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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 378 356
Rank change year-on-year +63 -22 +92
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 284 168 268
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.86% 3.25% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 107 205
10th Percentile £369 £400 £377
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £567
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.82% +3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £619
90th Percentile £680 £775 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £625 £515
% change year-on-year -17.68% +21.36% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 5,847 5,173 6,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 14.49% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,966 3,290 4,473
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -3.31% -5.57%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £693 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 71 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.50 £22.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.88 £72.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.32 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +26.73% -44.78% +75.36%

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 7 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 7 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 +48 241 £524 -12.67% 207
UK excluding London +31 138 £515 -17.68% 205
London +13 98 £525 -12.50% 26
Work from Home +18 77 £520 -17.46% 78
South West +32 45 £524 -0.19% 23
North of England -6 41 £453 -9.40% 52
Yorkshire -19 22 £525 - 27
South East -20 22 £538 -23.21% 49
North West -2 19 £400 -20.00% 22
Midlands -35 16 £400 -21.57% 37
West Midlands -26 15 £443 -13.24% 18
Scotland +9 9 £600 -4.76% 8
East of England -12 6 £625 +66.67% 29
Wales +1 1 £550 +10.00% 7
East Midlands -20 1 £400 - 18

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 (8.10%) Confluence
2 19 (6.69%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.11%) Apache
4 6 (2.11%) IIS
5 5 (1.76%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.76%) JBoss
5 5 (1.76%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.76%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.70%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.35%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.70%) Windchill
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (4.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.70%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (46.48%) Azure
2 108 (38.03%) Entra ID
3 78 (27.46%) AWS
4 48 (16.90%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (14.08%) SaaS
6 28 (9.86%) GCP
7 23 (8.10%) GitHub
8 14 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.23%) PaaS
10 11 (3.87%) Azure AKS
10 11 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.17%) IaaS
12 9 (3.17%) Nutanix
13 8 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.82%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 7 (2.46%) OneDrive
15 6 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (15.85%) DNS
2 33 (11.62%) Firewall
3 25 (8.80%) SSL
3 25 (8.80%) VPN
4 14 (4.93%) Kerberos
5 10 (3.52%) HTTP
6 9 (3.17%) DHCP
6 9 (3.17%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.46%) HTTPS
7 7 (2.46%) LAN
7 7 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.11%) Network Security
8 6 (2.11%) SSH
8 6 (2.11%) WAN
8 6 (2.11%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.41%) Internet
9 4 (1.41%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.41%) Wireless
10 3 (1.06%) IPsec
10 3 (1.06%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.76%) Oracle Database
1 5 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.76%) Power BI
1 5 (1.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.70%) MySQL
2 2 (0.70%) SQLite
3 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (14.44%) JIRA
2 20 (7.04%) Git
3 10 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.76%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.76%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.76%) MSI
4 5 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.70%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.70%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.70%) fastlane
5 2 (0.70%) Postman
5 2 (0.70%) Selenium
5 2 (0.70%) Xcode
6 1 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.35%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.35%) gulp
6 1 (0.35%) JMeter
6 1 (0.35%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 92 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.97%) Finance
3 27 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.17%) Banking
7 4 (1.41%) Aviation
7 4 (1.41%) Retail
7 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.06%) Marketing
9 2 (0.70%) Electronics
9 2 (0.70%) Legal
9 2 (0.70%) Local Government
9 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (18.66%) Architect
2 38 (13.38%) Senior
3 21 (7.39%) Consultant
3 21 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (7.04%) Developer
5 15 (5.28%) Analyst
6 14 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.58%) Administrator
7 13 (4.58%) Business Analyst
7 13 (4.58%) Lead
8 12 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) IAM Consultant
