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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 323 386
Rank change year-on-year -66 +63 +10
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 318 236 189
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.73% 0.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.36% 5.21% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 154 128
10th Percentile £344 £384 £363
25th Percentile £445 £415 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £675
90th Percentile £679 £675 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £492 £622
% change year-on-year +3.66% -20.90% +13.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 2
10th Percentile £55.75 - £30.56
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.75 £40.14
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £60.09
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -20.95% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £84.05
90th Percentile - - £96.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - £96.00

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 5,935 4,529 4,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.00% 13.92% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,953 2,938 3,125
10th Percentile £313 £281 £299
25th Percentile £420 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -2.95% -6.33%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £684 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 82 62
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -21.57% -28.84%
75th Percentile £73.19 £63.66 £61.88
90th Percentile £85.18 £78.58 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £41.45 £39.25
% change year-on-year +53.15% +5.61% -15.01%

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 5 September 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 5 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Top 16 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 5 September 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 -67 264 £525 - 267
UK excluding London -9 169 £510 +3.66% 103
London -59 118 £540 -1.82% 182
Work from Home -52 95 £500 -6.89% 127
North of England -39 58 £500 +10.38% 21
North West -40 34 £496 +7.36% 15
Midlands -44 31 £438 -2.78% 13
Scotland -14 27 £481 -19.83% 4
South East -53 26 £588 +11.90% 37
West Midlands -40 24 £425 -15.00% 9
South West -25 20 £525 -0.66% 17
Yorkshire -40 18 £550 +34.47% 4
East of England -19 8 £553 -19.64% 7
East Midlands -16 6 £463 +15.05% 4
North East - 6 £500 - 2
Wales - 3 £525 -

