware
11 9 (3.46%) XML
12 6 (2.31%) React
12 6 (2.31%) SAP Basis
13 5 (1.92%) CSS
14 4 (1.54%) .NET
14 4 (1.54%) boto
14 4 (1.54%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (21.15%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.31%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.92%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.15%) PKI
5 12 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.08%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.69%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.31%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.31%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.92%) Clustering
9 5 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.92%) Replication
10 4 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.15%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.31%) Windows
2 16 (6.15%) Linux
3 11 (4.23%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.85%) Unix
5 7 (2.69%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.15%) Android
6 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.38%) CatOS
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.38%) Identity Access Management
2 54 (20.77%) DevOps
3 52 (20.00%) RBAC
4 44 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (15.77%) Agile
7 40 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 36 (13.85%) Roadmaps
9 33 (12.69%) Zero Trust
10 32 (12.31%) Migration
11 30 (11.54%) Privileged Access Management
11 30 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (9.23%) Analytics
14 24 (9.23%) Change Management
15 22 (8.46%) Runbook
15 22 (8.46%) Validation
16 21 (8.08%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 26 (10.00%) Java
3 25 (9.62%) Python
4 11 (4.23%) Bash
5 10 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.85%) SQL
6 9 (3.46%) VB
6 9 (3.46%) VB6
6 9 (3.46%) VBA
7 4 (1.54%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.15%) Groovy
9 2 (0.77%) Bicep
9 2 (0.77%) Go
9 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) C#
10 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.38%) R
10 1 (0.38%) Swift
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.31%) Degree
4 14 (5.38%) CISSP
5 11 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.92%) CISM
8 5 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.92%) PMP
9 3 (1.15%) GIAC
10 2 (0.77%) CEH
10 2 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.38%) CSPO
11 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (9.62%) NIST
3 24 (9.23%) GDPR
4 13 (5.00%) QA
5 10 (3.85%) Accessibility
6 9 (3.46%) Data Quality
6 9 (3.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (2.69%) GRC
7 7 (2.69%) PMO
8 4 (1.54%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.15%) SLA
10 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.77%) ITGC
10 2 (0.77%) NCSC
10 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 105 (40.38%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.38%) Docker
3 6 (2.31%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.77%) Squid
5 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.77%) vSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (8.85%) Kubernetes
1 23 (8.85%) Terraform
2 19 (7.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (5.77%) Ansible
4 14 (5.38%) Grafana
5 9 (3.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (3.46%) Argo
6 6 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.92%) CASB
7 5 (1.92%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.54%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (1.15%) Consul
9 3 (1.15%) SELinux
10 2 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.77%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.77%) Packer
10 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 99 (38.08%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.62%) Okta
3 24 (9.23%) CyberArk
3 24 (9.23%) ServiceNow
4 18 (6.92%) Google
5 16 (6.15%) SAP
6 14 (5.38%) Red Hat
6 14 (5.38%) Zscaler
7 12 (4.62%) Oracle
8 11 (4.23%) BeyondTrust
9 10 (3.85%) Cisco
9 10 (3.85%) VMware
10 8 (3.08%) Ping Identity
11 6 (2.31%) F5
11 6 (2.31%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.31%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.92%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.92%) Netskope
12 5 (1.92%) Workday
13 4 (1.54%) ForgeRock
146 Single Sign-On jobs in England