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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 364 343
Rank change year-on-year +55 -21 +88
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 302 159 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.51% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.20% 3.38% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 106 197
10th Percentile £355 £410 £367
25th Percentile £427 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +1.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £683 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £45.93 - -
25th Percentile £52.75 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £66.06 - -
90th Percentile £92.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00

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 5,803 4,699 5,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 14.93% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,020 3,024 3,980
10th Percentile £313 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £417 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 66 162
10th Percentile £18.39 £15.36 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.17 £21.10 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +108.82% -44.78% +24.07%
75th Percentile £63.32 £49.05 £68.35
90th Percentile £83.20 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.46% -47.64% +19.95%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +47 250 £525 -12.50% 63
UK excluding London +28 143 £520 -13.33% 46
London +14 102 £525 -12.50% 28
Work from Home +21 88 £531 -8.92% 30
South West +35 49 £524 +23.29% 11
North of England -18 43 £482 -3.70% 11
Yorkshire -18 28 £525 -12.50% 6
South East -10 26 £508 -21.92% 16
North West -23 15 £423 -15.40% 4
Midlands -44 15 £469 -20.21% 5
West Midlands -37 13 £420 -28.51% 5
Scotland +14 6 £650 - 2
East of England -14 5 £625 +42.86% 3
East Midlands -26 2 £494 -
Wales -5 1 £550 +10.00% 1

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 18 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.31%) Confluence
2 10 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.99%) Apache
3 6 (1.99%) IIS
4 5 (1.66%) iPlanet
4 5 (1.66%) JBoss
4 5 (1.66%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.66%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.66%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.66%) Windchill
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (4.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.66%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 149 (49.34%) Azure
2 125 (41.39%) Entra ID
3 67 (22.19%) AWS
4 44 (14.57%) SaaS
5 41 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (6.62%) GCP
7 18 (5.96%) PaaS
8 12 (3.97%) GitHub
9 10 (3.31%) IaaS
10 9 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.98%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.98%) OpenShift
10 9 (2.98%) Serverless
11 8 (2.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.65%) Nutanix
12 7 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.32%) Google Workspace
13 6 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 63 (20.86%) DNS
2 36 (11.92%) Firewall
3 30 (9.93%) VPN
4 28 (9.27%) Kerberos
5 23 (7.62%) DHCP
6 17 (5.63%) SSL
7 13 (4.30%) HTTP
8 10 (3.31%) LAN
9 9 (2.98%) HTTPS
9 9 (2.98%) TCP/IP
9 9 (2.98%) WAN
9 9 (2.98%) Wireshark
10 8 (2.65%) BIG-IP
11 7 (2.32%) IPsec
11 7 (2.32%) Network Security
11 7 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.32%) Wireless
12 6 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.99%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (1.99%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.66%) Oracle Database
1 5 (1.66%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.99%) CockroachDB
3 3 (0.99%) Pinecone
4 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.66%) GIS
4 2 (0.66%) MySQL
4 2 (0.66%) Power BI
4 2 (0.66%) SQLite
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (8.28%) JIRA
2 22 (7.28%) Git
3 11 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.66%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.66%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.32%) GitLab
5 4 (1.32%) MSI
6 2 (0.66%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.66%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.66%) fastlane
6 2 (0.66%) Postman
6 2 (0.66%) Selenium
6 2 (0.66%) Xcode
7 1 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.33%) Gatling
7 1 (0.33%) gulp
7 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 70 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.26%) Finance
3 25 (8.28%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.95%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.31%) Publishing
7 9 (2.98%) Banking
8 5 (1.66%) Aviation
9 3 (0.99%) Legal
9 3 (0.99%) Marketing
9 3 (0.99%) Retail
9 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.66%) Electronics
10 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.66%) Local Government
10 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (15.56%) Architect
2 34 (11.26%) Senior
3 23 (7.62%) Developer
3 23 (7.62%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (5.96%) Consultant
5 17 (5.63%) Administrator
5 17 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.64%) Security Engineer
8 12 (3.97%) Analyst
8 12 (3.97%) Lead
9 9 (2.98%) Network Engineer
9 9 (2.98%) Senior Developer
10 8 (2.65%) IAM Consultant
10 8 (2.65%) IAM Specialist
