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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 338 345
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +58
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 317 186 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.64% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.92% 3.96% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 119 181
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +14.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £638
90th Percentile £699 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -4.55% +11.22% +4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 4
10th Percentile £54.40 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £49.56
90th Percentile £92.50 - £79.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 - £100.00

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 6,449 4,698 5,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.37% 16.16% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,438 3,191 3,772
10th Percentile £316 £313 £260
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £731 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.45% -5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 51 132
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.95 £22.50 £17.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £79.35 £70.00 £68.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -35.90%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +3 276 £525 -8.70% 67
UK excluding London -16 165 £525 -4.55% 34
London -22 109 £550 -8.33% 43
Work from Home -27 94 £600 +8.99% 28
North of England -43 59 £525 +11.94% 9
South West +8 45 £540 +23.43% 3
Yorkshire -32 39 £531 -0.65% 4
South East -29 35 £543 -15.23% 17
Midlands -54 24 £450 -17.24% 3
North West -49 20 £400 -11.11% 4
West Midlands -63 14 £340 -37.47% 1
East Midlands -21 10 £638 - 2
Scotland +6 4 £675 -18.18%
East of England -38 2 £563 +50.00% 3
Wales -9 1 £550 -
North East -14 1 - - 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 21 (6.62%) Confluence
2 19 (5.99%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.84%) nginx
5 3 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.95%) IIS
6 2 (0.63%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (2.21%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 29 (9.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 163 (51.42%) Azure
2 155 (48.90%) Entra ID
3 67 (21.14%) AWS
4 46 (14.51%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (14.20%) SaaS
6 25 (7.89%) Serverless
7 21 (6.62%) GCP
7 21 (6.62%) PaaS
8 18 (5.68%) GitHub
9 17 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 16 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.73%) IaaS
12 13 (4.10%) OneDrive
13 12 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.15%) Google Workspace
15 9 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.84%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 77 (24.29%) DNS
2 44 (13.88%) Firewall
3 37 (11.67%) VPN
4 35 (11.04%) DHCP
5 27 (8.52%) Kerberos
6 23 (7.26%) TCP/IP
7 22 (6.94%) SSL
8 15 (4.73%) Network Security
9 13 (4.10%) HTTP
10 12 (3.79%) IPsec
11 11 (3.47%) LAN
11 11 (3.47%) WAN
12 10 (3.15%) BIG-IP
13 9 (2.84%) HTTPS
13 9 (2.84%) OpenVPN
14 8 (2.52%) Wireless
15 7 (2.21%) Ethereal
15 7 (2.21%) Internet
15 7 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (2.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.21%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.58%) Metadata
3 5 (1.58%) Power BI
4 4 (1.26%) MySQL
5 3 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.95%) CockroachDB
5 3 (0.95%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.63%) GIS
6 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.32%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 37 (11.67%) JIRA
2 10 (3.15%) Git
3 8 (2.52%) Browser DevTools
4 7 (2.21%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.21%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.89%) GitLab
6 5 (1.58%) Postman
7 4 (1.26%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.95%) MSI
9 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.63%) JUnit
9 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.32%) CocoaPods
10 1 (0.32%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.32%) Gatling
10 1 (0.32%) JMeter
10 1 (0.32%) Selenium
10 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.32%) Xcode
General
1 82 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.36%) Documentation Skills
2 36 (11.36%) Finance
3 30 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.05%) Publishing
6 12 (3.79%) Banking
7 5 (1.58%) Aviation
7 5 (1.58%) Retail
8 4 (1.26%) Legal
9 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Military
11 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (17.67%) Architect
2 32 (10.09%) Senior
3 24 (7.57%) Lead
4 21 (6.62%) Administrator
4 21 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (5.05%) Consultant
6 16 (5.05%) Technical Architect
7 13 (4.10%) Developer
8 12 (3.79%) Analyst
8 12 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.47%) Project Manager
10 9 (2.84%) Network Engineer
10 9 (2.84%) Support Engineer
11 8 (2.52%) IAM Consultant
11 8 (2.52%) IAM Specialist
11 8 (2.52%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.52%) Senior Architect
