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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 335 336
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +83
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 308 187 257
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.64% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.78% 4.03% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 120 179
10th Percentile £320 £409 £350
25th Percentile £447 £475 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +10.05% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £638
90th Percentile £697 £750 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £513 £482
% change year-on-year +1.46% +6.33% -12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 6
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile £92.50 - £102.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.25 - £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 6,441 4,642 5,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.53% 15.79% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,433 3,174 3,659
10th Percentile £325 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.36%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £499 £495
% change year-on-year -0.75% +0.76% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 56 113
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.56 £20.21 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.48 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +113.41% +2.76% -55.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.95 £71.25 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £28.75
% change year-on-year +127.46% -15.90% -32.35%

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 11 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 11 May 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 11 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 -17 258 £525 -7.57% 67
UK excluding London -10 156 £520 +1.46% 40
London -2 110 £541 -6.75% 33
Work from Home -35 86 £600 +9.09% 35
North of England -50 56 £525 +8.58% 6
Yorkshire -25 37 £550 +2.90%
South East -31 37 £493 -23.05% 17
Midlands -50 28 £450 -18.18% 6
South West -18 26 £525 +20.00% 4
North West -50 18 £438 -5.41% 6
West Midlands -57 15 £370 -32.73% 3
Scotland +12 12 £449 -45.64% 3
East Midlands -22 12 £594 - 3
North East -17 2 £413 -31.25%
East of England -32 2 £563 +28.57% 7
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 23 (7.47%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.17%) Confluence
3 17 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.92%) nginx
5 3 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.97%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (10.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.65%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 151 (49.03%) Azure
2 146 (47.40%) Entra ID
3 66 (21.43%) AWS
4 46 (14.94%) SaaS
5 42 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (9.42%) Serverless
7 28 (9.09%) GCP
8 18 (5.84%) Amazon S3
8 18 (5.84%) PaaS
9 15 (4.87%) GitHub
10 14 (4.55%) Google Workspace
11 13 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.22%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.57%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (2.92%) IaaS
15 9 (2.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 73 (23.70%) DNS
2 34 (11.04%) VPN
3 33 (10.71%) Firewall
4 30 (9.74%) DHCP
5 29 (9.42%) Kerberos
6 26 (8.44%) SSL
7 22 (7.14%) TCP/IP
8 17 (5.52%) HTTP
9 16 (5.19%) IPsec
9 16 (5.19%) Network Security
10 14 (4.55%) LAN
11 13 (4.22%) BIG-IP
11 13 (4.22%) HTTPS
11 13 (4.22%) WAN
12 10 (3.25%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (3.25%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (3.25%) Wireless
13 9 (2.92%) OpenVPN
13 9 (2.92%) Wireshark
14 8 (2.60%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.27%) DynamoDB
3 6 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.62%) Metadata
5 4 (1.30%) MySQL
5 4 (1.30%) Power BI
6 3 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.97%) CockroachDB
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.97%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.65%) GIS
7 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (12.01%) JIRA
2 10 (3.25%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.27%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.27%) Git
3 7 (2.27%) GitLab
3 7 (2.27%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.62%) Postman
5 4 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.97%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.65%) JUnit
7 2 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.32%) Gatling
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.32%) Selenium
8 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (23.70%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.69%) Finance
2 36 (11.69%) Public Sector
3 33 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 29 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.19%) Publishing
6 12 (3.90%) Banking
7 8 (2.60%) Retail
8 7 (2.27%) Legal
9 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.97%) Military
10 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.32%) Aviation
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (16.56%) Architect
2 29 (9.42%) Senior
3 26 (8.44%) Lead
4 22 (7.14%) Administrator
4 22 (7.14%) Developer
5 18 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.19%) Support Engineer
7 13 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (4.22%) Technical Architect
