Single Sign-On Contracts in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Single Sign-On skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 351 435
Rank change year-on-year +78 +84 -85
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 118 106 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.06% 2.95% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 71 57
10th Percentile £350 £375 £318
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% +2.86% +6.92%
75th Percentile £622 £623 £613
90th Percentile £644 £700 £665
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £89.20 - -
25th Percentile £91.00 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £98.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £103.00 - £16.50
90th Percentile £103.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.25 - £24.25
% change year-on-year - - -51.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Single Sign-On is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,331 3,594 4,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.34% 15.04% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 2,634 3,021
10th Percentile £210 £281 £233
25th Percentile £374 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £565 £565
% change year-on-year -8.85% - +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 136 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.98
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.25 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +124.38% -10.37%
75th Percentile £49.06 £65.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £70.63 £75.25 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Midlands +60 37 £620 +3.33% 1
North of England +33 25 £495 -14.00% 9
South West +23 23 £439 +3.35% 4
West Midlands +40 21 £600 -
North West +24 17 £497 -7.49% 7
South East +20 17 £450 -19.28% 4
East Midlands - 16 £620 - 1
Wales +2 9 £450 -4.26%
Yorkshire +25 8 £475 -17.39% 2
Scotland +31 5 £750 +61.29% 2
East of England +9 3 £550 +2.33% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Single Sign-On
UK

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (14.41%) SharePoint
2 15 (12.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.39%) Confluence
3 4 (3.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.54%) IIS
5 2 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.39%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.85%) iTrent
3 1 (0.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 55 (46.61%) Azure
2 45 (38.14%) Entra ID
3 21 (17.80%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (13.56%) Power Platform
5 12 (10.17%) AWS
6 11 (9.32%) PaaS
7 10 (8.47%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (8.47%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (7.63%) OneDrive
9 8 (6.78%) GCP
9 8 (6.78%) PowerApps
10 7 (5.93%) SaaS
11 6 (5.08%) Power Automate
12 4 (3.39%) Apigee
12 4 (3.39%) Azure API Management
12 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.39%) IaaS
12 4 (3.39%) Kong
13 3 (2.54%) Azure Event Grid
14 2 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.63%) Firewall
2 6 (5.08%) Unified Communications
3 3 (2.54%) DNS
3 3 (2.54%) Network Security
3 3 (2.54%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.54%) VPN
3 3 (2.54%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.69%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.85%) DHCP
5 1 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.85%) LAN
5 1 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.85%) Skype
5 1 (0.85%) SSL
5 1 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.56%) Power BI
2 10 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.39%) OLAP
4 4 (3.39%) OLTP
4 4 (3.39%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.85%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.85%) MySQL
5 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) JIRA
2 3 (2.54%) Fiddler
2 3 (2.54%) GitLab
2 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.54%) Maven
2 3 (2.54%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.85%) MSI
3 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.02%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.47%) Finance
4 5 (4.24%) Banking
5 4 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.39%) Local Government
6 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (0.85%) Advertising
7 1 (0.85%) Automotive
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (25.42%) Architect
2 17 (14.41%) Developer
3 12 (10.17%) ForgeRock Architect
4 10 (8.47%) Administrator
5 9 (7.63%) SharePoint Administrator
6 8 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 7 (5.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Senior
8 6 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Consultant
10 4 (3.39%) AWS Architect
10 4 (3.39%) IAM Consultant
10 4 (3.39%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.39%) React Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (35.59%) SAML
2 25 (21.19%) OAuth
3 22 (18.64%) LDAP
4 20 (16.95%) OpenID
5 11 (9.32%) Spring
5 11 (9.32%) Spring Boot
6 10 (8.47%) Web Services
7 9 (7.63%) .NET
7 9 (7.63%) REST
8 7 (5.93%) GWT
8 7 (5.93%) HTML
8 7 (5.93%) JAX-RS
8 7 (5.93%) Keycloak
8 7 (5.93%) Restlet
9 6 (5.08%) CSS
10 5 (4.24%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.24%) OAuth2
11 4 (3.39%) Apache Camel
11 4 (3.39%) React
11 4 (3.39%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) NHS
2 9 (7.63%) PKI
2 9 (7.63%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.08%) Digital Signage
4 4 (3.39%) CMDB
4 4 (3.39%) DataPower
4 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.39%) Insider Threat
4 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.69%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.85%) Clustering
7 1 (0.85%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.71%) Windows
2 8 (6.78%) VMS
2 8 (6.78%) Windows Server 2016
2 8 (6.78%) Windows Server 2019
3 7 (5.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.69%) Android
4 2 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.69%) Linux
4 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.12%) Identity Access Management
2 29 (24.58%) Migration
3 24 (20.34%) Identity Management
4 21 (17.80%) DevOps
5 16 (13.56%) Agile
5 16 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (12.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 13 (11.02%) Cloud Security
7 13 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.17%) ITIL
9 11 (9.32%) Key Management
9 11 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (7.63%) Risk Management
12 8 (6.78%) API Management
12 8 (6.78%) Containerisation
12 8 (6.78%) Customer Service
13 7 (5.93%) Data Encryption
13 7 (5.93%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (5.93%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.03%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.71%) Java
3 13 (11.02%) SQL
4 10 (8.47%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.47%) Python
5 6 (5.08%) C#
6 4 (3.39%) Bash
6 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.54%) PHP
7 3 (2.54%) Ruby
8 2 (1.69%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.69%) SOQL
9 1 (0.85%) ABAP
9 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.78%) Degree
4 5 (4.24%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.85%) CAPM
7 1 (0.85%) CISM
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.54%) QA
2 2 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.69%) GRC
3 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) HL7
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
3 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.85%) SLA
3 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (32.20%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.32%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (8.47%) Docker
4 6 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (9.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.54%) SCOM
3 3 (2.54%) Terraform
4 2 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.69%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.85%) Ansible
5 1 (0.85%) NetIQ Identity Manager
5 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Puppet
5 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (34.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.86%) CA
3 13 (11.02%) ForgeRock
4 11 (9.32%) Oracle
5 10 (8.47%) Okta
5 10 (8.47%) Salesforce
6 9 (7.63%) Google
7 8 (6.78%) VMware
8 6 (5.08%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.24%) IBM
9 5 (4.24%) Zscaler
10 4 (3.39%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (3.39%) SAP
10 4 (3.39%) TSYS
11 3 (2.54%) F5
12 2 (1.69%) Adobe
12 2 (1.69%) Ariba
12 2 (1.69%) CyberArk
13 1 (0.85%) Concur
13 1 (0.85%) Thycotic