Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in the South East

Single Sign-On (SSO)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 146 202
Rank change year-on-year -11 +56 +50
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 12 31 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.34% 0.71% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.24% 4.98% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 30 9
10th Percentile £441 £516 £311
25th Percentile £488 £603 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +35.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £769 £556
90th Percentile £675 £820 £613
England median daily rate £521 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -10.60% +1.30% -2.54%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 535 622 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.97% 14.22% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 464 493
10th Percentile £250 £278 £208
25th Percentile £393 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £640
90th Percentile £620 £688 £723
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 26
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.38 £23.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £28.06 £42.10
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.99% -36.21% +14.86%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.75 £74.68
90th Percentile £84.33 £54.35 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% -27.62% +119.57%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Single Sign-On relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in the South East

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the South East over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the South East

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 October 2025. 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
Berkshire -3 7 £525 -25.00% 5
Thames Valley -18 7 £525 -25.00% 6
Hampshire +6 4 £650 +13.04% 3
West Sussex - 1 £450 -
Single Sign-On
England

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) OCI
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
1 1 (8.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (25.00%) SAML
3 2 (16.67%) Jinja
3 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) OAuth
4 1 (8.33%) LDAP
4 1 (8.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) logstash
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Zscaler