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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 339 358
Rank change year-on-year -47 +19 +40
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 312 214 207
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.65% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.40% 4.18% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 144 141
10th Percentile £374 £382 £350
25th Percentile £447 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +5.83%
75th Percentile £601 £628 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £620
% change year-on-year +10.53% -23.39% +11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 3
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.34
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.75 £24.59
Median hourly rate £71.25 £47.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +90.00% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £64.50
90th Percentile - - £88.20
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 7,094 5,122 5,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.25% 15.58% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,811 3,368 3,642
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 81 76
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.25
25th Percentile £28.13 £20.25 £24.09
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -37.63%
75th Percentile £70.79 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.70 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% +37.50% -13.38%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -58 261 £525 -4.55% 54
UK excluding London -14 164 £525 +10.53% 38
London -38 119 £531 -3.89% 23
Work from Home -37 92 £510 -7.27% 37
North of England -59 53 £525 +22.24% 14
Midlands -37 33 £463 +12.80% 4
North West -35 30 £525 +13.41% 11
South East -54 29 £600 +9.09% 11
Scotland +7 25 £450 -18.18% 2
South West -25 21 £525 -7.24% 6
West Midlands -39 21 £425 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire -41 18 £550 +34.97% 3
East Midlands -11 11 £638 +58.58%
North East - 5 £481 -
East of England -22 4 £543 -19.63% 2
Wales - 3 £525 -

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 28 (8.97%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (6.41%) Confluence
4 6 (1.92%) nginx
5 3 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.64%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (47.44%) Azure
2 142 (45.51%) Entra ID
3 71 (22.76%) AWS
4 43 (13.78%) GCP
4 43 (13.78%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (12.18%) SaaS
6 23 (7.37%) GitHub
7 14 (4.49%) Google Workspace
7 14 (4.49%) Serverless
8 12 (3.85%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.88%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.24%) Google Drive
11 7 (2.24%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.92%) Asana
12 6 (1.92%) OCI
12 6 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 61 (19.55%) DNS
2 33 (10.58%) Firewall
3 26 (8.33%) VPN
4 24 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 22 (7.05%) SSL
6 17 (5.45%) DHCP
6 17 (5.45%) Network Security
7 16 (5.13%) WAN
8 12 (3.85%) HTTP
9 11 (3.53%) HTTPS
9 11 (3.53%) LAN
9 11 (3.53%) SD-WAN
10 9 (2.88%) DKIM
10 9 (2.88%) DMARC
10 9 (2.88%) IPsec
10 9 (2.88%) Kerberos
11 8 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.92%) BIG-IP
12 6 (1.92%) OpenVPN
12 6 (1.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.24%) Metadata
3 4 (1.28%) MySQL
3 4 (1.28%) Power BI
4 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.64%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.64%) Tableau
6 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.32%) Db2
6 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (11.22%) JIRA
2 11 (3.53%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.21%) Git
3 10 (3.21%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.88%) GitLab
4 9 (2.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.24%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.96%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.64%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.64%) Snyk
9 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 65 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.27%) Finance
3 49 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.29%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (5.45%) Banking
6 9 (2.88%) Retail
7 7 (2.24%) Military
7 7 (2.24%) Publishing
8 6 (1.92%) Legal
9 5 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Local Government
11 2 (0.64%) Marketing
12 1 (0.32%) Front Office
12 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (14.10%) Architect
2 30 (9.62%) Developer
3 24 (7.69%) Lead
4 21 (6.73%) Support Engineer
5 19 (6.09%) Administrator
5 19 (6.09%) Senior
5 19 (6.09%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (3.85%) Consultant
7 12 (3.85%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (3.21%) Security Engineer
9 9 (2.88%) Active Directory Engineer
