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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 312 341
Rank change year-on-year -23 +29 +109
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 287 169 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.68% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.99% 4.29% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 113 159
10th Percentile £300 £384 £300
25th Percentile £425 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £625
90th Percentile £687 £713 £688
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.32% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 5
10th Percentile £54.40 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £80.31 - £32.75
90th Percentile £81.25 - £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 5,751 3,941 4,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.27% 15.78% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,954 2,647 3,364
10th Percentile £321 £306 £299
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £515
% change year-on-year - -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 39 95
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £15.79
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +69.35% -43.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.59 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +47.33% +17.19% -44.35%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -11 135 £525 -7.57% 42
North of England -61 53 £525 +11.94% 15
South East -37 35 £500 -23.08% 18
Midlands -37 33 £450 -10.00% 5
South West -11 30 £525 +5.00% 6
Yorkshire -42 28 £550 +16.53% 4
North West -37 24 £470 +4.44% 10
West Midlands -52 19 £425 -22.73% 4
East Midlands -9 13 £463 +15.05% 1
East of England -26 2 £565 -16.30% 8
North East -35 2 £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 25 (8.71%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.62%) Confluence
3 18 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.14%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.70%) IIS
5 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (7.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.70%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 144 (50.17%) Azure
2 128 (44.60%) Entra ID
3 65 (22.65%) AWS
4 46 (16.03%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (15.33%) SaaS
6 36 (12.54%) GCP
7 25 (8.71%) Serverless
8 17 (5.92%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.88%) GitHub
9 14 (4.88%) PaaS
10 13 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.18%) Google Workspace
12 11 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.83%) IaaS
12 11 (3.83%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.14%) OneDrive
14 9 (3.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 69 (24.04%) DNS
2 35 (12.20%) Firewall
3 32 (11.15%) VPN
4 30 (10.45%) DHCP
5 25 (8.71%) Kerberos
5 25 (8.71%) TCP/IP
6 22 (7.67%) SSL
7 17 (5.92%) Network Security
8 14 (4.88%) HTTP
9 13 (4.53%) IPsec
9 13 (4.53%) LAN
9 13 (4.53%) WAN
10 11 (3.83%) HTTPS
11 9 (3.14%) BIG-IP
11 9 (3.14%) DKIM
11 9 (3.14%) DMARC
11 9 (3.14%) OpenVPN
12 8 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.74%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.74%) Metadata
4 4 (1.39%) MySQL
4 4 (1.39%) Power BI
5 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.70%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.70%) GIS
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.70%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (13.24%) JIRA
2 10 (3.48%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (3.14%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.44%) GitLab
4 7 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.09%) Git
6 5 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.39%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.05%) Fiddler
8 3 (1.05%) Postman
9 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.70%) Snyk
10 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 40 (13.94%) Finance
4 29 (10.10%) Documentation Skills
5 28 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.18%) Publishing
7 10 (3.48%) Banking
8 8 (2.79%) Legal
9 6 (2.09%) Military
10 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.39%) Retail
11 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Front Office
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (16.38%) Architect
2 24 (8.36%) Developer
3 23 (8.01%) Senior
4 19 (6.62%) Administrator
5 18 (6.27%) Lead
5 18 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (4.53%) Project Manager
7 12 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (4.18%) Support Engineer
7 12 (4.18%) Technical Architect
8 11 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (3.83%) Consultant
9 9 (3.14%) Analyst
10 8 (2.79%) Active Directory Engineer
