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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 376 354
Rank change year-on-year +52 -22 +83
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 290 168 270
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.50% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.88% 3.37% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 111 205
10th Percentile £368 £400 £396
25th Percentile £427 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £644
90th Percentile £677 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £625 £528
% change year-on-year -16.00% +18.48% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £43.38 - -
25th Percentile £49.19 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £57.25 - -
90th Percentile £57.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.75 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +66.67%

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 5,944 4,988 5,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.06% 14.77% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,065 3,186 4,219
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £511
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.65% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 66 166
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.36 £17.36
25th Percentile £20.20 £21.10 £23.72
Median hourly rate £43.84 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +76.50% -46.21% +34.83%
75th Percentile £64.31 £56.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +101.49% -47.64% +73.15%

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 23 December 2025.

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
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 23 December 2025. 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 +53 240 £525 -12.50% 226
UK excluding London +28 138 £525 -16.00% 214
London +13 97 £525 -12.50% 34
Work from Home +18 83 £525 -16.00% 37
South West +40 44 £525 +23.53% 20
North of England -16 41 £492 -1.60% 54
South East -11 24 £538 -23.21% 52
Yorkshire -18 24 £525 - 27
North West -21 17 £423 -15.40% 23
Midlands -41 16 £500 - 38
West Midlands -27 15 £443 -11.50% 21
Scotland +8 8 £600 -4.76% 11
East of England -22 6 £625 +42.86% 37
Wales -2 1 £550 +10.00% 4
East Midlands -21 1 £550 - 14

