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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 338 343
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +74
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 307 197 252
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.67% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.78% 4.23% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 131 179
10th Percentile £350 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £488 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £570 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +11.22% -5.96%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £489
% change year-on-year -2.33% +9.92% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 6
10th Percentile £54.40 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile £92.50 - £102.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 - £98.00

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 6,420 4,656 5,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.95% 15.86% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,425 3,193 3,724
10th Percentile £320 £313 £256
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -0.63% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 48 129
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.63 £22.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.80 £74.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +103.70% -10.00% -34.93%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -16 266 £525 -8.70% 79
UK excluding London -5 162 £525 -2.33% 46
London -37 103 £545 -9.17% 48
Work from Home -26 90 £600 +9.09% 40
North of England -47 62 £525 +8.58% 10
South West +1 41 £560 +28.00% 2
Yorkshire -23 40 £525 -1.78% 3
South East -30 36 £525 -17.97% 24
Midlands -64 23 £449 -23.66% 4
North West -39 22 £400 -13.51% 7
West Midlands -59 13 £340 -42.13% 1
East Midlands -23 10 £638 - 3
Scotland +3 4 £675 -18.18% 2
East of England -30 2 £563 +28.57% 5
Wales -9 1 £550 -
North East -19 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 23 (7.49%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.84%) Confluence
3 16 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.93%) nginx
5 3 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.98%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.61%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 29 (9.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 150 (48.86%) Azure
2 144 (46.91%) Entra ID
3 62 (20.20%) AWS
4 50 (16.29%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (14.66%) SaaS
6 27 (8.79%) Serverless
7 23 (7.49%) GCP
8 20 (6.51%) PaaS
9 18 (5.86%) GitHub
10 17 (5.54%) Amazon S3
11 16 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.89%) Google Workspace
13 13 (4.23%) OneDrive
14 12 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (3.91%) IaaS
15 11 (3.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (2.93%) Route 53
18 8 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 81 (26.38%) DNS
2 45 (14.66%) Firewall
3 36 (11.73%) VPN
4 33 (10.75%) DHCP
5 26 (8.47%) Kerberos
6 23 (7.49%) SSL
7 21 (6.84%) TCP/IP
8 15 (4.89%) Network Security
9 14 (4.56%) HTTP
10 13 (4.23%) IPsec
11 12 (3.91%) LAN
12 11 (3.58%) BIG-IP
12 11 (3.58%) WAN
13 10 (3.26%) HTTPS
14 9 (2.93%) OpenVPN
14 9 (2.93%) Wireless
15 8 (2.61%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (2.61%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (2.61%) Ethereal
15 8 (2.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.28%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.63%) Metadata
3 5 (1.63%) Power BI
4 4 (1.30%) MySQL
5 3 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.98%) CockroachDB
5 3 (0.98%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.65%) GIS
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 40 (13.03%) JIRA
2 9 (2.93%) Browser DevTools
2 9 (2.93%) Git
3 7 (2.28%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.28%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.95%) GitLab
5 5 (1.63%) Postman
6 4 (1.30%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.98%) MSI
8 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.65%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.65%) JUnit
8 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.33%) CocoaPods
9 1 (0.33%) Gatling
9 1 (0.33%) JMeter
9 1 (0.33%) Selenium
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.33%) Xcode
9 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.73%) Documentation Skills
3 35 (11.40%) Finance
4 30 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 29 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.21%) Publishing
7 10 (3.26%) Banking
8 7 (2.28%) Retail
9 6 (1.95%) Legal
10 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Military
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Front Office
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (17.92%) Architect
2 30 (9.77%) Senior
3 26 (8.47%) Administrator
4 25 (8.14%) Lead
5 22 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.21%) Developer
7 15 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (4.56%) Technical Architect
9 11 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (3.58%) Consultant
9 11 (3.58%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.26%) Network Engineer
