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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 384 334
Rank change year-on-year +60 -50 +104
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 283 171 268
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.50% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.78% 3.41% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 112 203
10th Percentile £367 £403 £395
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £633
90th Percentile £676 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £524 £625 £528
% change year-on-year -16.16% +18.48% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £43.38 - -
25th Percentile £49.19 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £57.25 - -
90th Percentile £57.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.75 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +66.67%

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 5,925 5,018 5,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 14.78% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,048 3,208 4,175
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £508
% change year-on-year +2.56% -3.94% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 66 166
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.36 £17.36
25th Percentile £20.21 £21.10 £23.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +81.16% -46.21% +31.94%
75th Percentile £64.13 £56.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.80 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +104.14% -47.64% +37.85%

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 December 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 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 24 December 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 +55 240 £525 -12.50% 189
UK excluding London +26 134 £524 -16.16% 172
London +7 99 £525 -12.50% 34
Work from Home +17 77 £523 -14.69% 38
South West +38 44 £525 +23.53% 12
North of England -22 40 £505 +0.95% 39
South East -8 25 £525 -25.00% 43
Yorkshire -14 23 £525 - 20
North West -24 17 £423 -15.40% 17
Midlands -45 16 £500 - 36
West Midlands -24 15 £443 -11.50% 22
East of England -15 6 £625 +42.86% 34
Scotland +3 4 £574 -8.89% 7
Wales -1 1 £550 +10.00% 3
East Midlands -19 1 £550 - 12

