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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 337 338
Rank change year-on-year -34 +1 +86
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 263 183 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.67% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.38% 4.33% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 122 149
10th Percentile £305 £375 £350
25th Percentile £430 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £650
90th Percentile £693 £698 £742
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -5.45% -2.22% +3.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £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 6,010 4,227 4,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.31% 15.43% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,101 2,809 3,299
10th Percentile £322 £302 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £701
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.49% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 54 77
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.43
25th Percentile £35.22 £26.53 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% +82.50% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.27 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.55 £82.07 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £59.37 £37.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +57.26% +25.83% -48.80%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -37 116 £522 -5.56% 53
North of England -63 56 £538 +19.44% 15
Midlands -37 35 £450 +9.76% 5
North West -43 30 £496 +18.94% 9
South East -50 30 £560 -6.67% 18
Yorkshire -44 24 £550 +25.28% 6
South West -15 23 £525 -5.75% 9
West Midlands -47 22 £425 -5.56% 5
East Midlands -6 12 £619 +53.92%
East of England -15 5 £555 -17.78% 5
North East -40 3 £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 27 (10.27%) SharePoint
2 20 (7.60%) Confluence
3 18 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.04%) nginx
5 2 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (6.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.76%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (51.71%) Azure
2 113 (42.97%) Entra ID
3 65 (24.71%) AWS
4 45 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (15.59%) SaaS
6 38 (14.45%) GCP
7 19 (7.22%) Serverless
8 18 (6.84%) GitHub
9 12 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.56%) Google Workspace
10 10 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.80%) OpenShift
10 10 (3.80%) PaaS
10 10 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.42%) IaaS
11 9 (3.42%) OneDrive
12 7 (2.66%) Google Drive
12 7 (2.66%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (2.28%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 46 (17.49%) DNS
2 28 (10.65%) Firewall
3 25 (9.51%) TCP/IP
4 23 (8.75%) VPN
5 20 (7.60%) SSL
6 17 (6.46%) Network Security
7 16 (6.08%) DHCP
8 11 (4.18%) HTTP
8 11 (4.18%) Kerberos
8 11 (4.18%) LAN
8 11 (4.18%) WAN
9 10 (3.80%) IPsec
10 9 (3.42%) DKIM
10 9 (3.42%) DMARC
11 8 (3.04%) HTTPS
11 8 (3.04%) OpenVPN
12 7 (2.66%) Internet
12 7 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (2.28%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.90%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.66%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.90%) Metadata
3 4 (1.52%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.52%) Power BI
4 3 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.14%) MySQL
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.38%) Db2
6 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (13.69%) JIRA
2 11 (4.18%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.80%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.42%) Git
4 9 (3.42%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (1.90%) GitLab
5 5 (1.90%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.14%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.76%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.76%) Postman
8 2 (0.76%) Snyk
8 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
General
1 57 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.01%) Finance
3 44 (16.73%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.37%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (6.08%) Banking
7 7 (2.66%) Legal
7 7 (2.66%) Military
7 7 (2.66%) Publishing
8 5 (1.90%) Retail
9 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (16.35%) Architect
2 26 (9.89%) Developer
3 18 (6.84%) Lead
3 18 (6.84%) Senior
4 17 (6.46%) Administrator
4 17 (6.46%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (4.94%) Project Manager
6 11 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (4.18%) Consultant
7 10 (3.80%) Support Engineer
8 9 (3.42%) IAM Project Manager
8 9 (3.42%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.04%) Active Directory Engineer
9 8 (3.04%) Analyst
9 8 (3.04%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 8 (3.04%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.04%) Technical Architect
10 7 (2.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (2.66%) IAM Specialist
10 7 (2.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (26.62%) SAML
2 64 (24.33%) OAuth
3 61 (23.19%) OpenID
4 33 (12.55%) LDAP
5 32 (12.17%) OAuth2
6 22 (8.37%) SailPoint
7 19 (7.22%) REST
8 15 (5.70%) SOAP
8 15 (5.70%) Web Services
9 13 (4.94%) Node.js
10 12 (4.56%) Express.js
11 9 (3.42%) ActiveX
11 9 (3.42%) XML
12 7 (2.66%) SAP Basis
13 6 (2.28%) Middleware
13 6 (2.28%) React
14 5 (1.90%) CSS
15 4 (1.52%) .NET
15 4 (1.52%) boto
15 4 (1.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (20.91%) Onboarding
2 21 (7.98%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.46%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (5.70%) PKI
5 10 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.04%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.66%) Freedom of Information
7 7 (2.66%) Taxonomies
8 6 (2.28%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.28%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.52%) Clustering
10 4 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.52%) Replication
11 3 (1.14%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.03%) Windows
2 16 (6.08%) Linux
3 9 (3.42%) Unix
4 8 (3.04%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.66%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.14%) Android
6 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
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 78 (29.66%) Identity Access Management
2 61 (23.19%) DevOps
3 47 (17.87%) Agile
3 47 (17.87%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (16.73%) RBAC
5 43 (16.35%) CI/CD
5 43 (16.35%) Roadmaps
6 38 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (13.31%) Zero Trust
9 30 (11.41%) Migration
10 29 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (9.89%) Privileged Access Management
11 26 (9.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (8.75%) Analytics
13 21 (7.98%) Microservices
13 21 (7.98%) Runbook
13 21 (7.98%) Validation
14 20 (7.60%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 28 (10.65%) PowerShell
2 26 (9.89%) Java
3 17 (6.46%) Python
4 15 (5.70%) SQL
5 10 (3.80%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.42%) VB
6 9 (3.42%) VB6
6 9 (3.42%) VBA
7 6 (2.28%) Bash
7 6 (2.28%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.14%) Bicep
9 2 (0.76%) Groovy
10 1 (0.38%) C#
10 1 (0.38%) Go
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.38%) R
10 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.83%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.60%) Degree
4 15 (5.70%) CISSP
5 10 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.90%) CISM
7 5 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.90%) PMP
8 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.14%) GIAC
9 2 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.76%) CEH
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (9.89%) GDPR
2 26 (9.89%) NIST
3 11 (4.18%) QA
4 10 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (3.04%) GRC
7 7 (2.66%) PMO
8 5 (1.90%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.52%) SLA
10 3 (1.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.14%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.76%) ITGC
11 2 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 103 (39.16%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.32%) Docker
3 6 (2.28%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.52%) RACF
5 4 (1.52%) Squid
6 3 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.76%) vSphere
8 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.37%) Terraform
3 16 (6.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 13 (4.94%) Ansible
4 13 (4.94%) Grafana
5 9 (3.42%) Argo
6 6 (2.28%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.90%) CASB
7 5 (1.90%) PingFederate
7 5 (1.90%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.52%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (1.14%) Consul
9 3 (1.14%) SELinux
10 2 (0.76%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.76%) SCCM
10 2 (0.76%) VxRail
11 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 100 (38.02%) Microsoft
2 37 (14.07%) Okta
3 25 (9.51%) CyberArk
3 25 (9.51%) ServiceNow
4 17 (6.46%) SAP
5 16 (6.08%) Red Hat
6 15 (5.70%) Google
7 14 (5.32%) Zscaler
8 11 (4.18%) Oracle
8 11 (4.18%) VMware
9 10 (3.80%) Cisco
10 8 (3.04%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (2.66%) Ping Identity
12 6 (2.28%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.90%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.90%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.90%) F5
13 5 (1.90%) Netskope
13 5 (1.90%) Workday
14 4 (1.52%) CrowdStrike