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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 343 372
Rank change year-on-year -31 +29 +26
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 314 221 206
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.34% 4.84% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 148 140
10th Percentile £392 £383 £350
25th Percentile £449 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.17% +6.28%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £484 £620
% change year-on-year +8.58% -22.02% +11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 3
10th Percentile £57.25 - £24.34
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.75 £24.59
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% +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 5,879 4,566 4,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.98% 13.93% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 2,973 3,196
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 80 72
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.05
25th Percentile £30.63 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -18.55% -34.52%
75th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £61.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.83 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +14.79% +40.13% -15.01%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -48 262 £525 -4.55% 60
UK excluding London -11 166 £525 +8.58% 37
London -54 118 £531 -4.32% 31
Work from Home -55 93 £510 -7.27% 40
North of England -56 53 £525 +22.18% 15
Midlands -34 34 £463 +7.56% 4
North West -29 31 £525 +13.41% 12
South East -44 29 £594 +7.95% 11
Scotland +1 25 £450 -18.18% 2
West Midlands -44 22 £425 -10.53% 4
South West -34 20 £525 -7.24% 4
Yorkshire -40 16 £558 +36.81% 3
East Midlands -11 11 £638 +58.58%
East of England -11 6 £555 -17.78% 2
North East - 6 £500 -
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 (8.92%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (6.37%) Confluence
4 6 (1.91%) 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 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.78%) 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%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 153 (48.73%) Azure
2 142 (45.22%) Entra ID
3 75 (23.89%) AWS
4 45 (14.33%) GCP
5 43 (13.69%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (12.42%) SaaS
7 24 (7.64%) GitHub
8 14 (4.46%) Google Workspace
8 14 (4.46%) Serverless
9 12 (3.82%) OpenShift
10 11 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.55%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.23%) Google Drive
14 7 (2.23%) OCI
14 7 (2.23%) OneDrive
15 6 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.91%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 64 (20.38%) DNS
2 35 (11.15%) Firewall
3 26 (8.28%) VPN
4 24 (7.64%) TCP/IP
5 22 (7.01%) SSL
6 17 (5.41%) DHCP
6 17 (5.41%) Network Security
7 16 (5.10%) WAN
8 12 (3.82%) HTTP
9 11 (3.50%) HTTPS
9 11 (3.50%) LAN
9 11 (3.50%) SD-WAN
10 9 (2.87%) DKIM
10 9 (2.87%) DMARC
10 9 (2.87%) IPsec
10 9 (2.87%) Kerberos
11 7 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.91%) BIG-IP
12 6 (1.91%) SSH
12 6 (1.91%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.23%) Metadata
3 4 (1.27%) MySQL
3 4 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.27%) Power BI
4 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.64%) Redis
5 2 (0.64%) Tableau
6 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.32%) Db2
6 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (11.15%) JIRA
2 11 (3.50%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.18%) Git
3 10 (3.18%) GitLab
3 10 (3.18%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.87%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.23%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.27%) 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 62 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.47%) Finance
3 51 (16.24%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.92%) Documentation Skills
5 18 (5.73%) Banking
6 10 (3.18%) Retail
7 7 (2.23%) Military
8 6 (1.91%) Legal
8 6 (1.91%) Publishing
9 5 (1.59%) 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 45 (14.33%) Architect
2 32 (10.19%) Developer
3 23 (7.32%) Lead
4 21 (6.69%) Support Engineer
5 19 (6.05%) Senior
6 18 (5.73%) Administrator
6 18 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (3.82%) Consultant
9 10 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.18%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.18%) Security Engineer
10 9 (2.87%) Active Directory Engineer
10 9 (2.87%) IAM Specialist
11 8 (2.55%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (2.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.23%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.23%) IAM Consultant
12 7 (2.23%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (25.16%) SAML
2 64 (20.38%) OAuth
3 58 (18.47%) OpenID
4 40 (12.74%) LDAP
5 30 (9.55%) OAuth2
6 29 (9.24%) REST
7 28 (8.92%) Terraform
8 22 (7.01%) SailPoint
9 16 (5.10%) SOAP
10 13 (4.14%) Web Services
10 13 (4.14%) XML
11 11 (3.50%) Node.js
12 10 (3.18%) Express.js
13 9 (2.87%) .NET
13 9 (2.87%) ActiveX
13 9 (2.87%) Middleware
13 9 (2.87%) React
14 7 (2.23%) CSS
15 5 (1.59%) GraphQL
15 5 (1.59%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 66 (21.02%) Onboarding
2 32 (10.19%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (9.55%) PKI
4 21 (6.69%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.14%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.55%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.23%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.23%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.59%) Clustering
10 5 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.59%) Replication
10 5 (1.59%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.78%) Windows
2 19 (6.05%) Linux
3 11 (3.50%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.18%) Unix
4 10 (3.18%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.64%) Android
8 2 (0.64%) VMS
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.32%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (34.39%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (22.93%) RBAC
3 57 (18.15%) DevOps
4 53 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (14.65%) CI/CD
7 44 (14.01%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (13.38%) Agile
8 42 (13.38%) Privileged Access Management
9 40 (12.74%) Migration
10 36 (11.46%) Roadmaps
11 34 (10.83%) Zero Trust
12 33 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 30 (9.55%) ITIL
14 28 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (8.28%) Cloud Security
15 26 (8.28%) Multi-Factor Authentication
16 25 (7.96%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (7.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 45 (14.33%) PowerShell
2 34 (10.83%) Python
3 32 (10.19%) Java
4 16 (5.10%) Bash
5 14 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.18%) SQL
7 9 (2.87%) VB
7 9 (2.87%) VB6
7 9 (2.87%) VBA
8 6 (1.91%) C#
9 5 (1.59%) 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%) Swift
12 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 68 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.05%) Degree
4 17 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (4.46%) CISSP
6 13 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.23%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.91%) CISM
9 6 (1.91%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.91%) 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 (9.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (7.96%) NIST
3 23 (7.32%) GDPR
4 14 (4.46%) QA
5 12 (3.82%) Accessibility
5 12 (3.82%) SLA
6 10 (3.18%) Data Quality
6 10 (3.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (2.23%) GRC
8 6 (1.91%) PMO
9 4 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.96%) NCSC
10 3 (0.96%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.64%) ITGC
12 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 133 (42.36%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.05%) Docker
3 9 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.91%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.59%) 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 29 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (5.10%) Ansible
3 16 (5.10%) Grafana
4 9 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (2.87%) Argo
5 7 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.59%) CASB
6 5 (1.59%) PingFederate
7 4 (1.27%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.96%) Consul
8 3 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.96%) Packer
8 3 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.96%) SELinux
9 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.64%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.64%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.32%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 121 (38.54%) Microsoft
2 65 (20.70%) Okta
3 28 (8.92%) CyberArk
4 24 (7.64%) ServiceNow
5 22 (7.01%) BeyondTrust
6 20 (6.37%) Google
7 16 (5.10%) SAP
7 16 (5.10%) Zscaler
8 15 (4.78%) Oracle
8 15 (4.78%) Red Hat
9 14 (4.46%) VMware
10 11 (3.50%) Ping Identity
11 8 (2.55%) Cisco
11 8 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.91%) F5
12 6 (1.91%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.91%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.91%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.59%) Netskope
13 5 (1.59%) Workday