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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 392 363
Rank change year-on-year +93 -29 +99
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 294 166 290
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.83% 0.45% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.11% 3.15% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 108 225
10th Percentile £382 £400 £377
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £567
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.82% +1.93%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £644
90th Percentile £675 £779 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £630 £533
% change year-on-year -17.86% +18.31% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 5,759 5,269 6,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.21% 14.36% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,847 3,385 4,715
10th Percentile £305 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.10% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 60 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.59 £31.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -38.10% +110.00%
75th Percentile £63.36 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.50 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -26.47% -26.38% +102.99%

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 November 2025.

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
Top 14 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 November 2025. 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 +64 249 £525 -12.50% 115
UK excluding London +40 132 £518 -17.86% 70
London +39 108 £525 -11.02% 61
Work from Home +42 88 £525 -16.67% 58
North of England -5 41 £475 -33.29% 9
South West +35 38 £512 -2.57% 16
Yorkshire - 23 £522 - 4
Midlands -26 21 £500 -1.96% 12
South East -8 19 £560 -20.00% 22
North West -5 18 £446 -37.36% 5
West Midlands -28 17 £550 +7.84% 10
Scotland 0 10 £575 -8.73% 4
East of England -16 5 £700 +60.00% 5
East Midlands -13 4 £402 - 2

