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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 325 331
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 +130
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 277 154 229
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.20% 3.96% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 104 168
10th Percentile £363 £383 £339
25th Percentile £446 £488 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £520
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +15.38% -5.45%
75th Percentile £590 £676 £660
90th Percentile £688 £784 £774
UK median daily rate £525 £583 £500
% change year-on-year -9.95% +16.60% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 4
10th Percentile £51.20 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £49.56
90th Percentile - - £79.83
UK median hourly rate £57.25 - £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 5,326 3,885 4,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.08% 15.34% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,686 2,559 3,341
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 40 146
10th Percentile £18.88 £14.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.03 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.69% -35.00% -23.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.48 £78.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -23.27%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -3 113 £541 -9.85% 53
North of England -33 58 £473 -5.40% 2
South West +22 50 £524 +23.29% 3
Yorkshire -30 37 £525 -12.50%
South East -19 32 £520 -22.96% 22
North West -36 21 £400 -11.11% 2
Midlands -56 17 £442 -27.05% 10
West Midlands -51 12 £340 -43.92% 2
East Midlands -31 5 £447 - 8
East of England -30 3 £563 +28.57% 1
North East -12 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 15 (5.42%) Confluence
1 15 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.89%) nginx
3 7 (2.53%) IIS
4 6 (2.17%) Apache
4 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.81%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.81%) JBoss
5 5 (1.81%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.81%) WebSphere Application Server
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 Superset
Applications
1 6 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (6.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (50.54%) Azure
2 133 (48.01%) Entra ID
3 65 (23.47%) AWS
4 41 (14.80%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (13.72%) SaaS
6 23 (8.30%) PaaS
7 20 (7.22%) Serverless
8 17 (6.14%) Amazon S3
8 17 (6.14%) IaaS
9 16 (5.78%) GCP
10 15 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (3.61%) OneDrive
13 9 (3.25%) GitHub
14 8 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (2.89%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (2.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 64 (23.10%) DNS
2 39 (14.08%) Firewall
3 36 (13.00%) VPN
4 32 (11.55%) Kerberos
5 28 (10.11%) DHCP
6 18 (6.50%) SSL
7 17 (6.14%) TCP/IP
8 11 (3.97%) IPsec
8 11 (3.97%) Network Security
9 9 (3.25%) BIG-IP
9 9 (3.25%) HTTPS
9 9 (3.25%) LAN
9 9 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (3.25%) Wireshark
10 8 (2.89%) OpenVPN
10 8 (2.89%) WAN
11 7 (2.53%) Wireless
12 6 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.17%) Ethereal
12 6 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.81%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.44%) Power BI
5 3 (1.08%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.08%) MySQL
5 3 (1.08%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.72%) GIS
6 2 (0.72%) SQLite
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%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.66%) JIRA
2 18 (6.50%) Git
3 9 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.53%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.53%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (1.81%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.44%) GitLab
7 3 (1.08%) MSI
7 3 (1.08%) Postman
8 2 (0.72%) CocoaPods
8 2 (0.72%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.72%) fastlane
8 2 (0.72%) Xcode
9 1 (0.36%) gulp
9 1 (0.36%) JMeter
9 1 (0.36%) Selenium
9 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 76 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.27%) Finance
3 30 (10.83%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.69%) Publishing
7 9 (3.25%) Banking
8 5 (1.81%) Aviation
9 3 (1.08%) Legal
9 3 (1.08%) Retail
10 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Electronics
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Military
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (19.86%) Architect
2 35 (12.64%) Senior
3 22 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (6.50%) Developer
5 17 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (5.78%) Administrator
6 16 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.42%) Analyst
7 15 (5.42%) Technical Architect
8 14 (5.05%) Lead
9 13 (4.69%) Consultant
10 10 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.61%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.25%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.89%) IAM Consultant
