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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 320 337
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 +90
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 310 186 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.64% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.78% 4.05% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 120 175
10th Percentile £323 £400 £350
25th Percentile £438 £475 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +10.05% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £513 £489
% change year-on-year +0.49% +4.81% -11.09%
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 6,483 4,593 5,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.59% 15.68% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,461 3,145 3,681
10th Percentile £325 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 56 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £20.21 £17.73
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +113.21% -2.75% -52.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £34.25
% change year-on-year +107.55% -22.63% -23.68%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -13 260 £525 -7.73% 65
UK excluding London -20 159 £515 +0.49% 41
London -17 109 £533 -8.90% 37
Work from Home -29 88 £600 +9.09% 34
North of England -36 58 £525 +8.58% 6
Yorkshire -23 38 £550 +2.90%
South East -18 37 £493 -23.05% 16
Midlands -59 28 £450 -18.18% 2
South West -14 27 £525 +20.00% 6
North West -44 19 £425 -8.11% 6
West Midlands -57 15 £370 -32.73%
Scotland +8 12 £449 -45.64% 5
East Midlands -20 12 £594 - 2
North East -16 2 £413 -31.25%
East of England -35 2 £563 +28.57% 9
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 23 (7.42%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.13%) Confluence
3 17 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.90%) nginx
5 3 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.97%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.58%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.65%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (49.68%) Azure
2 150 (48.39%) Entra ID
3 66 (21.29%) AWS
4 47 (15.16%) SaaS
5 45 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (9.35%) Serverless
7 27 (8.71%) GCP
8 19 (6.13%) PaaS
9 18 (5.81%) Amazon S3
10 15 (4.84%) GitHub
11 14 (4.52%) Google Workspace
12 13 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (3.55%) OneDrive
14 11 (3.55%) OpenShift
15 10 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.23%) IaaS
16 9 (2.90%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 75 (24.19%) DNS
2 35 (11.29%) VPN
3 34 (10.97%) Firewall
4 31 (10.00%) DHCP
5 29 (9.35%) Kerberos
6 26 (8.39%) SSL
7 22 (7.10%) TCP/IP
8 17 (5.48%) HTTP
9 16 (5.16%) IPsec
10 15 (4.84%) Network Security
11 14 (4.52%) LAN
12 13 (4.19%) BIG-IP
12 13 (4.19%) HTTPS
12 13 (4.19%) WAN
13 10 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (3.23%) Wireless
14 9 (2.90%) OpenVPN
14 9 (2.90%) Wireshark
15 8 (2.58%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.26%) DynamoDB
3 6 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.61%) Metadata
5 4 (1.29%) MySQL
5 4 (1.29%) Power BI
6 3 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.97%) CockroachDB
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.97%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.65%) GIS
7 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (11.94%) JIRA
2 10 (3.23%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.26%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.26%) Git
3 7 (2.26%) GitLab
3 7 (2.26%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.61%) Postman
5 4 (1.29%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.97%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.65%) JUnit
7 2 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.32%) Gatling
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.32%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 74 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.61%) Finance
3 34 (10.97%) Documentation Skills
4 33 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 29 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.16%) Publishing
7 12 (3.87%) Banking
8 8 (2.58%) Retail
9 7 (2.26%) Legal
10 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.97%) Military
11 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.32%) Aviation
12 1 (0.32%) Front Office
12 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (16.45%) Architect
2 30 (9.68%) Senior
3 26 (8.39%) Lead
4 23 (7.42%) Administrator
5 20 (6.45%) Developer
6 18 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (5.16%) Support Engineer
8 14 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.19%) Technical Architect
10 12 (3.87%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.55%) Network Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) Analyst
12 9 (2.90%) Consultant
12 9 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.58%) IAM Project Manager
13 8 (2.58%) Senior Architect
13 8 (2.58%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (30.32%) SAML