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 30 (9.43%) SharePoint
2 25 (7.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (5.97%) Confluence
4 5 (1.57%) nginx
5 3 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.31%) Apache
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.63%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 151 (47.48%) Azure
2 148 (46.54%) Entra ID
3 75 (23.58%) AWS
4 46 (14.47%) GCP
5 45 (14.15%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (12.26%) SaaS
7 24 (7.55%) GitHub
8 14 (4.40%) Google Workspace
9 12 (3.77%) OpenShift
9 12 (3.77%) Serverless
10 10 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.20%) Google Drive
12 7 (2.20%) OCI
12 7 (2.20%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.89%) Asana
13 6 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 60 (18.87%) DNS
2 35 (11.01%) Firewall
3 26 (8.18%) VPN
4 22 (6.92%) SSL
5 20 (6.29%) TCP/IP
6 17 (5.35%) DHCP
7 16 (5.03%) Network Security
7 16 (5.03%) WAN
8 11 (3.46%) HTTPS
8 11 (3.46%) LAN
8 11 (3.46%) SD-WAN
9 9 (2.83%) DKIM
9 9 (2.83%) DMARC
9 9 (2.83%) HTTP
9 9 (2.83%) IPsec
10 8 (2.52%) Kerberos
11 7 (2.20%) Internet
11 7 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.89%) SSH
12 6 (1.89%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.77%) Metadata
1 12 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.57%) Metadata Repository
3 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.26%) Power BI
4 3 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.63%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.63%) Redis
5 2 (0.63%) Tableau
6 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.31%) Db2
6 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (11.01%) JIRA
2 10 (3.14%) Git
2 10 (3.14%) GitLab
3 9 (2.83%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (2.83%) Visual Studio
4 8 (2.52%) Browser DevTools
5 7 (2.20%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.94%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.63%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.63%) Snyk
8 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
General
1 62 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.92%) Finance
3 47 (14.78%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.18%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (5.97%) Banking
7 10 (3.14%) Retail
8 7 (2.20%) Military
9 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.57%) Legal
10 5 (1.57%) Publishing
11 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Local Government
11 2 (0.63%) Marketing
11 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.31%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (15.72%) Architect
2 34 (10.69%) Developer
3 20 (6.29%) Support Engineer
4 18 (5.66%) Senior
4 18 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.35%) Lead
6 16 (5.03%) Administrator
6 16 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (4.09%) Consultant
8 10 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (3.14%) Security Engineer
9 9 (2.83%) Active Directory Engineer
9 9 (2.83%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (2.83%) Java Developer
10 8 (2.52%) IT Engineer
10 8 (2.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (2.52%) Project Manager
11 7 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.20%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (25.16%) SAML
2 68 (21.38%) OAuth
3 64 (20.13%) OpenID
4 36 (11.32%) LDAP
5 33 (10.38%) OAuth2
6 31 (9.75%) REST
7 28 (8.81%) Terraform
8 21 (6.60%) SailPoint
9 16 (5.03%) SOAP
10 15 (4.72%) Web Services
10 15 (4.72%) XML
11 10 (3.14%) .NET
11 10 (3.14%) Node.js
12 9 (2.83%) ActiveX
12 9 (2.83%) Express.js
12 9 (2.83%) Middleware
13 8 (2.52%) React
14 6 (1.89%) CSS
14 6 (1.89%) FIDO
15 5 (1.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (20.75%) Onboarding
2 38 (11.95%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (10.69%) PKI
4 20 (6.29%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.40%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.52%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.20%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.57%) Clustering
10 5 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.26%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.26%) Replication
11 4 (1.26%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.38%) Windows
2 16 (5.03%) Linux
3 11 (3.46%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.83%) Unix
4 9 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.63%) Android
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.31%) CatOS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (36.48%) Identity Access Management
2 73 (22.96%) RBAC
3 53 (16.67%) DevOps
4 51 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 45 (14.15%) CI/CD
6 45 (14.15%) Migration
7 41 (12.89%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (12.89%) Privileged Access Management
8 38 (11.95%) Agile
8 38 (11.95%) Zero Trust
9 34 (10.69%) Roadmaps
10 33 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (9.75%) ITIL
11 31 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (9.12%) Identity Management
13 28 (8.81%) Microservices
14 27 (8.49%) Cloud Security
14 27 (8.49%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (8.49%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.35%) PowerShell
2 34 (10.69%) Java
3 33 (10.38%) Python
4 13 (4.09%) Bash
4 13 (4.09%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.14%) SQL
6 9 (2.83%) VB
6 9 (2.83%) VB6
6 9 (2.83%) VBA
7 7 (2.20%) C#
8 3 (0.94%) Go
8 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.63%) Bicep
9 2 (0.63%) Groovy
9 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.31%) R
10 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 67 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.30%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.97%) Degree
5 14 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.77%) CISSP
7 11 (3.46%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.20%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.89%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.26%) CISM
11 3 (0.94%) GIAC
11 3 (0.94%) MCSE
11 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.94%) PMP
12 2 (0.63%) CEH
12 2 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (7.86%) NIST
3 21 (6.60%) GDPR
4 14 (4.40%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.77%) SLA
6 11 (3.46%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.83%) QA
8 8 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.57%) PMO
10 4 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.26%) SNOMED CT
11 3 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.94%) GRC
11 3 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.94%) NCSC
11 3 (0.94%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.63%) ITGC
13 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 129 (40.57%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.66%) Docker
3 8 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.57%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) KVM
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (8.81%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (5.03%) Ansible
4 15 (4.72%) Grafana
5 9 (2.83%) Argo
6 8 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.89%) CASB
7 6 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.57%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.26%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.94%) Packer
10 3 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.94%) SELinux
11 2 (0.63%) Consul
11 2 (0.63%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.63%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.31%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 131 (41.19%) Microsoft
2 63 (19.81%) Okta
3 25 (7.86%) CyberArk
3 25 (7.86%) ServiceNow
4 24 (7.55%) BeyondTrust
5 20 (6.29%) Google
6 14 (4.40%) Red Hat
6 14 (4.40%) Zscaler
7 13 (4.09%) VMware
8 12 (3.77%) Oracle
9 11 (3.46%) Ping Identity
10 10 (3.14%) SAP
11 8 (2.52%) Cisco
11 8 (2.52%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (2.20%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.89%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.89%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.57%) F5
14 5 (1.57%) Workday
15 4 (1.26%) CheckPoint