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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 338 336
Rank change year-on-year -27 -2 +87
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 326 223 247
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.68% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.62% 4.38% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 150 169
10th Percentile £363 £381 £350
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £645
90th Percentile £686 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £496 £538
% change year-on-year +5.85% -7.72% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
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 7,051 5,090 5,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 15.62% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,794 3,356 3,822
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £518
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -2.03% -5.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £690 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 74 89
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £17.58
25th Percentile £24.35 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £58.62 £39.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.30% +25.81% -46.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £77.45 £78.34 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year -3.51% +45.22% -14.84%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -5 273 £525 -4.55% 89
UK excluding London -22 174 £525 +5.85% 51
London -23 123 £525 -6.25% 59
Work from Home -39 103 £510 -7.27% 45
North of England -56 57 £525 +16.67% 12
Midlands -32 34 £450 +9.76% 3
North West -37 31 £492 +17.99% 7
South East -50 31 £520 -16.80% 20
Scotland 0 26 £450 -25.00% 5
South West -17 25 £525 -2.33% 6
Yorkshire -47 24 £550 +25.28% 4
West Midlands -47 21 £425 -5.56% 3
East Midlands -4 12 £550 +36.82%
East of England -19 5 £555 -17.78% 5
North East -40 3 £413 -31.25% 1
Wales - 3 £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 30 (9.20%) SharePoint
2 26 (7.98%) Confluence
3 23 (7.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (3.99%) nginx
5 3 (0.92%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.61%) JBoss
6 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.31%) Apache
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (4.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.61%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 159 (48.77%) Azure
2 147 (45.09%) Entra ID
3 84 (25.77%) AWS
4 49 (15.03%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (13.50%) SaaS
6 40 (12.27%) GCP
7 26 (7.98%) Serverless
8 21 (6.44%) GitHub
9 16 (4.91%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.99%) OpenShift
11 13 (3.99%) PaaS
12 12 (3.68%) Google Workspace
13 11 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.37%) IaaS
14 10 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.07%) OneDrive
15 9 (2.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 62 (19.02%) DNS
2 35 (10.74%) Firewall
3 30 (9.20%) TCP/IP
3 30 (9.20%) VPN
4 24 (7.36%) SSL
5 20 (6.13%) DHCP
5 20 (6.13%) Network Security
6 14 (4.29%) WAN
7 13 (3.99%) IPsec
7 13 (3.99%) Kerberos
7 13 (3.99%) OpenVPN
8 11 (3.37%) HTTP
8 11 (3.37%) HTTPS
8 11 (3.37%) LAN
9 9 (2.76%) DKIM
9 9 (2.76%) DMARC
9 9 (2.76%) SD-WAN
10 7 (2.15%) Internet
10 7 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.15%) Metadata
4 5 (1.53%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.53%) Power BI
5 4 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.23%) MySQL
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.31%) Db2
8 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (13.50%) JIRA
2 13 (3.99%) Git
3 11 (3.37%) Browser DevTools
4 9 (2.76%) SonarQube
4 9 (2.76%) Visual Studio
5 8 (2.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.84%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.53%) GitLab
9 4 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.92%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.92%) Postman
11 2 (0.61%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.61%) Snyk
12 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.31%) JUnit
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
12 1 (0.31%) ScriptRunner
12 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.56%) Finance
3 49 (15.03%) Public Sector
4 33 (10.12%) Documentation Skills
5 30 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.91%) Banking
7 8 (2.45%) Publishing
8 7 (2.15%) Legal
8 7 (2.15%) Military
9 6 (1.84%) Retail
10 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.31%) Front Office
13 1 (0.31%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Local Government
13 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (16.26%) Architect
2 30 (9.20%) Developer
3 26 (7.98%) Lead
4 25 (7.67%) Senior
5 21 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (6.13%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.83%) Administrator
8 18 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.91%) Technical Architect
