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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 330 347
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +68
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 332 208 255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.70% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.96% 4.43% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 138 178
10th Percentile £313 £401 £339
25th Percentile £431 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £551 £508
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +8.57% -7.73%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £625
90th Percentile £677 £705 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £525 £489
% change year-on-year -1.43% +7.36% -11.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 5
10th Percentile £55.75 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile £92.50 - £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 6,695 4,699 5,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 15.79% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,564 3,150 3,833
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £417 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 50 102
10th Percentile £18.69 £13.75 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.31 £19.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.83 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.51% +42.50% -6.98%

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 18 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 18 June 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 18 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 -14 284 £525 -5.58% 100
UK excluding London -20 165 £518 -1.43% 60
London +7 133 £525 -7.57% 58
Work from Home -28 110 £594 +7.95% 52
North of England -59 51 £513 +9.28% 16
South East -31 37 £500 -23.08% 19
Midlands -40 33 £450 -18.18% 4
Yorkshire -48 30 £550 +16.53% 3
South West -3 29 £525 +2.44% 7
Scotland +4 20 £450 -14.29% 6
North West -36 20 £450 - 11
West Midlands -47 19 £425 -22.73% 4
East Midlands -13 13 £463 +15.05%
East of England -26 2 £565 -16.30% 6
North East -36 2 £413 -31.25% 2

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 28 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 20 (6.02%) Confluence
3 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.71%) nginx
5 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (7.53%) 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
1 164 (49.40%) Azure
2 155 (46.69%) Entra ID
3 75 (22.59%) AWS
4 50 (15.06%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (15.06%) SaaS
5 37 (11.14%) GCP
6 28 (8.43%) Serverless
7 19 (5.72%) PaaS
8 18 (5.42%) Amazon S3
8 18 (5.42%) GitHub
9 16 (4.82%) OpenShift
10 14 (4.22%) Google Workspace
11 13 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.31%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.01%) IaaS
15 9 (2.71%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 74 (22.29%) DNS
2 32 (9.64%) Firewall
3 31 (9.34%) DHCP
4 29 (8.73%) VPN
5 28 (8.43%) SSL
6 26 (7.83%) Kerberos
7 24 (7.23%) TCP/IP
8 18 (5.42%) Network Security
9 17 (5.12%) IPsec
10 16 (4.82%) WAN
11 14 (4.22%) HTTP
11 14 (4.22%) HTTPS
12 13 (3.92%) LAN
13 10 (3.01%) BIG-IP
14 9 (2.71%) DKIM
14 9 (2.71%) DMARC
14 9 (2.71%) OpenVPN
15 8 (2.41%) SD-WAN
15 8 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (2.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.41%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.11%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.81%) Metadata
5 5 (1.51%) MySQL
6 4 (1.20%) Power BI
7 3 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.90%) CockroachDB
7 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.90%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.60%) GIS
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.30%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (11.45%) JIRA
2 10 (3.01%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (2.71%) Git
3 9 (2.71%) GitLab
3 9 (2.71%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.11%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.11%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.81%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.90%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.60%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.60%) JUnit
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.60%) Snyk
9 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.30%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.55%) Public Sector
3 43 (12.95%) Finance
4 35 (10.54%) Documentation Skills
5 30 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.22%) Publishing
7 10 (3.01%) Banking
8 6 (1.81%) Legal
8 6 (1.81%) Military
9 5 (1.51%) Retail
10 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Aviation
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (14.76%) Architect
2 28 (8.43%) Developer
3 27 (8.13%) Senior
4 24 (7.23%) Lead
5 21 (6.33%) Administrator
6 20 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (6.02%) Support Engineer
7 16 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.52%) Project Manager
9 14 (4.22%) Technical Architect
10 13 (3.92%) Security Engineer
11 12 (3.61%) Consultant
11 12 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.31%) Analyst
