Single Sign-On Contracts

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 419 505
Rank change year-on-year +50 +86 -62
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 237 320 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.54% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.66% 3.33% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 219 245
10th Percentile £353 £390 £391
25th Percentile £425 £416 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £676 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £24.59 - £17.08
25th Percentile £25.00 - £19.44
Median hourly rate £28.25 - £24.25
75th Percentile £83.19 - £29.44
90th Percentile £102.00 - £32.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £98.00 - £16.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On.

Daily rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On.

Hourly rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Top 17 Contract 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 27 April 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
England +120 202 £550 - 57
UK excluding London +68 111 £489 -6.86% 29
London +68 92 £600 +8.35% 27
Work from Home +47 89 £600 +9.09% 19
Midlands +53 37 £620 +3.33%
North of England +40 25 £497 -9.59% 8
West Midlands +45 21 £600 -
South West +20 21 £439 +3.35% 4
North West +20 17 £497 -7.49% 6
East Midlands +33 16 £620 -
South East +20 14 £448 -22.17% 7
Wales +1 9 £450 -2.17%
Yorkshire +24 7 £525 +5.00% 1
Scotland +22 3 £750 +61.29% 4
East of England +18 3 £550 +18.92% 6
North East +19 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (10.13%) SharePoint
2 19 (8.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.11%) IIS
4 4 (1.69%) Confluence
4 4 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.84%) GroupWise
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.69%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.42%) iTrent
4 1 (0.42%) Maximo
4 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 95 (40.08%) Azure
2 74 (31.22%) Entra ID
3 36 (15.19%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (13.08%) AWS
5 26 (10.97%) GCP
6 19 (8.02%) Power Platform
7 18 (7.59%) PaaS
8 15 (6.33%) SaaS
9 13 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.22%) OneDrive
10 10 (4.22%) PowerApps
11 9 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.38%) IaaS
13 6 (2.53%) Power Automate
14 5 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.69%) Apigee
15 4 (1.69%) GitHub
15 4 (1.69%) Kong
16 3 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.17%) Firewall
2 11 (4.64%) DNS
2 11 (4.64%) Kerberos
3 8 (3.38%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.95%) VPN
5 6 (2.53%) Unified Communications
6 5 (2.11%) SSL
7 4 (1.69%) DHCP
7 4 (1.69%) SSH
7 4 (1.69%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.27%) LAN
8 3 (1.27%) MPLS
8 3 (1.27%) VoIP
9 2 (0.84%) FTP
9 2 (0.84%) HTTP
9 2 (0.84%) Network Security
9 2 (0.84%) SMTP
9 2 (0.84%) SNMP
9 2 (0.84%) Telnet
9 2 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.55%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.02%) Power BI
3 7 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (2.53%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.11%) Redis
6 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.69%) OLAP
6 4 (1.69%) OLTP
6 4 (1.69%) Oracle OLAP
7 3 (1.27%) MySQL
7 3 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.84%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.80%) JIRA
2 5 (2.11%) Git
2 5 (2.11%) GitLab
3 4 (1.69%) Fiddler
4 3 (1.27%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.42%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.42%) Maven
6 1 (0.42%) MSI
General
1 41 (17.30%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.39%) Finance
3 26 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.95%) Banking
6 5 (2.11%) Local Government
7 4 (1.69%) Electronics
7 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.84%) Games
9 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Automotive
10 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) French Language
10 1 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (21.10%) Architect
2 40 (16.88%) Developer
3 27 (11.39%) Senior
4 14 (5.91%) Administrator
4 14 (5.91%) Java Developer
5 13 (5.49%) Consultant
5 13 (5.49%) Security Architect
5 13 (5.49%) SharePoint Administrator
6 12 (5.06%) ForgeRock Architect
7 11 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (4.64%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (3.80%) Analyst
9 9 (3.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (3.80%) Lead
9 9 (3.80%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Applications Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (39.66%) SAML
2 47 (19.83%) OpenID
3 38 (16.03%) OAuth
4 32 (13.50%) LDAP
5 29 (12.24%) REST
6 19 (8.02%) Spring
6 19 (8.02%) Spring Boot
7 18 (7.59%) CSS
8 17 (7.17%) .NET
8 17 (7.17%) AngularJS
8 17 (7.17%) XACML
9 16 (6.75%) Restlet
10 15 (6.33%) GWT
10 15 (6.33%) HTML
10 15 (6.33%) JAX-RS
11 13 (5.49%) Web Services
12 11 (4.64%) SailPoint
13 10 (4.22%) Tailwind CSS
14 9 (3.80%) React
15 8 (3.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.33%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.06%) NHS
2 12 (5.06%) PKI
3 10 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.80%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.95%) Insider Threat
6 7 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.53%) CMDB
7 6 (2.53%) Digital Signage
8 4 (1.69%) DataPower
8 4 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.69%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.27%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.24%) Windows
2 13 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
2 13 (5.49%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.38%) VMS
5 7 (2.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.53%) Linux
7 2 (0.84%) Android
7 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.84%) NetWare
7 2 (0.84%) Unix
7 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.63%) Identity Access Management
2 49 (20.68%) Migration
3 40 (16.88%) DevOps
4 35 (14.77%) Identity Management
5 34 (14.35%) Agile
6 26 (10.97%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 25 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (8.86%) CI/CD
9 20 (8.44%) ITIL
10 19 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (8.02%) Cloud Security
10 19 (8.02%) Scrum
11 18 (7.59%) RBAC
11 18 (7.59%) Security Architecture
12 17 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (6.75%) User Experience
14 15 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (5.91%) Computer Science
16 13 (5.49%) Microservices
17 12 (5.06%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.25%) PowerShell
2 34 (14.35%) JavaScript
3 32 (13.50%) Java
4 26 (10.97%) SQL
5 24 (10.13%) Python
6 17 (7.17%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.06%) C#
8 5 (2.11%) Bicep
9 4 (1.69%) Bash
9 4 (1.69%) Perl
9 4 (1.69%) Scala
10 3 (1.27%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.27%) SOQL
11 2 (0.84%) PHP
11 2 (0.84%) Ruby
12 1 (0.42%) ABAP
12 1 (0.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.61%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.44%) Degree
4 7 (2.95%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.95%) CISSP
4 7 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.84%) CAPM
6 2 (0.84%) CISM
6 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.42%) CEH
7 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) PMP
7 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.22%) QA
2 8 (3.38%) WCAG
3 4 (1.69%) SLA
4 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.27%) GRC
4 3 (1.27%) NIST
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.42%) HL7
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (30.80%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.91%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (3.80%) Docker
4 6 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.69%) Firmware
5 4 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.84%) XenApp
7 1 (0.42%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.42%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.42%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (8.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.64%) Terraform
3 10 (4.22%) Ansible
4 6 (2.53%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.53%) PingFederate
5 4 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.69%) SCOM
6 3 (1.27%) CA Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.42%) CASB
8 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.42%) Puppet
8 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (30.38%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.92%) Okta
3 30 (12.66%) Google
4 22 (9.28%) Oracle
5 18 (7.59%) ServiceNow
6 17 (7.17%) CA
7 16 (6.75%) ForgeRock
8 15 (6.33%) IBM
9 10 (4.22%) CyberArk
9 10 (4.22%) Salesforce
10 9 (3.80%) VMware
11 6 (2.53%) Ping Identity
12 5 (2.11%) SAP
13 4 (1.69%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.69%) F5
13 4 (1.69%) Roku
13 4 (1.69%) TSYS
14 3 (1.27%) Cisco
14 3 (1.27%) Polycom
14 3 (1.27%) Red Hat