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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 388 356
Rank change year-on-year +69 -32 +93
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 284 162 270
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.86% 3.14% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 103 207
10th Percentile £384 £400 £372
25th Percentile £425 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.62% +1.36%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £616
90th Percentile £676 £775 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £625 £515
% change year-on-year -17.68% +21.36% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 5,844 5,165 6,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.13% 14.42% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,945 3,281 4,449
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £689 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 71 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.05 £23.41
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -42.36% +75.63%
75th Percentile £63.94 £55.88 £72.81
90th Percentile £79.13 £74.00 £78.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.77 £28.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -38.83% +84.72%

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 December 2025.

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
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 3 December 2025. 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 +62 241 £523 -12.83% 55
UK excluding London +33 135 £515 -17.68% 51
London +13 102 £525 -12.50% 24
Work from Home +36 78 £500 -20.63% 28
South West +44 43 £517 -1.48% 9
North of England -12 41 £471 -5.80% 8
South East -6 22 £538 -23.21% 22
Yorkshire - 22 £525 - 2
North West -13 19 £423 -15.40% 6
Midlands -30 14 £455 -10.78% 6
West Midlands -29 12 £500 -1.96% 6
Scotland +8 10 £575 -8.73% 3
East of England -15 6 £625 +66.67% 2
East Midlands -18 2 £405 -
Wales -4 1 £550 +10.00% 3

