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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 323 347
Rank change year-on-year -30 +24 +75
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 336 221 249
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.72% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.89% 4.59% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 150 172
10th Percentile £324 £400 £350
25th Percentile £440 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £516
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +6.73% -6.14%
75th Percentile £609 £647 £628
90th Percentile £676 £702 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 5
10th Percentile £55.30 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile £88.41 - £75.50
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 6,871 4,814 5,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.39% 15.73% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,691 3,205 3,814
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £420 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.44% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 54 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.05
25th Percentile £22.16 £20.54 £21.29
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.30 £78.34 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.75 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.91% +37.50% -7.78%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -13 289 £525 -4.55% 75
UK excluding London -17 171 £525 +5.00% 52
London -27 136 £550 -3.17% 46
Work from Home -32 109 £575 +4.55% 33
North of England -62 55 £525 +14.25% 11
South East -43 34 £510 -20.31% 23
Midlands -45 33 £450 - 2
South West -8 30 £525 +5.00% 4
Yorkshire -43 28 £550 +17.27% 4
North West -40 26 £488 +8.33% 7
Scotland -1 21 £450 -25.00% 7
West Midlands -49 19 £425 -22.73% 2
East Midlands -8 13 £463 +15.05%
Wales - 3 £525 - 2
East of England -25 2 £565 -16.30% 7
North East -34 2 £413 -31.25%

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 27 (8.04%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.55%) Confluence
2 22 (6.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.68%) nginx
4 3 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.60%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 167 (49.70%) Azure
2 153 (45.54%) Entra ID
3 79 (23.51%) AWS
4 48 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (13.39%) SaaS
6 39 (11.61%) GCP
7 26 (7.74%) Serverless
8 19 (5.65%) GitHub
9 17 (5.06%) Amazon S3
10 15 (4.46%) OpenShift
11 14 (4.17%) PaaS
12 13 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.57%) Google Workspace
13 12 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.27%) IaaS
15 9 (2.68%) OneDrive
15 9 (2.68%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 77 (22.92%) DNS
2 38 (11.31%) Firewall
3 33 (9.82%) VPN
4 31 (9.23%) DHCP
5 26 (7.74%) Kerberos
5 26 (7.74%) SSL
6 25 (7.44%) TCP/IP
7 20 (5.95%) Network Security
8 16 (4.76%) IPsec
8 16 (4.76%) WAN
9 14 (4.17%) HTTP
9 14 (4.17%) HTTPS
10 13 (3.87%) LAN
11 9 (2.68%) BIG-IP
11 9 (2.68%) DKIM
11 9 (2.68%) DMARC
11 9 (2.68%) OpenVPN
12 8 (2.38%) SD-WAN
12 8 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (2.68%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.08%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.08%) Metadata
3 5 (1.49%) MySQL
4 4 (1.19%) Power BI
5 3 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.30%) Db2
7 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (12.80%) JIRA
2 10 (2.98%) Browser DevTools
2 10 (2.98%) Git
3 9 (2.68%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.38%) GitLab
4 8 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.08%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.19%) Postman
8 3 (0.89%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.60%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.60%) Snyk
10 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.30%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.99%) Finance
3 46 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 33 (9.82%) Documentation Skills
5 31 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.57%) Banking
7 11 (3.27%) Publishing
8 8 (2.38%) Legal
9 6 (1.79%) Military
9 6 (1.79%) Retail
10 4 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Aviation
13 1 (0.30%) Front Office
13 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (15.48%) Architect
2 29 (8.63%) Developer
3 28 (8.33%) Senior
4 23 (6.85%) Lead
5 22 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (6.25%) Administrator
7 19 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (5.65%) Support Engineer
8 14 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (4.17%) Technical Architect
9 13 (3.87%) Consultant
9 13 (3.87%) Project Manager
9 13 (3.87%) Security Engineer
10 10 (2.98%) Analyst
11 8 (2.38%) Active Directory Engineer
11 8 (2.38%) IAM Project Manager
11 8 (2.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (2.38%) Network Engineer
12 7 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (1.79%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (27.68%) SAML
