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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 344 345
Rank change year-on-year -29 +1 +46
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 310 215 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.65% 0.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.37% 4.19% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 144 144
10th Percentile £359 £382 £350
25th Percentile £447 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -5.58% +5.91%
75th Percentile £601 £628 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £620
% change year-on-year +10.53% -23.39% +11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 3
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.34
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.75 £24.59
Median hourly rate £71.25 £47.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +90.00% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £64.50
90th Percentile - - £88.20
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 7,087 5,136 5,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.27% 15.60% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,795 3,382 3,658
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £425 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 81 75
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.50
25th Percentile £26.94 £20.25 £24.18
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% -4.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £70.43 £63.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.70 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.79% +19.10% -

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -31 260 £525 -4.55% 255
UK excluding London -12 161 £525 +10.53% 101
London -39 121 £525 -4.98% 172
Work from Home -36 93 £510 -7.27% 133
North of England -45 52 £525 +22.24% 30
Midlands -34 32 £456 +11.28% 15
North West -31 29 £512 +10.76% 24
South East -50 29 £600 +9.09% 24
Scotland +10 24 £450 -18.18% 12
South West -31 21 £525 -7.24% 10
West Midlands -47 20 £425 -5.56% 13
Yorkshire -36 18 £550 +34.97% 5
East Midlands -13 11 £638 +58.58% 2
North East - 5 £481 - 1
East of England -17 4 £543 -19.63% 5
Wales - 3 £525 - 1

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 (9.03%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (6.77%) Confluence
4 6 (1.94%) nginx
5 3 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.65%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 149 (48.06%) Azure
2 141 (45.48%) Entra ID
3 70 (22.58%) AWS
4 44 (14.19%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (13.23%) GCP
6 39 (12.58%) SaaS
7 22 (7.10%) GitHub
8 14 (4.52%) Google Workspace
9 13 (4.19%) Serverless
10 12 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.87%) OpenShift
11 10 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.58%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.26%) Google Drive
13 7 (2.26%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.94%) Asana
14 6 (1.94%) OCI
14 6 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 60 (19.35%) DNS
2 35 (11.29%) Firewall
3 26 (8.39%) VPN
4 24 (7.74%) TCP/IP
5 22 (7.10%) SSL
6 18 (5.81%) Network Security
7 17 (5.48%) DHCP
8 16 (5.16%) WAN
9 12 (3.87%) HTTP
10 11 (3.55%) HTTPS
10 11 (3.55%) LAN
10 11 (3.55%) SD-WAN
11 9 (2.90%) DKIM
11 9 (2.90%) DMARC
11 9 (2.90%) IPsec
12 8 (2.58%) Kerberos
12 8 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.26%) Internet
14 6 (1.94%) BIG-IP
14 6 (1.94%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.55%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.26%) Metadata
3 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.29%) MySQL
3 4 (1.29%) Power BI
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.32%) Db2
6 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (11.61%) JIRA
2 11 (3.55%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.23%) Git
3 10 (3.23%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (2.58%) GitLab
6 7 (2.26%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.97%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.97%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.65%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.65%) Postman
9 2 (0.65%) Snyk
10 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
General
1 66 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.39%) Finance
3 50 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (9.03%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (5.48%) Banking
7 9 (2.90%) Retail
8 7 (2.26%) Military
8 7 (2.26%) Publishing
9 6 (1.94%) Legal
10 5 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Local Government
12 2 (0.65%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) Front Office
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (13.87%) Architect
2 31 (10.00%) Developer
3 24 (7.74%) Lead
4 21 (6.77%) Support Engineer
5 19 (6.13%) Administrator
5 19 (6.13%) Senior
5 19 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (4.19%) Consultant
8 12 (3.87%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.55%) Security Engineer