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 24 (8.16%) Confluence
2 19 (6.46%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.72%) WebSphere
4 8 (2.72%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (2.04%) Apache
5 6 (2.04%) JBoss
6 5 (1.70%) IIS
6 5 (1.70%) iPlanet
7 2 (0.68%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.34%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Windchill
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (4.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.68%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.34%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (50.34%) Azure
2 117 (39.80%) Entra ID
3 94 (31.97%) AWS
4 48 (16.33%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (15.31%) SaaS
6 34 (11.56%) GCP
7 27 (9.18%) GitHub
8 14 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (4.42%) PaaS
10 12 (4.08%) Azure AKS
11 11 (3.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.40%) IaaS
12 10 (3.40%) Power Platform
13 9 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.06%) OpenShift
14 8 (2.72%) Nutanix
14 8 (2.72%) Serverless
15 7 (2.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 7 (2.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.24%) DNS
2 32 (10.88%) Firewall
3 24 (8.16%) SSL
4 19 (6.46%) VPN
5 15 (5.10%) Kerberos
6 9 (3.06%) DHCP
7 7 (2.38%) HTTP
7 7 (2.38%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.04%) Network Security
8 6 (2.04%) SSH
9 5 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.36%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.36%) LAN
10 4 (1.36%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.02%) BGP
11 3 (1.02%) DKIM
11 3 (1.02%) Internet
11 3 (1.02%) OSPF
11 3 (1.02%) SMTP
11 3 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (2.72%) Power BI
3 6 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.70%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.68%) MySQL
5 2 (0.68%) SQLite
6 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.34%) Big Data
6 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.34%) Metadata
6 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.34%) Redis
6 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (13.61%) JIRA
2 22 (7.48%) Git
3 15 (5.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.70%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.70%) MSI
4 5 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.02%) GitLab
5 3 (1.02%) Log4j
6 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.68%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.68%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.68%) fastlane
6 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.68%) Xcode
7 1 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.34%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.34%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 95 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 36 (12.24%) Finance
3 35 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.72%) Banking
7 4 (1.36%) Aviation
7 4 (1.36%) Marketing
7 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.68%) Electronics
9 2 (0.68%) Local Government
9 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
10 1 (0.34%) Police
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (19.05%) Architect
2 34 (11.56%) Senior
3 25 (8.50%) Consultant
3 25 (8.50%) Developer
4 20 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.78%) Analyst
6 15 (5.10%) Lead
7 14 (4.76%) Administrator
7 14 (4.76%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.08%) IAM Specialist
8 12 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (3.40%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.40%) Senior Architect
9 10 (3.40%) ServiceNow Architect
10 8 (2.72%) IAM Consultant
10 8 (2.72%) Product Owner
11 7 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.04%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (39.80%) SAML
2 109 (37.07%) OAuth
3 85 (28.91%) OpenID
4 65 (22.11%) LDAP
5 48 (16.33%) OAuth2
6 39 (13.27%) SailPoint
7 33 (11.22%) REST
8 23 (7.82%) SOAP
9 22 (7.48%) JSON
10 21 (7.14%) HTML
11 19 (6.46%) JDBC
12 18 (6.12%) AngularJS
12 18 (6.12%) Web Services
13 16 (5.44%) HTML5
14 15 (5.10%) jQuery
15 13 (4.42%) Apache Camel
15 13 (4.42%) ODBC
15 13 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (4.42%) RESTful
16 10 (3.40%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.48%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.10%) PKI
5 12 (4.08%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.72%) Replication
7 7 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.02%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.68%) Animation
12 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.31%) Windows
2 27 (9.18%) Windows Server
3 24 (8.16%) Linux
4 7 (2.38%) Unix
5 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.68%) Android
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.59%) Identity Access Management
2 84 (28.57%) Agile
3 79 (26.87%) Identity Management
4 71 (24.15%) RBAC
5 70 (23.81%) DevOps
6 51 (17.35%) Zero Trust
7 50 (17.01%) CI/CD
8 46 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (15.31%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 39 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (10.20%) Migration
11 30 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (9.52%) Privileged Access Management
12 28 (9.52%) Scrum
13 27 (9.18%) Cloud Security
14 26 (8.84%) ITSM
15 25 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
16 24 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 24 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (7.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.77%) PowerShell
2 33 (11.22%) JavaScript
3 29 (9.86%) Python
4 19 (6.46%) Java
5 9 (3.06%) Groovy
5 9 (3.06%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.04%) SQL
7 5 (1.70%) Bicep
7 5 (1.70%) C#
7 5 (1.70%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.36%) Bash
8 4 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.68%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.68%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.68%) Swift
10 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.18%) CISSP
4 19 (6.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (6.12%) CISM
6 17 (5.78%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.10%) Azure Certification
8 13 (4.42%) Degree
9 7 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.04%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.70%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.02%) CCSP
13 3 (1.02%) PhD
14 2 (0.68%) IBM Certification
14 2 (0.68%) MCP
14 2 (0.68%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.63%) GDPR
2 36 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.12%) NIST
4 15 (5.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (4.08%) HIPAA
6 10 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (3.06%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (2.04%) Accessibility
9 6 (2.04%) PSD2
10 5 (1.70%) NCSC
10 5 (1.70%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.70%) SLA
11 4 (1.36%) NIST 800
12 3 (1.02%) WCAG
13 2 (0.68%) QA
14 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 138 (46.94%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.80%) Docker
3 14 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.70%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.68%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 50 (17.01%) Terraform
2 32 (10.88%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (7.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (6.46%) Ansible
5 12 (4.08%) PingFederate
6 7 (2.38%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.70%) CA Wily
7 5 (1.70%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.70%) Tivoli
8 4 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.36%) SCCM
9 3 (1.02%) Grafana
9 3 (1.02%) Kibana
9 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.68%) logstash
10 2 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.68%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 115 (39.12%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.90%) Okta
3 34 (11.56%) CyberArk
4 33 (11.22%) ServiceNow
5 25 (8.50%) ForgeRock
6 21 (7.14%) Ping Identity
6 21 (7.14%) VMware
7 16 (5.44%) Splunk
8 14 (4.76%) Google
8 14 (4.76%) HP
9 13 (4.42%) BMC
9 13 (4.42%) Ivanti
9 13 (4.42%) Remedy
10 11 (3.74%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.40%) Oracle
12 9 (3.06%) IBM
12 9 (3.06%) Salesforce
13 8 (2.72%) Alibaba
14 6 (2.04%) Tenable
15 5 (1.70%) Cisco