Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 325 337
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 +74
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 326 201 255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.00% 4.42% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 133 178
10th Percentile £300 £404 £350
25th Percentile £431 £475 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.27% -6.82%
75th Percentile £608 £655 £638
90th Percentile £675 £716 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £482
% change year-on-year -5.45% +14.11% -14.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 6
10th Percentile £51.48 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £71.88 - £83.19
90th Percentile £91.14 - £102.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 - £98.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,525 4,550 5,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.36% 15.81% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,456 3,091 3,781
10th Percentile £325 £310 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £687 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £492 £495
% change year-on-year - -0.51% -5.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 48 100
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.51 £19.70 £20.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -4.17% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.29 £51.44
90th Percentile £76.00 £79.09 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -5.88%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in the UK

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 June 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
England -18 275 £525 -6.25% 111
UK excluding London -16 161 £520 -5.45% 57
London -25 124 £525 -7.57% 59
Work from Home -34 103 £600 +9.09% 54
North of England -54 57 £525 +10.53% 14
Yorkshire -33 37 £550 +10.00% 4
Midlands -40 35 £450 -18.18% 9
South East -40 34 £500 -23.08% 18
South West -11 26 £525 +20.00% 9
West Midlands -54 20 £425 -22.73% 6
North West -38 19 £458 +1.67% 7
Scotland +10 15 £450 -45.45% 1
East Midlands -16 14 £506 +25.93% 3
North East -30 2 £413 -31.25% 3
East of England -31 1 £575 -2.13% 7

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 26 (7.98%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.83%) Confluence
3 18 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.76%) nginx
5 3 (0.92%) IIS
6 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (9.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.61%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 169 (51.84%) Azure
2 158 (48.47%) Entra ID
3 72 (22.09%) AWS
4 52 (15.95%) SaaS
5 46 (14.11%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (10.43%) GCP
7 28 (8.59%) Serverless
8 18 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 18 (5.52%) PaaS
9 17 (5.21%) OpenShift
10 16 (4.91%) GitHub
10 16 (4.91%) Google Workspace
11 13 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.37%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.07%) IaaS
15 9 (2.76%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 75 (23.01%) DNS
2 32 (9.82%) DHCP
3 31 (9.51%) Firewall
4 29 (8.90%) Kerberos
5 28 (8.59%) SSL
5 28 (8.59%) VPN
6 24 (7.36%) TCP/IP
7 18 (5.52%) IPsec
7 18 (5.52%) Network Security
8 15 (4.60%) HTTP
8 15 (4.60%) HTTPS
8 15 (4.60%) WAN
9 12 (3.68%) LAN
10 11 (3.37%) BIG-IP
11 9 (2.76%) DKIM
11 9 (2.76%) DMARC
11 9 (2.76%) OpenVPN
12 8 (2.45%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (2.45%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (2.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.45%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.15%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.84%) Metadata
5 5 (1.53%) MySQL
6 4 (1.23%) Power BI
7 3 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.92%) CockroachDB
7 3 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.92%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.61%) GIS
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (11.96%) JIRA
2 10 (3.07%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (2.76%) Git
4 7 (2.15%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.15%) GitLab
4 7 (2.15%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.15%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.23%) Postman
7 3 (0.92%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.61%) JUnit
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.31%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 46 (14.11%) Public Sector
3 39 (11.96%) Finance
4 33 (10.12%) Documentation Skills
5 32 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.91%) Publishing
7 11 (3.37%) Banking
8 6 (1.84%) Legal
9 5 (1.53%) Military
9 5 (1.53%) Retail
10 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Aviation
12 1 (0.31%) Front Office
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (15.64%) Architect
2 29 (8.90%) Developer
2 29 (8.90%) Senior
3 26 (7.98%) Administrator
4 25 (7.67%) Lead
5 18 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.52%) Support Engineer
6 17 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (4.29%) Technical Architect
8 12 (3.68%) Project Manager
8 12 (3.68%) Security Engineer
9 9 (2.76%) Analyst
9 9 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.76%) Network Engineer