9 9 (2.88%) IAM Project Manager
9 9 (2.88%) IAM Specialist
10 8 (2.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (2.24%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (2.24%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.24%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (25.00%) SAML
2 62 (19.87%) OAuth
3 56 (17.95%) OpenID
4 40 (12.82%) LDAP
5 30 (9.62%) OAuth2
6 28 (8.97%) REST
7 23 (7.37%) SailPoint
8 16 (5.13%) SOAP
9 13 (4.17%) Web Services
9 13 (4.17%) XML
10 12 (3.85%) Node.js
11 11 (3.53%) Express.js
12 9 (2.88%) .NET
12 9 (2.88%) ActiveX
12 9 (2.88%) Middleware
13 8 (2.56%) React
14 6 (1.92%) CSS
14 6 (1.92%) SAP Basis
15 5 (1.60%) AngularJS
16 4 (1.28%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (21.15%) Onboarding
2 32 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (9.62%) PKI
4 21 (6.73%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.24%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.92%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.60%) Clustering
10 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.60%) Replication
11 4 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.86%) Windows
2 19 (6.09%) Linux
3 11 (3.53%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.21%) Unix
4 10 (3.21%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.96%) Android
7 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.64%) VMS
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.32%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (33.97%) Identity Access Management
2 71 (22.76%) RBAC
3 56 (17.95%) DevOps
4 53 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 45 (14.42%) CI/CD
6 45 (14.42%) Cybersecurity
7 43 (13.78%) Agile
8 40 (12.82%) Privileged Access Management
9 39 (12.50%) Migration
10 37 (11.86%) Roadmaps
11 35 (11.22%) Zero Trust
12 34 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 33 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (9.29%) ITIL
15 28 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
17 25 (8.01%) Cloud Security
18 24 (7.69%) Analytics
18 24 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.10%) PowerShell
2 33 (10.58%) Python
3 30 (9.62%) Java
4 15 (4.81%) Bash
5 14 (4.49%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.21%) SQL
7 9 (2.88%) VB
7 9 (2.88%) VB6
7 9 (2.88%) VBA
8 6 (1.92%) C#
9 5 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.96%) Go
11 2 (0.64%) Bicep
11 2 (0.64%) Groovy
11 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Swift
12 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 67 (21.47%) Security Cleared
2 53 (16.99%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.41%) Degree
4 16 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (4.81%) CISSP
6 13 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.21%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.24%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.92%) CISM
9 6 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.92%) PMP
10 3 (0.96%) GIAC
10 3 (0.96%) MCSE
11 2 (0.64%) CEH
11 2 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (8.01%) NIST
3 24 (7.69%) GDPR
4 14 (4.49%) QA
5 12 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 12 (3.85%) SLA
6 10 (3.21%) Data Quality
6 10 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (2.24%) GRC
7 7 (2.24%) PMO
8 4 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.96%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.64%) ITGC
10 2 (0.64%) NCSC
11 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 133 (42.63%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.77%) Docker
3 9 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.92%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.96%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.96%) vSphere
7 2 (0.64%) Squid
7 2 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.32%) Firmware
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (8.65%) Kubernetes
1 27 (8.65%) Terraform
2 21 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (4.81%) Ansible
3 15 (4.81%) Grafana
4 9 (2.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (2.88%) Argo
5 6 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.60%) CASB
6 5 (1.60%) PingFederate
7 4 (1.28%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.96%) Consul
8 3 (0.96%) Packer
8 3 (0.96%) SELinux
9 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.64%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 68 (21.79%) Okta
3 28 (8.97%) CyberArk
4 24 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 21 (6.73%) BeyondTrust
6 20 (6.41%) Google
7 17 (5.45%) SAP
8 16 (5.13%) Zscaler
9 15 (4.81%) Red Hat
10 14 (4.49%) Oracle
10 14 (4.49%) VMware
11 11 (3.53%) Ping Identity
12 9 (2.88%) Cisco
13 8 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (1.92%) F5
14 6 (1.92%) ForgeRock
14 6 (1.92%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.92%) Salesforce
15 5 (1.60%) Netskope
15 5 (1.60%) Workday