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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 388 356
Rank change year-on-year +66 -32 +102
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 288 163 267
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.87% 3.13% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 103 204
10th Percentile £382 £400 £376
25th Percentile £425 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.01% +2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £620
90th Percentile £679 £775 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £625 £515
% change year-on-year -17.20% +21.36% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 5,919 5,200 6,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.22% 14.45% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,000 3,305 4,413
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% -3.31% -5.57%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 71 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.05 £23.41
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -42.36% +46.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.88 £72.81
90th Percentile £79.00 £74.00 £78.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.39 £28.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +21.72% -38.83% +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 4 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 4 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 +64 245 £524 -12.67% 56
UK excluding London +34 139 £518 -17.20% 51
London +13 102 £525 -12.50% 16
Work from Home +32 79 £500 -20.63% 23
South West +38 45 £524 -0.19% 9
North of England -7 41 £471 -5.80% 17
South East -10 22 £538 -23.21% 13
Yorkshire - 22 £525 - 11
North West -8 19 £423 -15.40% 6
Midlands -32 16 £410 -19.61% 5
West Midlands -30 14 £500 -1.96% 5
Scotland +9 10 £575 -8.73% 3
East of England -13 6 £625 +66.67% 2
East Midlands -15 2 £405 -
Wales -5 1 £550 +10.00% 3

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 23 (7.99%) Confluence
2 18 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.08%) Apache
4 6 (2.08%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.08%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (1.74%) IIS
5 5 (1.74%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.74%) JBoss
6 3 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.69%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.35%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.69%) Windchill
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (4.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.69%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (46.88%) Azure
2 108 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 83 (28.82%) AWS
4 47 (16.32%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (13.89%) SaaS
6 31 (10.76%) GCP
7 23 (7.99%) GitHub
8 14 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.17%) PaaS
10 11 (3.82%) Azure AKS
10 11 (3.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.13%) IaaS
12 9 (3.13%) Nutanix
12 9 (3.13%) Power Platform
13 8 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 6 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.08%) OneDrive
15 6 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.93%) DNS
2 34 (11.81%) Firewall
3 24 (8.33%) SSL
3 24 (8.33%) VPN
4 15 (5.21%) Kerberos
5 9 (3.13%) DHCP
5 9 (3.13%) HTTP
6 8 (2.78%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.08%) HTTPS
8 6 (2.08%) LAN
8 6 (2.08%) Network Security
8 6 (2.08%) SSH
9 5 (1.74%) WAN
9 5 (1.74%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.39%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.04%) BGP
11 3 (1.04%) Internet
11 3 (1.04%) OSPF
11 3 (1.04%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (2.08%) Power BI
2 5 (1.74%) Oracle Database
2 5 (1.74%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.69%) MySQL
3 2 (0.69%) SQLite
4 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.35%) Big Data
4 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.35%) Metadata
4 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.35%) Redis
4 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (13.89%) JIRA
2 20 (6.94%) Git
3 12 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.74%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.74%) MSI
4 5 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.69%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.69%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.69%) fastlane
5 2 (0.69%) Postman
5 2 (0.69%) Selenium
5 2 (0.69%) Xcode
6 1 (0.35%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.35%) GitLab
6 1 (0.35%) gulp
6 1 (0.35%) JMeter
6 1 (0.35%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 95 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.15%) Finance
3 29 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.13%) Banking
7 4 (1.39%) Aviation
7 4 (1.39%) Retail
7 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.04%) Marketing
9 2 (0.69%) Electronics
9 2 (0.69%) Legal
9 2 (0.69%) Local Government
9 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (19.10%) Architect
2 38 (13.19%) Senior
3 23 (7.99%) Consultant
4 21 (7.29%) Developer
4 21 (7.29%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.56%) Analyst
6 14 (4.86%) Business Analyst
