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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 332 345
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +81
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 334 223 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.70% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.80% 4.46% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 150 173
10th Percentile £327 £398 £350
25th Percentile £447 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £690 £700 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 5
10th Percentile £55.30 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile £88.41 - £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 6,959 4,998 5,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 15.72% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,758 3,315 3,864
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £424 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -0.97% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £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 170 61 102
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.30
25th Percentile £22.05 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.25 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.17% -7.69% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.10 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.27% +37.50% -13.38%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -23 286 £525 -4.55% 93
UK excluding London -31 172 £525 +5.00% 56
London -18 132 £550 -1.79% 59
Work from Home -29 111 £588 +6.82% 42
North of England -62 55 £538 +16.97% 10
Midlands -45 34 £450 - 2
South East -30 33 £520 -17.46% 20
South West -6 30 £525 +5.00% 7
Yorkshire -43 27 £550 +17.27% 3
North West -38 26 £488 +8.33% 7
Scotland -3 21 £450 -25.00% 9
West Midlands -51 20 £425 -22.73% 2
East Midlands -10 13 £463 +15.05%
East of England -28 3 £560 -17.04% 7
North East -35 3 £413 -31.25%
Wales - 3 £525 - 6

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 27 (8.08%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.59%) Confluence
2 22 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.69%) nginx
4 3 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) JBoss
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (5.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.60%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 167 (50.00%) Azure
2 151 (45.21%) Entra ID
3 81 (24.25%) AWS
4 49 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (13.17%) SaaS
6 39 (11.68%) GCP
7 26 (7.78%) Serverless
8 19 (5.69%) GitHub
9 16 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.79%) OpenShift
10 14 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.89%) PaaS
12 12 (3.59%) Google Workspace
12 12 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.29%) IaaS
14 10 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.69%) OneDrive
15 9 (2.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 78 (23.35%) DNS
2 39 (11.68%) Firewall
3 33 (9.88%) VPN
4 32 (9.58%) DHCP
5 27 (8.08%) SSL
6 26 (7.78%) Kerberos
6 26 (7.78%) TCP/IP
7 21 (6.29%) Network Security
8 17 (5.09%) WAN
9 16 (4.79%) IPsec
10 14 (4.19%) HTTP
10 14 (4.19%) HTTPS
10 14 (4.19%) LAN
11 9 (2.69%) BIG-IP
11 9 (2.69%) DKIM
11 9 (2.69%) DMARC
11 9 (2.69%) OpenVPN
11 9 (2.69%) SD-WAN
12 8 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (2.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.10%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.10%) Metadata
3 5 (1.50%) MySQL
3 5 (1.50%) Power BI
4 4 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (13.17%) JIRA
2 11 (3.29%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (2.69%) Git
3 9 (2.69%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.40%) GitLab
4 8 (2.40%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.10%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.10%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.20%) Postman
7 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.90%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.60%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.60%) Snyk
10 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.30%) JUnit
10 1 (0.30%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.37%) Finance
3 46 (13.77%) Public Sector
4 32 (9.58%) Documentation Skills
5 30 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.59%) Banking
7 11 (3.29%) Publishing
8 8 (2.40%) Legal
9 6 (1.80%) Military
9 6 (1.80%) Retail
10 4 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.30%) Aviation
13 1 (0.30%) Front Office
13 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (16.17%) Architect
2 29 (8.68%) Developer
3 27 (8.08%) Senior
4 23 (6.89%) Lead
5 22 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (6.29%) Administrator
7 19 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (5.39%) Support Engineer
9 16 (4.79%) Technical Architect
10 13 (3.89%) Consultant
10 13 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (3.89%) Project Manager
11 12 (3.59%) Security Engineer
12 10 (2.99%) Analyst
13 8 (2.40%) Active Directory Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) IAM Project Manager
13 8 (2.40%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) Network Engineer
