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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 360 346
Rank change year-on-year +58 -14 +80
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 319 160 269
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.34% 3.39% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 104 203
10th Percentile £361 £410 £363
25th Percentile £441 £500 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £567
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +3.22% +3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £641
90th Percentile £676 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -13.67% +20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £45.93 - -
25th Percentile £52.75 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £66.06 - -
90th Percentile £92.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00

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 5,971 4,722 5,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.71% 14.94% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 3,041 4,019
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £734 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.35% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 64 170
10th Percentile £18.30 £15.30 £16.10
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.20 £22.19
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +101.92% -43.70% +19.95%
75th Percentile £63.32 £59.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.80 £74.31 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +125.39% -47.64% +13.81%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +53 264 £525 -12.50% 96
UK excluding London +17 148 £518 -13.67% 87
London +34 113 £525 -12.50% 24
Work from Home +9 96 £554 -5.06% 25
South West +27 49 £524 +23.29% 16
North of England -34 43 £471 -5.80% 20
South East -13 29 £490 -24.62% 25
Yorkshire -32 28 £525 -12.50% 11
Midlands -51 16 £447 -23.91% 12
North West -29 15 £400 -20.00% 7
West Midlands -51 13 £420 -28.51% 7
Scotland +6 7 £650 - 3
East of England -16 5 £625 +42.86% 11
East Midlands -28 3 £447 - 5
Wales -6 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 18 (5.64%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.02%) Confluence
3 9 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.19%) IIS
5 6 (1.88%) Apache
6 5 (1.57%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.57%) JBoss
6 5 (1.57%) nginx
6 5 (1.57%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.57%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.63%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.63%) CMS
9 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (1.88%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.25%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.63%) Windchill
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (4.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.63%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 156 (48.90%) Azure
2 132 (41.38%) Entra ID
3 75 (23.51%) AWS
4 45 (14.11%) SaaS
5 41 (12.85%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (6.58%) GCP
7 19 (5.96%) PaaS
8 14 (4.39%) GitHub
9 13 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (4.08%) Serverless
10 11 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.45%) IaaS
11 10 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 10 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.13%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.82%) OneDrive
13 8 (2.51%) Nutanix
13 8 (2.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (22.26%) DNS
2 41 (12.85%) Firewall
3 35 (10.97%) VPN
4 32 (10.03%) Kerberos
5 27 (8.46%) DHCP
6 17 (5.33%) SSL
7 14 (4.39%) TCP/IP
8 13 (4.08%) HTTP
9 10 (3.13%) LAN
10 9 (2.82%) HTTPS
10 9 (2.82%) WAN
10 9 (2.82%) Wireshark
11 8 (2.51%) BIG-IP
11 8 (2.51%) Network Security
12 7 (2.19%) IPsec
12 7 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.19%) Wireless
13 6 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.88%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (1.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.88%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.57%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.94%) CockroachDB
4 3 (0.94%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.94%) MySQL
4 3 (0.94%) Pinecone
4 3 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.63%) GIS
5 2 (0.63%) Power BI
5 2 (0.63%) SQLite
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.31%) Metadata
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (9.72%) JIRA
2 22 (6.90%) Git
3 12 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.57%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.57%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.57%) GitLab
4 5 (1.57%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.25%) MSI
6 3 (0.94%) Postman
7 2 (0.63%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.63%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.63%) fastlane
7 2 (0.63%) Selenium
7 2 (0.63%) Xcode
8 1 (0.31%) gulp
8 1 (0.31%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 78 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.29%) Finance
3 26 (8.15%) Documentation Skills
4 25 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.13%) Publishing
7 9 (2.82%) Banking
8 5 (1.57%) Aviation
9 3 (0.94%) Legal
9 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.94%) Marketing
9 3 (0.94%) Retail
9 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.63%) Electronics
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Local Government
11 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (17.24%) Architect
2 36 (11.29%) Senior
3 25 (7.84%) Developer
