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

 6 months to
2 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 314 389
Rank change year-on-year -66 +75 -24
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 325 258 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.78% 0.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.36% 5.49% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 168 118
10th Percentile £351 £379 £363
25th Percentile £440 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £598
Median % change year-on-year - -12.13% +3.91%
75th Percentile £598 £602 £700
90th Percentile £671 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +2.00% -20.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £51.25 £44.48 £30.56
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.56 £40.14
Median hourly rate £76.25 £50.75 £60.09
Median % change year-on-year +50.25% -15.54% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.56 £84.05
90th Percentile £81.92 £56.43 £96.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £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 6,059 4,696 4,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.04% 14.18% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,999 3,032 3,039
10th Percentile £313 £275 £299
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £490
% change year-on-year +4.44% -2.20% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 96 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.88
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £23.79 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +166.86% -36.57% -31.82%
75th Percentile £73.81 £62.50 £63.50
90th Percentile £87.67 £67.13 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £37.08
% change year-on-year +195.16% -42.32% -22.47%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -71 266 £525 +0.82% 322
UK excluding London -29 165 £510 +2.00% 134
London -73 124 £545 +3.81% 197
Work from Home -60 100 £500 -4.76% 146
North of England -53 51 £500 +5.26% 41
North West -36 31 £496 +5.31% 28
Midlands -41 31 £425 -15.00% 16
Scotland -9 29 £481 -16.35% 7
West Midlands -30 25 £425 -22.73% 14
South East -51 24 £450 -16.28% 42
South West -28 19 £525 +2.64% 13
Yorkshire -34 14 £565 +15.90% 13
East of England -21 10 £544 -20.84% 12
North East - 6 £500 -
East Midlands -13 5 £463 +15.05% 2
Wales - 4 £525 - 1

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 32 (9.85%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (4.62%) Confluence
4 4 (1.23%) nginx
5 3 (0.92%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.92%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.62%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) Apache
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.31%) Appian
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.62%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.31%) Actimize
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 147 (45.23%) Azure
2 144 (44.31%) Entra ID
3 73 (22.46%) AWS
4 47 (14.46%) GCP
4 47 (14.46%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (11.38%) SaaS
6 20 (6.15%) GitHub
7 16 (4.92%) OpenShift
8 12 (3.69%) Google Workspace
8 12 (3.69%) Serverless
9 10 (3.08%) OCI
10 9 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.15%) Google Drive
12 6 (1.85%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.54%) DNS
2 31 (9.54%) Firewall
3 22 (6.77%) VPN
4 18 (5.54%) SSL
4 18 (5.54%) TCP/IP
5 14 (4.31%) WAN
6 13 (4.00%) DHCP
6 13 (4.00%) Network Security
7 10 (3.08%) SD-WAN
8 9 (2.77%) DKIM
8 9 (2.77%) DMARC
9 8 (2.46%) HTTPS
9 8 (2.46%) IPsec
9 8 (2.46%) LAN
10 7 (2.15%) SSH
10 7 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.85%) HTTP
11 6 (1.85%) Kerberos
12 5 (1.54%) Internet
13 4 (1.23%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.46%) Metadata
3 5 (1.54%) Metadata Repository
3 5 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.54%) Power BI
4 4 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.23%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.23%) Tableau
5 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.62%) MySQL
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.62%) Redis
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 30 (9.23%) JIRA
2 15 (4.62%) Git
3 11 (3.38%) GitLab
4 9 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.77%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (2.77%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.23%) Postman
6 4 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.62%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.62%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.62%) JUnit
8 2 (0.62%) Maven
8 2 (0.62%) Mockito
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.62%) Snyk
8 2 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
General
1 63 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.77%) Finance
3 44 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.15%) Banking
7 12 (3.69%) Retail
8 7 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.15%) Military
9 6 (1.85%) Legal
10 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.92%) Marketing
10 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.62%) German Language
11 2 (0.62%) Local Government
12 1 (0.31%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 47 (14.46%) Architect
2 37 (11.38%) Developer
3 19 (5.85%) Senior
4 18 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (5.54%) Support Engineer
