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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 326 352
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 +74
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 332 221 252
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.71% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.79% 4.48% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 150 175
10th Percentile £327 £398 £350
25th Percentile £447 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £634
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 5
10th Percentile £55.30 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile £88.41 - £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 6,933 4,929 5,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 15.76% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,745 3,278 3,851
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £424 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.97% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 59 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.05
25th Percentile £22.05 £20.25 £21.29
Median hourly rate £55.25 £32.77 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.60% +0.83% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.33 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.10 £77.74 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.27% +37.50% -8.57%

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 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -25 284 £525 -4.55% 93
UK excluding London -23 170 £525 +5.00% 56
London -14 132 £550 -1.79% 59
Work from Home -26 111 £588 +6.82% 42
North of England -57 55 £538 +16.97% 10
South East -39 33 £520 -17.46% 20
Midlands -47 33 £450 - 2
South West -5 30 £525 +5.00% 7
Yorkshire -44 27 £550 +17.27% 3
North West -36 26 £488 +8.33% 7
Scotland +5 21 £450 -25.00% 9
West Midlands -57 19 £425 -22.73% 2
East Midlands -6 13 £463 +15.05%
North East -36 3 £413 -31.25%
Wales - 3 £525 - 6
East of England -21 2 £565 -16.30% 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 (8.13%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.63%) Confluence
2 22 (6.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.71%) nginx
4 3 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) JBoss
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (5.72%) 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
1 165 (49.70%) Azure
2 150 (45.18%) Entra ID
3 80 (24.10%) AWS
4 48 (14.46%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (13.25%) SaaS
6 38 (11.45%) GCP
7 26 (7.83%) Serverless
8 19 (5.72%) GitHub
9 16 (4.82%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.82%) OpenShift
10 13 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.92%) PaaS
11 12 (3.61%) Google Workspace
11 12 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.31%) IaaS
13 10 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.71%) OneDrive
14 9 (2.71%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 77 (23.19%) DNS
2 38 (11.45%) Firewall
3 32 (9.64%) VPN
4 31 (9.34%) DHCP
5 26 (7.83%) Kerberos
5 26 (7.83%) SSL
6 25 (7.53%) TCP/IP
7 20 (6.02%) Network Security
8 16 (4.82%) IPsec
8 16 (4.82%) WAN
9 14 (4.22%) HTTP
9 14 (4.22%) HTTPS
10 13 (3.92%) LAN
11 9 (2.71%) BIG-IP
11 9 (2.71%) DKIM
11 9 (2.71%) DMARC
11 9 (2.71%) OpenVPN
12 8 (2.41%) SD-WAN
12 8 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (2.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.11%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.11%) Metadata
3 5 (1.51%) MySQL
3 5 (1.51%) Power BI
4 4 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (12.95%) JIRA
2 10 (3.01%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (2.71%) Git
3 9 (2.71%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.41%) GitLab
4 8 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.11%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.20%) Postman
7 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.90%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.60%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.60%) Snyk
10 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.30%) JUnit
10 1 (0.30%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.86%) Finance
2 46 (13.86%) Public Sector
3 32 (9.64%) Documentation Skills
4 30 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.31%) Banking
5 11 (3.31%) Publishing
6 8 (2.41%) Legal
7 6 (1.81%) Military
7 6 (1.81%) Retail
8 4 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.30%) Aviation
11 1 (0.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (16.27%) Architect
2 28 (8.43%) Developer
3 27 (8.13%) Senior
4 23 (6.93%) Lead
5 22 (6.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (6.33%) Administrator
7 19 (5.72%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (5.42%) Support Engineer
9 16 (4.82%) Technical Architect
10 13 (3.92%) Consultant
10 13 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (3.92%) Project Manager
11 12 (3.61%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.01%) Analyst
13 8 (2.41%) Active Directory Engineer
13 8 (2.41%) IAM Project Manager
