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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 322 325
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +138
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 276 153 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.63% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.08% 3.95% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 107 164
10th Percentile £350 £400 £307
25th Percentile £450 £481 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £678 £638
90th Percentile £695 £780 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £582 £500
% change year-on-year -9.72% +16.31% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 4
10th Percentile £51.40 - -
25th Percentile £55.38 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £49.56
90th Percentile - - £79.83
UK median hourly rate £62.75 - £28.25
% change year-on-year - - -56.20%

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 5,429 3,875 4,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.67% 15.84% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,760 2,617 3,284
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 42 135
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -17.19% -40.93%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.38 £58.38
90th Percentile £77.40 £85.02 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -5 108 £541 -9.85% 38
North of England -49 57 £522 +4.35% 10
South West +18 48 £525 +23.53% 5
Yorkshire -27 39 £525 -12.50% 2
South East -29 36 £525 -25.00% 20
Midlands -59 22 £450 -23.40% 6
North West -38 18 £400 -11.11% 6
West Midlands -59 12 £340 -42.13% 2
East Midlands -26 10 £638 - 4
East of England -23 2 £563 +28.57% 10
North East -9 1 - - 2
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 16 (5.80%) Confluence
2 13 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.90%) nginx
4 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.09%) IIS
6 2 (0.72%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.72%) CMS
6 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 7 (2.54%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 26 (9.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 143 (51.81%) Azure
2 138 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 61 (22.10%) AWS
4 39 (14.13%) SaaS
5 38 (13.77%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (7.97%) Serverless
7 21 (7.61%) PaaS
8 16 (5.80%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.43%) GCP
9 15 (5.43%) IaaS
10 12 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.99%) GitHub
11 11 (3.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (3.62%) OneDrive
13 9 (3.26%) Google Workspace
14 8 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (2.90%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 68 (24.64%) DNS
2 42 (15.22%) Firewall
3 34 (12.32%) VPN
4 29 (10.51%) DHCP
5 27 (9.78%) Kerberos
6 19 (6.88%) TCP/IP
7 18 (6.52%) SSL
8 14 (5.07%) Network Security
9 12 (4.35%) IPsec
10 11 (3.99%) HTTP
10 11 (3.99%) LAN
11 10 (3.62%) BIG-IP
11 10 (3.62%) WAN
12 9 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (3.26%) Wireless
13 8 (2.90%) HTTPS
13 8 (2.90%) OpenVPN
14 7 (2.54%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (2.54%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (2.54%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.81%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.81%) Power BI
4 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
4 3 (1.09%) MySQL
4 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.72%) GIS
5 2 (0.72%) SQLite
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (9.42%) JIRA
2 10 (3.62%) Git
3 7 (2.54%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.54%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.45%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.45%) GitLab
4 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.45%) Postman
5 3 (1.09%) MSI
6 2 (0.72%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.72%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.72%) fastlane
6 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.72%) Xcode
7 1 (0.36%) Gatling
7 1 (0.36%) gulp
7 1 (0.36%) JMeter
7 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 75 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.68%) Finance
3 32 (11.59%) Documentation Skills
4 31 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 27 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.43%) Publishing
7 9 (3.26%) Banking
8 5 (1.81%) Aviation
9 4 (1.45%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (19.57%) Architect
2 29 (10.51%) Senior
3 22 (7.97%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (6.88%) Administrator
4 19 (6.88%) Developer
4 19 (6.88%) Lead
5 16 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (5.43%) Technical Architect
7 14 (5.07%) Analyst
8 13 (4.71%) Consultant
9 11 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.26%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.90%) IAM Consultant
12 8 (2.90%) Network Engineer
12 8 (2.90%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.90%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.54%) ForgeRock Developer
13 7 (2.54%) IAM Specialist
13 7 (2.54%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (36.59%) OAuth
2 99 (35.87%) SAML
3 70 (25.36%) OpenID
4 47 (17.03%) LDAP
5 46 (16.67%) OAuth2
6 21 (7.61%) SailPoint
7 18 (6.52%) SAP Basis
8 12 (4.35%) React
8 12 (4.35%) RESTful
9 10 (3.62%) REST
10 9 (3.26%) Entity Framework
11 8 (2.90%) ARM Templates
12 7 (2.54%) CSS
12 7 (2.54%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.54%) YAML
13 6 (2.17%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.81%) GraphQL
14 5 (1.81%) Node.js
14 5 (1.81%) Web Services
14 5 (1.81%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.84%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.97%) Replication
3 17 (6.16%) Taxonomies
4 13 (4.71%) PKI
5 10 (3.62%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.62%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.90%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.45%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.09%) CMDB
12 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.72%) Animation
13 2 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.83%) Windows
2 48 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.07%) Linux
4 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.45%) CatOS
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (31.88%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (27.17%) RBAC
3 56 (20.29%) DevOps
4 43 (15.58%) CI/CD
4 43 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
5 42 (15.22%) Agile
6 41 (14.86%) Identity Management
7 40 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (14.49%) Roadmaps
8 38 (13.77%) Zero Trust
9 34 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (11.23%) Vulnerability Management
12 29 (10.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (10.14%) Validation
14 26 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
14 26 (9.42%) Microservices
15 25 (9.06%) High Availability
15 25 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (23.55%) PowerShell
2 23 (8.33%) Python
3 22 (7.97%) SQL
4 16 (5.80%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.62%) Java
7 7 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.81%) Bicep
9 4 (1.45%) Bash
9 4 (1.45%) C#
9 4 (1.45%) Groovy
10 2 (0.72%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.72%) Swift
10 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.36%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 105 (38.04%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.72%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.78%) DV Cleared
4 23 (8.33%) CISSP
5 19 (6.88%) Degree
5 19 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.71%) CISM
7 11 (3.99%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.81%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.09%) PhD
12 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.72%) CCSP
12 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.72%) PMP
13 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.58%) GDPR
2 27 (9.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (5.07%) NIST
5 9 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (3.26%) GRC
5 9 (3.26%) SLA
6 8 (2.90%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.90%) QA
6 8 (2.90%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.81%) NCSC
7 5 (1.81%) PSD2
8 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.45%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.09%) PMO
10 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 124 (44.93%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.52%) Docker
2 18 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.71%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.26%) Squid
5 7 (2.54%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.81%) RACF
7 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.72%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.72%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.72%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.72%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.36%) Firmware
9 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (19.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 30 (10.87%) Terraform
3 29 (10.51%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (4.35%) Grafana
6 9 (3.26%) FortiGate
6 9 (3.26%) PingFederate
6 9 (3.26%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.54%) Consul
7 7 (2.54%) SCCM
8 6 (2.17%) Ansible
9 4 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.45%) VxRail
10 3 (1.09%) CA Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.36%) CASB
Vendors
1 134 (48.55%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.39%) Okta
3 33 (11.96%) VMware
4 28 (10.14%) SAP
5 19 (6.88%) CyberArk
6 13 (4.71%) Google
7 12 (4.35%) Cisco
7 12 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 12 (4.35%) Ping Identity
8 11 (3.99%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.62%) F5
9 10 (3.62%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.26%) ForgeRock
11 8 (2.90%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.90%) CheckPoint
11 8 (2.90%) Dynatrace
12 6 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (2.17%) Splunk
13 5 (1.81%) Netskope
13 5 (1.81%) ServiceNow