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 (8.10%) Confluence
2 18 (6.34%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.11%) Apache
4 6 (2.11%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.11%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (1.76%) IIS
5 5 (1.76%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.76%) JBoss
6 3 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.70%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.35%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Windchill
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (4.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.70%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (47.54%) Azure
2 108 (38.03%) Entra ID
3 83 (29.23%) AWS
4 47 (16.55%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (14.08%) SaaS
6 31 (10.92%) GCP
7 23 (8.10%) GitHub
8 14 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.23%) PaaS
10 11 (3.87%) Azure AKS
10 11 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.17%) IaaS
12 9 (3.17%) Nutanix
12 9 (3.17%) Power Platform
13 8 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 6 (2.11%) OneDrive
15 6 (2.11%) OpenShift
15 6 (2.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.08%) DNS
2 31 (10.92%) Firewall
3 22 (7.75%) SSL
3 22 (7.75%) VPN
4 15 (5.28%) Kerberos
5 9 (3.17%) DHCP
6 8 (2.82%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.46%) HTTP
7 7 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.11%) Network Security
8 6 (2.11%) SSH
9 4 (1.41%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.41%) LAN
9 4 (1.41%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.06%) BGP
10 3 (1.06%) Internet
10 3 (1.06%) OSPF
10 3 (1.06%) SMTP
10 3 (1.06%) WAN
10 3 (1.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (2.11%) Power BI
2 5 (1.76%) Oracle Database
2 5 (1.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.70%) MySQL
3 2 (0.70%) SQLite
4 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.35%) Big Data
4 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.35%) Metadata
4 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.35%) Redis
4 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (14.08%) JIRA
2 20 (7.04%) Git
3 12 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.76%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.76%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.76%) MSI
4 5 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.70%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.70%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.70%) fastlane
5 2 (0.70%) Postman
5 2 (0.70%) Selenium
5 2 (0.70%) Xcode
6 1 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.35%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.35%) Gatling
6 1 (0.35%) GitLab
6 1 (0.35%) gulp
6 1 (0.35%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 93 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.32%) Finance
3 29 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.17%) Banking
7 4 (1.41%) Aviation
7 4 (1.41%) Retail
7 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.06%) Marketing
9 2 (0.70%) Electronics
9 2 (0.70%) Legal
9 2 (0.70%) Local Government
9 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (19.01%) Architect
2 38 (13.38%) Senior
3 23 (8.10%) Consultant
4 21 (7.39%) Developer
4 21 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.63%) Analyst
6 14 (4.93%) Business Analyst
6 14 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (4.93%) Lead
7 13 (4.58%) Administrator
8 12 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) IAM Consultant
9 10 (3.52%) IAM Specialist
9 10 (3.52%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) Senior Architect
9 10 (3.52%) ServiceNow Architect
10 7 (2.46%) ForgeRock Developer
11 6 (2.11%) Security Architect
11 6 (2.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (38.73%) SAML
2 103 (36.27%) OAuth
3 80 (28.17%) OpenID
4 60 (21.13%) LDAP
5 47 (16.55%) OAuth2
6 35 (12.32%) SailPoint
7 32 (11.27%) REST
8 22 (7.75%) JSON
8 22 (7.75%) SOAP
9 19 (6.69%) HTML
10 18 (6.34%) AngularJS
11 17 (5.99%) JDBC
11 17 (5.99%) Web Services
12 16 (5.63%) HTML5
13 13 (4.58%) Apache Camel
13 13 (4.58%) jQuery
13 13 (4.58%) ODBC
13 13 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.87%) RESTful
15 8 (2.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.79%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.69%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.63%) PKI
4 14 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.17%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.46%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.46%) Replication
7 7 (2.46%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.06%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.70%) Animation
12 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.66%) Windows
2 30 (10.56%) Windows Server
3 23 (8.10%) Linux
4 7 (2.46%) Unix
5 4 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.70%) Android
7 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (28.17%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (25.35%) RBAC
3 71 (25.00%) Agile
4 70 (24.65%) Identity Management
5 68 (23.94%) DevOps
6 49 (17.25%) Zero Trust
7 47 (16.55%) CI/CD
8 40 (14.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 40 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (13.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (9.51%) Cloud Security
11 27 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (9.15%) ITSM
13 25 (8.80%) Scrum
13 25 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (8.45%) Privileged Access Management
15 23 (8.10%) Microservices
16 21 (7.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 63 (22.18%) PowerShell
2 31 (10.92%) JavaScript
3 29 (10.21%) Python
4 18 (6.34%) Java
5 10 (3.52%) Groovy
6 9 (3.17%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.82%) SQL
8 5 (1.76%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.41%) Bash
9 4 (1.41%) Bicep
9 4 (1.41%) C#
9 4 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.70%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.70%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.70%) Swift
11 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 96 (33.80%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.15%) CISSP
4 21 (7.39%) DV Cleared
5 20 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.99%) CISM
7 13 (4.58%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.87%) Degree
9 7 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.76%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.76%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.06%) CCSP
13 3 (1.06%) PhD
14 2 (0.70%) MCP
14 2 (0.70%) MCSA
14 2 (0.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.79%) GDPR
2 31 (10.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.63%) NIST
4 13 (4.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.52%) HIPAA
6 9 (3.17%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.11%) NCSC
8 6 (2.11%) PSD2
9 5 (1.76%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.41%) QA
10 4 (1.41%) SLA
11 3 (1.06%) WCAG
12 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.35%) SOC 1
System Software
1 135 (47.54%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.99%) Docker
4 5 (1.76%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 5 (1.76%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.06%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.70%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.70%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.70%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (15.85%) Terraform
2 30 (10.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (10.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 28 (9.86%) Kubernetes
5 16 (5.63%) Ansible
6 14 (4.93%) PingFederate
7 7 (2.46%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.76%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.76%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.76%) SCCM
8 5 (1.76%) Tivoli
9 3 (1.06%) Grafana
9 3 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.06%) Kibana
10 2 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.70%) logstash
10 2 (0.70%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.70%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.35%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 117 (41.20%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.62%) ServiceNow
3 31 (10.92%) CyberArk
4 29 (10.21%) VMware
5 28 (9.86%) Okta
6 22 (7.75%) ForgeRock
7 16 (5.63%) Ping Identity
8 14 (4.93%) HP
8 14 (4.93%) Splunk
8 14 (4.93%) Zscaler
9 13 (4.58%) BMC
9 13 (4.58%) Google
9 13 (4.58%) Ivanti
9 13 (4.58%) Remedy
10 9 (3.17%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.82%) Alibaba
11 8 (2.82%) Oracle
12 7 (2.46%) IBM
13 6 (2.11%) Tenable
14 5 (1.76%) Cisco