11 8 (2.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (31.86%) SAML
2 97 (30.60%) OAuth
3 75 (23.66%) OpenID
4 59 (18.61%) LDAP
5 43 (13.56%) OAuth2
6 20 (6.31%) SailPoint
6 20 (6.31%) SAP Basis
7 11 (3.47%) React
7 11 (3.47%) REST
8 9 (2.84%) Entity Framework
9 8 (2.52%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.21%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (2.21%) RESTful
10 7 (2.21%) YAML
11 6 (1.89%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.89%) CSS
11 6 (1.89%) Web Services
12 5 (1.58%) .NET
12 5 (1.58%) HTML
12 5 (1.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.30%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.57%) Replication
3 20 (6.31%) Taxonomies
4 17 (5.36%) PKI
5 12 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.47%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.15%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.84%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.84%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.84%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.26%) Clustering
12 4 (1.26%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.95%) CMDB
14 2 (0.63%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 81 (25.55%) Windows
2 49 (15.46%) Windows Server
3 22 (6.94%) Linux
4 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.26%) CatOS
5 4 (1.26%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.26%) Unix
5 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (29.02%) Identity Access Management
2 84 (26.50%) RBAC
3 74 (23.34%) DevOps
4 51 (16.09%) Roadmaps
5 49 (15.46%) Cybersecurity
6 45 (14.20%) Agile
6 45 (14.20%) CI/CD
6 45 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (13.88%) Zero Trust
8 41 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (11.99%) Identity Management
10 32 (10.09%) Validation
11 29 (9.15%) High Availability
11 29 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (9.15%) Vulnerability Management
12 28 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (8.52%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (7.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 71 (22.40%) PowerShell
2 23 (7.26%) SQL
3 22 (6.94%) Python
4 16 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.10%) Java
5 13 (4.10%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.52%) Bash
6 8 (2.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.89%) C#
8 5 (1.58%) Bicep
9 4 (1.26%) Groovy
10 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.32%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.32%) Korn
11 1 (0.32%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.32%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 130 (41.01%) Security Cleared
2 88 (27.76%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.04%) DV Cleared
4 21 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (5.68%) CISSP
6 17 (5.36%) Degree
7 11 (3.47%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.84%) CISM
9 4 (1.26%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.26%) PMP
10 3 (0.95%) OCP
10 3 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.63%) FFIEC
11 2 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.63%) RHCE
11 2 (0.63%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (14.20%) GDPR
2 33 (10.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.26%) NIST
4 22 (6.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.79%) SOC 2
6 10 (3.15%) QA
7 9 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (2.84%) GRC
8 8 (2.52%) PCI DSS
9 7 (2.21%) SLA
10 4 (1.26%) PMO
11 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.95%) NCSC
11 3 (0.95%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 156 (49.21%) Active Directory
2 19 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.05%) Docker
4 13 (4.10%) VMware NSX
5 10 (3.15%) Squid
6 7 (2.21%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.58%) RACF
8 4 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.95%) Firmware
9 3 (0.95%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.63%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.63%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.63%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (20.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 36 (11.36%) Terraform
3 33 (10.41%) Kubernetes
4 23 (7.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (4.42%) Grafana
6 13 (4.10%) PingFederate
7 12 (3.79%) Ansible
8 11 (3.47%) Prometheus
9 9 (2.84%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.52%) CA Single Sign-On
11 7 (2.21%) Consul
11 7 (2.21%) SCCM
12 4 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.26%) VxRail
13 1 (0.32%) Argo
13 1 (0.32%) CASB
13 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.32%) Istio
13 1 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 141 (44.48%) Microsoft
2 52 (16.40%) Okta
3 34 (10.73%) VMware
4 29 (9.15%) SAP
5 18 (5.68%) CyberArk
6 15 (4.73%) Red Hat
7 14 (4.42%) Google
7 14 (4.42%) Zscaler
8 13 (4.10%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.47%) Palo Alto
9 11 (3.47%) Pega
9 11 (3.47%) Ping Identity
10 10 (3.15%) Cisco
10 10 (3.15%) F5
11 9 (2.84%) Atlassian
11 9 (2.84%) Dynatrace
12 8 (2.52%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (1.89%) Splunk
13 6 (1.89%) Thales