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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 378 336
Rank change year-on-year +64 -42 +108
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 245 141 244
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 0.46% 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.87% 3.22% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 93 186
10th Percentile £400 £380 £371
25th Percentile £425 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% +4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £591 £700 £623
90th Percentile £684 £793 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.01% +2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.75 - -

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 5,028 4,373 5,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.14% 14.30% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,410 2,804 3,818
10th Percentile £310 £313 £301
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.52% -3.31% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 60 158
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.05 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.29 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -24.03% +34.83%
75th Percentile £65.57 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +25.93% -42.36% +46.38%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +13 102 £525 -12.50% 23
South West +38 45 £524 -0.19% 9
North of England -7 41 £471 -5.80% 17
South East -10 22 £538 -23.21% 14
Yorkshire - 22 £525 - 11
North West -8 19 £423 -15.40% 6
Midlands -32 16 £410 -19.61% 7
West Midlands -30 14 £500 -1.96% 7
East of England -13 6 £625 +66.67% 3
East Midlands -15 2 £405 -
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 21 (8.57%) Confluence
2 17 (6.94%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.45%) Apache
4 6 (2.45%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.45%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (2.04%) IIS
5 5 (2.04%) iPlanet
5 5 (2.04%) JBoss
6 2 (0.82%) CMS
6 2 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.41%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.82%) Windchill
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (5.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.82%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.41%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 107 (43.67%) Azure
2 91 (37.14%) Entra ID
3 65 (26.53%) AWS
4 45 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (14.69%) SaaS
6 29 (11.84%) GCP
7 14 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (5.71%) GitHub
8 12 (4.90%) PaaS
9 11 (4.49%) Azure AKS
10 10 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (3.67%) IaaS
12 8 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.27%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.45%) OneDrive
13 6 (2.45%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 35 (14.29%) DNS
2 28 (11.43%) Firewall
3 24 (9.80%) SSL
4 22 (8.98%) VPN
5 13 (5.31%) Kerberos
6 8 (3.27%) DHCP
6 8 (3.27%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.45%) HTTPS
8 6 (2.45%) Network Security
9 5 (2.04%) LAN
9 5 (2.04%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.63%) WAN
11 3 (1.22%) BGP
11 3 (1.22%) Internet
11 3 (1.22%) OSPF
11 3 (1.22%) SMTP
11 3 (1.22%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.22%) Wireless
12 2 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (2.45%) Power BI
2 5 (2.04%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.82%) MySQL
3 2 (0.82%) SQLite
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.41%) Big Data
4 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.41%) Metadata
4 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.41%) Redis
4 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (12.65%) JIRA
2 14 (5.71%) Git
3 12 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.04%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (2.04%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (2.04%) MSI
4 5 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.82%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.82%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.82%) fastlane
5 2 (0.82%) Xcode
6 1 (0.41%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.41%) GitLab
6 1 (0.41%) gulp
6 1 (0.41%) JMeter
6 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.41%) Log4j
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 74 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.02%) Finance
3 21 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.67%) Banking
7 4 (1.63%) Aviation
7 4 (1.63%) Retail
7 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.82%) Electronics
9 2 (0.82%) Legal
9 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (19.59%) Architect
2 36 (14.69%) Senior
3 20 (8.16%) Developer
4 17 (6.94%) Consultant
5 16 (6.53%) Analyst
5 16 (6.53%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.71%) Business Analyst
7 13 (5.31%) Administrator
7 13 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.49%) Lead
10 10 (4.08%) Senior Architect
10 10 (4.08%) ServiceNow Architect
11 9 (3.67%) IAM Consultant
11 9 (3.67%) IAM Specialist
12 7 (2.86%) ForgeRock Developer
12 7 (2.86%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.45%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.45%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (42.04%) SAML
2 94 (38.37%) OAuth
3 72 (29.39%) OpenID
4 52 (21.22%) LDAP
5 47 (19.18%) OAuth2
6 30 (12.24%) REST
7 22 (8.98%) JSON
7 22 (8.98%) SOAP
8 21 (8.57%) SailPoint
9 19 (7.76%) HTML
10 18 (7.35%) AngularJS
11 17 (6.94%) JDBC
11 17 (6.94%) Web Services
12 16 (6.53%) HTML5
13 13 (5.31%) Apache Camel
13 13 (5.31%) jQuery
13 13 (5.31%) ODBC
13 13 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (4.49%) RESTful
15 8 (3.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.73%) Onboarding
2 18 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.71%) PKI
4 12 (4.90%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.67%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.86%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.45%) Replication
9 5 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.22%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.82%) Animation
12 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.55%) Windows
2 30 (12.24%) Windows Server
3 23 (9.39%) Linux
4 7 (2.86%) Unix
5 4 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.82%) Android
7 2 (0.82%) CatOS
7 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.61%) Identity Access Management
2 67 (27.35%) RBAC
3 64 (26.12%) DevOps
4 59 (24.08%) Agile
5 57 (23.27%) Identity Management
6 46 (18.78%) Zero Trust
7 43 (17.55%) CI/CD
8 33 (13.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 32 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (10.61%) ITSM
12 25 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 23 (9.39%) Microservices
13 23 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (8.16%) Analytics
14 20 (8.16%) Privileged Access Management
15 19 (7.76%) Scrum
16 18 (7.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 54 (22.04%) PowerShell
2 31 (12.65%) JavaScript
3 28 (11.43%) Python
4 16 (6.53%) Java
5 9 (3.67%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.27%) Groovy
7 7 (2.86%) SQL
8 5 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.63%) Bash
9 4 (1.63%) Bicep
9 4 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.22%) C#
11 2 (0.82%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.82%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.82%) Swift
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 91 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 67 (27.35%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.39%) CISSP
4 20 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (7.76%) DV Cleared
6 15 (6.12%) CISM
7 13 (5.31%) Azure Certification
8 11 (4.49%) Degree
9 7 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.04%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.22%) PhD
14 2 (0.82%) CCSP
14 2 (0.82%) MCP
14 2 (0.82%) MCSA
14 2 (0.82%) MCSE
14 2 (0.82%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.69%) GDPR
2 28 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.71%) NIST
4 11 (4.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.27%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.86%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.45%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.45%) NCSC
7 6 (2.45%) PSD2
8 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.63%) QA
8 4 (1.63%) SLA
9 2 (0.82%) WCAG
10 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.41%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 116 (47.35%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.53%) Docker
3 13 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.86%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.04%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.82%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.82%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.82%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.82%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (15.10%) Terraform
2 27 (11.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 22 (8.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.71%) PingFederate
6 10 (4.08%) Ansible
7 6 (2.45%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.04%) CA Wily
8 5 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.04%) SCCM
8 5 (2.04%) Tivoli
9 3 (1.22%) Grafana
10 2 (0.82%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.82%) Kibana
10 2 (0.82%) logstash
10 2 (0.82%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.82%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (44.49%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.02%) ServiceNow
3 25 (10.20%) VMware
4 24 (9.80%) Okta
5 23 (9.39%) CyberArk
6 17 (6.94%) ForgeRock
7 14 (5.71%) HP
7 14 (5.71%) Ping Identity
7 14 (5.71%) Splunk
8 13 (5.31%) BMC
8 13 (5.31%) Ivanti
8 13 (5.31%) Remedy
9 11 (4.49%) Google
9 11 (4.49%) Zscaler
10 8 (3.27%) Alibaba
10 8 (3.27%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.86%) Cisco
11 7 (2.86%) IBM
11 7 (2.86%) Oracle
12 6 (2.45%) Palo Alto