5 16 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (4.00%) Lead
7 12 (3.69%) Analyst
7 12 (3.69%) Java Developer
8 11 (3.38%) Administrator
8 11 (3.38%) Consultant
9 10 (3.08%) Security Engineer
10 9 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (2.77%) IAM Specialist
10 9 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.46%) Active Directory Engineer
11 8 (2.46%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (2.46%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.15%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (26.46%) SAML
2 77 (23.69%) OAuth
3 68 (20.92%) OpenID
4 35 (10.77%) REST
5 33 (10.15%) OAuth2
6 32 (9.85%) Terraform
7 30 (9.23%) LDAP
8 20 (6.15%) SailPoint
9 18 (5.54%) SOAP
10 16 (4.92%) Web Services
10 16 (4.92%) XML
11 13 (4.00%) Node.js
12 10 (3.08%) .NET
13 9 (2.77%) ActiveX
13 9 (2.77%) Express.js
13 9 (2.77%) WebAuthn
14 8 (2.46%) FIDO
14 8 (2.46%) React
15 7 (2.15%) Kafka
15 7 (2.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 61 (18.77%) Onboarding
2 41 (12.62%) Enterprise Software
3 37 (11.38%) PKI
4 23 (7.08%) Cloud Native
5 16 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 14 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.46%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.46%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.15%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.92%) Life Science
11 3 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.54%) Windows
2 17 (5.23%) Linux
3 16 (4.92%) Mac OS
4 8 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.85%) Unix
6 5 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.62%) Android
8 2 (0.62%) VMS
8 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.31%) CatOS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (38.77%) Identity Access Management
2 77 (23.69%) RBAC
3 53 (16.31%) Migration
4 52 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 49 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (12.92%) DevOps
8 39 (12.00%) Agile
9 36 (11.08%) Privileged Access Management
10 35 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (9.85%) Microservices
11 32 (9.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 31 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (9.54%) Roadmaps
13 30 (9.23%) ITIL
14 28 (8.62%) Identity Management
14 28 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (8.62%) Zero Trust
15 27 (8.31%) Cloud Security
15 27 (8.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 60 (18.46%) PowerShell
2 48 (14.77%) Python
3 38 (11.69%) Java
4 15 (4.62%) SQL
5 14 (4.31%) Bash
5 14 (4.31%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.77%) VB
6 9 (2.77%) VB6
6 9 (2.77%) VBA
7 8 (2.46%) C#
8 5 (1.54%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.23%) Go
10 3 (0.92%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.62%) Groovy
12 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.31%) R
12 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 57 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (4.92%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.92%) Degree
6 11 (3.38%) CISSP
7 8 (2.46%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.92%) GIAC
9 3 (0.92%) MCSE
9 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.92%) PMP
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.62%) CEH
10 2 (0.62%) CISM
10 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.62%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.31%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.92%) SLA
3 15 (4.62%) NIST
4 14 (4.31%) GDPR
5 11 (3.38%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.46%) QA
7 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.23%) PMO
7 4 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.23%) SNOMED CT
8 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.92%) NCSC
9 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.62%) GRC
9 2 (0.62%) ITGC
9 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.31%) PSD2
System Software
1 131 (40.31%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.62%) Docker
3 7 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.92%) vSphere
7 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.31%) KVM
8 1 (0.31%) zsh
Systems Management
1 28 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (5.23%) Grafana
4 15 (4.62%) Ansible
5 9 (2.77%) Argo
6 8 (2.46%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.15%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.54%) CASB
9 3 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.92%) Packer
9 3 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.92%) SELinux
9 3 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.62%) Consul
10 2 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.62%) SCCM
10 2 (0.62%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.31%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 147 (45.23%) Microsoft
2 59 (18.15%) Okta
3 27 (8.31%) BeyondTrust
4 22 (6.77%) CyberArk
4 22 (6.77%) ServiceNow
5 19 (5.85%) Oracle
6 18 (5.54%) Google
7 15 (4.62%) Red Hat
8 14 (4.31%) Zscaler
9 12 (3.69%) VMware
10 10 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (2.46%) ForgeRock
11 8 (2.46%) Ping Identity
12 7 (2.15%) Cisco
13 6 (1.85%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.54%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.54%) Splunk
15 4 (1.23%) Apple
15 4 (1.23%) F5
15 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
356 Single Sign-On jobs Nationwide