10 8 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.45%) Consultant
10 8 (2.45%) IAM Project Manager
10 8 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (2.45%) Senior Architect
10 8 (2.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (30.37%) SAML
2 92 (28.22%) OAuth
3 70 (21.47%) OpenID
4 65 (19.94%) LDAP
5 37 (11.35%) OAuth2
6 24 (7.36%) SailPoint
7 20 (6.13%) SAP Basis
8 19 (5.83%) REST
9 13 (3.99%) Node.js
10 12 (3.68%) Express.js
11 11 (3.37%) React
11 11 (3.37%) Web Services
12 10 (3.07%) CSS
12 10 (3.07%) SOAP
13 9 (2.76%) HTML
14 8 (2.45%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.45%) ARM Templates
14 8 (2.45%) Entity Framework
15 7 (2.15%) Model Context Protocol
16 6 (1.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (20.55%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.75%) PKI
3 20 (6.13%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (6.13%) Replication
3 20 (6.13%) Taxonomies
4 18 (5.52%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.45%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.84%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (1.84%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.23%) Clustering
10 4 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.23%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.56%) Windows
2 27 (8.28%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.13%) Linux
4 9 (2.76%) Unix
5 7 (2.15%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.92%) Android
8 3 (0.92%) CatOS
8 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (28.22%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (23.01%) DevOps
3 70 (21.47%) RBAC
4 58 (17.79%) Roadmaps
5 57 (17.48%) CI/CD
6 54 (16.56%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (14.11%) Agile
9 42 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (11.96%) Zero Trust
11 38 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (10.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (9.51%) High Availability
14 30 (9.20%) Migration
15 28 (8.59%) Validation
16 27 (8.28%) Microservices
16 27 (8.28%) Vulnerability Management
17 25 (7.67%) Data Governance
17 25 (7.67%) Identity Management
17 25 (7.67%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (16.56%) PowerShell
2 28 (8.59%) Python
3 21 (6.44%) JavaScript
4 20 (6.13%) Java
4 20 (6.13%) SQL
5 12 (3.68%) Bash
6 10 (3.07%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.53%) Bicep
7 5 (1.53%) VB
7 5 (1.53%) VB6
7 5 (1.53%) VBA
8 4 (1.23%) C#
8 4 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.61%) Groovy
9 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.31%) AppleScript
10 1 (0.31%) Korn
10 1 (0.31%) PHP
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (32.21%) Security Cleared
2 81 (24.85%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.13%) Degree
4 16 (4.91%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.99%) CISSP
6 9 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.84%) CISM
7 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.23%) PMP
10 3 (0.92%) OCP
10 3 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.61%) FFIEC
11 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.61%) RHCE
11 2 (0.61%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.19%) GDPR
2 28 (8.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (6.44%) NIST
5 11 (3.37%) GRC
5 11 (3.37%) SLA
6 10 (3.07%) SOC 2
7 9 (2.76%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.76%) QA
8 8 (2.45%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.23%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.23%) PMO
10 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.92%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 142 (43.56%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.52%) Docker
3 12 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.68%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.07%) Squid
5 6 (1.84%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.53%) RACF
7 4 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.92%) Firmware
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.61%) vSphere
10 1 (0.31%) KVM
10 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (12.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 36 (11.04%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.43%) Terraform
4 20 (6.13%) Grafana
5 17 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (3.99%) Ansible
7 12 (3.68%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.07%) Argo
9 9 (2.76%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.45%) Consul
11 6 (1.84%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.53%) PingFederate
12 5 (1.53%) SCCM
13 4 (1.23%) VxRail
14 3 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.61%) CASB
15 2 (0.61%) Packer
16 1 (0.31%) Istio
16 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 122 (37.42%) Microsoft
2 75 (23.01%) Okta
3 31 (9.51%) SAP
4 23 (7.06%) Red Hat
5 21 (6.44%) CyberArk
5 21 (6.44%) VMware
6 20 (6.13%) Google
7 18 (5.52%) ServiceNow
8 14 (4.29%) Zscaler
9 12 (3.68%) Cisco
9 12 (3.68%) Oracle
10 11 (3.37%) F5
10 11 (3.37%) Pega
11 10 (3.07%) Dynatrace
11 10 (3.07%) Palo Alto
12 9 (2.76%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (2.76%) CheckPoint
13 8 (2.45%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.15%) Ping Identity
15 6 (1.84%) Thales