10 14 (4.29%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.99%) Consultant
12 11 (3.37%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.07%) Analyst
13 10 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (2.76%) IAM Project Manager
15 8 (2.45%) Active Directory Engineer
15 8 (2.45%) IAM Specialist
15 8 (2.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 8 (2.45%) Platform Engineer
16 7 (2.15%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (24.85%) SAML
2 74 (22.70%) OAuth
3 72 (22.09%) OpenID
4 48 (14.72%) LDAP
5 37 (11.35%) OAuth2
6 25 (7.67%) REST
7 23 (7.06%) SailPoint
8 16 (4.91%) SOAP
9 15 (4.60%) Web Services
10 14 (4.29%) Node.js
11 13 (3.99%) Express.js
12 11 (3.37%) XML
13 9 (2.76%) .NET
14 8 (2.45%) ActiveX
15 7 (2.15%) Middleware
15 7 (2.15%) React
15 7 (2.15%) SAP Basis
16 6 (1.84%) AngularJS
17 5 (1.53%) CSS
17 5 (1.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (21.17%) Onboarding
2 29 (8.90%) Enterprise Software
2 29 (8.90%) PKI
3 24 (7.36%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.37%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.45%) Taxonomies
8 7 (2.15%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.53%) Replication
11 4 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.23%) Clustering
11 4 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.04%) Windows
2 21 (6.44%) Linux
3 12 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.76%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.76%) Unix
5 6 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.92%) Android
7 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.61%) VMS
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (32.52%) Identity Access Management
2 73 (22.39%) DevOps
3 63 (19.33%) RBAC
4 53 (16.26%) Agile
5 50 (15.34%) CI/CD
5 50 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (15.34%) Cybersecurity
5 50 (15.34%) Roadmaps
6 43 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (12.27%) Zero Trust
8 37 (11.35%) Migration
9 33 (10.12%) Privileged Access Management
10 32 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (8.28%) ITIL
13 26 (7.98%) Microservices
14 25 (7.67%) Cloud Security
15 24 (7.36%) ITSM
15 24 (7.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 45 (13.80%) PowerShell
2 32 (9.82%) Java
3 25 (7.67%) Python
4 17 (5.21%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.60%) SQL
6 10 (3.07%) Bash
7 8 (2.45%) VB
7 8 (2.45%) VB6
7 8 (2.45%) VBA
8 6 (1.84%) C#
8 6 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.23%) Bicep
10 3 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.31%) AppleScript
12 1 (0.31%) Korn
12 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 74 (22.70%) Security Cleared
2 60 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.44%) Degree
4 17 (5.21%) CISSP
5 14 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.76%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.84%) CISM
9 6 (1.84%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.84%) PMP
10 4 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.92%) GIAC
11 3 (0.92%) MCSE
12 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.61%) CEH
12 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (9.20%) GDPR
3 27 (8.28%) NIST
4 14 (4.29%) SLA
5 12 (3.68%) QA
6 11 (3.37%) Accessibility
6 11 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (3.07%) GRC
8 9 (2.76%) Data Quality
9 7 (2.15%) PMO
10 6 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.84%) SOC 2
11 5 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.92%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 136 (41.72%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.21%) Docker
3 10 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.76%) Squid
5 6 (1.84%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.23%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.23%) RACF
8 3 (0.92%) vSphere
9 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.31%) Firmware
10 1 (0.31%) KVM
10 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (10.43%) Kubernetes
1 34 (10.43%) Terraform
2 18 (5.52%) Grafana
2 18 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (4.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (4.60%) Ansible
5 10 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.76%) Argo
6 9 (2.76%) FortiGate
7 8 (2.45%) Consul
8 6 (1.84%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.53%) CASB
9 5 (1.53%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.92%) SELinux
12 2 (0.61%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.61%) Packer
12 2 (0.61%) SCCM
12 2 (0.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 125 (38.34%) Microsoft
2 67 (20.55%) Okta
3 28 (8.59%) CyberArk
4 27 (8.28%) ServiceNow
5 23 (7.06%) Red Hat
6 18 (5.52%) Zscaler
7 17 (5.21%) SAP
8 16 (4.91%) BeyondTrust
8 16 (4.91%) VMware
9 15 (4.60%) Google
10 14 (4.29%) Oracle
11 10 (3.07%) Cisco
11 10 (3.07%) Dynatrace
11 10 (3.07%) Ping Identity
12 8 (2.45%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (2.15%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.84%) ForgeRock
15 5 (1.53%) CheckPoint
15 5 (1.53%) F5