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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 327 351
Rank change year-on-year -9 +24 +78
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 337 202 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.69% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.08% 4.35% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 134 177
10th Percentile £313 £403 £350
25th Percentile £431 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +8.49% -6.82%
75th Percentile £610 £654 £638
90th Percentile £675 £716 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £538 £482
% change year-on-year -3.26% +11.51% -12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 6
10th Percentile £51.55 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £77.50 - £83.19
90th Percentile £90.68 - £102.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 - £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 6,633 4,645 5,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.35% 15.87% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,513 3,134 3,818
10th Percentile £325 £308 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% - -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £681 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £497 £494
% change year-on-year +0.15% +0.56% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 48 97
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.66
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.76 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.25 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.41% +5.56% -45.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.29 £50.25
90th Percentile £76.70 £79.09 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -15 286 £525 -6.91% 80
UK excluding London -12 167 £520 -3.26% 48
London -14 130 £525 -7.57% 39
Work from Home -34 109 £600 +9.09% 41
North of England -48 59 £513 +6.00% 9
Yorkshire -32 37 £550 +10.00% 4
South East -33 36 £500 -23.08% 18
Midlands -47 34 £450 -14.29% 8
South West -9 28 £525 +20.00% 7
North West -37 21 £438 -2.78% 4
West Midlands -56 19 £425 -22.73% 5
Scotland +3 16 £450 -33.33% 1
East Midlands -18 14 £506 +25.93% 3
North East -25 2 £413 -31.25% 1
East of England -32 1 £575 -2.13% 7

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 27 (8.01%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.93%) Confluence
3 18 (5.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.67%) nginx
5 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.59%) IIS
5 2 (0.59%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.89%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (9.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.59%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 172 (51.04%) Azure
2 161 (47.77%) Entra ID
3 73 (21.66%) AWS
4 54 (16.02%) SaaS
5 49 (14.54%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (10.09%) GCP
7 28 (8.31%) Serverless
8 19 (5.64%) PaaS
9 18 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 17 (5.04%) GitHub
10 17 (5.04%) OpenShift
11 15 (4.45%) Google Workspace
12 13 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (3.26%) OneDrive
15 10 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.97%) IaaS
16 9 (2.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 74 (21.96%) DNS
2 32 (9.50%) DHCP
3 31 (9.20%) Firewall
4 29 (8.61%) Kerberos
5 28 (8.31%) VPN
6 27 (8.01%) SSL
7 24 (7.12%) TCP/IP
8 18 (5.34%) Network Security
9 17 (5.04%) IPsec
10 15 (4.45%) WAN
11 14 (4.15%) HTTP
11 14 (4.15%) HTTPS
12 12 (3.56%) LAN
13 10 (2.97%) BIG-IP
14 9 (2.67%) DKIM
14 9 (2.67%) DMARC
14 9 (2.67%) OpenVPN
15 8 (2.37%) SD-WAN
15 8 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.37%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.78%) Metadata
5 5 (1.48%) MySQL
6 4 (1.19%) Power BI
7 3 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.89%) CockroachDB
7 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.89%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.59%) GIS
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.59%) 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 39 (11.57%) JIRA
2 10 (2.97%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (2.67%) Git
3 9 (2.67%) GitLab
4 8 (2.37%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.08%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.78%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.19%) Postman
9 3 (0.89%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.59%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.59%) JUnit
10 2 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.30%) ScriptRunner
11 1 (0.30%) Snyk
11 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 43 (12.76%) Finance
4 35 (10.39%) Documentation Skills
5 32 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.75%) Publishing
7 10 (2.97%) Banking
8 6 (1.78%) Legal
8 6 (1.78%) Military
9 5 (1.48%) Retail
10 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.59%) 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 51 (15.13%) Architect
2 29 (8.61%) Developer
2 29 (8.61%) Senior
3 26 (7.72%) Administrator
4 25 (7.42%) Lead
5 18 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.34%) Support Engineer
6 17 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (4.15%) Project Manager
