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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 332 332
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +101
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 326 192 259
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.67% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.98% 4.23% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 128 178
10th Percentile £300 £402 £350
25th Percentile £429 £475 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £552 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +7.61% -8.07%
75th Percentile £607 £641 £638
90th Percentile £681 £726 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £482
% change year-on-year -6.36% +14.11% -16.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 6
10th Percentile £51.40 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile £91.59 - £102.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 - £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 6,544 4,543 5,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 15.90% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,472 3,098 3,711
10th Percentile £320 £312 £266
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -7.66%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £491 £490
% change year-on-year -0.25% +0.26% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 46 103
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.16 £20.33 £18.89
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.36 £50.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.35 £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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -18 275 £525 -6.25% 94
UK excluding London -25 164 £515 -6.36% 45
London -13 120 £525 -8.14% 53
Work from Home -33 99 £600 +9.09% 41
North of England -50 57 £525 +11.23% 10
Yorkshire -26 37 £550 +2.90% 3
South East -33 36 £488 -23.83% 17
Midlands -55 35 £442 -19.59% 8
South West -12 28 £525 +20.00% 6
West Midlands -58 20 £418 -24.09% 6
North West -45 19 £458 +1.67% 6
Scotland +10 14 £450 -45.45%
East Midlands -20 14 £506 +25.93% 2
North East -24 2 £413 -31.25% 2
East of England -30 1 £575 -2.13% 8

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 (8.28%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.83%) Confluence
3 18 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.76%) nginx
5 3 (0.92%) IIS
6 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.45%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (9.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.61%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 166 (50.92%) Azure
2 159 (48.77%) Entra ID
3 70 (21.47%) AWS
4 51 (15.64%) SaaS
5 46 (14.11%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (9.82%) GCP
7 29 (8.90%) Serverless
8 18 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 18 (5.52%) PaaS
9 17 (5.21%) OpenShift
10 16 (4.91%) GitHub
10 16 (4.91%) Google Workspace
11 13 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.37%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.07%) IaaS
15 9 (2.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 76 (23.31%) DNS
2 34 (10.43%) Firewall
3 32 (9.82%) VPN
4 30 (9.20%) DHCP
4 30 (9.20%) SSL
5 29 (8.90%) Kerberos
6 23 (7.06%) TCP/IP
7 20 (6.13%) IPsec
8 18 (5.52%) Network Security
9 17 (5.21%) HTTP
9 17 (5.21%) HTTPS
9 17 (5.21%) WAN
10 14 (4.29%) LAN
11 13 (3.99%) BIG-IP
12 10 (3.07%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (3.07%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (3.07%) Wireless
13 9 (2.76%) DKIM
13 9 (2.76%) DMARC
13 9 (2.76%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.15%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.84%) Metadata
4 5 (1.53%) MySQL
5 3 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.92%) CockroachDB
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.92%) Pinecone
5 3 (0.92%) Power BI
6 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.61%) GIS
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (11.96%) JIRA
2 10 (3.07%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.15%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.15%) Git
3 7 (2.15%) GitLab
3 7 (2.15%) SonarQube
3 7 (2.15%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.53%) Postman
4 5 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.92%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.61%) JUnit
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.31%) Gatling
8 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.31%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.50%) Public Sector
3 39 (11.96%) Finance
4 35 (10.74%) Documentation Skills
5 32 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.91%) Publishing
7 12 (3.68%) Banking
8 7 (2.15%) Legal
9 6 (1.84%) Retail
10 5 (1.53%) Military
11 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Aviation
13 1 (0.31%) Front Office
13 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (15.64%) Architect
2 29 (8.90%) Senior
3 28 (8.59%) Developer
4 27 (8.28%) Lead
5 26 (7.98%) Administrator
6 18 (5.52%) Support Engineer
7 17 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (4.29%) Technical Architect
10 12 (3.68%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.37%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.07%) Security Engineer
