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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 325 340
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +109
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 276 148 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.61% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.98% 3.86% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 99 163
10th Percentile £350 £395 £350
25th Percentile £463 £475 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £645
90th Percentile £710 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £543 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -4.75% +14.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 4
10th Percentile £53.50 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £49.56
90th Percentile - - £79.83
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25

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 5,542 3,839 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.45% 15.84% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,825 2,637 3,266
10th Percentile £313 £316 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 39 124
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.86 £22.32 £17.74
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £50.06
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.74 £67.85
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -22 109 £550 -8.33% 43
North of England -43 59 £525 +11.94% 9
South West +8 45 £540 +23.43% 3
Yorkshire -32 39 £531 -0.65% 4
South East -29 35 £543 -15.23% 17
Midlands -54 24 £450 -17.24% 3
North West -49 20 £400 -11.11% 4
West Midlands -63 14 £340 -37.47% 1
East Midlands -21 10 £638 - 2
East of England -38 2 £563 +50.00% 3
North East -14 1 - - 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 20 (7.25%) Confluence
2 15 (5.43%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.26%) nginx
4 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.09%) IIS
6 2 (0.72%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.36%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
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 28 (10.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 148 (53.62%) Azure
2 143 (51.81%) Entra ID
3 61 (22.10%) AWS
4 42 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (14.49%) SaaS
6 23 (8.33%) Serverless
7 21 (7.61%) PaaS
8 17 (6.16%) Amazon S3
9 16 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (5.80%) GCP
10 15 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (5.43%) IaaS
11 14 (5.07%) GitHub
12 12 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.99%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.26%) Route 53
16 8 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (2.90%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 74 (26.81%) DNS
2 44 (15.94%) Firewall
3 36 (13.04%) VPN
4 33 (11.96%) DHCP
5 24 (8.70%) Kerberos
6 23 (8.33%) TCP/IP
7 22 (7.97%) SSL
8 14 (5.07%) Network Security
9 12 (4.35%) HTTP
9 12 (4.35%) IPsec
10 11 (3.99%) LAN
10 11 (3.99%) WAN
11 10 (3.62%) BIG-IP
12 9 (3.26%) HTTPS
12 9 (3.26%) OpenVPN
13 8 (2.90%) Wireless
14 7 (2.54%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (2.54%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (2.54%) Ethereal
14 7 (2.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.81%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.81%) Power BI
4 4 (1.45%) Metadata
5 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.09%) MySQL
5 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.72%) GIS
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (11.96%) JIRA
2 9 (3.26%) Git
3 8 (2.90%) Browser DevTools
4 7 (2.54%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.54%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.81%) GitLab
6 4 (1.45%) Postman
7 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.09%) MSI
8 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.36%) CocoaPods
9 1 (0.36%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.36%) fastlane
9 1 (0.36%) Gatling
9 1 (0.36%) JMeter
9 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.36%) Selenium
9 1 (0.36%) Xcode
General
1 74 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.68%) Documentation Skills
3 31 (11.23%) Finance
4 29 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.80%) Publishing
7 10 (3.62%) Banking
8 5 (1.81%) Aviation
8 5 (1.81%) Retail
9 4 (1.45%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (19.20%) Architect
2 28 (10.14%) Senior
3 21 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (7.25%) Administrator
4 20 (7.25%) Lead
5 16 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (5.43%) Technical Architect
7 14 (5.07%) Consultant
8 12 (4.35%) Developer
9 11 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.26%) Analyst
11 9 (3.26%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.26%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.26%) Support Engineer
12 8 (2.90%) IAM Consultant
12 8 (2.90%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (2.54%) IAM Project Manager
13 7 (2.54%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (33.70%) OAuth
1 93 (33.70%) SAML
2 69 (25.00%) OpenID
3 52 (18.84%) LDAP
4 43 (15.58%) OAuth2
5 20 (7.25%) SAP Basis
6 18 (6.52%) SailPoint
7 11 (3.99%) React
8 9 (3.26%) Entity Framework
8 9 (3.26%) REST
9 8 (2.90%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.54%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (2.54%) RESTful
10 7 (2.54%) YAML
11 6 (2.17%) CSS
11 6 (2.17%) Web Services
12 5 (1.81%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.81%) Node.js
12 5 (1.81%) XACML
13 4 (1.45%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.48%) Onboarding
2 23 (8.33%) Replication
3 19 (6.88%) Taxonomies
4 13 (4.71%) PKI
5 10 (3.62%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.62%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.26%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.90%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.45%) Clustering
10 4 (1.45%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.09%) CMDB
11 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.72%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 67 (24.28%) Windows
2 48 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 17 (6.16%) Linux
4 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.45%) CatOS
5 4 (1.45%) Unix
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (30.80%) Identity Access Management
2 69 (25.00%) DevOps
2 69 (25.00%) RBAC
3 48 (17.39%) Roadmaps
4 43 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
4 43 (15.58%) Zero Trust
5 41 (14.86%) Agile
6 40 (14.49%) CI/CD
6 40 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (12.68%) Identity Management
9 34 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (10.87%) Validation
11 29 (10.51%) High Availability
12 27 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
13 26 (9.42%) Vulnerability Management
14 25 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (8.70%) Microservices
15 24 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 60 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 22 (7.97%) SQL
3 16 (5.80%) Python
4 15 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.99%) Java
7 7 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.81%) Bash
8 5 (1.81%) Bicep
9 4 (1.45%) C#
9 4 (1.45%) Groovy
10 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
11 1 (0.36%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 104 (37.68%) Security Cleared
2 70 (25.36%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.78%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (6.16%) Degree
6 16 (5.80%) CISSP
7 11 (3.99%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.90%) CISM
9 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.09%) PMP
10 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CCSP
11 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) PhD
11 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.58%) GDPR
2 29 (10.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.97%) NIST
4 20 (7.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.62%) SOC 2
6 9 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (3.26%) GRC
6 9 (3.26%) QA
7 7 (2.54%) SLA
8 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.45%) PMO
10 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.09%) NCSC
10 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 134 (48.55%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.80%) Docker
4 13 (4.71%) VMware NSX
5 10 (3.62%) Squid
6 7 (2.54%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.81%) RACF
8 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.72%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.72%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.72%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.72%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.36%) Firmware
10 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (19.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 30 (10.87%) Terraform
3 28 (10.14%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.71%) Grafana
5 13 (4.71%) PingFederate
6 10 (3.62%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.26%) Ansible
7 9 (3.26%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.54%) CA Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.54%) Consul
8 7 (2.54%) SCCM
9 4 (1.45%) VxRail
10 3 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.36%) CASB
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 132 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.39%) Okta
3 33 (11.96%) VMware
4 28 (10.14%) SAP
5 16 (5.80%) CyberArk
6 12 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.35%) Zscaler
7 11 (3.99%) Google
7 11 (3.99%) Palo Alto
7 11 (3.99%) Ping Identity
7 11 (3.99%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.62%) Cisco
8 10 (3.62%) F5
9 9 (3.26%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.90%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.90%) CheckPoint
11 6 (2.17%) Splunk
12 5 (1.81%) Citrix
12 5 (1.81%) Dell
12 5 (1.81%) Netskope