13 9 (2.71%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) Active Directory Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) IAM Project Manager
14 8 (2.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (28.92%) SAML
2 86 (25.90%) OAuth
3 70 (21.08%) OpenID
4 60 (18.07%) LDAP
5 37 (11.14%) OAuth2
6 23 (6.93%) SailPoint
7 18 (5.42%) REST
8 16 (4.82%) SAP Basis
9 13 (3.92%) Node.js
10 12 (3.61%) Express.js
10 12 (3.61%) Web Services
11 10 (3.01%) CSS
11 10 (3.01%) React
11 10 (3.01%) SOAP
12 9 (2.71%) HTML
13 8 (2.41%) ARM Templates
13 8 (2.41%) Entity Framework
14 7 (2.11%) AngularJS
14 7 (2.11%) Model Context Protocol
15 6 (1.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (20.18%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
2 24 (7.23%) PKI
3 22 (6.63%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.42%) Replication
5 15 (4.52%) Taxonomies
6 11 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.71%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.41%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.41%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.81%) Freedom of Information
9 6 (1.81%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.20%) Clustering
11 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.90%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.27%) Windows
2 28 (8.43%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.02%) Linux
4 9 (2.71%) Unix
5 8 (2.41%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.90%) Android
7 3 (0.90%) CatOS
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (28.92%) Identity Access Management
2 77 (23.19%) DevOps
3 68 (20.48%) RBAC
4 58 (17.47%) CI/CD
5 55 (16.57%) Cybersecurity
6 54 (16.27%) Roadmaps
7 47 (14.16%) Agile
8 45 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (11.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (11.45%) Zero Trust
12 32 (9.64%) Migration
13 30 (9.04%) High Availability
14 29 (8.73%) Microservices
15 28 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (8.43%) Validation
16 25 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
16 25 (7.53%) Identity Management
16 25 (7.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.96%) PowerShell
2 28 (8.43%) Python
3 21 (6.33%) JavaScript
4 20 (6.02%) Java
4 20 (6.02%) SQL
5 12 (3.61%) Bash
6 10 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.51%) Bicep
7 5 (1.51%) VB
7 5 (1.51%) VB6
7 5 (1.51%) VBA
8 4 (1.20%) C#
8 4 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.60%) Groovy
9 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.30%) AppleScript
10 1 (0.30%) Korn
10 1 (0.30%) PHP
10 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 98 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 77 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.63%) Degree
4 15 (4.52%) CISSP
5 14 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.11%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.81%) CISM
8 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.20%) PMP
10 3 (0.90%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.90%) OCP
10 3 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.60%) GIAC
11 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.60%) RHCE
11 2 (0.60%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.05%) GDPR
2 33 (9.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (7.23%) NIST
4 21 (6.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.31%) GRC
5 11 (3.31%) SLA
6 10 (3.01%) QA
7 9 (2.71%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.71%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.11%) PCI DSS
8 7 (2.11%) PMO
9 6 (1.81%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.90%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 145 (43.67%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.02%) Docker
3 13 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.31%) VMware NSX
5 10 (3.01%) Squid
6 7 (2.11%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.51%) RACF
7 5 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.90%) Firmware
9 3 (0.90%) vSphere
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (11.75%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.84%) Terraform
3 35 (10.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (6.02%) Grafana
5 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (3.92%) Ansible
7 12 (3.61%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.01%) Argo
9 9 (2.71%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.41%) Consul
11 6 (1.81%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.51%) PingFederate
12 5 (1.51%) VxRail
13 4 (1.20%) SCCM
14 3 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.60%) CASB
15 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.60%) Packer
16 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 129 (38.86%) Microsoft
2 75 (22.59%) Okta
3 25 (7.53%) SAP
4 22 (6.63%) Red Hat
4 22 (6.63%) VMware
5 19 (5.72%) CyberArk
5 19 (5.72%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.82%) Google
7 14 (4.22%) Zscaler
8 13 (3.92%) Cisco
8 13 (3.92%) Oracle
9 10 (3.01%) BeyondTrust
9 10 (3.01%) Dynatrace
9 10 (3.01%) F5
10 9 (2.71%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.41%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.41%) CheckPoint
11 8 (2.41%) Pega
12 7 (2.11%) Thales
13 6 (1.81%) ForgeRock