13 9 (2.76%) Analyst
13 9 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) IAM Project Manager
14 8 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Senior Architect
15 7 (2.15%) Consultant
15 7 (2.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (31.29%) SAML
2 93 (28.53%) OAuth
3 72 (22.09%) OpenID
4 67 (20.55%) LDAP
5 37 (11.35%) OAuth2
6 24 (7.36%) SailPoint
7 21 (6.44%) REST
8 20 (6.13%) SAP Basis
9 13 (3.99%) Node.js
10 12 (3.68%) Express.js
11 11 (3.37%) React
11 11 (3.37%) Web Services
12 10 (3.07%) CSS
12 10 (3.07%) SOAP
13 9 (2.76%) HTML
14 8 (2.45%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.45%) ARM Templates
14 8 (2.45%) Entity Framework
15 7 (2.15%) .NET
15 7 (2.15%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 66 (20.25%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.13%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (6.13%) PKI
2 20 (6.13%) Replication
2 20 (6.13%) Taxonomies
3 17 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.45%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.84%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.23%) Clustering
10 4 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.23%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.92%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.56%) Windows
2 28 (8.59%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.13%) Linux
4 9 (2.76%) Unix
5 6 (1.84%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.53%) CatOS
6 5 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.92%) Android
8 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (28.22%) Identity Access Management
2 74 (22.70%) DevOps
3 71 (21.78%) RBAC
4 58 (17.79%) CI/CD
5 57 (17.48%) Cybersecurity
5 57 (17.48%) Roadmaps
6 48 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (14.11%) Agile
8 41 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (11.96%) Zero Trust
10 38 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (9.51%) High Availability
11 31 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (9.20%) Migration
13 29 (8.90%) Validation
14 27 (8.28%) Microservices
14 27 (8.28%) Vulnerability Management
15 25 (7.67%) Data Governance
15 25 (7.67%) Identity Management
16 24 (7.36%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (16.87%) PowerShell
2 28 (8.59%) Python
3 22 (6.75%) JavaScript
4 21 (6.44%) Java
5 20 (6.13%) SQL
6 12 (3.68%) Bash
7 10 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.53%) Bicep
8 5 (1.53%) C#
8 5 (1.53%) VB
8 5 (1.53%) VB6
8 5 (1.53%) VBA
9 4 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.61%) Groovy
10 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.31%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.31%) Korn
11 1 (0.31%) PHP
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 108 (33.13%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.13%) Degree
4 19 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.99%) CISSP
6 9 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.84%) CISM
9 5 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.23%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.23%) PMP
11 3 (0.92%) OCP
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.61%) RHCE
12 2 (0.61%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.19%) GDPR
2 28 (8.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (6.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (6.44%) NIST
5 11 (3.37%) GRC
5 11 (3.37%) SLA
6 10 (3.07%) SOC 2
7 9 (2.76%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.76%) QA
8 8 (2.45%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.23%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.23%) PMO
10 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.92%) NCSC
10 3 (0.92%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 144 (44.17%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.52%) Docker
3 15 (4.60%) VMware NSX
4 14 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (3.07%) Squid
6 6 (1.84%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.53%) RACF
8 4 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.92%) Firmware
10 2 (0.61%) vSphere
11 1 (0.31%) KVM
11 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (13.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 35 (10.74%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.12%) Terraform
4 20 (6.13%) Grafana
5 15 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (3.99%) Ansible
7 12 (3.68%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.07%) Argo
9 9 (2.76%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.45%) Consul
11 6 (1.84%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.53%) PingFederate
12 5 (1.53%) SCCM
13 4 (1.23%) VxRail
14 3 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.61%) CASB
15 2 (0.61%) Packer
16 1 (0.31%) Istio
16 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 122 (37.42%) Microsoft
2 72 (22.09%) Okta
3 31 (9.51%) SAP
4 25 (7.67%) VMware
5 23 (7.06%) Red Hat
6 21 (6.44%) CyberArk
7 20 (6.13%) Google
8 15 (4.60%) ServiceNow
8 15 (4.60%) Zscaler
9 14 (4.29%) Cisco
10 13 (3.99%) F5
10 13 (3.99%) Palo Alto
11 12 (3.68%) Oracle
12 11 (3.37%) CheckPoint
12 11 (3.37%) Pega
13 10 (3.07%) Dynatrace
14 9 (2.76%) BeyondTrust
15 8 (2.45%) Atlassian
16 7 (2.15%) Ping Identity
17 6 (1.84%) Thales