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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 366 338
Rank change year-on-year +72 -28 +90
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 326 160 273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.46% 3.42% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 104 204
10th Percentile £351 £410 £363
25th Percentile £431 £500 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £567
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +3.17% +3.14%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £645
90th Percentile £675 £750 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -13.96% +23.08% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £45.93 - -
25th Percentile £52.75 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £66.06 - -
90th Percentile £92.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00

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 5,972 4,675 5,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.69% 15.04% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 3,020 4,015
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £737 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.35% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 61 165
10th Percentile £18.28 £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £21.05 £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +19.95%
75th Percentile £63.32 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.90 £74.00 £77.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £46.18
% change year-on-year +128.31% -47.83% +19.95%

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 27 January 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 27 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

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 27 January 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 +47 271 £525 -12.50% 98
UK excluding London +25 155 £516 -13.96% 87
London +26 113 £525 -12.50% 27
Work from Home +16 98 £541 -7.23% 24
South West +27 49 £524 +23.29% 16
North of England -24 47 £471 -5.80% 20
Yorkshire -17 30 £525 -12.50% 9
South East -20 30 £488 -25.00% 26
Midlands -56 18 £442 -24.72% 12
North West -26 17 £400 -20.00% 9
West Midlands -35 14 £420 -28.51% 7
Scotland +16 7 £650 - 3
East of England -15 5 £625 +42.86% 9
East Midlands -26 4 £442 - 5
Wales -4 1 £550 +10.00% 3