10 10 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.90%) Active Directory Engineer
11 9 (2.90%) IAM Project Manager
11 9 (2.90%) IAM Specialist
12 8 (2.58%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (2.58%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.26%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (2.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.26%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (24.84%) SAML
2 61 (19.68%) OAuth
3 55 (17.74%) OpenID
4 39 (12.58%) LDAP
5 30 (9.68%) OAuth2
6 26 (8.39%) REST
7 22 (7.10%) SailPoint
8 16 (5.16%) SOAP
9 12 (3.87%) Node.js
9 12 (3.87%) Web Services
9 12 (3.87%) XML
10 11 (3.55%) Express.js
11 10 (3.23%) Middleware
12 9 (2.90%) ActiveX
13 8 (2.58%) .NET
14 7 (2.26%) React
15 6 (1.94%) SAP Basis
16 5 (1.61%) AngularJS
16 5 (1.61%) CSS
17 4 (1.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 65 (20.97%) Onboarding
2 31 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (9.68%) PKI
4 20 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.90%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.58%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.26%) Freedom of Information
9 7 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.94%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.94%) Taxonomies
11 5 (1.61%) Clustering
11 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.61%) Replication
12 4 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.94%) Windows
2 19 (6.13%) Linux
3 11 (3.55%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.23%) Unix
4 10 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.97%) Android
7 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.65%) VMS
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.32%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (33.87%) Identity Access Management
2 69 (22.26%) RBAC
3 58 (18.71%) DevOps
4 53 (17.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (15.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (14.84%) Cybersecurity
7 45 (14.52%) Agile
8 43 (13.87%) CI/CD
9 37 (11.94%) Migration
9 37 (11.94%) Privileged Access Management
10 36 (11.61%) Roadmaps
10 36 (11.61%) Zero Trust
11 35 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 34 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (8.71%) ITIL
15 25 (8.06%) Cloud Security
16 24 (7.74%) Analytics
16 24 (7.74%) Change Management
16 24 (7.74%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.87%) PowerShell
2 32 (10.32%) Python
3 31 (10.00%) Java
4 15 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.52%) Bash
6 10 (3.23%) SQL
7 9 (2.90%) VB
7 9 (2.90%) VB6
7 9 (2.90%) VBA
8 5 (1.61%) C#
9 4 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.97%) Groovy
11 2 (0.65%) Bicep
11 2 (0.65%) Go
11 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 53 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.45%) Degree
4 16 (5.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (4.84%) CISSP
6 13 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.26%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.94%) CISM
9 6 (1.94%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.94%) PMP
10 3 (0.97%) GIAC
10 3 (0.97%) MCSE
11 2 (0.65%) CEH
11 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (8.39%) GDPR
3 25 (8.06%) NIST
4 14 (4.52%) QA
5 12 (3.87%) SLA
6 11 (3.55%) Accessibility
7 10 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (2.90%) Data Quality
9 7 (2.26%) GRC
9 7 (2.26%) PMO
10 4 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.29%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.97%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.65%) ITGC
12 2 (0.65%) NCSC
12 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 132 (42.58%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.48%) Docker
3 9 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.97%) vSphere
7 2 (0.65%) Squid
7 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.32%) Firmware
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (8.71%) Terraform
2 26 (8.39%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (5.16%) Ansible
5 14 (4.52%) Grafana
6 9 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (2.90%) Argo
7 6 (1.94%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.61%) CASB
8 5 (1.61%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.29%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.97%) Consul
10 3 (0.97%) Packer
10 3 (0.97%) SELinux
11 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 117 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 67 (21.61%) Okta
3 27 (8.71%) CyberArk
4 24 (7.74%) ServiceNow
5 19 (6.13%) BeyondTrust
6 18 (5.81%) Google
7 17 (5.48%) SAP
7 17 (5.48%) Zscaler
8 15 (4.84%) Red Hat
9 14 (4.52%) Oracle
9 14 (4.52%) VMware
10 11 (3.55%) Ping Identity
11 10 (3.23%) Cisco
12 8 (2.58%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (2.26%) ForgeRock
13 7 (2.26%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.94%) F5
14 6 (1.94%) Salesforce
15 5 (1.61%) CheckPoint
15 5 (1.61%) Fortinet