12 8 (2.89%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.53%) ForgeRock Developer
13 7 (2.53%) IAM Specialist
13 7 (2.53%) SAP Administrator
13 7 (2.53%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (39.35%) OAuth
2 105 (37.91%) SAML
3 81 (29.24%) OpenID
4 54 (19.49%) LDAP
5 51 (18.41%) OAuth2
6 23 (8.30%) SailPoint
7 16 (5.78%) SAP Basis
8 12 (4.33%) React
8 12 (4.33%) RESTful
9 9 (3.25%) Entity Framework
10 8 (2.89%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.89%) REST
10 8 (2.89%) YAML
11 7 (2.53%) CSS
11 7 (2.53%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (2.17%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.17%) HTML
13 5 (1.81%) Node.js
13 5 (1.81%) Vue
13 5 (1.81%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (18.05%) Onboarding
2 21 (7.58%) Replication
3 18 (6.50%) Taxonomies
4 15 (5.42%) PKI
5 10 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.61%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.25%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.89%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.53%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.08%) CMDB
11 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.72%) Animation
12 2 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.83%) Windows
2 50 (18.05%) Windows Server
3 24 (8.66%) Linux
4 6 (2.17%) Unix
5 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.44%) CatOS
6 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Android
8 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.57%) Identity Access Management
2 76 (27.44%) RBAC
3 60 (21.66%) DevOps
4 50 (18.05%) CI/CD
5 41 (14.80%) Agile
6 40 (14.44%) Identity Management
6 40 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (13.72%) Roadmaps
7 38 (13.72%) Zero Trust
8 34 (12.27%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
12 25 (9.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 24 (8.66%) High Availability
13 24 (8.66%) Vulnerability Management
14 23 (8.30%) Microservices
14 23 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (8.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.19%) PowerShell
2 25 (9.03%) Python
3 20 (7.22%) SQL
4 19 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.69%) Java
6 12 (4.33%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.25%) Groovy
8 7 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.44%) Bicep
9 4 (1.44%) C#
10 2 (0.72%) Bash
10 2 (0.72%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.72%) Swift
11 1 (0.36%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (37.55%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.75%) CISSP
4 26 (9.39%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.78%) CISM
6 16 (5.78%) Degree
7 10 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.81%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.08%) PhD
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%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.25%) GDPR
2 27 (9.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 13 (4.69%) NIST
5 10 (3.61%) SOC 2
6 9 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (3.25%) SLA
7 7 (2.53%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.17%) NCSC
8 6 (2.17%) PSD2
9 5 (1.81%) GRC
10 4 (1.44%) HIPAA
11 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
11 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.08%) QA
12 2 (0.72%) PMO
13 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 130 (46.93%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.86%) Docker
3 17 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.33%) VMware NSX
5 9 (3.25%) Squid
6 6 (2.17%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.81%) RACF
7 5 (1.81%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 3 (1.08%) 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%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (18.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 33 (11.91%) Terraform
3 26 (9.39%) Kubernetes
4 21 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (4.33%) Grafana
5 12 (4.33%) PingFederate
6 9 (3.25%) FortiGate
6 9 (3.25%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.89%) Ansible
7 8 (2.89%) CA Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.89%) SCCM
8 7 (2.53%) Consul
9 5 (1.81%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.81%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.81%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.44%) VxRail
11 2 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.72%) logstash
12 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 144 (51.99%) Microsoft
2 47 (16.97%) Okta
3 32 (11.55%) VMware
4 21 (7.58%) SAP
5 19 (6.86%) CyberArk
6 14 (5.05%) Ping Identity
6 14 (5.05%) Splunk
7 13 (4.69%) ForgeRock
7 13 (4.69%) Google
8 11 (3.97%) Cisco
8 11 (3.97%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.61%) Red Hat
9 10 (3.61%) Zscaler
10 9 (3.25%) F5
10 9 (3.25%) Oracle
11 8 (2.89%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.89%) Dynatrace
12 7 (2.53%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (2.17%) ServiceNow