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 20 (6.90%) Confluence
1 20 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.07%) Apache
3 6 (2.07%) IIS
4 5 (1.72%) iPlanet
4 5 (1.72%) JBoss
4 5 (1.72%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.72%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.69%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.69%) Windchill
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (3.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.69%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.34%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 140 (48.28%) Azure
2 119 (41.03%) Entra ID
3 67 (23.10%) AWS
4 45 (15.52%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (14.14%) SaaS
6 23 (7.93%) GitHub
7 19 (6.55%) GCP
8 16 (5.52%) PaaS
9 10 (3.45%) IaaS
10 9 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.76%) Nutanix
11 8 (2.76%) OneDrive
12 7 (2.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (2.41%) Google Workspace
12 7 (2.41%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.41%) Serverless
13 6 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (17.24%) DNS
2 32 (11.03%) Firewall
3 25 (8.62%) VPN
4 22 (7.59%) SSL
5 18 (6.21%) Kerberos
6 13 (4.48%) DHCP
7 10 (3.45%) HTTP
8 9 (3.10%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.41%) HTTPS
9 7 (2.41%) LAN
9 7 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.07%) Network Security
10 6 (2.07%) SSH
10 6 (2.07%) WAN
10 6 (2.07%) Wireshark
11 4 (1.38%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.38%) Internet
11 4 (1.38%) IPsec
11 4 (1.38%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.72%) Oracle Database
1 5 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.72%) Power BI
1 5 (1.72%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.69%) MySQL
2 2 (0.69%) SQLite
3 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.34%) CockroachDB
3 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.34%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (13.79%) JIRA
2 21 (7.24%) Git
3 11 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.72%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.72%) MSI
4 5 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.69%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.69%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.69%) fastlane
5 2 (0.69%) GitLab
5 2 (0.69%) Postman
5 2 (0.69%) Selenium
5 2 (0.69%) Xcode
6 1 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.34%) Gatling
6 1 (0.34%) gulp
6 1 (0.34%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 80 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.03%) Finance
3 28 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.41%) Banking
7 5 (1.72%) Publishing
8 4 (1.38%) Aviation
8 4 (1.38%) Retail
8 4 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.03%) Marketing
10 2 (0.69%) Electronics
10 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.69%) Legal
10 2 (0.69%) Local Government
10 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Police
11 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (16.90%) Architect
2 38 (13.10%) Senior
3 22 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (7.24%) Developer
5 19 (6.55%) Administrator
5 19 (6.55%) Consultant
6 16 (5.52%) Lead
7 15 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.14%) Analyst
10 11 (3.79%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.10%) IAM Specialist
11 9 (3.10%) Senior Architect
12 8 (2.76%) IAM Consultant
13 7 (2.41%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (2.41%) ForgeRock Developer
14 6 (2.07%) Security Architect
14 6 (2.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.07%) ServiceNow Architect
14 6 (2.07%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (36.55%) SAML
2 98 (33.79%) OAuth
3 74 (25.52%) OpenID
4 53 (18.28%) LDAP
5 40 (13.79%) OAuth2
6 37 (12.76%) SailPoint
7 22 (7.59%) REST
8 15 (5.17%) SOAP
9 13 (4.48%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.48%) HTML
10 12 (4.14%) HTML5
10 12 (4.14%) JDBC
10 12 (4.14%) JSON
11 11 (3.79%) Web Services
12 10 (3.45%) React
12 10 (3.45%) RESTful
13 9 (3.10%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.10%) jQuery
13 9 (3.10%) ODBC
13 9 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.17%) Onboarding
2 17 (5.86%) PKI
3 13 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.45%) Taxonomies
5 9 (3.10%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.10%) Replication
6 8 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.76%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.41%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.69%) Animation
10 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.38%) Windows
2 33 (11.38%) Windows Server
3 22 (7.59%) Linux
4 7 (2.41%) Unix
5 4 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.03%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.69%) Android
7 2 (0.69%) CatOS
7 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (25.86%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (24.83%) RBAC
3 65 (22.41%) Agile
4 60 (20.69%) Identity Management
5 55 (18.97%) DevOps
6 45 (15.52%) CI/CD
6 45 (15.52%) Zero Trust
7 35 (12.07%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 35 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (11.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (8.62%) Privileged Access Management
11 23 (7.93%) Cloud Security
11 23 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 23 (7.93%) Microservices
12 22 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (7.24%) Migration
14 20 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (6.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 31 (10.69%) Python
3 24 (8.28%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.83%) Java
5 13 (4.48%) SQL
6 9 (3.10%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.76%) Groovy
8 6 (2.07%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.38%) Bicep
10 4 (1.38%) C#
11 3 (1.03%) Bash
12 2 (0.69%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.69%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (37.24%) Security Cleared
2 77 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.62%) CISSP
3 25 (8.62%) DV Cleared
4 22 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.52%) CISM
6 11 (3.79%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.45%) Degree
8 7 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.03%) MCP
11 3 (1.03%) PhD
12 2 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.69%) MCTS
12 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.83%) GDPR
2 28 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (4.14%) NIST
5 10 (3.45%) HIPAA
6 9 (3.10%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.07%) NCSC
8 6 (2.07%) PSD2
9 5 (1.72%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.38%) QA
10 4 (1.38%) SLA
11 3 (1.03%) WCAG
12 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.34%) SOC 1
System Software
1 140 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (6.55%) Docker
4 9 (3.10%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.72%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.03%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.03%) vSphere
7 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.69%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.69%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.69%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.34%) RACF
8 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 39 (13.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 38 (13.10%) Terraform
3 30 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (5.86%) Kubernetes
5 16 (5.52%) Ansible
6 14 (4.83%) PingFederate
7 7 (2.41%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.07%) SCCM
9 5 (1.72%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.72%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.72%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.38%) Grafana
11 3 (1.03%) Kibana
12 2 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.69%) logstash
12 2 (0.69%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.34%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.34%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 125 (43.10%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.38%) Okta
2 33 (11.38%) VMware
3 31 (10.69%) CyberArk
4 24 (8.28%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.52%) Google
5 16 (5.52%) Ping Identity
6 15 (5.17%) ForgeRock
7 13 (4.48%) Splunk
7 13 (4.48%) Zscaler
8 11 (3.79%) SAP
9 10 (3.45%) HP
10 9 (3.10%) BMC
10 9 (3.10%) Ivanti
10 9 (3.10%) Remedy
10 9 (3.10%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.76%) Oracle
12 7 (2.41%) Cisco
12 7 (2.41%) Palo Alto
13 6 (2.07%) Tenable