13 8 (2.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 8 (2.41%) Network Engineer
14 7 (2.11%) Azure Engineer
15 6 (1.81%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (27.71%) SAML
2 84 (25.30%) OAuth
3 69 (20.78%) OpenID
4 60 (18.07%) LDAP
5 38 (11.45%) OAuth2
6 26 (7.83%) REST
7 20 (6.02%) SailPoint
8 14 (4.22%) Node.js
9 13 (3.92%) Express.js
9 13 (3.92%) SOAP
9 13 (3.92%) Web Services
10 10 (3.01%) SAP Basis
11 8 (2.41%) React
12 7 (2.11%) .NET
12 7 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.11%) CSS
12 7 (2.11%) Middleware
13 6 (1.81%) HTML
13 6 (1.81%) Keycloak
14 5 (1.51%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 66 (19.88%) Onboarding
2 25 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.53%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (7.23%) PKI
4 18 (5.42%) Replication
5 11 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.31%) Taxonomies
6 10 (3.01%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.71%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.41%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.11%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.81%) Freedom of Information
11 5 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.20%) Clustering
12 4 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (0.90%) CMDB
13 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.27%) Windows
2 30 (9.04%) Windows Server
3 19 (5.72%) 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 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.90%) Android
8 3 (0.90%) CatOS
8 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (33.13%) Identity Access Management
2 73 (21.99%) DevOps
3 69 (20.78%) RBAC
4 54 (16.27%) CI/CD
5 53 (15.96%) Cybersecurity
6 52 (15.66%) Roadmaps
7 51 (15.36%) Agile
8 50 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (12.05%) Zero Trust
12 36 (10.84%) Migration
13 35 (10.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (8.73%) High Availability
14 29 (8.73%) Privileged Access Management
14 29 (8.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 27 (8.13%) Validation
16 26 (7.83%) Cloud Security
16 26 (7.83%) Identity Management
17 25 (7.53%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.96%) PowerShell
2 23 (6.93%) Java
3 22 (6.63%) Python
4 19 (5.72%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.82%) SQL
6 10 (3.01%) Bash
7 7 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.51%) Bicep
8 5 (1.51%) VB
8 5 (1.51%) VB6
8 5 (1.51%) VBA
9 4 (1.20%) C#
10 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.60%) Groovy
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) AppleScript
12 1 (0.30%) Korn
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 89 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 71 (21.39%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.33%) Degree
4 17 (5.12%) CISSP
5 12 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.81%) CISM
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.20%) PMP
10 3 (0.90%) GIAC
10 3 (0.90%) MCSE
11 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.60%) CEH
11 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.60%) OCP
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.95%) GDPR
2 32 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (7.23%) NIST
4 21 (6.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.61%) QA
6 11 (3.31%) GRC
6 11 (3.31%) SLA
7 10 (3.01%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.11%) PMO
8 7 (2.11%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.81%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.51%) PCI DSS
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%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 142 (42.77%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.12%) Docker
3 15 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.01%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.71%) Squid
6 7 (2.11%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.20%) RACF
9 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.90%) vSphere
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (11.75%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.24%) Terraform
3 30 (9.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (5.72%) Grafana
5 18 (5.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (3.61%) Ansible
7 11 (3.31%) 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%) CASB
12 5 (1.51%) PingFederate
12 5 (1.51%) VxRail
13 4 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.90%) SCCM
15 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.60%) Packer
16 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 129 (38.86%) Microsoft
2 77 (23.19%) Okta
3 24 (7.23%) CyberArk
3 24 (7.23%) VMware
4 22 (6.63%) Red Hat
4 22 (6.63%) ServiceNow
5 19 (5.72%) SAP
6 17 (5.12%) Zscaler
7 15 (4.52%) Google
8 13 (3.92%) Cisco
8 13 (3.92%) Oracle
9 11 (3.31%) BeyondTrust
10 10 (3.01%) Dynatrace
10 10 (3.01%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.71%) F5
12 8 (2.41%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.41%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.81%) Dell
13 6 (1.81%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.81%) Ping Identity