8 12 (3.90%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.57%) Network Engineer
10 9 (2.92%) Analyst
10 9 (2.92%) Consultant
10 9 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (2.92%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.60%) IAM Project Manager
11 8 (2.60%) Senior Architect
11 8 (2.60%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (29.55%) SAML
2 89 (28.90%) OAuth
3 66 (21.43%) LDAP
3 66 (21.43%) OpenID
4 36 (11.69%) OAuth2
5 21 (6.82%) SailPoint
6 20 (6.49%) REST
6 20 (6.49%) SAP Basis
7 11 (3.57%) Web Services
8 9 (2.92%) Express.js
8 9 (2.92%) Node.js
9 8 (2.60%) ARM Templates
9 8 (2.60%) CSS
9 8 (2.60%) Entity Framework
9 8 (2.60%) React
10 7 (2.27%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.27%) HTML
10 7 (2.27%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (1.95%) YAML
12 5 (1.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.83%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.49%) PKI
2 20 (6.49%) Replication
2 20 (6.49%) Taxonomies
3 17 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (4.22%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.62%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.30%) Clustering
9 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.30%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.48%) Windows
2 33 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.49%) Linux
4 9 (2.92%) Unix
5 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.62%) CatOS
6 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.65%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (27.60%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (24.35%) RBAC
3 71 (23.05%) DevOps
4 56 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 55 (17.86%) Roadmaps
6 51 (16.56%) CI/CD
7 43 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (13.31%) Agile
9 39 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (11.36%) Zero Trust
11 32 (10.39%) High Availability
12 30 (9.74%) Validation
13 29 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (8.77%) Vulnerability Management
15 26 (8.44%) Microservices
15 26 (8.44%) Migration
16 24 (7.79%) Identity Management
17 23 (7.47%) Data Governance
17 23 (7.47%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.21%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.79%) Python
3 20 (6.49%) JavaScript
3 20 (6.49%) SQL
4 16 (5.19%) Java
5 12 (3.90%) Bash
6 9 (2.92%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.62%) C#
8 4 (1.30%) Bicep
8 4 (1.30%) Groovy
8 4 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.32%) AppleScript
10 1 (0.32%) Go
10 1 (0.32%) Korn
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
10 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (37.34%) Security Cleared
2 85 (27.60%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.47%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.84%) Degree
5 11 (3.57%) CISSP
6 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.62%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.62%) CISM
8 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.30%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.30%) PMP
9 3 (0.97%) OCP
9 3 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.65%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.65%) RHCE
10 2 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.96%) GDPR
2 27 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (6.82%) NIST
5 11 (3.57%) GRC
6 10 (3.25%) QA
6 10 (3.25%) SOC 2
7 9 (2.92%) SLA
8 8 (2.60%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.95%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.30%) PMO
11 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.97%) NCSC
11 3 (0.97%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 145 (47.08%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.84%) Docker
2 18 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.52%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.25%) Squid
5 7 (2.27%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.62%) RACF
7 4 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.97%) Firmware
8 3 (0.97%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.65%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.65%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.65%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.65%) vSphere
10 1 (0.32%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (15.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 32 (10.39%) Kubernetes
3 29 (9.42%) Terraform
4 17 (5.52%) Grafana
5 15 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (4.22%) Ansible
7 12 (3.90%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.92%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.60%) Consul
10 7 (2.27%) PingFederate
11 6 (1.95%) Argo
11 6 (1.95%) CA Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.95%) SCCM
12 4 (1.30%) VxRail
13 3 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.65%) CASB
14 2 (0.65%) Packer
15 1 (0.32%) Istio
15 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 117 (37.99%) Microsoft
2 61 (19.81%) Okta
3 31 (10.06%) SAP
3 31 (10.06%) VMware
4 20 (6.49%) Red Hat
5 19 (6.17%) CyberArk
6 17 (5.52%) Google
7 15 (4.87%) Palo Alto
8 14 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.22%) F5
9 13 (4.22%) Zscaler
10 12 (3.90%) Cisco
11 11 (3.57%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.57%) Pega
12 10 (3.25%) Dynatrace
12 10 (3.25%) Oracle
13 9 (2.92%) BeyondTrust
14 8 (2.60%) Atlassian
15 6 (1.95%) Ping Identity
15 6 (1.95%) SolarWinds