6 14 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (4.86%) Lead
7 13 (4.51%) Administrator
8 12 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (3.47%) IAM Consultant
9 10 (3.47%) IAM Specialist
9 10 (3.47%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.47%) Senior Architect
9 10 (3.47%) ServiceNow Architect
10 7 (2.43%) ForgeRock Developer
11 6 (2.08%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (2.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (39.58%) SAML
2 105 (36.46%) OAuth
3 82 (28.47%) OpenID
4 62 (21.53%) LDAP
5 48 (16.67%) OAuth2
6 35 (12.15%) SailPoint
7 32 (11.11%) REST
8 22 (7.64%) JSON
8 22 (7.64%) SOAP
9 19 (6.60%) HTML
10 18 (6.25%) AngularJS
11 17 (5.90%) JDBC
11 17 (5.90%) Web Services
12 16 (5.56%) HTML5
13 13 (4.51%) Apache Camel
13 13 (4.51%) jQuery
13 13 (4.51%) ODBC
13 13 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.82%) RESTful
15 8 (2.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.58%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.60%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.56%) PKI
4 14 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.43%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.43%) Replication
7 7 (2.43%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.04%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.69%) Animation
12 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 55 (19.10%) Windows
2 31 (10.76%) Windows Server
3 23 (7.99%) Linux
4 7 (2.43%) Unix
5 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.69%) Android
7 2 (0.69%) CatOS
7 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.13%) Identity Access Management
2 74 (25.69%) RBAC
3 71 (24.65%) Agile
3 71 (24.65%) Identity Management
4 68 (23.61%) DevOps
5 49 (17.01%) Zero Trust
6 47 (16.32%) CI/CD
7 40 (13.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 40 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 29 (10.07%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (9.38%) Cloud Security
12 26 (9.03%) ITSM
13 25 (8.68%) Scrum
13 25 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (8.33%) Privileged Access Management
15 23 (7.99%) Microservices
16 21 (7.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 64 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 31 (10.76%) JavaScript
3 29 (10.07%) Python
4 18 (6.25%) Java
5 10 (3.47%) Groovy
6 9 (3.13%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.78%) SQL
8 5 (1.74%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.39%) Bash
9 4 (1.39%) Bicep
9 4 (1.39%) C#
9 4 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.69%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.69%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.69%) Swift
11 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (34.03%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.03%) CISSP
4 23 (7.99%) DV Cleared
5 21 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.90%) CISM
7 13 (4.51%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.82%) Degree
9 7 (2.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.74%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.04%) CCSP
13 3 (1.04%) PhD
14 2 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.69%) MCITP
14 2 (0.69%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.58%) GDPR
2 31 (10.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.56%) NIST
4 13 (4.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.47%) HIPAA
6 9 (3.13%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.08%) NCSC
8 6 (2.08%) PSD2
9 5 (1.74%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.39%) QA
10 4 (1.39%) SLA
11 3 (1.04%) WCAG
12 2 (0.69%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.35%) GRC
13 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.35%) SOC 1
System Software
1 139 (48.26%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.90%) Docker
4 7 (2.43%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.74%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.04%) Sendmail
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
7 2 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (15.63%) Terraform
2 31 (10.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 30 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (9.72%) Kubernetes
5 16 (5.56%) Ansible
6 14 (4.86%) PingFederate
7 7 (2.43%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.74%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.74%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.74%) SCCM
8 5 (1.74%) Tivoli
9 3 (1.04%) Grafana
9 3 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.04%) Kibana
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.69%) logstash
10 2 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.69%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 120 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.46%) ServiceNow
3 32 (11.11%) VMware
4 31 (10.76%) CyberArk
5 28 (9.72%) Okta
6 22 (7.64%) ForgeRock
7 16 (5.56%) Ping Identity
8 14 (4.86%) HP
8 14 (4.86%) Splunk
8 14 (4.86%) Zscaler
9 13 (4.51%) BMC
9 13 (4.51%) Google
9 13 (4.51%) Ivanti
9 13 (4.51%) Remedy
10 9 (3.13%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.78%) Alibaba
11 8 (2.78%) Oracle
12 7 (2.43%) Cisco
12 7 (2.43%) IBM
13 6 (2.08%) Palo Alto