3 25 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (5.64%) Consultant
5 17 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (5.02%) Administrator
7 15 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.39%) Security Engineer
9 13 (4.08%) Analyst
10 12 (3.76%) Lead
11 11 (3.45%) Technical Architect
12 10 (3.13%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.82%) Network Engineer
14 8 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (2.51%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.51%) IAM Consultant
14 8 (2.51%) IAM Specialist
14 8 (2.51%) Project Manager
15 7 (2.19%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (35.42%) SAML
2 109 (34.17%) OAuth
3 76 (23.82%) OpenID
4 66 (20.69%) LDAP
5 42 (13.17%) OAuth2
6 27 (8.46%) SailPoint
7 15 (4.70%) REST
8 13 (4.08%) SAP Basis
9 12 (3.76%) React
10 11 (3.45%) RESTful
11 10 (3.13%) SOAP
12 9 (2.82%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.82%) HTML
13 8 (2.51%) CSS
13 8 (2.51%) Entity Framework
14 7 (2.19%) .NET
14 7 (2.19%) YAML
15 6 (1.88%) JDBC
15 6 (1.88%) JSON
16 5 (1.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.67%) Onboarding
2 23 (7.21%) Replication
3 20 (6.27%) PKI
4 16 (5.02%) Taxonomies
5 10 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.88%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.88%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.25%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.94%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.63%) Animation
11 2 (0.63%) CMDB
11 2 (0.63%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 83 (26.02%) Windows
2 51 (15.99%) Windows Server
3 25 (7.84%) Linux
4 7 (2.19%) Unix
5 5 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.25%) CatOS
6 4 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Android
9 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (28.21%) RBAC
2 89 (27.90%) Identity Access Management
3 59 (18.50%) DevOps
4 56 (17.55%) Identity Management
5 52 (16.30%) CI/CD
6 51 (15.99%) Agile
7 46 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (12.54%) Zero Trust
9 33 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (9.72%) High Availability
10 31 (9.72%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 29 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (9.09%) Roadmaps
12 28 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (7.84%) Task Automation
14 24 (7.52%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (7.52%) Privileged Access Management
14 24 (7.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 35 (10.97%) Python
3 22 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.02%) SQL
5 14 (4.39%) Java
6 9 (2.82%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.51%) Groovy
7 8 (2.51%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.88%) Bicep
8 6 (1.88%) C#
8 6 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.57%) Bash
10 2 (0.63%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.63%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.63%) Swift
11 1 (0.31%) PHP
11 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 92 (28.84%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 26 (8.15%) CISSP
5 23 (7.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.02%) CISM
7 14 (4.39%) Degree
8 11 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.25%) MCP
12 3 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.94%) OCP
12 3 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.94%) PhD
13 2 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.93%) GDPR
2 32 (10.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (4.39%) NIST
5 12 (3.76%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.82%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.88%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.88%) NCSC
8 6 (1.88%) PSD2
8 6 (1.88%) SLA
9 4 (1.25%) QA
10 3 (0.94%) GRC
10 3 (0.94%) WCAG
11 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.31%) SOC 1
System Software
1 152 (47.65%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.64%) Docker
4 11 (3.45%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.88%) Squid
6 5 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.57%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 3 (0.94%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.63%) Firmware
8 2 (0.63%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.63%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.63%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.31%) RACF
9 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (17.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 40 (12.54%) Terraform
3 28 (8.78%) Kubernetes
4 22 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.70%) Ansible
6 14 (4.39%) PingFederate
7 10 (3.13%) Grafana
8 7 (2.19%) CA Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.19%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.88%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.88%) SCCM
10 5 (1.57%) CA Wily
10 5 (1.57%) Consul
10 5 (1.57%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.57%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.94%) VxRail
12 2 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.63%) Kibana
12 2 (0.63%) logstash
Vendors
1 149 (46.71%) Microsoft
2 45 (14.11%) Okta
3 37 (11.60%) VMware
4 19 (5.96%) CyberArk
5 18 (5.64%) SAP
6 16 (5.02%) Ping Identity
6 16 (5.02%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.70%) Google
7 15 (4.70%) Splunk
8 14 (4.39%) ForgeRock
9 11 (3.45%) Pega
9 11 (3.45%) Zscaler
10 10 (3.13%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.13%) Red Hat
11 9 (2.82%) Cisco
11 9 (2.82%) Oracle
11 9 (2.82%) Salesforce
12 8 (2.51%) F5
13 7 (2.19%) Atlassian
14 6 (1.88%) CheckPoint