14 7 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
15 6 (1.80%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (27.84%) SAML
2 85 (25.45%) OAuth
3 70 (20.96%) OpenID
4 60 (17.96%) LDAP
5 38 (11.38%) OAuth2
6 26 (7.78%) REST
7 20 (5.99%) SailPoint
8 14 (4.19%) Node.js
9 13 (3.89%) Express.js
9 13 (3.89%) SOAP
9 13 (3.89%) Web Services
10 10 (2.99%) SAP Basis
11 8 (2.40%) React
12 7 (2.10%) .NET
12 7 (2.10%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.10%) CSS
12 7 (2.10%) Middleware
13 6 (1.80%) HTML
13 6 (1.80%) Keycloak
14 5 (1.50%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 66 (19.76%) Onboarding
2 26 (7.78%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (7.49%) Cloud Native
4 24 (7.19%) PKI
5 18 (5.39%) Replication
6 12 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.29%) Taxonomies
8 10 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.69%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.40%) Public Cloud
11 7 (2.10%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.80%) Freedom of Information
13 5 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
14 4 (1.20%) Clustering
14 4 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 3 (0.90%) CMDB
15 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.47%) Windows
2 30 (8.98%) Windows Server
3 19 (5.69%) Linux
4 9 (2.69%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.69%) Unix
5 5 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.90%) Android
7 3 (0.90%) CatOS
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (33.23%) Identity Access Management
2 74 (22.16%) DevOps
3 69 (20.66%) RBAC
4 54 (16.17%) CI/CD
5 53 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
6 52 (15.57%) Roadmaps
7 51 (15.27%) Agile
8 50 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (11.98%) Zero Trust
11 36 (10.78%) Migration
12 35 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (8.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (8.68%) High Availability
14 29 (8.68%) Privileged Access Management
15 27 (8.08%) Validation
16 26 (7.78%) Cloud Security
16 26 (7.78%) Identity Management
16 26 (7.78%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.87%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.19%) Java
3 22 (6.59%) Python
4 19 (5.69%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.79%) SQL
6 10 (2.99%) Bash
7 7 (2.10%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.50%) Bicep
8 5 (1.50%) VB
8 5 (1.50%) VB6
8 5 (1.50%) VBA
9 4 (1.20%) C#
10 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.60%) Groovy
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) AppleScript
12 1 (0.30%) Korn
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 72 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.29%) Degree
4 17 (5.09%) CISSP
5 12 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.80%) CISM
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.20%) PMP
10 3 (0.90%) GIAC
10 3 (0.90%) MCSE
11 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.60%) CEH
11 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.60%) OCP
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.87%) GDPR
2 32 (9.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (7.19%) NIST
4 21 (6.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.59%) QA
6 11 (3.29%) GRC
6 11 (3.29%) SLA
7 10 (2.99%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.10%) PMO
8 7 (2.10%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.80%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.50%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.90%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 143 (42.81%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.09%) Docker
3 15 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.99%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.69%) Squid
6 7 (2.10%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.20%) RACF
9 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.90%) vSphere
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.18%) Terraform
3 30 (8.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (5.69%) Grafana
5 18 (5.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (3.59%) Ansible
7 11 (3.29%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.99%) Argo
9 9 (2.69%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.40%) Consul
11 6 (1.80%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.50%) CASB
12 5 (1.50%) PingFederate
12 5 (1.50%) VxRail
13 4 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.90%) SCCM
15 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.60%) Packer
16 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 129 (38.62%) Microsoft
2 77 (23.05%) Okta
3 24 (7.19%) CyberArk
3 24 (7.19%) VMware
4 22 (6.59%) Red Hat
4 22 (6.59%) ServiceNow
5 19 (5.69%) SAP
6 18 (5.39%) Zscaler
7 15 (4.49%) Google
8 13 (3.89%) Cisco
8 13 (3.89%) Oracle
9 11 (3.29%) BeyondTrust
10 10 (2.99%) Dynatrace
10 10 (2.99%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.69%) F5
12 8 (2.40%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.40%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.80%) Dell
13 6 (1.80%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.80%) Ping Identity