11 9 (2.93%) Analyst
11 9 (2.93%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.61%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.61%) Senior Architect
12 8 (2.61%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.28%) SAP Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (31.60%) OAuth
2 96 (31.27%) SAML
3 70 (22.80%) OpenID
4 57 (18.57%) LDAP
5 44 (14.33%) OAuth2
6 20 (6.51%) SAP Basis
7 19 (6.19%) SailPoint
8 15 (4.89%) REST
9 10 (3.26%) React
10 9 (2.93%) Entity Framework
11 8 (2.61%) ARM Templates
12 7 (2.28%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.28%) YAML
13 6 (1.95%) .NET
13 6 (1.95%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.95%) CSS
13 6 (1.95%) Web Services
14 5 (1.63%) HTML
14 5 (1.63%) XACML
15 4 (1.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.96%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.82%) Replication
3 20 (6.51%) Taxonomies
4 16 (5.21%) PKI
5 11 (3.58%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.26%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.93%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.61%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.30%) Clustering
10 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (0.98%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 80 (26.06%) Windows
2 48 (15.64%) Windows Server
3 16 (5.21%) Linux
4 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.30%) CatOS
5 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.30%) Unix
5 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (28.01%) Identity Access Management
2 81 (26.38%) RBAC
3 71 (23.13%) DevOps
4 55 (17.92%) Cybersecurity
5 54 (17.59%) Roadmaps
6 47 (15.31%) CI/CD
7 44 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (13.68%) Agile
10 39 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (12.70%) Zero Trust
11 34 (11.07%) Identity Management
12 31 (10.10%) Validation
13 29 (9.45%) High Availability
14 27 (8.79%) Disaster Recovery
14 27 (8.79%) Vulnerability Management
15 26 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 25 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 25 (8.14%) Migration
17 24 (7.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (21.50%) PowerShell
2 21 (6.84%) Python
2 21 (6.84%) SQL
3 17 (5.54%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.56%) Java
5 12 (3.91%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.93%) Bash
7 6 (1.95%) C#
8 4 (1.30%) Bicep
8 4 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.98%) Groovy
10 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.33%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.33%) Korn
11 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.33%) PHP
11 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 125 (40.72%) Security Cleared
2 83 (27.04%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.40%) DV Cleared
4 20 (6.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.21%) Degree
6 11 (3.58%) CISSP
7 9 (2.93%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.63%) CISM
9 4 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.30%) PMP
10 3 (0.98%) OCP
10 3 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.65%) FFIEC
11 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.65%) RHCE
11 2 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.36%) GDPR
2 25 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 19 (6.19%) NIST
5 10 (3.26%) QA
5 10 (3.26%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.93%) GRC
7 8 (2.61%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.95%) SLA
9 4 (1.30%) PMO
10 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.98%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.33%) COBIT
12 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 156 (50.81%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.21%) Docker
4 15 (4.89%) VMware NSX
5 10 (3.26%) Squid
6 6 (1.95%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.63%) RACF
8 4 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.98%) Firmware
9 3 (0.98%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.65%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.65%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.65%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (20.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 33 (10.75%) Terraform
3 30 (9.77%) Kubernetes
4 20 (6.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (4.56%) Grafana
6 11 (3.58%) Ansible
6 11 (3.58%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.93%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.93%) PingFederate
8 7 (2.28%) Consul
8 7 (2.28%) SCCM
9 6 (1.95%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.30%) VxRail
11 2 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.33%) Argo
12 1 (0.33%) CASB
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 134 (43.65%) Microsoft
2 52 (16.94%) Okta
3 35 (11.40%) VMware
4 29 (9.45%) SAP
5 18 (5.86%) CyberArk
5 18 (5.86%) Google
6 15 (4.89%) Red Hat
7 14 (4.56%) Zscaler
8 13 (4.23%) Palo Alto
8 13 (4.23%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.58%) Cisco
9 11 (3.58%) F5
9 11 (3.58%) Pega
10 9 (2.93%) Atlassian
10 9 (2.93%) CheckPoint
10 9 (2.93%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.28%) Oracle
12 6 (1.95%) Ping Identity
12 6 (1.95%) Splunk
12 6 (1.95%) Thales