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

 6 months to
24 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 325 351
Rank change year-on-year -58 +26 +2
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 273 196 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.70% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.33% 5.03% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 128 118
10th Percentile £326 £384 £378
25th Percentile £430 £413 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £675 £675 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £600
% change year-on-year -2.23% -10.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile £51.25 - £30.56
25th Percentile £69.38 £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 5,125 3,896 3,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.00% 14.00% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,409 2,563 2,659
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £723
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 74 54
10th Percentile £21.28 £18.11 £19.96
25th Percentile £34.74 £20.94 £24.70
Median hourly rate £67.00 £33.39 £43.09
Median % change year-on-year +100.69% -22.52% -15.92%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.66 £69.56
90th Percentile £89.18 £74.43 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £26.23 £38.50
% change year-on-year +147.86% -31.88% -30.00%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -63 126 £540 +0.56% 198
North of England -38 55 £500 +6.16% 25
North West -35 33 £491 +4.25% 20
Midlands -34 31 £425 -15.00% 12
West Midlands -34 25 £425 -22.73% 11
South East -48 25 £450 -16.28% 45
South West -29 19 £525 +5.00% 11
Yorkshire -29 16 £558 +26.13% 5
East of England -26 10 £544 -20.84% 7
North East - 6 £500 -
East Midlands -17 5 £463 +15.05% 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 29 (10.62%) SharePoint
2 18 (6.59%) Confluence
2 18 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.47%) nginx
4 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.73%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.37%) Actimize
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (49.08%) Azure
2 118 (43.22%) Entra ID
3 61 (22.34%) AWS
4 47 (17.22%) GCP
5 43 (15.75%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (11.72%) SaaS
7 20 (7.33%) GitHub
8 14 (5.13%) OpenShift
9 12 (4.40%) Google Workspace
10 10 (3.66%) Serverless
11 9 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.93%) OCI
13 7 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.56%) Google Drive
13 7 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.20%) Asana
14 6 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (2.20%) Figma
15 5 (1.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 48 (17.58%) DNS
2 28 (10.26%) Firewall
3 20 (7.33%) VPN
4 18 (6.59%) TCP/IP
5 16 (5.86%) SSL
6 13 (4.76%) DHCP
7 12 (4.40%) Network Security
8 11 (4.03%) WAN
9 9 (3.30%) DKIM
9 9 (3.30%) DMARC
10 8 (2.93%) LAN
11 7 (2.56%) HTTP
11 7 (2.56%) Kerberos
11 7 (2.56%) SD-WAN
11 7 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.20%) HTTPS
12 6 (2.20%) SSH
13 5 (1.83%) Internet
13 5 (1.83%) IPsec
14 4 (1.47%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.66%) Metadata
2 6 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.47%) Metadata Repository
3 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.47%) Power BI
3 4 (1.47%) Tableau
4 3 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.73%) Redis
6 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (11.72%) JIRA
2 11 (4.03%) Git
3 10 (3.66%) GitLab
4 9 (3.30%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (3.30%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.56%) Browser DevTools
5 7 (2.56%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.10%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.10%) Postman
6 3 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.73%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.73%) JUnit
7 2 (0.73%) Maven
7 2 (0.73%) Mockito
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.73%) Snyk
7 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.37%) Serenity BDD
General
1 58 (21.25%) Finance
2 47 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.92%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.42%) Banking
5 19 (6.96%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.03%) Retail
8 7 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.56%) Military
9 5 (1.83%) Legal
10 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Marketing
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.73%) Local Government
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Front Office
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Publishing
12 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (15.02%) Architect
2 32 (11.72%) Developer
3 15 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (4.03%) Administrator
4 11 (4.03%) Java Developer
4 11 (4.03%) Senior
5 10 (3.66%) Active Directory Engineer
5 10 (3.66%) Analyst
5 10 (3.66%) Consultant
6 8 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (2.93%) IAM Specialist