9 10 (3.52%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) Senior Architect
9 10 (3.52%) ServiceNow Architect
10 9 (3.17%) IAM Specialist
11 8 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.46%) ForgeRock Developer
13 6 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.11%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (39.44%) SAML
2 101 (35.56%) OAuth
3 80 (28.17%) OpenID
4 59 (20.77%) LDAP
5 46 (16.20%) OAuth2
6 33 (11.62%) SailPoint
7 31 (10.92%) REST
8 22 (7.75%) JSON
8 22 (7.75%) SOAP
9 19 (6.69%) HTML
10 18 (6.34%) AngularJS
11 17 (5.99%) Web Services
12 16 (5.63%) HTML5
12 16 (5.63%) JDBC
13 13 (4.58%) Apache Camel
13 13 (4.58%) jQuery
13 13 (4.58%) ODBC
13 13 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.87%) RESTful
15 8 (2.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.79%) Onboarding
2 18 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.63%) PKI
4 14 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.82%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.46%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.46%) Replication
8 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.06%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.70%) Animation
12 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 57 (20.07%) Windows
2 32 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 21 (7.39%) Linux
4 7 (2.46%) Unix
5 4 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.70%) Android
7 2 (0.70%) CatOS
7 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (27.11%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (25.35%) RBAC
3 71 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 70 (24.65%) Agile
5 66 (23.24%) DevOps
6 46 (16.20%) Zero Trust
7 44 (15.49%) CI/CD
8 38 (13.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 37 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 29 (10.21%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (9.15%) ITSM
14 25 (8.80%) Cloud Security
14 25 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (8.45%) Privileged Access Management
15 24 (8.45%) Scrum
16 23 (8.10%) Microservices
17 20 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (22.54%) PowerShell
2 30 (10.56%) JavaScript
3 28 (9.86%) Python
4 17 (5.99%) Java
5 9 (3.17%) Groovy
5 9 (3.17%) Shell Script
5 9 (3.17%) SQL
6 5 (1.76%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.41%) Bicep
7 4 (1.41%) C#
7 4 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.70%) Bash
8 2 (0.70%) BeanShell
8 2 (0.70%) Objective-C
8 2 (0.70%) Swift
9 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 97 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.15%) CISSP
4 23 (8.10%) DV Cleared
5 21 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.99%) CISM
7 12 (4.23%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.87%) Degree
9 7 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.76%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.76%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.06%) CCSP
13 3 (1.06%) PhD
14 2 (0.70%) MCP
14 2 (0.70%) MCSA
14 2 (0.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.79%) GDPR
2 30 (10.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.28%) NIST
4 13 (4.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.52%) HIPAA
6 8 (2.82%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.11%) NCSC
8 6 (2.11%) PSD2
9 5 (1.76%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.41%) QA
10 4 (1.41%) SLA
11 3 (1.06%) WCAG
12 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 141 (49.65%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.28%) Docker
4 8 (2.82%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.76%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.06%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.06%) vSphere
7 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.70%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.70%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.70%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (15.49%) Terraform
2 32 (11.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 31 (10.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (8.80%) Kubernetes
5 16 (5.63%) Ansible
6 14 (4.93%) PingFederate
7 7 (2.46%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.11%) SCCM
9 5 (1.76%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.76%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.76%) Tivoli
10 3 (1.06%) Grafana
10 3 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.06%) Kibana
11 2 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.70%) logstash
11 2 (0.70%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.70%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.35%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 120 (42.25%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.62%) ServiceNow
2 33 (11.62%) VMware
3 29 (10.21%) CyberArk
4 26 (9.15%) Okta
5 19 (6.69%) ForgeRock
6 15 (5.28%) Ping Identity
7 14 (4.93%) HP
7 14 (4.93%) Zscaler
8 13 (4.58%) BMC
8 13 (4.58%) Google
8 13 (4.58%) Ivanti
8 13 (4.58%) Remedy
8 13 (4.58%) Splunk
9 9 (3.17%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.82%) Alibaba
10 8 (2.82%) Cisco
10 8 (2.82%) Oracle
11 7 (2.46%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.11%) Tenable