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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 331 351
Rank change year-on-year -29 +20 +75
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 334 225 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.69% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.71% 4.42% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 150 174
10th Percentile £359 £381 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £600 £647 £638
90th Percentile £679 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £496 £516
% change year-on-year +5.85% -3.92% -7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
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 7,096 5,087 5,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.41% 15.63% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,835 3,360 3,836
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £516
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -2.20% -6.12%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £688 £695 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 73 91
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.21 £20.25 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% +26.98% -45.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £51.63
90th Percentile £77.40 £78.46 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £59.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.02% +47.50% -13.04%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -32 280 £525 -4.55% 74
UK excluding London -30 174 £525 +5.85% 45
London -13 130 £531 -5.18% 49
Work from Home -36 109 £530 -3.64% 42
North of England -64 56 £538 +19.44% 7
South East -34 33 £520 -16.80% 22
Midlands -41 33 £450 +9.76% 4
North West -43 30 £496 +18.94% 4
Scotland +5 26 £450 -25.00% 3
South West -18 25 £525 -2.33% 6
Yorkshire -36 24 £550 +25.28% 2
West Midlands -54 20 £425 -5.56% 3
East Midlands -5 12 £550 +36.82% 1
East of England -16 5 £555 -17.78% 5
North East -31 3 £413 -31.25% 1
Wales - 3 £525 - 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 30 (8.98%) SharePoint
2 26 (7.78%) Confluence
3 23 (6.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (3.89%) nginx
5 3 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.60%) IIS
6 2 (0.60%) JBoss
6 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (4.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.60%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 164 (49.10%) Azure
2 151 (45.21%) Entra ID
3 85 (25.45%) AWS
4 49 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (13.17%) SaaS
6 40 (11.98%) GCP
7 26 (7.78%) Serverless
8 21 (6.29%) GitHub
9 16 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (4.19%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.89%) PaaS
13 12 (3.59%) Google Workspace
14 11 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (3.29%) IaaS
15 10 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (2.99%) OneDrive
16 9 (2.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 67 (20.06%) DNS
2 35 (10.48%) Firewall
3 30 (8.98%) TCP/IP
3 30 (8.98%) VPN
4 25 (7.49%) DHCP
5 24 (7.19%) SSL
6 20 (5.99%) Network Security
7 18 (5.39%) Kerberos
8 14 (4.19%) WAN
9 13 (3.89%) IPsec
9 13 (3.89%) OpenVPN
10 11 (3.29%) HTTP
10 11 (3.29%) HTTPS
10 11 (3.29%) LAN
11 9 (2.69%) DKIM
11 9 (2.69%) DMARC
11 9 (2.69%) SD-WAN
12 7 (2.10%) Internet
12 7 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.59%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.10%) Metadata
4 5 (1.50%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.50%) MySQL
4 5 (1.50%) Power BI
5 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (13.17%) JIRA
2 13 (3.89%) Git
3 11 (3.29%) Browser DevTools
4 9 (2.69%) SonarQube
4 9 (2.69%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.10%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (1.80%) GitLab
7 4 (1.20%) Postman
7 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.90%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.60%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.60%) Snyk
10 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.30%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.17%) Finance
3 49 (14.67%) Public Sector
4 32 (9.58%) Documentation Skills
5 30 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.79%) Banking
7 8 (2.40%) Publishing
8 7 (2.10%) Legal
8 7 (2.10%) Military
9 6 (1.80%) Retail
10 4 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.30%) Front Office
13 1 (0.30%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Local Government
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (16.17%) Architect
2 32 (9.58%) Developer
3 27 (8.08%) Senior
4 26 (7.78%) Lead
5 21 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (5.99%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.69%) Administrator
8 18 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.79%) Technical Architect
10 14 (4.19%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.89%) Consultant
12 11 (3.29%) Security Engineer
13 10 (2.99%) Analyst
13 10 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (2.69%) IAM Project Manager