6 8 (2.93%) Lead
6 8 (2.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 8 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (2.93%) Security Engineer
6 8 (2.93%) Support Engineer
7 7 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (2.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (2.56%) IT Engineer
8 6 (2.20%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (28.94%) SAML
2 72 (26.37%) OAuth
3 65 (23.81%) OpenID
4 31 (11.36%) OAuth2
5 28 (10.26%) REST
6 26 (9.52%) LDAP
7 25 (9.16%) Terraform
8 18 (6.59%) SailPoint
9 17 (6.23%) SOAP
10 13 (4.76%) Web Services
11 12 (4.40%) Node.js
12 10 (3.66%) XML
13 9 (3.30%) ActiveX
14 8 (2.93%) Express.js
15 7 (2.56%) Middleware
15 7 (2.56%) React
16 6 (2.20%) CSS
16 6 (2.20%) FIDO
16 6 (2.20%) Kafka
17 5 (1.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.88%) Onboarding
2 24 (8.79%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (8.06%) Cloud Native
4 20 (7.33%) PKI
5 14 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (5.13%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.93%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.93%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.56%) Freedom of Information
7 7 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.83%) Clustering
9 5 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.83%) Replication
9 5 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.10%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.26%) Windows
2 17 (6.23%) Linux
3 14 (5.13%) Mac OS
4 9 (3.30%) Unix
5 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.73%) Android
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.37%) CatOS
9 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (34.43%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (21.25%) RBAC
3 47 (17.22%) Migration
4 46 (16.85%) CI/CD
4 46 (16.85%) DevOps
5 40 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (12.45%) Agile
8 33 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (11.72%) Privileged Access Management
9 32 (11.72%) Roadmaps
10 30 (10.99%) Zero Trust
11 26 (9.52%) Change Management
11 26 (9.52%) Microservices
12 24 (8.79%) AI
12 24 (8.79%) ITIL
12 24 (8.79%) Runbook
12 24 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 36 (13.19%) Java
2 36 (13.19%) Python
3 11 (4.03%) SQL
4 10 (3.66%) Bash
4 10 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.30%) VB
5 9 (3.30%) VB6
5 9 (3.30%) VBA
6 4 (1.47%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.10%) Go
7 3 (1.10%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.73%) Groovy
9 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.37%) C#
9 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.37%) R
9 1 (0.37%) Swift
9 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 50 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.86%) Degree
4 14 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (4.76%) CISSP
6 12 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.47%) CISM
10 3 (1.10%) GIAC
10 3 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.10%) PMP
11 2 (0.73%) CEH
11 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.73%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.37%) CSPO
12 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (7.33%) NIST
3 18 (6.59%) GDPR
4 14 (5.13%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.66%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.56%) QA
7 6 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.83%) SLA
9 4 (1.47%) PMO
10 3 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.10%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.73%) GRC
11 2 (0.73%) ITGC
11 2 (0.73%) NCSC
12 1 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 104 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.03%) Docker
3 5 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.47%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.73%) vSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (5.49%) Grafana
4 14 (5.13%) Ansible
5 9 (3.30%) Argo
6 7 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (2.20%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.83%) CASB
8 5 (1.83%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.47%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.10%) SELinux
11 2 (0.73%) Consul
11 2 (0.73%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.73%) Packer
11 2 (0.73%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.37%) SCCM
12 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 121 (44.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.99%) Okta
3 27 (9.89%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.69%) CyberArk
5 18 (6.59%) Google
6 16 (5.86%) BeyondTrust
6 16 (5.86%) Oracle
7 14 (5.13%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.66%) Zscaler
9 9 (3.30%) Ping Identity
10 8 (2.93%) VMware
11 7 (2.56%) Cisco
12 6 (2.20%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.83%) ForgeRock
13 5 (1.83%) SAP
13 5 (1.83%) Workday
14 4 (1.47%) F5
14 4 (1.47%) OpenAI
14 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
299 Single Sign-On jobs in England