2 92 (29.68%) OAuth
3 67 (21.61%) OpenID
4 66 (21.29%) LDAP
5 39 (12.58%) OAuth2
6 21 (6.77%) SailPoint
7 20 (6.45%) REST
7 20 (6.45%) SAP Basis
8 11 (3.55%) Web Services
9 8 (2.58%) ARM Templates
9 8 (2.58%) CSS
9 8 (2.58%) Entity Framework
9 8 (2.58%) React
10 7 (2.26%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.26%) Express.js
10 7 (2.26%) HTML
10 7 (2.26%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (2.26%) Node.js
11 6 (1.94%) YAML
12 5 (1.61%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.71%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.45%) PKI
2 20 (6.45%) Replication
2 20 (6.45%) Taxonomies
3 17 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.87%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.58%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.29%) Clustering
9 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.29%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.29%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 62 (20.00%) Windows
2 34 (10.97%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.77%) Linux
4 9 (2.90%) Unix
5 6 (1.94%) 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 (0.65%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (27.10%) Identity Access Management
2 76 (24.52%) RBAC
3 71 (22.90%) DevOps
4 56 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (18.06%) Roadmaps
5 48 (15.48%) CI/CD
6 42 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (12.58%) Agile
7 39 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (11.29%) Zero Trust
10 32 (10.32%) High Availability
11 30 (9.68%) Validation
12 29 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (8.71%) Vulnerability Management
14 26 (8.39%) Identity Management
14 26 (8.39%) Microservices
14 26 (8.39%) Migration
15 24 (7.74%) Disaster Recovery
16 23 (7.42%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.74%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.74%) Python
3 20 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 20 (6.45%) SQL
4 16 (5.16%) Java
5 12 (3.87%) Bash
6 9 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.61%) C#
8 4 (1.29%) Bicep
8 4 (1.29%) Groovy
8 4 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.32%) AppleScript
10 1 (0.32%) Go
10 1 (0.32%) Korn
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
10 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (37.10%) Security Cleared
2 84 (27.10%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.42%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.81%) Degree
5 11 (3.55%) CISSP
6 9 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.61%) CISM
9 4 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.29%) PMP
10 3 (0.97%) OCP
10 3 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.65%) FFIEC
11 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.65%) RHCE
11 2 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.87%) GDPR
2 27 (8.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (6.77%) NIST
5 11 (3.55%) GRC
6 10 (3.23%) QA
6 10 (3.23%) SOC 2
7 9 (2.90%) SLA
8 8 (2.58%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.29%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.29%) PMO
10 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.97%) NCSC
10 3 (0.97%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 150 (48.39%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.81%) Docker
2 18 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.48%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.23%) Squid
5 7 (2.26%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.61%) RACF
7 4 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.97%) Firmware
8 3 (0.97%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.65%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.65%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.65%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.65%) vSphere
10 1 (0.32%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (15.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 32 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 30 (9.68%) Terraform
4 16 (5.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.84%) Grafana
6 13 (4.19%) Ansible
7 12 (3.87%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.90%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.58%) Consul
10 7 (2.26%) PingFederate
11 6 (1.94%) CA Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.94%) SCCM
12 4 (1.29%) Argo
12 4 (1.29%) VxRail
13 3 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.65%) CASB
14 2 (0.65%) Packer
15 1 (0.32%) Istio
15 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 121 (39.03%) Microsoft
2 61 (19.68%) Okta
3 31 (10.00%) SAP
3 31 (10.00%) VMware
4 19 (6.13%) CyberArk
5 18 (5.81%) Red Hat
6 16 (5.16%) Google
7 15 (4.84%) Palo Alto
8 14 (4.52%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.19%) F5
9 13 (4.19%) Zscaler
10 12 (3.87%) Cisco
11 11 (3.55%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.55%) Pega
12 10 (3.23%) Dynatrace
12 10 (3.23%) Oracle
13 9 (2.90%) BeyondTrust
14 8 (2.58%) Atlassian
15 6 (1.94%) Ping Identity
15 6 (1.94%) SolarWinds