15 8 (2.40%) Active Directory Engineer
15 8 (2.40%) IAM Specialist
15 8 (2.40%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 8 (2.40%) Platform Engineer
16 7 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (25.75%) SAML
2 80 (23.95%) OAuth
3 72 (21.56%) OpenID
4 53 (15.87%) LDAP
5 37 (11.08%) OAuth2
6 27 (8.08%) REST
7 23 (6.89%) SailPoint
8 15 (4.49%) SOAP
8 15 (4.49%) Web Services
9 14 (4.19%) Node.js
10 13 (3.89%) Express.js
11 10 (2.99%) .NET
11 10 (2.99%) XML
12 8 (2.40%) React
13 7 (2.10%) ActiveX
13 7 (2.10%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.10%) CSS
13 7 (2.10%) Middleware
13 7 (2.10%) SAP Basis
14 6 (1.80%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (20.36%) Onboarding
2 29 (8.68%) Enterprise Software
2 29 (8.68%) PKI
3 24 (7.19%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.99%) Replication
7 9 (2.69%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.69%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.40%) Taxonomies
9 7 (2.10%) Freedom of Information
9 7 (2.10%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.57%) Windows
2 21 (6.29%) Linux
3 17 (5.09%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.69%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.69%) Unix
5 6 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.90%) Android
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.60%) VMS
8 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.30%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (33.23%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (22.46%) DevOps
3 68 (20.36%) RBAC
4 53 (15.87%) Agile
5 51 (15.27%) CI/CD
6 50 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
6 50 (14.97%) Roadmaps
7 43 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (11.98%) Zero Trust
9 38 (11.38%) Migration
10 32 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (9.58%) Privileged Access Management
11 30 (8.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (8.38%) Microservices
13 26 (7.78%) ITIL
14 25 (7.49%) Cloud Security
14 25 (7.49%) Validation
15 24 (7.19%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 50 (14.97%) PowerShell
2 32 (9.58%) Java
3 25 (7.49%) Python
4 19 (5.69%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.79%) SQL
6 10 (2.99%) Bash
7 7 (2.10%) C#
7 7 (2.10%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.10%) VB
7 7 (2.10%) VB6
7 7 (2.10%) VBA
8 4 (1.20%) Bicep
9 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.60%) Groovy
10 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.30%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.30%) Korn
11 1 (0.30%) PHP
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 68 (20.36%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.29%) Degree
4 17 (5.09%) CISSP
5 13 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.10%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.80%) CISM
9 6 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.80%) PMP
10 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.90%) GIAC
11 3 (0.90%) MCSE
12 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.60%) CEH
12 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.78%) GDPR
2 35 (10.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (8.08%) NIST
4 16 (4.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (4.19%) SLA
6 12 (3.59%) QA
7 11 (3.29%) Accessibility
8 10 (2.99%) GRC
9 9 (2.69%) Data Quality
10 7 (2.10%) PMO
11 6 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (1.80%) SOC 2
12 5 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (1.20%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.90%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.60%) ITGC
15 2 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 141 (42.22%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.09%) Docker
3 10 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.69%) Squid
5 6 (1.80%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.20%) RACF
8 3 (0.90%) vSphere
9 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.18%) Terraform
3 21 (6.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (5.39%) Grafana
4 18 (5.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.49%) Ansible
6 10 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.69%) Argo
7 9 (2.69%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.40%) Consul
9 6 (1.80%) CA Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.50%) CASB
10 5 (1.50%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.90%) SELinux
13 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.60%) Packer
13 2 (0.60%) SCCM
13 2 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 128 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.56%) Okta
3 28 (8.38%) CyberArk
4 27 (8.08%) ServiceNow
5 24 (7.19%) Red Hat
6 18 (5.39%) Zscaler
7 17 (5.09%) SAP
8 16 (4.79%) VMware
9 15 (4.49%) BeyondTrust
9 15 (4.49%) Google
10 14 (4.19%) Oracle
11 10 (2.99%) Cisco
11 10 (2.99%) Dynatrace
11 10 (2.99%) Ping Identity
12 8 (2.40%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (2.10%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.80%) ForgeRock
15 5 (1.50%) F5
15 5 (1.50%) Netskope