11 7 (2.32%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.32%) ForgeRock Developer
11 7 (2.32%) SAP Administrator
11 7 (2.32%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (35.10%) SAML
2 101 (33.44%) OAuth
3 69 (22.85%) OpenID
4 57 (18.87%) LDAP
5 41 (13.58%) OAuth2
6 27 (8.94%) SailPoint
7 13 (4.30%) SAP Basis
8 12 (3.97%) REST
9 11 (3.64%) React
10 10 (3.31%) RESTful
11 9 (2.98%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.98%) HTML
11 9 (2.98%) SOAP
12 7 (2.32%) CSS
12 7 (2.32%) Entity Framework
12 7 (2.32%) YAML
13 6 (1.99%) HTML5
13 6 (1.99%) JDBC
14 5 (1.66%) JSON
14 5 (1.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.56%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.62%) PKI
3 19 (6.29%) Replication
4 15 (4.97%) Taxonomies
5 10 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.98%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.98%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.99%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.99%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.66%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.66%) Animation
11 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 78 (25.83%) Windows
2 47 (15.56%) Windows Server
3 25 (8.28%) Linux
4 7 (2.32%) Unix
5 5 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.32%) CatOS
6 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.33%) Android
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (28.48%) RBAC
2 85 (28.15%) Identity Access Management
3 55 (18.21%) Identity Management
4 52 (17.22%) Agile
5 50 (16.56%) CI/CD
5 50 (16.56%) DevOps
6 40 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (12.91%) Zero Trust
8 31 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (10.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 28 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (8.94%) High Availability
11 25 (8.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (7.95%) Privileged Access Management
12 24 (7.95%) Vulnerability Management
13 23 (7.62%) Roadmaps
14 22 (7.28%) Cloud Security
15 21 (6.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 72 (23.84%) PowerShell
2 35 (11.59%) Python
3 20 (6.62%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.97%) SQL
5 12 (3.97%) Java
6 9 (2.98%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.65%) Groovy
8 7 (2.32%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.66%) Bash
9 5 (1.66%) Bicep
9 5 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.32%) C#
11 2 (0.66%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.66%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.66%) Swift
Qualifications
1 120 (39.74%) Security Cleared
2 81 (26.82%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.93%) DV Cleared
4 25 (8.28%) CISSP
5 23 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.30%) CISM
7 14 (4.64%) Degree
8 11 (3.64%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.66%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.66%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.32%) MCP
12 3 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.99%) OCP
12 3 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.99%) PhD
13 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.23%) GDPR
2 30 (9.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 13 (4.30%) NIST
5 11 (3.64%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.65%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.99%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.99%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.99%) NCSC
8 6 (1.99%) PSD2
8 6 (1.99%) SLA
9 4 (1.32%) QA
10 3 (0.99%) WCAG
11 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.33%) GRC
11 1 (0.33%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.33%) SOC 1
System Software
1 147 (48.68%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.96%) Docker
4 11 (3.64%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.66%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (0.99%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.66%) Firmware
7 2 (0.66%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.66%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.66%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.33%) RACF
8 1 (0.33%) Squid
8 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (17.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 33 (10.93%) Terraform
3 22 (7.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (6.62%) Kubernetes
5 15 (4.97%) Ansible
6 14 (4.64%) PingFederate
7 7 (2.32%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.99%) SCCM
9 5 (1.66%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.66%) Grafana
9 5 (1.66%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.66%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.99%) VxRail
11 2 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.66%) Kibana
11 2 (0.66%) logstash
11 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 141 (46.69%) Microsoft
2 42 (13.91%) Okta
3 37 (12.25%) VMware
4 19 (6.29%) CyberArk
5 18 (5.96%) SAP
6 17 (5.63%) ServiceNow
7 16 (5.30%) Ping Identity
8 15 (4.97%) Google
9 14 (4.64%) ForgeRock
9 14 (4.64%) Splunk
10 11 (3.64%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.31%) Palo Alto
12 9 (2.98%) Cisco
12 9 (2.98%) Pega
12 9 (2.98%) Salesforce
13 8 (2.65%) F5
13 8 (2.65%) Oracle
14 6 (1.99%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (1.99%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.99%) Tenable