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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 378 338
Rank change year-on-year +77 -40 +92
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 332 159 273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.52% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.51% 3.42% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 104 205
10th Percentile £356 £410 £363
25th Percentile £439 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +6.41% -
75th Percentile £600 £680 £638
90th Percentile £681 £774 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -13.67% +23.08% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile £46.65 - £37.23
25th Percentile £53.50 - £47.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £65.75
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile £92.50 - £93.28
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 6,023 4,654 5,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.55% 15.08% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,166 3,001 4,039
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 60 165
10th Percentile £17.64 £15.22 £14.30
25th Percentile £20.66 £21.05 £21.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +11.18%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.19 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.08% -48.03% +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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +46 277 £525 -12.50% 68
UK excluding London +24 161 £518 -13.67% 48
London +27 114 £525 -12.50% 34
Work from Home +21 99 £541 -9.85% 29
North of England -24 51 £475 -5.00% 8
South West +23 49 £524 +23.29% 10
Yorkshire -18 33 £525 -12.50% 4
South East -13 31 £490 -24.62% 21
North West -28 18 £400 -20.00% 4
Midlands -58 18 £442 -24.72% 6
West Midlands -37 14 £420 -28.51% 6
Scotland +10 7 £650 -21.21% 2
East of England -17 6 £575 +31.43% 3
East Midlands -28 4 £442 -
Wales +2 1 £550 +10.00%

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 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.92%) Confluence
3 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.11%) IIS
5 6 (1.81%) Apache
6 5 (1.51%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.51%) JBoss
6 5 (1.51%) nginx
6 5 (1.51%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.51%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.60%) CMS
9 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.60%) Windchill
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 16 (4.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (50.60%) Azure
2 141 (42.47%) Entra ID
3 80 (24.10%) AWS
4 52 (15.66%) SaaS
5 43 (12.95%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (7.83%) PaaS
7 22 (6.63%) GCP
8 17 (5.12%) IaaS
9 15 (4.52%) Serverless
10 14 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (4.22%) GitHub
11 12 (3.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 12 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.31%) OneDrive
13 10 (3.01%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.01%) OpenShift
14 9 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.71%) Nutanix
15 8 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 72 (21.69%) DNS
2 41 (12.35%) Firewall
3 36 (10.84%) VPN
4 35 (10.54%) Kerberos
5 29 (8.73%) DHCP
6 17 (5.12%) SSL
7 14 (4.22%) TCP/IP
8 13 (3.92%) HTTP
9 10 (3.01%) IPsec
9 10 (3.01%) LAN
10 9 (2.71%) HTTPS
10 9 (2.71%) Network Security
10 9 (2.71%) WAN
10 9 (2.71%) Wireshark
11 8 (2.41%) BIG-IP
11 8 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.11%) Wireless
13 6 (1.81%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.81%) Ethereal
13 6 (1.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.51%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.90%) CockroachDB
4 3 (0.90%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.90%) MySQL
4 3 (0.90%) Pinecone
4 3 (0.90%) Power BI
5 2 (0.60%) GIS
5 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.60%) SQLite
6 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.30%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.30%) Metadata
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (9.04%) JIRA
2 24 (7.23%) Git
3 12 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.51%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.51%) GitLab
4 5 (1.51%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.90%) MSI
5 3 (0.90%) Postman
6 2 (0.60%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.60%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.60%) fastlane
6 2 (0.60%) Selenium
6 2 (0.60%) Xcode
7 1 (0.30%) Gatling
7 1 (0.30%) gulp
7 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 84 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.14%) Finance
3 28 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
4 27 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.31%) Publishing
7 9 (2.71%) Banking
8 5 (1.51%) Aviation
9 4 (1.20%) Legal
10 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.90%) Marketing
10 3 (0.90%) Retail
10 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.60%) Electronics
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Local Government
12 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (18.37%) Architect
2 37 (11.14%) Senior
3 27 (8.13%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (6.63%) Developer
5 18 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (5.12%) Administrator
6 17 (5.12%) Consultant
7 16 (4.82%) Analyst
8 14 (4.22%) Security Engineer
8 14 (4.22%) Technical Architect
9 13 (3.92%) Lead
10 9 (2.71%) Network Engineer
