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

 6 months to
24 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 345 360
Rank change year-on-year -41 +15 +29
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 261 177 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.64% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.22% 4.60% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 120 129
10th Percentile £339 £375 £350
25th Percentile £455 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £602 £610 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £742
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 2
10th Percentile £57.25 - £30.56
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.75 £40.14
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £60.09
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -20.95% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £84.05
90th Percentile - - £96.02
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £60.09
% change year-on-year +57.89% -20.95% -

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 4,997 3,848 3,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.94% 13.87% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,550 2,778
10th Percentile £310 £281 £300
25th Percentile £419 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -3.11% -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £708
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +3.95% -2.86% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 60 65
10th Percentile £20.65 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £45.43 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.47 £51.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% +36.00% -24.59%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.72 £82.96 £74.26
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -34.78%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -48 117 £525 -4.98% 31
North of England -46 53 £525 +22.18% 12
Midlands -31 34 £463 +7.56% 4
North West -32 31 £525 +13.41% 10
South East -46 29 £594 +7.95% 12
West Midlands -39 22 £425 -10.53% 4
South West -28 20 £525 -7.24% 5
Yorkshire -36 16 £558 +36.81% 2
East Midlands -5 11 £638 +58.58%
East of England -22 6 £555 -19.27% 2
North East - 6 £500 -
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 (9.96%) SharePoint
2 20 (7.66%) Confluence
3 18 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.30%) nginx
5 2 (0.77%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
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 14 (5.36%) 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 Payables
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (50.57%) Azure
2 111 (42.53%) Entra ID
3 62 (23.75%) AWS
4 44 (16.86%) GCP
5 40 (15.33%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (13.03%) SaaS
7 23 (8.81%) GitHub
8 14 (5.36%) Google Workspace
9 13 (4.98%) Serverless
10 11 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.83%) OpenShift
11 10 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.68%) Google Drive
14 6 (2.30%) Asana
14 6 (2.30%) OCI
14 6 (2.30%) OneDrive
14 6 (2.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 55 (21.07%) DNS
2 33 (12.64%) Firewall
3 24 (9.20%) TCP/IP
3 24 (9.20%) VPN
4 18 (6.90%) SSL
5 16 (6.13%) Network Security
6 15 (5.75%) DHCP
7 13 (4.98%) WAN
8 12 (4.60%) HTTP
9 11 (4.21%) LAN
10 9 (3.45%) DKIM
10 9 (3.45%) DMARC
11 8 (3.07%) HTTPS
11 8 (3.07%) Kerberos
11 8 (3.07%) SD-WAN
12 7 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (2.30%) BIG-IP
13 6 (2.30%) Internet
13 6 (2.30%) IPsec
13 6 (2.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.30%) Metadata
3 3 (1.15%) MySQL
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.15%) Power BI
4 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.77%) Redis
4 2 (0.77%) Tableau
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.38%) Db2
5 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (13.41%) JIRA
2 11 (4.21%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.83%) GitLab
3 10 (3.83%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (3.07%) Git
6 6 (2.30%) 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%) Snyk
9 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 55 (21.07%) Finance
2 50 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 46 (17.62%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.81%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.51%) Banking
7 9 (3.45%) Retail
8 7 (2.68%) Military
9 6 (2.30%) Legal
10 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.92%) Publishing
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%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (14.94%) Architect
2 27 (10.34%) Developer
3 16 (6.13%) Administrator
3 16 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (5.75%) Lead
5 12 (4.60%) Senior
6 11 (4.21%) Support Engineer
7 10 (3.83%) Consultant
8 9 (3.45%) Active Directory Engineer
8 9 (3.45%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.07%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (3.07%) IAM Specialist
9 8 (3.07%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 8 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.07%) Security Engineer
10 7 (2.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (2.68%) Integration Engineer
11 6 (2.30%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (27.20%) SAML
2 59 (22.61%) OAuth
3 54 (20.69%) OpenID
4 31 (11.88%) LDAP
5 26 (9.96%) OAuth2
6 24 (9.20%) Terraform
7 23 (8.81%) REST
8 19 (7.28%) SailPoint
9 15 (5.75%) SOAP
10 12 (4.60%) Web Services
11 10 (3.83%) Node.js
12 9 (3.45%) ActiveX
12 9 (3.45%) Express.js
12 9 (3.45%) XML
13 8 (3.07%) Middleware
13 8 (3.07%) React
14 7 (2.68%) CSS
15 5 (1.92%) GraphQL
15 5 (1.92%) SAP Basis
16 4 (1.53%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 56 (21.46%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.66%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.13%) PKI
5 12 (4.60%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.07%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.68%) Freedom of Information
7 7 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.92%) Clustering
9 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.92%) Replication
9 5 (1.92%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.88%) Windows
2 16 (6.13%) Linux
3 11 (4.21%) Mac OS
4 9 (3.45%) Unix
5 7 (2.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.77%) Android
8 1 (0.38%) CatOS
8 1 (0.38%) VMS
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.27%) Identity Access Management
2 53 (20.31%) DevOps
3 52 (19.92%) RBAC
4 43 (16.48%) CI/CD
5 42 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (14.18%) Agile
8 36 (13.79%) Roadmaps
9 35 (13.41%) Migration
10 32 (12.26%) Privileged Access Management
11 31 (11.88%) Zero Trust
12 27 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (9.20%) Analytics
16 23 (8.81%) Change Management
16 23 (8.81%) ITIL
17 22 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
17 22 (8.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (11.88%) PowerShell
2 27 (10.34%) Java
2 27 (10.34%) Python
3 13 (4.98%) Bash
4 10 (3.83%) SQL
5 9 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.45%) VB
5 9 (3.45%) VB6
5 9 (3.45%) VBA
6 5 (1.92%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.15%) Go
8 2 (0.77%) Bicep
8 2 (0.77%) Groovy
8 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.38%) C#
9 1 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.38%) R
9 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 50 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.90%) Degree
4 12 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (4.60%) CISSP
5 10 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.53%) CISM
8 4 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.53%) 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%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (9.20%) NIST
3 21 (8.05%) GDPR
4 13 (4.98%) QA
5 11 (4.21%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.83%) Data Quality
7 9 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.68%) GRC
9 6 (2.30%) PMO
10 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.15%) SLA
10 3 (1.15%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.77%) ITGC
11 2 (0.77%) NCSC
12 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 104 (39.85%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.13%) Docker
3 6 (2.30%) 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 26 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (6.13%) Grafana
4 15 (5.75%) Ansible
5 9 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (3.45%) Argo
6 7 (2.68%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.92%) CASB
7 5 (1.92%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.53%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (1.15%) Consul
9 3 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
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%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 101 (38.70%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.03%) Okta
3 24 (9.20%) ServiceNow
4 23 (8.81%) CyberArk
5 20 (7.66%) Google
6 15 (5.75%) SAP
7 14 (5.36%) Red Hat
8 13 (4.98%) BeyondTrust
8 13 (4.98%) Oracle
8 13 (4.98%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.83%) VMware
10 8 (3.07%) Cisco
10 8 (3.07%) Ping Identity
11 6 (2.30%) F5
11 6 (2.30%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.92%) Netskope
12 5 (1.92%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.92%) Workday
13 4 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.53%) Dynatrace
58 Single Sign-On jobs in England