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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 341 326
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 +96
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 311 187 263
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.64% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.80% 4.10% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 123 181
10th Percentile £313 £410 £350
25th Percentile £437 £475 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +7.51% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £638
90th Percentile £687 £743 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £538 £482
% change year-on-year -3.72% +11.51% -12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 6
10th Percentile £51.25 - £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 £57.25 - £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 6,482 4,566 5,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 15.69% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,455 3,113 3,684
10th Percentile £325 £305 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.15%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £706 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £492 £488
% change year-on-year +0.01% +0.92% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 49 110
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.63 £21.39 £17.76
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £26.38
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +4.24% -49.75%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.25 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.80 £78.96 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% +25.00% -25.09%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Top 15 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 May 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 0 261 £525 -5.58% 81
UK excluding London -22 157 £518 -3.72% 46
London -6 113 £525 -8.70% 42
Work from Home -49 88 £600 +9.09% 39
North of England -52 55 £525 +8.58% 9
Yorkshire -26 36 £550 +2.90% 3
South East -30 36 £485 -24.22% 19
Midlands -43 31 £450 -18.18% 8
South West -16 27 £525 +20.00% 5
North West -46 18 £450 -2.70% 5
West Midlands -56 17 £409 -25.68% 6
Scotland +8 14 £450 -45.45%
East Midlands -15 13 £550 - 2
North East -23 2 £413 -31.25% 2
East of England -25 1 £575 -2.13% 10

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 26 (8.36%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.11%) Confluence
2 19 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.89%) nginx
4 3 (0.96%) IIS
5 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.32%) JBoss
6 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.57%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (9.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.64%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (49.52%) Azure
2 149 (47.91%) Entra ID
3 67 (21.54%) AWS
4 49 (15.76%) SaaS
5 44 (14.15%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (9.65%) GCP
7 29 (9.32%) Serverless
8 18 (5.79%) Amazon S3
8 18 (5.79%) PaaS
9 16 (5.14%) GitHub
9 16 (5.14%) Google Workspace
9 16 (5.14%) OpenShift
10 13 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (3.54%) OneDrive
13 10 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.22%) IaaS
14 9 (2.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 72 (23.15%) DNS
2 33 (10.61%) Firewall
3 32 (10.29%) VPN
4 30 (9.65%) DHCP
5 29 (9.32%) Kerberos
6 26 (8.36%) SSL
7 22 (7.07%) TCP/IP
8 17 (5.47%) HTTP
9 16 (5.14%) IPsec
9 16 (5.14%) Network Security
10 14 (4.50%) LAN
11 13 (4.18%) BIG-IP
11 13 (4.18%) HTTPS
11 13 (4.18%) WAN
12 10 (3.22%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (3.22%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (3.22%) Wireless
13 9 (2.89%) DKIM
13 9 (2.89%) DMARC
13 9 (2.89%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.25%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.93%) Metadata
4 5 (1.61%) MySQL
5 3 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.96%) CockroachDB
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.96%) Pinecone
5 3 (0.96%) Power BI
6 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.64%) GIS
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.32%) DB2
7 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (12.54%) JIRA
2 10 (3.22%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.25%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.25%) Git
3 7 (2.25%) GitLab
3 7 (2.25%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.61%) Postman
5 4 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.29%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.96%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.64%) JUnit
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.32%) Gatling
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.32%) Selenium
8 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.50%) Public Sector
3 37 (11.90%) Finance
4 32 (10.29%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.14%) Publishing
7 12 (3.86%) Banking
8 7 (2.25%) Legal
9 6 (1.93%) Retail
10 5 (1.61%) Military
11 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.32%) Aviation
13 1 (0.32%) Front Office
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (16.08%) Architect
2 28 (9.00%) Senior
3 27 (8.68%) Developer
4 26 (8.36%) Lead
5 25 (8.04%) Administrator
6 17 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (5.47%) Support Engineer
7 14 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (4.50%) Technical Architect
8 12 (3.86%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.54%) Network Engineer
10 10 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.89%) Analyst