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 20 (6.13%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.99%) Confluence
3 10 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.15%) IIS
5 6 (1.84%) Apache
6 5 (1.53%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.53%) JBoss
6 5 (1.53%) nginx
6 5 (1.53%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.53%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.92%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.61%) CMS
9 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.61%) Windchill
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (4.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 163 (50.00%) Azure
2 139 (42.64%) Entra ID
3 78 (23.93%) AWS
4 49 (15.03%) SaaS
5 43 (13.19%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (7.06%) PaaS
7 22 (6.75%) GCP
8 15 (4.60%) IaaS
9 14 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (4.29%) GitHub
9 14 (4.29%) Serverless
10 12 (3.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 12 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (3.07%) Amazon S3
12 10 (3.07%) OneDrive
12 10 (3.07%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.76%) Nutanix
14 8 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 73 (22.39%) DNS
2 41 (12.58%) Firewall
3 36 (11.04%) VPN
4 33 (10.12%) Kerberos
5 29 (8.90%) DHCP
6 15 (4.60%) SSL
7 14 (4.29%) TCP/IP
8 13 (3.99%) HTTP
9 10 (3.07%) LAN
10 9 (2.76%) HTTPS
10 9 (2.76%) Network Security
10 9 (2.76%) WAN
10 9 (2.76%) Wireshark
11 8 (2.45%) BIG-IP
11 8 (2.45%) IPsec
11 8 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.15%) Wireless
13 6 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.84%) Ethereal
13 6 (1.84%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.84%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.53%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.92%) CockroachDB
4 3 (0.92%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.92%) MySQL
4 3 (0.92%) Pinecone
4 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.61%) GIS
5 2 (0.61%) Power BI
5 2 (0.61%) SQLite
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.31%) Metadata
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (9.20%) JIRA
2 24 (7.36%) Git
3 12 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.53%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.53%) GitLab
4 5 (1.53%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.92%) MSI
5 3 (0.92%) Postman
6 2 (0.61%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.61%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.61%) fastlane
6 2 (0.61%) Selenium
6 2 (0.61%) Xcode
7 1 (0.31%) Gatling
7 1 (0.31%) gulp
7 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 81 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.04%) Finance
3 27 (8.28%) Documentation Skills
4 25 (7.67%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.07%) Publishing
7 9 (2.76%) Banking
8 5 (1.53%) Aviation
9 4 (1.23%) Legal
10 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.92%) Marketing
10 3 (0.92%) Retail
10 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.61%) Electronics
11 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.61%) Local Government
12 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (17.79%) Architect
2 36 (11.04%) Senior
3 27 (8.28%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (6.75%) Developer
5 18 (5.52%) Consultant
6 17 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (4.91%) Administrator
8 14 (4.29%) Analyst
8 14 (4.29%) Security Engineer
9 12 (3.68%) Lead
9 12 (3.68%) Technical Architect
10 9 (2.76%) Network Engineer
11 8 (2.45%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.45%) IAM Consultant
11 8 (2.45%) IAM Specialist
11 8 (2.45%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.45%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (34.66%) OAuth
1 113 (34.66%) SAML
2 79 (24.23%) OpenID
3 63 (19.33%) LDAP
4 44 (13.50%) OAuth2
5 27 (8.28%) SailPoint
6 13 (3.99%) SAP Basis
7 12 (3.68%) React
7 12 (3.68%) REST
8 11 (3.37%) RESTful
9 8 (2.45%) CSS
9 8 (2.45%) Entity Framework
10 7 (2.15%) .NET
10 7 (2.15%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.15%) SOAP
10 7 (2.15%) YAML
11 6 (1.84%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.84%) HTML
12 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (1.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (15.95%) Onboarding
2 23 (7.06%) Replication
3 20 (6.13%) PKI
4 16 (4.91%) Taxonomies
5 11 (3.37%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.45%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.15%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.84%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.61%) Animation
12 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 84 (25.77%) Windows
2 52 (15.95%) Windows Server
3 27 (8.28%) Linux
4 7 (2.15%) Unix
5 5 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.23%) CatOS
6 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.83%) Identity Access Management
2 92 (28.22%) RBAC
3 59 (18.10%) DevOps
4 57 (17.48%) Identity Management
5 56 (17.18%) CI/CD
6 51 (15.64%) Agile
7 47 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (12.88%) Zero Trust
9 36 (11.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (10.12%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 31 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (9.51%) High Availability
12 30 (9.20%) Roadmaps
13 29 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (8.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (7.67%) Cloud Security
15 25 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (7.67%) Task Automation
16 24 (7.36%) Privileged Access Management
16 24 (7.36%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (24.54%) PowerShell
2 35 (10.74%) Python
3 19 (5.83%) JavaScript
4 17 (5.21%) SQL
5 14 (4.29%) Java
6 9 (2.76%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.45%) Groovy
7 8 (2.45%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.15%) Bicep
8 7 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.84%) C#
10 5 (1.53%) Bash
11 2 (0.61%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.61%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.61%) Swift
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (39.88%) Security Cleared
2 89 (27.30%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.43%) DV Cleared
4 27 (8.28%) CISSP
5 23 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.91%) CISM
7 15 (4.60%) Degree
8 12 (3.68%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.53%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.92%) MCP
13 3 (0.92%) OCP
13 3 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.92%) PhD
14 2 (0.61%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (16.87%) GDPR
2 34 (10.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 15 (4.60%) NIST
5 13 (3.99%) SOC 2
6 10 (3.07%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (2.45%) SLA
9 6 (1.84%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.84%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.84%) NCSC
9 6 (1.84%) PSD2
10 4 (1.23%) GRC
10 4 (1.23%) QA
11 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.92%) WCAG
12 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.31%) SOC 1
System Software
1 158 (48.47%) Active Directory
2 23 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.52%) Docker
4 11 (3.37%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.84%) Squid
6 5 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.53%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 3 (0.92%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.61%) Firmware
8 2 (0.61%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.61%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.61%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.61%) RACF
8 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (17.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 43 (13.19%) Terraform
3 30 (9.20%) Kubernetes
4 22 (6.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (5.21%) Ansible
6 14 (4.29%) PingFederate
7 10 (3.07%) Grafana
8 8 (2.45%) CA Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.15%) Prometheus
10 6 (1.84%) FortiGate
10 6 (1.84%) SCCM
11 5 (1.53%) CA Wily
11 5 (1.53%) Consul
11 5 (1.53%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.53%) Tivoli
12 3 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.92%) VxRail
13 2 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.61%) Kibana
13 2 (0.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 157 (48.16%) Microsoft
2 46 (14.11%) Okta
3 38 (11.66%) VMware
4 19 (5.83%) CyberArk
5 18 (5.52%) SAP
6 16 (4.91%) Google
6 16 (4.91%) Ping Identity
6 16 (4.91%) Splunk
7 14 (4.29%) ForgeRock
7 14 (4.29%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.37%) Pega
8 11 (3.37%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.07%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.07%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.76%) Cisco
10 9 (2.76%) Oracle
10 9 (2.76%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.45%) F5
12 7 (2.15%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.84%) CheckPoint