7 14 (4.15%) Technical Architect
8 12 (3.56%) Security Engineer
9 11 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (2.97%) Analyst
11 9 (2.67%) Consultant
11 9 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.37%) IAM Project Manager
12 8 (2.37%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (2.37%) Network Engineer
12 8 (2.37%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (29.67%) SAML
2 93 (27.60%) OAuth
3 72 (21.36%) OpenID
4 65 (19.29%) LDAP
5 38 (11.28%) OAuth2
6 25 (7.42%) SailPoint
7 20 (5.93%) SAP Basis
8 19 (5.64%) REST
9 13 (3.86%) Node.js
10 12 (3.56%) Express.js
10 12 (3.56%) Web Services
11 11 (3.26%) React
12 10 (2.97%) CSS
12 10 (2.97%) SOAP
13 9 (2.67%) HTML
14 8 (2.37%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.37%) ARM Templates
14 8 (2.37%) Entity Framework
15 7 (2.08%) Model Context Protocol
16 6 (1.78%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 72 (21.36%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.53%) PKI
3 20 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.93%) Replication
3 20 (5.93%) Taxonomies
4 11 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.67%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.78%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (1.78%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) Clustering
9 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.32%) Windows
2 28 (8.31%) Windows Server
3 20 (5.93%) Linux
4 9 (2.67%) Unix
5 8 (2.37%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.89%) Android
8 3 (0.89%) CatOS
8 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (29.08%) Identity Access Management
2 77 (22.85%) DevOps
3 70 (20.77%) RBAC
4 58 (17.21%) CI/CD
4 58 (17.21%) Roadmaps
5 55 (16.32%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (13.95%) Agile
8 43 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (11.57%) Zero Trust
10 37 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (10.09%) Migration
12 31 (9.20%) High Availability
13 28 (8.31%) Microservices
13 28 (8.31%) Validation
13 28 (8.31%) Vulnerability Management
14 26 (7.72%) Privileged Access Management
15 25 (7.42%) Data Governance
15 25 (7.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 57 (16.91%) PowerShell
2 28 (8.31%) Python
3 21 (6.23%) JavaScript
4 20 (5.93%) Java
5 19 (5.64%) SQL
6 12 (3.56%) Bash
7 10 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.48%) Bicep
8 5 (1.48%) VB
8 5 (1.48%) VB6
8 5 (1.48%) VBA
9 4 (1.19%) C#
9 4 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.59%) Groovy
10 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.30%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.30%) Korn
11 1 (0.30%) PHP
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 106 (31.45%) Security Cleared
2 83 (24.63%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.23%) Degree
4 16 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.15%) CISSP
6 9 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.78%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.78%) CISM
9 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.19%) PMP
10 3 (0.89%) OCP
10 3 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.59%) RHCE
11 2 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.76%) GDPR
2 31 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (6.82%) NIST
3 23 (6.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (3.26%) GRC
4 11 (3.26%) SLA
5 10 (2.97%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.67%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.67%) QA
7 8 (2.37%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.78%) PMO
9 5 (1.48%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.89%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (42.73%) Active Directory
2 19 (5.64%) Docker
3 12 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.26%) VMware NSX
5 10 (2.97%) Squid
6 7 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.48%) RACF
8 4 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.89%) Firmware
9 3 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.59%) vSphere
11 1 (0.30%) KVM
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (11.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 38 (11.28%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.39%) Terraform
4 20 (5.93%) Grafana
5 17 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (3.86%) Ansible
7 12 (3.56%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.97%) Argo
9 9 (2.67%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.37%) Consul
11 6 (1.78%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.48%) PingFederate
12 5 (1.48%) VxRail
13 4 (1.19%) SCCM
14 3 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.59%) CASB
15 2 (0.59%) Packer
16 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
16 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 126 (37.39%) Microsoft
2 77 (22.85%) Okta
3 31 (9.20%) SAP
4 23 (6.82%) Red Hat
5 21 (6.23%) CyberArk
5 21 (6.23%) VMware
6 19 (5.64%) Google
6 19 (5.64%) ServiceNow
7 14 (4.15%) Zscaler
8 13 (3.86%) Oracle
9 12 (3.56%) Cisco
10 11 (3.26%) Pega
11 10 (2.97%) BeyondTrust
11 10 (2.97%) Dynatrace
11 10 (2.97%) F5
12 9 (2.67%) Palo Alto
13 8 (2.37%) Atlassian
13 8 (2.37%) CheckPoint
14 7 (2.08%) Ping Identity
14 7 (2.08%) Thales