11 9 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (2.89%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.57%) IAM Project Manager
12 8 (2.57%) Senior Architect
12 8 (2.57%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.25%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (29.58%) SAML
2 90 (28.94%) OAuth
3 66 (21.22%) LDAP
3 66 (21.22%) OpenID
4 35 (11.25%) OAuth2
5 22 (7.07%) SailPoint
6 20 (6.43%) REST
6 20 (6.43%) SAP Basis
7 13 (4.18%) Node.js
8 12 (3.86%) Express.js
9 11 (3.54%) React
9 11 (3.54%) Web Services
10 10 (3.22%) CSS
11 9 (2.89%) HTML
12 8 (2.57%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.57%) Entity Framework
13 7 (2.25%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.25%) Model Context Protocol
13 7 (2.25%) SOAP
14 6 (1.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.97%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.43%) Replication
2 20 (6.43%) Taxonomies
3 19 (6.11%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (6.11%) PKI
4 14 (4.50%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.89%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.89%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.57%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.57%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.93%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.29%) Clustering
9 4 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.29%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.01%) Windows
2 30 (9.65%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.43%) Linux
4 9 (2.89%) Unix
5 5 (1.61%) CatOS
5 5 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.29%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.96%) Android
8 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (27.97%) Identity Access Management
2 73 (23.47%) DevOps
2 73 (23.47%) RBAC
3 56 (18.01%) Cybersecurity
3 56 (18.01%) Roadmaps
4 55 (17.68%) CI/CD
5 45 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (14.15%) Agile
7 40 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (10.93%) Zero Trust
10 32 (10.29%) High Availability
11 30 (9.65%) Validation
12 29 (9.32%) Migration
12 29 (9.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (8.68%) Microservices
13 27 (8.68%) Vulnerability Management
14 24 (7.72%) Data Governance
14 24 (7.72%) Identity Management
15 23 (7.40%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.72%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.72%) Python
3 22 (7.07%) JavaScript
4 20 (6.43%) SQL
5 18 (5.79%) Java
6 12 (3.86%) Bash
7 9 (2.89%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.61%) Bicep
8 5 (1.61%) C#
9 4 (1.29%) Groovy
9 4 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.64%) VB
10 2 (0.64%) VB6
10 2 (0.64%) VBA
11 1 (0.32%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.32%) Go
11 1 (0.32%) Korn
11 1 (0.32%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 110 (35.37%) Security Cleared
2 82 (26.37%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.43%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.11%) Degree
5 11 (3.54%) CISSP
6 7 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.61%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.61%) CISM
9 4 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.29%) PMP
10 3 (0.96%) OCP
10 3 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.64%) FFIEC
11 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.64%) RHCE
11 2 (0.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.83%) GDPR
2 28 (9.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.07%) NIST
3 22 (7.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (3.54%) GRC
5 10 (3.22%) QA
5 10 (3.22%) SLA
5 10 (3.22%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.89%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.57%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.29%) PMO
9 3 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.96%) NCSC
9 3 (0.96%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 143 (45.98%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.79%) Docker
3 16 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.82%) VMware NSX
5 10 (3.22%) Squid
6 7 (2.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.61%) RACF
8 4 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.96%) Firmware
10 2 (0.64%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.64%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.64%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.64%) vSphere
11 1 (0.32%) KVM
11 1 (0.32%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (14.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 33 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 32 (10.29%) Terraform
4 20 (6.43%) Grafana
5 16 (5.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (4.18%) Ansible
7 12 (3.86%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.22%) Argo
9 9 (2.89%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.57%) Consul
11 6 (1.93%) CA Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.93%) SCCM
12 5 (1.61%) PingFederate
13 4 (1.29%) VxRail
14 3 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.64%) CASB
15 2 (0.64%) Packer
16 1 (0.32%) Istio
16 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 116 (37.30%) Microsoft
2 65 (20.90%) Okta
3 31 (9.97%) SAP
4 27 (8.68%) VMware
5 23 (7.40%) Red Hat
6 20 (6.43%) CyberArk
7 19 (6.11%) Google
8 14 (4.50%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.18%) Cisco
9 13 (4.18%) F5
9 13 (4.18%) Palo Alto
10 11 (3.54%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.54%) Oracle
10 11 (3.54%) Pega
10 11 (3.54%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.22%) Dynatrace
12 9 (2.89%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (2.57%) Atlassian
14 6 (1.93%) ForgeRock
14 6 (1.93%) Ping Identity