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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 343 377
Rank change year-on-year -47 +34 +15
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 312 222 201
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.67% 0.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.32% 4.82% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 148 137
10th Percentile £391 £383 £358
25th Percentile £449 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £484 £620
% change year-on-year +8.58% -22.02% +11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 2
10th Percentile £57.25 - £30.56
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.75 £40.14
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £60.09
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -20.95% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £84.05
90th Percentile - - £96.02
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 5,867 4,602 4,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.94% 13.95% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,913 2,990 3,176
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -2.86% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 80 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -34.78%
75th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.83 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% +37.50% -13.38%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -41 261 £525 -4.55% 62
UK excluding London -15 166 £525 +8.58% 35
London -48 117 £525 -4.98% 36
Work from Home -54 91 £510 -7.27% 38
North of England -46 53 £525 +22.18% 12
Midlands -31 34 £463 +7.56% 4
North West -32 31 £525 +13.41% 10
South East -46 29 £594 +7.95% 12
Scotland 0 25 £450 -21.74% 1
West Midlands -39 22 £425 -10.53% 4
South West -28 20 £525 -7.24% 5
Yorkshire -36 16 £558 +36.81% 2
East Midlands -5 11 £638 +58.58%
East of England -22 6 £555 -19.27% 2
North East - 6 £500 -
Wales - 3 £525 -

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 (8.97%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (6.41%) Confluence
4 6 (1.92%) nginx
5 3 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
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 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.64%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 151 (48.40%) Azure
2 140 (44.87%) Entra ID
3 75 (24.04%) AWS
4 45 (14.42%) GCP
5 43 (13.78%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (12.50%) SaaS
7 24 (7.69%) GitHub
8 14 (4.49%) Google Workspace
8 14 (4.49%) Serverless
9 12 (3.85%) OpenShift
10 11 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.56%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.24%) Google Drive
14 7 (2.24%) OCI
14 7 (2.24%) OneDrive
15 6 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.92%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 64 (20.51%) DNS
2 35 (11.22%) Firewall
3 26 (8.33%) VPN
4 24 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 22 (7.05%) SSL
6 17 (5.45%) DHCP
6 17 (5.45%) Network Security
7 16 (5.13%) WAN
8 12 (3.85%) HTTP
9 11 (3.53%) HTTPS
9 11 (3.53%) LAN
9 11 (3.53%) SD-WAN
10 9 (2.88%) DKIM
10 9 (2.88%) DMARC
10 9 (2.88%) IPsec
10 9 (2.88%) Kerberos
11 7 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.92%) BIG-IP
12 6 (1.92%) SSH
12 6 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.24%) Metadata
3 4 (1.28%) MySQL
3 4 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.28%) Power BI
4 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.64%) Redis
5 2 (0.64%) Tableau
6 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.32%) Db2
6 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (11.22%) JIRA
2 11 (3.53%) Browser DevTools
3 10 (3.21%) Git
3 10 (3.21%) GitLab
3 10 (3.21%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.24%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.96%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.64%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.64%) Snyk
9 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 61 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.27%) Finance
3 51 (16.35%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.65%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (5.45%) Banking
7 10 (3.21%) Retail
8 7 (2.24%) Military
9 6 (1.92%) Legal
9 6 (1.92%) Publishing
10 5 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Local Government
12 2 (0.64%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (14.42%) Architect
2 32 (10.26%) Developer
3 22 (7.05%) Lead
4 21 (6.73%) Support Engineer
5 19 (6.09%) Senior
6 18 (5.77%) Administrator
6 18 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (3.85%) Consultant
9 10 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.21%) Security Engineer
10 9 (2.88%) Active Directory Engineer
10 9 (2.88%) IAM Specialist
10 9 (2.88%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (2.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.24%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.24%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (2.24%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (25.32%) SAML
2 64 (20.51%) OAuth
3 58 (18.59%) OpenID
4 39 (12.50%) LDAP
5 30 (9.62%) OAuth2
6 29 (9.29%) REST
7 28 (8.97%) Terraform
8 20 (6.41%) SailPoint
9 16 (5.13%) SOAP
10 13 (4.17%) Web Services
10 13 (4.17%) XML
11 11 (3.53%) Node.js
12 10 (3.21%) Express.js
13 9 (2.88%) .NET
13 9 (2.88%) ActiveX
13 9 (2.88%) Middleware
13 9 (2.88%) React
14 7 (2.24%) CSS
15 5 (1.60%) GraphQL
15 5 (1.60%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 66 (21.15%) Onboarding
2 32 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (9.62%) PKI
4 21 (6.73%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.24%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.92%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.60%) Clustering
10 5 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.60%) Replication
10 5 (1.60%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.54%) Windows
2 19 (6.09%) Linux
3 11 (3.53%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.21%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.88%) Unix
6 5 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.64%) Android
9 2 (0.64%) VMS
9 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.32%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (34.29%) Identity Access Management
2 70 (22.44%) RBAC
3 56 (17.95%) DevOps
4 52 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (14.74%) CI/CD
7 42 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (13.14%) Privileged Access Management
9 40 (12.82%) Agile
9 40 (12.82%) Migration
10 36 (11.54%) Roadmaps
11 34 (10.90%) Zero Trust
12 33 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (9.62%) ITIL
15 28 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (8.33%) Cloud Security
16 26 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
17 25 (8.01%) Technical Leadership
18 24 (7.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 45 (14.42%) PowerShell
2 34 (10.90%) Python
3 32 (10.26%) Java
4 16 (5.13%) Bash
5 14 (4.49%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.21%) SQL
7 9 (2.88%) VB
7 9 (2.88%) VB6
7 9 (2.88%) VBA
8 6 (1.92%) C#
9 5 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.96%) Go
11 2 (0.64%) Bicep
11 2 (0.64%) Groovy
11 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Swift
12 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 68 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.09%) Degree
4 17 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.85%) CISSP
7 11 (3.53%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.24%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.24%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.28%) CISM
9 4 (1.28%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.28%) PMP
10 3 (0.96%) GIAC
10 3 (0.96%) MCSE
11 2 (0.64%) CEH
11 2 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (8.01%) NIST
3 22 (7.05%) GDPR
4 14 (4.49%) QA
5 12 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 12 (3.85%) SLA
6 10 (3.21%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.24%) GRC
9 6 (1.92%) PMO
10 4 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.96%) NCSC
11 3 (0.96%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.64%) ITGC
13 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 132 (42.31%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.09%) Docker
3 9 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.92%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.96%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.96%) vSphere
7 2 (0.64%) Squid
7 2 (0.64%) 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 29 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (5.13%) Ansible
3 16 (5.13%) Grafana
4 9 (2.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (2.88%) Argo
5 7 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.60%) CASB
6 5 (1.60%) PingFederate
7 4 (1.28%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.96%) Consul
8 3 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.96%) Packer
8 3 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.96%) SELinux
9 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.64%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.64%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 121 (38.78%) Microsoft
2 63 (20.19%) Okta
3 26 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 24 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 22 (7.05%) BeyondTrust
6 20 (6.41%) Google
7 16 (5.13%) SAP
7 16 (5.13%) Zscaler
8 15 (4.81%) Oracle
8 15 (4.81%) Red Hat
9 14 (4.49%) VMware
10 11 (3.53%) Ping Identity
11 8 (2.56%) Cisco
11 8 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.92%) F5
12 6 (1.92%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.92%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.92%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.60%) Netskope
13 5 (1.60%) Workday