Single Sign-On Job Trends in England

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 472 571
Rank change year-on-year -24 +99 +84
Permanent jobs citing Single Sign-On 132 185 179
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.41% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.47% 3.46% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 92 88 147
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £54,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,466 £76,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +24.99% +6.45%
75th Percentile £90,313 £85,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £109,500 £101,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,000 £60,603
% change year-on-year -5.84% +27.06% +5.40%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,807 5,351 7,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.54% 11.96% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,779 3,307 6,487
10th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,107 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in England

Single Sign-On
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Single Sign-On.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in England over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Single Sign-On in England

Single Sign-On
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Single Sign-On within the England region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -13 56 £90,000 +12.50% 35
North of England -14 24 £58,000 +36.47% 7
Midlands +11 21 £57,500 +15.00% 5
West Midlands +14 20 £55,000 - 5
North West +16 18 £58,000 +36.47% 4
South West -3 16 £45,000 -18.18% 3
South East +6 6 £63,750 -25.00% 18
Yorkshire - 5 £70,932 - 3
North East -9 1 £48,445 -
East Midlands -16 1 £85,000 +70.00%
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 22 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 15 (11.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.27%) IIS
3 3 (2.27%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.52%) Apache
4 2 (1.52%) JBoss
4 2 (1.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.76%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (67.42%) Azure
2 75 (56.82%) Entra ID
3 50 (37.88%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (18.18%) AWS
5 23 (17.42%) SaaS
6 20 (15.15%) Power Platform
7 14 (10.61%) OneDrive
8 13 (9.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (7.58%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (5.30%) GCP
11 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (5.30%) OCI
11 7 (5.30%) PaaS
12 6 (4.55%) ChatGPT
13 5 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (3.79%) Google Workspace
14 4 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (3.03%) Slack
15 3 (2.27%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.18%) VPN
2 14 (10.61%) Firewall
3 12 (9.09%) DNS
3 12 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (8.33%) LAN
5 10 (7.58%) TCP/IP
6 9 (6.82%) SSL
7 7 (5.30%) DHCP
7 7 (5.30%) WAN
8 4 (3.03%) Kerberos
9 3 (2.27%) LTE
10 2 (1.52%) HTTP
10 2 (1.52%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.52%) Internet
10 2 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (1.52%) Network Security
10 2 (1.52%) SAN
10 2 (1.52%) SSH
10 2 (1.52%) VoIP
10 2 (1.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.06%) Power BI
2 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.76%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.76%) Power Query
4 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) JIRA
2 3 (2.27%) Git
3 2 (1.52%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.52%) Subversion
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 51 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.21%) Finance
3 18 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.85%) Legal
6 10 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (5.30%) Billing
7 7 (5.30%) Law
8 6 (4.55%) Banking
9 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Automotive
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Police
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (17.42%) Senior
2 19 (14.39%) Architect
3 13 (9.85%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.33%) Analyst
5 11 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 10 (7.58%) Security Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) IT Manager
8 7 (5.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Consultant
9 6 (4.55%) Lead
9 6 (4.55%) Senior Architect
9 6 (4.55%) Technical Architect
9 6 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) IT Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (3.03%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.48%) OAuth
2 26 (19.70%) OpenID
3 22 (16.67%) SAML
4 16 (12.12%) OAuth2
5 7 (5.30%) LDAP
6 3 (2.27%) RESTful
6 3 (2.27%) SOAP
7 2 (1.52%) CSS
7 2 (1.52%) CSS3
7 2 (1.52%) HTML5
7 2 (1.52%) JDBC
7 2 (1.52%) JSON
7 2 (1.52%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.52%) Node.js
7 2 (1.52%) React
7 2 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (1.52%) Web Services
7 2 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 20 (15.15%) Onboarding
4 12 (9.09%) PKI
5 9 (6.82%) Mobile App
6 7 (5.30%) iPad
6 7 (5.30%) iPhone
6 7 (5.30%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (4.55%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.79%) AI Agents
8 5 (3.79%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (3.79%) Hedge funds
9 4 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.52%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.48%) Windows
2 13 (9.85%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.30%) Apple iOS
3 7 (5.30%) Linux
4 5 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.52%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.52%) Unix
5 2 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.12%) Identity Access Management
2 42 (31.82%) RBAC
3 30 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (20.45%) Data Loss Prevention
4 27 (20.45%) Identity Management
5 25 (18.94%) Incident Response
5 25 (18.94%) Zero Trust
6 24 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (17.42%) Agile
8 22 (16.67%) ITIL
9 21 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (15.91%) Privileged Access Management
9 21 (15.91%) SIEM
10 20 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (15.15%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 20 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (14.39%) AI
11 19 (14.39%) Mentoring
11 19 (14.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.03%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.33%) Python
3 10 (7.58%) SQL
4 8 (6.06%) Bash
4 8 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.30%) Java
6 4 (3.03%) Google Apps Script
7 3 (2.27%) Groovy
8 2 (1.52%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.76%) Bicep
9 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.76%) PHP
9 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.36%) CISSP
3 13 (9.85%) Degree
4 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.55%) CISM
8 5 (3.79%) PMI Certification
8 5 (3.79%) PMP
9 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.03%) CCSP
9 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.03%) IIBA
10 3 (2.27%) CEH
10 3 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.27%) GSEC
10 3 (2.27%) OSCP
11 2 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (9.09%) GDPR
3 10 (7.58%) NIST
4 4 (3.03%) GRC
5 3 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (1.52%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.52%) NCSC
6 2 (1.52%) PSD2
7 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (48.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.52%) vSphere
3 2 (1.52%) XenApp
3 2 (1.52%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.76%) Docker
4 1 (0.76%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.76%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.76%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 22 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (10.61%) Terraform
3 13 (9.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (6.06%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (3.79%) CASB
6 3 (2.27%) Ansible
6 3 (2.27%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.27%) SCCM
7 2 (1.52%) Nagios
7 2 (1.52%) Nessus
7 2 (1.52%) VxRail
8 1 (0.76%) DatAdvantage
8 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 67 (50.76%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.85%) CyberArk
3 12 (9.09%) Okta
3 12 (9.09%) Splunk
4 10 (7.58%) Apple
4 10 (7.58%) New Relic
5 9 (6.82%) Salesforce
5 9 (6.82%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.55%) ForgeRock
6 6 (4.55%) Google
7 5 (3.79%) Bloomberg
7 5 (3.79%) Reuters
8 4 (3.03%) Alteryx
8 4 (3.03%) Anaplan
8 4 (3.03%) Cisco
8 4 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (3.03%) Dell
8 4 (3.03%) Logitech
8 4 (3.03%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.03%) Yealink