10 8 (2.79%) IAM Project Manager
10 8 (2.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (2.79%) Network Engineer
10 8 (2.79%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.09%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (29.62%) SAML
2 79 (27.53%) OAuth
3 62 (21.60%) OpenID
4 53 (18.47%) LDAP
5 32 (11.15%) OAuth2
6 20 (6.97%) SailPoint
7 16 (5.57%) REST
8 14 (4.88%) SAP Basis
9 13 (4.53%) Node.js
10 12 (4.18%) Express.js
10 12 (4.18%) Web Services
11 10 (3.48%) SOAP
12 9 (3.14%) CSS
12 9 (3.14%) React
13 7 (2.44%) HTML
14 6 (2.09%) Keycloak
14 6 (2.09%) Model Context Protocol
15 5 (1.74%) AngularJS
15 5 (1.74%) ARM Templates
15 5 (1.74%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.16%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.67%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.27%) Replication
4 15 (5.23%) PKI
5 12 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.18%) Taxonomies
6 9 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.79%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.79%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.09%) Freedom of Information
10 4 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.39%) Clustering
10 4 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.07%) Windows
2 27 (9.41%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.53%) Linux
4 9 (3.14%) Unix
5 7 (2.44%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.05%) Android
7 3 (1.05%) CatOS
8 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (28.92%) Identity Access Management
2 67 (23.34%) DevOps
3 52 (18.12%) RBAC
4 51 (17.77%) Cybersecurity
4 51 (17.77%) Roadmaps
5 48 (16.72%) CI/CD
6 43 (14.98%) Agile
7 41 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (12.54%) Zero Trust
10 33 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (10.10%) Migration
13 27 (9.41%) High Availability
13 27 (9.41%) Validation
14 24 (8.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (8.01%) Disaster Recovery
16 22 (7.67%) Identity Management
16 22 (7.67%) Privileged Access Management
17 21 (7.32%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.63%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.57%) Python
2 16 (5.57%) SQL
3 15 (5.23%) Java
3 15 (5.23%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.14%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.09%) Bash
6 5 (1.74%) Bicep
6 5 (1.74%) VB
6 5 (1.74%) VB6
6 5 (1.74%) VBA
7 2 (0.70%) C#
7 2 (0.70%) Groovy
7 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.35%) Go
8 1 (0.35%) Korn
8 1 (0.35%) PHP
8 1 (0.35%) R
8 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 57 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.67%) Degree
4 15 (5.23%) CISSP
5 12 (4.18%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.74%) CISM
8 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.05%) GIAC
8 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.05%) PMP
9 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) CEH
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.59%) GDPR
2 30 (10.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (8.36%) NIST
4 20 (6.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.83%) GRC
6 9 (3.14%) Accessibility
6 9 (3.14%) QA
7 7 (2.44%) PMO
7 7 (2.44%) SLA
7 7 (2.44%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.09%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.74%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.05%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 118 (41.11%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.23%) Docker
3 11 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.48%) VMware NSX
5 9 (3.14%) Squid
6 6 (2.09%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.39%) RACF
9 3 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.70%) vSphere
11 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (11.50%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 29 (10.10%) Terraform
4 18 (6.27%) Grafana
4 18 (6.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.14%) Ansible
6 9 (3.14%) Argo
6 9 (3.14%) FortiGate
7 8 (2.79%) Consul
8 6 (2.09%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.74%) PingFederate
9 5 (1.74%) VxRail
10 4 (1.39%) CASB
10 4 (1.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (1.05%) SCCM
12 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.35%) Packer
13 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (40.07%) Microsoft
2 53 (18.47%) Okta
3 22 (7.67%) SAP
4 20 (6.97%) ServiceNow
4 20 (6.97%) VMware
5 19 (6.62%) CyberArk
6 18 (6.27%) Red Hat
7 14 (4.88%) Google
8 13 (4.53%) Cisco
9 12 (4.18%) Zscaler
10 11 (3.83%) Oracle
11 10 (3.48%) Dynatrace
12 9 (3.14%) F5
12 9 (3.14%) Palo Alto
13 8 (2.79%) CheckPoint
14 7 (2.44%) Atlassian
15 6 (2.09%) BeyondTrust
15 6 (2.09%) Dell
15 6 (2.09%) Ping Identity
16 5 (1.74%) Netskope