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

 6 months to
26 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 319 345
Rank change year-on-year -10 +26 +119
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 257 159 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.65% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.67% 4.17% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 111 150
10th Percentile £326 £400 £350
25th Percentile £438 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +1.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £656 £649
90th Percentile £715 £750 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -7.57% +3.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 6
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.19 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile - - £102.00
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 5,501 3,810 4,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 15.57% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,805 2,645 3,169
10th Percentile £320 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 35 120
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.94 £22.30 £17.74
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -50.43%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £54.06
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.22 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £31.50
% change year-on-year +107.94% -16.03% -45.22%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -39 104 £541 -7.54% 38
North of England -46 60 £525 +8.58% 4
Yorkshire -30 40 £525 -1.78% 1
South East -38 37 £510 -20.31% 16
South West -11 29 £520 +18.86% 6
Midlands -47 25 £450 -23.40%
North West -42 19 £425 -8.11% 2
West Midlands -58 13 £340 -42.13%
East Midlands -27 11 £638 -
North East -18 2 £413 -31.25% 1
East of England -35 2 £563 +28.57% 6
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 19 (7.39%) SharePoint
2 18 (7.00%) Confluence
3 13 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.50%) nginx
5 3 (1.17%) IIS
6 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 29 (11.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 138 (53.70%) Azure
2 136 (52.92%) Entra ID
3 57 (22.18%) AWS
4 43 (16.73%) SaaS
5 42 (16.34%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (10.51%) Serverless
7 21 (8.17%) PaaS
8 20 (7.78%) GCP
9 18 (7.00%) Amazon S3
10 15 (5.84%) GitHub
11 14 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.67%) Google Workspace
13 12 (4.67%) IaaS
13 12 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.50%) Route 53
16 8 (3.11%) OneDrive
17 7 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 71 (27.63%) DNS
2 36 (14.01%) Firewall
3 35 (13.62%) VPN
4 32 (12.45%) DHCP
5 24 (9.34%) Kerberos
5 24 (9.34%) SSL
6 21 (8.17%) TCP/IP
7 14 (5.45%) HTTP
7 14 (5.45%) Network Security
8 13 (5.06%) IPsec
9 12 (4.67%) LAN
10 11 (4.28%) BIG-IP
10 11 (4.28%) WAN
11 10 (3.89%) HTTPS
12 9 (3.50%) OpenVPN
12 9 (3.50%) Wireless
13 8 (3.11%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (3.11%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (3.11%) Ethereal
13 8 (3.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.95%) Power BI
2 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.56%) Metadata
4 3 (1.17%) CockroachDB
4 3 (1.17%) MySQL
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (1.17%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.78%) GIS
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (12.84%) JIRA
2 9 (3.50%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.72%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.72%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.33%) Git
4 6 (2.33%) GitLab
5 4 (1.56%) Postman
6 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.17%) MSI
7 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.78%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.39%) Gatling
8 1 (0.39%) JMeter
8 1 (0.39%) JUnit
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.84%) Public Sector
3 32 (12.45%) Documentation Skills
4 31 (12.06%) Finance
5 28 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.23%) Publishing
7 8 (3.11%) Banking
8 7 (2.72%) Legal
8 7 (2.72%) Retail
9 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.17%) Military
10 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Aviation
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (19.07%) Architect
2 24 (9.34%) Administrator
2 24 (9.34%) Senior
3 21 (8.17%) Lead
4 20 (7.78%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (4.67%) Technical Architect
7 11 (4.28%) Consultant
7 11 (4.28%) Developer
7 11 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.89%) Network Engineer
8 10 (3.89%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) IAM Project Manager
11 7 (2.72%) IAM Specialist
11 7 (2.72%) SAP Administrator
11 7 (2.72%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.33%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (31.91%) OAuth
2 79 (30.74%) SAML
3 55 (21.40%) OpenID
4 52 (20.23%) LDAP
5 34 (13.23%) OAuth2
6 20 (7.78%) SAP Basis
7 19 (7.39%) SailPoint
8 13 (5.06%) REST
9 9 (3.50%) React
9 9 (3.50%) Web Services
10 8 (3.11%) ARM Templates
10 8 (3.11%) Entity Framework
11 7 (2.72%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (2.33%) CSS
12 6 (2.33%) YAML
13 5 (1.95%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.95%) SOAP
13 5 (1.95%) XACML
14 4 (1.56%) Express.js
14 4 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.34%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.39%) Replication
2 19 (7.39%) Taxonomies
3 11 (4.28%) PKI
4 10 (3.89%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.11%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.72%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.56%) Clustering
9 4 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.78%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 53 (20.62%) Windows
2 36 (14.01%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.45%) Linux
4 7 (2.72%) Unix
5 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.56%) CatOS
6 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (29.57%) Identity Access Management
2 67 (26.07%) DevOps
3 58 (22.57%) RBAC
4 52 (20.23%) Roadmaps
5 51 (19.84%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (15.95%) CI/CD
7 39 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (15.18%) Zero Trust
8 36 (14.01%) Agile
9 34 (13.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (11.67%) High Availability
12 28 (10.89%) Identity Management
13 27 (10.51%) Validation
14 26 (10.12%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (9.34%) Vulnerability Management
16 22 (8.56%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 22 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (8.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.29%) PowerShell
2 19 (7.39%) SQL
3 18 (7.00%) Python
4 14 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.67%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.89%) Java
7 6 (2.33%) Bash
8 4 (1.56%) Bicep
8 4 (1.56%) Groovy
9 3 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.78%) C#
10 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.39%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) Korn
11 1 (0.39%) PHP
11 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (35.41%) Security Cleared
2 67 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.61%) Degree
4 16 (6.23%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.89%) CISSP
5 10 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.56%) CISM
8 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.17%) PMP
9 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.39%) CCSP
10 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.56%) GDPR
2 24 (9.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (8.17%) NIST
4 20 (7.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.89%) GRC
6 9 (3.50%) QA
7 8 (3.11%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.33%) SLA
9 4 (1.56%) PMO
10 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.17%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.78%) NCSC
12 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 124 (48.25%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.23%) Docker
2 16 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.84%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.89%) Squid
5 6 (2.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.95%) RACF
7 4 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.78%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.78%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.78%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.78%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.39%) Firmware
9 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (15.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (11.28%) Terraform
3 25 (9.73%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.45%) Grafana
6 11 (4.28%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.50%) Ansible
7 9 (3.50%) FortiGate
7 9 (3.50%) PingFederate
8 8 (3.11%) Consul
9 6 (2.33%) CA Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.33%) SCCM
10 4 (1.56%) VxRail
11 2 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.39%) CASB
12 1 (0.39%) Packer
12 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 113 (43.97%) Microsoft
2 47 (18.29%) Okta
3 29 (11.28%) SAP
4 27 (10.51%) VMware
5 15 (5.84%) CyberArk
6 14 (5.45%) Google
7 13 (5.06%) Palo Alto
7 13 (5.06%) Zscaler
8 11 (4.28%) F5
8 11 (4.28%) Red Hat
8 11 (4.28%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.89%) Cisco
9 10 (3.89%) Dynatrace
10 9 (3.50%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.11%) Oracle
12 7 (2.72%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.72%) Splunk
13 6 (2.33%) Ping Identity
14 5 (1.95%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (1.95%) Netskope
57 Single Sign-On jobs in England