11 8 (2.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.41%) IAM Consultant
11 8 (2.41%) IAM Specialist
11 8 (2.41%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.41%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.41%) Senior Architect
11 8 (2.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (34.94%) OAuth
1 116 (34.94%) SAML
2 82 (24.70%) OpenID
3 63 (18.98%) LDAP
4 46 (13.86%) OAuth2
5 28 (8.43%) SailPoint
6 14 (4.22%) SAP Basis
7 13 (3.92%) REST
8 12 (3.61%) React
9 11 (3.31%) RESTful
10 9 (2.71%) Entity Framework
11 8 (2.41%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.41%) CSS
11 8 (2.41%) SOAP
11 8 (2.41%) YAML
12 7 (2.11%) .NET
13 6 (1.81%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.81%) HTML
14 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Graph
14 5 (1.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.57%) Onboarding
2 23 (6.93%) Replication
3 20 (6.02%) PKI
4 17 (5.12%) Taxonomies
5 11 (3.31%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.41%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.11%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.90%) CMDB
12 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.60%) Animation
13 2 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 85 (25.60%) Windows
2 53 (15.96%) Windows Server
3 27 (8.13%) Linux
4 7 (2.11%) Unix
5 5 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.20%) CatOS
6 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.31%) Identity Access Management
2 91 (27.41%) RBAC
3 62 (18.67%) DevOps
4 58 (17.47%) CI/CD
5 57 (17.17%) Identity Management
6 53 (15.96%) Agile
7 48 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (12.65%) Zero Trust
9 37 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (10.54%) Roadmaps
11 33 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
11 33 (9.94%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 32 (9.64%) High Availability
13 31 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 25 (7.53%) Cloud Security
16 25 (7.53%) Privileged Access Management
16 25 (7.53%) Task Automation
16 25 (7.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (24.10%) PowerShell
2 34 (10.24%) Python
3 20 (6.02%) SQL
4 19 (5.72%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.22%) Java
6 9 (2.71%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.41%) Groovy
7 8 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.11%) Bicep
8 7 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.81%) C#
10 5 (1.51%) Bash
11 2 (0.60%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.60%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.60%) Swift
12 1 (0.30%) Korn
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (39.46%) Security Cleared
2 89 (26.81%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.24%) DV Cleared
4 27 (8.13%) CISSP
5 23 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.82%) CISM
6 16 (4.82%) Degree
7 12 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.51%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.51%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.90%) OCP
12 3 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.90%) PhD
13 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.60%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.27%) GDPR
2 34 (10.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (6.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 15 (4.52%) NIST
5 13 (3.92%) SOC 2
6 10 (3.01%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (2.71%) SLA
8 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.81%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.81%) NCSC
8 6 (1.81%) PSD2
9 4 (1.20%) GRC
9 4 (1.20%) QA
10 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.90%) WCAG
11 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 158 (47.59%) Active Directory
2 23 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.72%) Docker
4 11 (3.31%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.81%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.81%) Squid
6 5 (1.51%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 4 (1.20%) RACF
8 3 (0.90%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.60%) Firmware
9 2 (0.60%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.60%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.60%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (17.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 43 (12.95%) Terraform
3 30 (9.04%) Kubernetes
4 22 (6.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (5.12%) Ansible
6 14 (4.22%) PingFederate
7 10 (3.01%) Grafana
8 8 (2.41%) CA Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.11%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.11%) SCCM
10 6 (1.81%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.51%) CA Wily
11 5 (1.51%) Consul
11 5 (1.51%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.51%) Tivoli
12 4 (1.20%) VxRail
13 3 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.60%) Kibana
14 2 (0.60%) logstash
Vendors
1 162 (48.80%) Microsoft
2 46 (13.86%) Okta
3 39 (11.75%) VMware
4 19 (5.72%) CyberArk
4 19 (5.72%) SAP
5 16 (4.82%) Google
5 16 (4.82%) Ping Identity
5 16 (4.82%) Splunk
6 14 (4.22%) ForgeRock
7 13 (3.92%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.31%) Pega
8 11 (3.31%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.01%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.01%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.71%) Cisco
10 9 (2.71%) Oracle
10 9 (2.71%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.41%) F5
12 7 (2.11%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.11%) BeyondTrust