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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 323 350
Rank change year-on-year -19 +27 +94
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 286 174 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.66% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.83% 4.23% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 117 159
10th Percentile £300 £379 £340
25th Percentile £438 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £693 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £516
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.54% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 5
10th Percentile £54.40 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £80.31 - £32.75
90th Percentile £81.25 - £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 5,922 4,113 4,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.47% 15.62% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,074 2,737 3,383
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £518
% change year-on-year +0.98% -1.54% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 46 95
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £16.47
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £21.29
Median hourly rate £62.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% +53.97% -42.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.35 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £31.39 £32.50
% change year-on-year +76.04% -3.43% -43.48%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -12 132 £550 -1.79% 59
North of England -60 55 £538 +16.97% 10
Midlands -40 34 £450 - 2
South East -35 33 £520 -17.46% 20
South West -11 30 £525 +5.00% 7
Yorkshire -46 27 £550 +17.27% 3
North West -34 26 £488 +8.33% 7
West Midlands -57 20 £425 -22.73% 2
East Midlands -7 13 £463 +15.05%
East of England -28 3 £560 -17.04% 7
North East -34 3 £413 -31.25%
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 25 (8.74%) SharePoint
2 21 (7.34%) Confluence
3 18 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.15%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) IIS
5 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.70%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 148 (51.75%) Azure
2 126 (44.06%) Entra ID
3 69 (24.13%) AWS
4 47 (16.43%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (14.69%) SaaS
6 38 (13.29%) GCP
7 24 (8.39%) Serverless
8 15 (5.24%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.24%) GitHub
9 14 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.20%) Google Workspace
10 12 (4.20%) PaaS
11 11 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.85%) IaaS
11 11 (3.85%) OpenShift
11 11 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.15%) OneDrive
13 9 (3.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 70 (24.48%) DNS
2 38 (13.29%) Firewall
3 32 (11.19%) VPN
4 31 (10.84%) DHCP
5 26 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 25 (8.74%) Kerberos
7 23 (8.04%) SSL
8 19 (6.64%) Network Security
9 14 (4.90%) HTTP
9 14 (4.90%) LAN
9 14 (4.90%) WAN
10 13 (4.55%) IPsec
11 11 (3.85%) HTTPS
12 9 (3.15%) BIG-IP
12 9 (3.15%) DKIM
12 9 (3.15%) DMARC
12 9 (3.15%) OpenVPN
13 8 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (2.45%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (2.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.75%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.75%) Metadata
4 4 (1.40%) MySQL
4 4 (1.40%) Power BI
5 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (14.69%) JIRA
2 11 (3.85%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (3.15%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.45%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.45%) GitLab
4 7 (2.45%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.10%) Git
5 6 (2.10%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.05%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.05%) Postman
8 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.70%) Snyk
8 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 69 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.38%) Finance
3 42 (14.69%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.44%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (4.20%) Banking
6 10 (3.50%) Publishing
7 8 (2.80%) Legal
8 6 (2.10%) Military
9 5 (1.75%) Retail
10 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Front Office
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (17.13%) Architect
2 24 (8.39%) Developer
3 21 (7.34%) Senior
4 19 (6.64%) Administrator
4 19 (6.64%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.29%) Lead
6 13 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 13 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 12 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (4.20%) Consultant
8 10 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (3.50%) Support Engineer
9 9 (3.15%) Analyst
9 9 (3.15%) Security Engineer
10 8 (2.80%) Active Directory Engineer
10 8 (2.80%) IAM Project Manager
10 8 (2.80%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (2.80%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.10%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (29.37%) SAML
2 79 (27.62%) OAuth
3 64 (22.38%) OpenID
4 53 (18.53%) LDAP
5 34 (11.89%) OAuth2
6 20 (6.99%) REST
7 19 (6.64%) SailPoint
8 13 (4.55%) Node.js
8 13 (4.55%) Web Services
9 12 (4.20%) Express.js
9 12 (4.20%) SOAP
10 10 (3.50%) SAP Basis
11 7 (2.45%) CSS
11 7 (2.45%) React
12 6 (2.10%) Keycloak
12 6 (2.10%) Middleware
13 5 (1.75%) .NET
13 5 (1.75%) ActiveX
13 5 (1.75%) HTML
13 5 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.88%) Onboarding
2 23 (8.04%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.29%) Replication
4 14 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.55%) PKI
6 10 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.50%) Taxonomies
7 9 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.45%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.45%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.10%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.40%) Clustering
11 4 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (17.48%) Windows
2 27 (9.44%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.55%) Linux
4 9 (3.15%) Unix
5 8 (2.80%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.05%) Android
7 3 (1.05%) CatOS
8 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.42%) Identity Access Management
2 68 (23.78%) DevOps
3 52 (18.18%) RBAC
4 51 (17.83%) Cybersecurity
4 51 (17.83%) Roadmaps
5 47 (16.43%) CI/CD
6 46 (16.08%) Agile
7 41 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (12.94%) Zero Trust
10 36 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (10.49%) Migration
12 29 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (9.44%) High Availability
14 25 (8.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (8.74%) Validation
15 23 (8.04%) Disaster Recovery
15 23 (8.04%) Privileged Access Management
16 21 (7.34%) Analytics
16 21 (7.34%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.69%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.94%) Java
3 16 (5.59%) SQL
4 14 (4.90%) Python
5 13 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.45%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.10%) Bash
8 5 (1.75%) Bicep
8 5 (1.75%) VB
8 5 (1.75%) VB6
8 5 (1.75%) VBA
9 2 (0.70%) C#
9 2 (0.70%) Groovy
9 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.35%) Go
10 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.35%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) R
10 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 71 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.99%) Degree
4 16 (5.59%) CISSP
5 11 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.75%) CISM
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.05%) GIAC
9 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.05%) PMP
10 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.70%) CEH
10 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.34%) GDPR
2 30 (10.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (8.39%) NIST
4 20 (6.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.85%) GRC
5 11 (3.85%) QA
6 9 (3.15%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.45%) PMO
7 7 (2.45%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.10%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.75%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.75%) SLA
10 3 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.05%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 118 (41.26%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.90%) Docker
3 11 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.50%) VMware NSX
5 9 (3.15%) Squid
6 6 (2.10%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.40%) RACF
9 3 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.70%) vSphere
11 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 27 (9.44%) Terraform
4 18 (6.29%) Grafana
5 16 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.50%) Ansible
6 10 (3.50%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.15%) Argo
7 9 (3.15%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.80%) Consul
9 6 (2.10%) CA Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.75%) CASB
10 5 (1.75%) PingFederate
10 5 (1.75%) VxRail
11 4 (1.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (1.05%) SCCM
13 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.35%) Packer
14 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (39.86%) Microsoft
2 52 (18.18%) Okta
3 21 (7.34%) CyberArk
3 21 (7.34%) ServiceNow
4 20 (6.99%) VMware
5 18 (6.29%) Red Hat
5 18 (6.29%) SAP
6 15 (5.24%) Google
7 14 (4.90%) Zscaler
8 13 (4.55%) Cisco
9 11 (3.85%) Oracle
10 10 (3.50%) Dynatrace
11 9 (3.15%) F5
11 9 (3.15%) Palo Alto
12 8 (2.80%) CheckPoint
13 7 (2.45%) Atlassian
14 6 (2.10%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (2.10%) Dell
14 6 (2.10%) Ping Identity
15 5 (1.75%) Netskope