2 86 (25.60%) OAuth
3 69 (20.54%) OpenID
4 60 (17.86%) LDAP
5 38 (11.31%) OAuth2
6 26 (7.74%) REST
7 21 (6.25%) SailPoint
8 14 (4.17%) Node.js
9 13 (3.87%) Express.js
9 13 (3.87%) SOAP
9 13 (3.87%) Web Services
10 12 (3.57%) SAP Basis
11 9 (2.68%) React
12 8 (2.38%) CSS
13 7 (2.08%) .NET
13 7 (2.08%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.08%) HTML
13 7 (2.08%) Middleware
14 6 (1.79%) Keycloak
14 6 (1.79%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 66 (19.64%) Onboarding
2 26 (7.74%) PKI
3 24 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.36%) Replication
5 12 (3.57%) Taxonomies
6 11 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.68%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.38%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.19%) Clustering
11 4 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.89%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.07%) Windows
2 30 (8.93%) Windows Server
3 18 (5.36%) Linux
4 9 (2.68%) Unix
5 8 (2.38%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.89%) Android
8 3 (0.89%) CatOS
8 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (32.14%) Identity Access Management
2 74 (22.02%) DevOps
3 69 (20.54%) RBAC
4 56 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 54 (16.07%) Cybersecurity
5 54 (16.07%) Roadmaps
6 51 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (14.58%) Agile
8 42 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (11.61%) Zero Trust
11 37 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (10.12%) Migration
13 29 (8.63%) High Availability
13 29 (8.63%) Privileged Access Management
13 29 (8.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (8.33%) Validation
15 27 (8.04%) Identity Management
16 26 (7.74%) Microservices
17 25 (7.44%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 54 (16.07%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.14%) Python
3 22 (6.55%) Java
4 19 (5.65%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.06%) SQL
6 11 (3.27%) Bash
7 8 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.49%) Bicep
8 5 (1.49%) VB
8 5 (1.49%) VB6
8 5 (1.49%) VBA
9 4 (1.19%) C#
10 3 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.60%) Groovy
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) AppleScript
12 1 (0.30%) Korn
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 91 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 72 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.55%) Degree
4 16 (4.76%) CISSP
5 13 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.79%) CISM
9 4 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.19%) PMP
10 3 (0.89%) GIAC
10 3 (0.89%) MCSE
11 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.60%) OCP
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.80%) GDPR
2 32 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (7.14%) NIST
4 21 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.57%) QA
5 12 (3.57%) SLA
6 11 (3.27%) GRC
7 10 (2.98%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.08%) PMO
8 7 (2.08%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.79%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.79%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.89%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 143 (42.56%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.06%) Docker
3 15 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.98%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.68%) Squid
6 7 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.19%) RACF
9 3 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.89%) vSphere
10 2 (0.60%) Firmware
11 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.30%) KVM
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (11.61%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.71%) Terraform
3 31 (9.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (5.65%) Grafana
4 19 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (3.87%) Ansible
6 11 (3.27%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.98%) Argo
8 9 (2.68%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.38%) Consul
10 6 (1.79%) CA Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.49%) CASB
11 5 (1.49%) PingFederate
11 5 (1.49%) VxRail
12 4 (1.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.89%) SCCM
14 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.60%) Packer
15 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 131 (38.99%) Microsoft
2 78 (23.21%) Okta
3 24 (7.14%) CyberArk
3 24 (7.14%) VMware
4 22 (6.55%) ServiceNow
5 21 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 21 (6.25%) SAP
6 17 (5.06%) Zscaler
7 15 (4.46%) Google
8 13 (3.87%) Cisco
8 13 (3.87%) Oracle
9 11 (3.27%) BeyondTrust
10 10 (2.98%) Dynatrace
10 10 (2.98%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.68%) F5
12 8 (2.38%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.38%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.79%) Dell
13 6 (1.79%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.79%) Ping Identity