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 20 (7.07%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.65%) Confluence
3 13 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.12%) Apache
4 6 (2.12%) IIS
5 5 (1.77%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.77%) JBoss
5 5 (1.77%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.77%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.71%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.71%) Windchill
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (3.18%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.71%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (47.35%) Azure
2 110 (38.87%) Entra ID
3 64 (22.61%) AWS
4 44 (15.55%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (14.13%) SaaS
6 18 (6.36%) GCP
7 16 (5.65%) PaaS
8 14 (4.95%) GitHub
9 10 (3.53%) IaaS
10 9 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.83%) Nutanix
11 8 (2.83%) OneDrive
11 8 (2.83%) Serverless
12 7 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (2.47%) Google Workspace
12 7 (2.47%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (2.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (17.67%) DNS
2 32 (11.31%) Firewall
3 26 (9.19%) VPN
4 22 (7.77%) SSL
5 18 (6.36%) Kerberos
6 13 (4.59%) DHCP
7 10 (3.53%) HTTP
8 9 (3.18%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.47%) HTTPS
9 7 (2.47%) LAN
9 7 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.12%) Network Security
10 6 (2.12%) SSH
10 6 (2.12%) WAN
10 6 (2.12%) Wireshark
11 4 (1.41%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.41%) Internet
11 4 (1.41%) IPsec
11 4 (1.41%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.77%) Oracle Database
1 5 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.77%) Power BI
1 5 (1.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.71%) CockroachDB
2 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.71%) MySQL
2 2 (0.71%) Pinecone
2 2 (0.71%) SQLite
3 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.35%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.35%) GIS
3 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (12.72%) JIRA
2 22 (7.77%) Git
3 11 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.77%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.77%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.77%) MSI
4 5 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.71%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.71%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.71%) fastlane
5 2 (0.71%) GitLab
5 2 (0.71%) Postman
5 2 (0.71%) Selenium
5 2 (0.71%) Xcode
6 1 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.35%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.35%) gulp
6 1 (0.35%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 70 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.31%) Finance
3 28 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.47%) Banking
7 5 (1.77%) Publishing
8 4 (1.41%) Aviation
8 4 (1.41%) Retail
8 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.06%) Marketing
10 2 (0.71%) Electronics
10 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.71%) Legal
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Police
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (17.67%) Architect
2 38 (13.43%) Senior
3 22 (7.77%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (7.42%) Developer
5 19 (6.71%) Administrator
5 19 (6.71%) Consultant
6 15 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.59%) Lead
9 11 (3.89%) Analyst
9 11 (3.89%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.18%) IAM Specialist
10 9 (3.18%) Senior Architect
11 8 (2.83%) IAM Consultant
12 7 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.47%) ForgeRock Developer
13 6 (2.12%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.12%) ServiceNow Architect
13 6 (2.12%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (35.69%) SAML
2 94 (33.22%) OAuth
3 68 (24.03%) OpenID
4 49 (17.31%) LDAP
5 39 (13.78%) OAuth2
6 28 (9.89%) SailPoint
7 22 (7.77%) REST
8 15 (5.30%) SOAP
9 14 (4.95%) AngularJS
9 14 (4.95%) HTML
10 12 (4.24%) HTML5
10 12 (4.24%) JDBC
11 11 (3.89%) JSON
11 11 (3.89%) React
11 11 (3.89%) Web Services
12 10 (3.53%) RESTful
13 9 (3.18%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.18%) jQuery
13 9 (3.18%) ODBC
13 9 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.19%) Onboarding
2 18 (6.36%) PKI
3 10 (3.53%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.53%) Taxonomies
4 9 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.18%) Replication
5 8 (2.83%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.83%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.47%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.71%) Animation
9 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.91%) Windows
2 33 (11.66%) Windows Server
3 22 (7.77%) Linux
4 7 (2.47%) Unix
5 4 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.71%) Android
7 2 (0.71%) CatOS
7 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.15%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (25.44%) RBAC
3 61 (21.55%) Agile
4 55 (19.43%) Identity Management
5 54 (19.08%) DevOps
6 46 (16.25%) CI/CD
7 41 (14.49%) Zero Trust
8 35 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (11.66%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 28 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (9.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (8.13%) Cloud Security
12 23 (8.13%) Microservices
13 22 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (7.42%) Migration
14 21 (7.42%) Privileged Access Management
15 20 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (6.71%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 65 (22.97%) PowerShell
2 32 (11.31%) Python
3 25 (8.83%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.95%) Java
5 13 (4.59%) SQL
6 9 (3.18%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.83%) Groovy
8 7 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.41%) Bicep
10 4 (1.41%) C#
11 3 (1.06%) Bash
12 2 (0.71%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.71%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 109 (38.52%) Security Cleared
2 77 (27.21%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.19%) DV Cleared
4 25 (8.83%) CISSP
5 22 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.65%) CISM
7 11 (3.89%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.53%) Degree
9 7 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.41%) MCP
12 3 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.06%) PhD
13 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.71%) MCTS
13 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.78%) GDPR
2 28 (9.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.24%) NIST
4 10 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (3.18%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (2.12%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.12%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.12%) NCSC
7 6 (2.12%) PSD2
8 5 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.77%) SLA
9 4 (1.41%) QA
10 3 (1.06%) WCAG
11 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.35%) SOC 1
System Software
1 134 (47.35%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (6.71%) Docker
4 9 (3.18%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.06%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.06%) vSphere
7 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.71%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.71%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.71%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) RACF
8 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 39 (13.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 33 (11.66%) Terraform
3 26 (9.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (5.65%) Ansible
4 16 (5.65%) Kubernetes
5 14 (4.95%) PingFederate
6 7 (2.47%) CA Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.12%) SCCM
8 5 (1.77%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.77%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.77%) Tivoli
9 4 (1.41%) Grafana
10 3 (1.06%) Kibana
11 2 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.71%) logstash
11 2 (0.71%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.35%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 123 (43.46%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.66%) VMware
3 29 (10.25%) Okta
4 24 (8.48%) ServiceNow
5 22 (7.77%) CyberArk
6 16 (5.65%) Google
6 16 (5.65%) Ping Identity
7 15 (5.30%) ForgeRock
8 13 (4.59%) Splunk
8 13 (4.59%) Zscaler
9 12 (4.24%) SAP
10 10 (3.53%) HP
11 9 (3.18%) BMC
11 9 (3.18%) Ivanti
11 9 (3.18%) Remedy
11 9 (3.18%) Salesforce
12 8 (2.83%) Oracle
13 7 (2.47%) Cisco
13 7 (2.47%) Palo Alto
14 6 (2.12%) Tenable