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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 340 336
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +75
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 311 180 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.86% 3.93% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 118 178
10th Percentile £321 £410 £350
25th Percentile £447 £478 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +10.05% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £654 £638
90th Percentile £696 £750 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -0.95% +10.53% -13.64%
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 6,401 4,577 5,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 15.79% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,402 3,122 3,637
10th Percentile £325 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -8.21%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £497 £490
% change year-on-year -0.35% +1.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 53 113
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.39 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -53.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.35 £72.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +103.70% -6.09% -32.35%

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 14 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 14 May 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 14 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 -7 260 £525 -7.57% 79
UK excluding London -17 158 £520 -0.95% 50
London -9 111 £533 -7.32% 36
Work from Home -34 85 £600 +9.09% 33
North of England -48 56 £513 +6.00% 9
South East -31 37 £493 -23.05% 21
Yorkshire -28 36 £550 +2.90%
South West -14 28 £525 +20.00% 3
Midlands -44 28 £450 -18.18% 8
North West -43 19 £438 -5.41% 8
West Midlands -52 15 £370 -32.73% 5
Scotland +15 13 £449 -45.64% 3
East Midlands -19 12 £594 - 3
North East -17 2 £413 -31.25% 1
East of England -35 2 £563 +12.50% 8
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 24 (7.72%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.11%) Confluence
2 19 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.89%) nginx
4 3 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.96%) IIS
5 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
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
1 151 (48.55%) Azure
2 146 (46.95%) Entra ID
3 66 (21.22%) AWS
4 48 (15.43%) SaaS
5 43 (13.83%) 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%) Google Workspace
10 14 (4.50%) GitHub
10 14 (4.50%) OpenShift
11 13 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.54%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (2.89%) IaaS
15 9 (2.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 75 (24.12%) DNS
2 34 (10.93%) VPN
3 33 (10.61%) Firewall
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%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.25%) DynamoDB
3 6 (1.93%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.61%) Metadata
5 4 (1.29%) MySQL
6 3 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.96%) CockroachDB
6 3 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.96%) Pinecone
6 3 (0.96%) Power BI
7 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.64%) GIS
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
8 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
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%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.32%) Gatling
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.32%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 73 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.54%) Public Sector
3 37 (11.90%) Finance
4 33 (10.61%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.14%) Publishing
7 12 (3.86%) Banking
8 8 (2.57%) Retail
9 7 (2.25%) Legal
10 4 (1.29%) 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 51 (16.40%) Architect
2 29 (9.32%) Senior
3 27 (8.68%) Lead
4 24 (7.72%) Administrator
5 23 (7.40%) Developer
6 18 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (5.14%) Support Engineer
8 13 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (4.18%) Technical Architect
9 12 (3.86%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.54%) Network Engineer
11 9 (2.89%) Analyst
11 9 (2.89%) Consultant
11 9 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (2.89%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.57%) IAM Project Manager
12 8 (2.57%) Senior Architect
12 8 (2.57%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.25%) SAP Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (29.26%) SAML
2 90 (28.94%) OAuth
3 66 (21.22%) LDAP
3 66 (21.22%) OpenID
4 35 (11.25%) OAuth2
5 21 (6.75%) SailPoint
6 20 (6.43%) REST
6 20 (6.43%) SAP Basis
7 11 (3.54%) Web Services
8 10 (3.22%) Express.js
8 10 (3.22%) Node.js
9 9 (2.89%) CSS
9 9 (2.89%) React
10 8 (2.57%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.57%) Entity Framework
10 8 (2.57%) HTML
11 7 (2.25%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.25%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (1.93%) YAML
13 5 (1.61%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.65%) Onboarding
2 21 (6.75%) PKI
3 20 (6.43%) Replication
3 20 (6.43%) Taxonomies
4 17 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.18%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.89%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.25%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.93%) Freedom of Information
10 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.29%) Clustering
11 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.29%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.29%) Windows
2 33 (10.61%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.43%) Linux
4 9 (2.89%) Unix
5 6 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.61%) CatOS
6 5 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.29%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.64%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (27.65%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (24.12%) RBAC
3 70 (22.51%) DevOps
4 58 (18.65%) Cybersecurity
5 55 (17.68%) Roadmaps
6 51 (16.40%) CI/CD
7 45 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (13.50%) Agile
9 39 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (11.25%) Zero Trust
11 32 (10.29%) High Availability
12 30 (9.65%) Validation
13 29 (9.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (9.00%) Migration
15 27 (8.68%) Vulnerability Management
16 26 (8.36%) Microservices
17 24 (7.72%) Identity Management
18 23 (7.40%) Data Governance
18 23 (7.40%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.04%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.72%) Python
3 21 (6.75%) JavaScript
4 19 (6.11%) SQL
5 16 (5.14%) Java
6 12 (3.86%) Bash
7 9 (2.89%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.61%) C#
9 4 (1.29%) Bicep
9 4 (1.29%) Groovy
9 4 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
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
1 117 (37.62%) Security Cleared
2 86 (27.65%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.40%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.79%) Degree
5 11 (3.54%) CISSP
6 7 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.61%) CISM
8 4 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.29%) PMP
9 3 (0.96%) OCP
9 3 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.64%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.64%) RHCE
10 2 (0.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.83%) GDPR
2 27 (8.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (6.75%) NIST
5 11 (3.54%) GRC
6 10 (3.22%) QA
6 10 (3.22%) SLA
6 10 (3.22%) SOC 2
7 8 (2.57%) PCI DSS
8 7 (2.25%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.29%) PMO
10 3 (0.96%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.96%) NCSC
10 3 (0.96%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 147 (47.27%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.79%) Docker
2 18 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.47%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.22%) Squid
5 7 (2.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.61%) RACF
7 4 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.96%) Firmware
8 3 (0.96%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.64%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.64%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.64%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.64%) vSphere
10 1 (0.32%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (15.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 32 (10.29%) Kubernetes
3 29 (9.32%) Terraform
4 18 (5.79%) Grafana
5 15 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (4.18%) Ansible
7 12 (3.86%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.89%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.57%) Consul
10 7 (2.25%) Argo
10 7 (2.25%) PingFederate
11 6 (1.93%) CA Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.93%) SCCM
12 4 (1.29%) VxRail
13 3 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.64%) CASB
14 2 (0.64%) Packer
15 1 (0.32%) Istio
15 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 116 (37.30%) Microsoft
2 62 (19.94%) Okta
3 31 (9.97%) SAP
3 31 (9.97%) VMware
4 21 (6.75%) Red Hat
5 19 (6.11%) CyberArk
5 19 (6.11%) Google
6 15 (4.82%) Palo Alto
7 14 (4.50%) ServiceNow
8 13 (4.18%) F5
8 13 (4.18%) Zscaler
9 12 (3.86%) Cisco
10 11 (3.54%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.54%) Pega
11 10 (3.22%) Dynatrace
11 10 (3.22%) Oracle
12 9 (2.89%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (2.57%) Atlassian
14 6 (1.93%) Ping Identity
14 6 (1.93%) SolarWinds