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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 324 379
Rank change year-on-year -51 +55 -13
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 332 240 187
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.73% 0.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.48% 5.24% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 157 124
10th Percentile £363 £383 £390
25th Percentile £442 £425 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -10.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £688
90th Percentile £673 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £622
% change year-on-year +2.00% -19.61% +13.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile £51.25 - £30.56
25th Percentile £69.38 £43.75 £40.14
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £60.09
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -20.95% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £84.05
90th Percentile - - £96.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £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 6,059 4,583 4,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.05% 14.02% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,003 2,957 3,054
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £686 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.25% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 61
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.23 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.86% -31.88% -30.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £62.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.19 £67.23 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £21.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +203.88% -44.44% -19.51%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -38 275 £525 - 315
UK excluding London -22 170 £510 +2.00% 117
London -59 127 £539 +0.33% 206
Work from Home -51 100 £500 -4.76% 138
North of England -51 55 £500 +6.16% 28
North West -33 33 £491 +4.25% 22
Midlands -37 31 £425 -15.00% 13
Scotland -2 28 £481 -19.83% 6
South East -45 26 £519 -5.68% 50
West Midlands -30 25 £425 -22.73% 12
South West -28 19 £525 +5.00% 10
Yorkshire -40 16 £558 +26.13% 6
East of England -25 10 £544 -20.84% 7
North East - 6 £500 -
East Midlands -18 5 £463 +15.05% 1
Wales - 4 £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 32 (9.64%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (6.02%) Confluence
4 4 (1.20%) nginx
5 3 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.90%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
6 1 (0.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.60%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Actimize
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 156 (46.99%) Azure
2 152 (45.78%) Entra ID
3 78 (23.49%) AWS
4 49 (14.76%) GCP
5 47 (14.16%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (11.45%) SaaS
7 21 (6.33%) GitHub
8 16 (4.82%) OpenShift
9 12 (3.61%) Google Workspace
9 12 (3.61%) Serverless
10 10 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.71%) OCI
12 8 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (2.11%) Google Drive
13 7 (2.11%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.81%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 58 (17.47%) DNS
2 31 (9.34%) Firewall
3 23 (6.93%) VPN
4 20 (6.02%) SSL
5 18 (5.42%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.82%) DHCP
7 14 (4.22%) WAN
8 13 (3.92%) Network Security
9 10 (3.01%) SD-WAN
10 9 (2.71%) DKIM
10 9 (2.71%) DMARC
10 9 (2.71%) HTTPS
11 8 (2.41%) IPsec
11 8 (2.41%) Kerberos
11 8 (2.41%) LAN
12 7 (2.11%) HTTP
12 7 (2.11%) SSH
12 7 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (1.51%) Internet
13 5 (1.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.61%) Metadata
1 12 (3.61%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.51%) Metadata Repository
2 5 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.51%) Power BI
3 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.20%) Tableau
4 3 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.60%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.60%) MySQL
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.60%) Redis
6 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (10.24%) JIRA
2 15 (4.52%) Git
3 11 (3.31%) GitLab
4 9 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.71%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (2.71%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.11%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.20%) Postman
6 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.90%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.60%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.60%) JUnit
8 2 (0.60%) Maven
8 2 (0.60%) Mockito
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.60%) Snyk
8 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.30%) Serenity BDD
General
1 63 (18.98%) Finance
2 62 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 44 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.93%) Banking
5 23 (6.93%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.61%) Retail
7 7 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.11%) Military
8 5 (1.51%) Legal
9 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Marketing
9 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.60%) German Language
10 2 (0.60%) Local Government
10 2 (0.60%) Publishing
11 1 (0.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (14.76%) Architect
2 37 (11.14%) Developer
3 20 (6.02%) Senior
3 20 (6.02%) Support Engineer
4 18 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (4.22%) Lead
7 12 (3.61%) Administrator
7 12 (3.61%) Consultant
7 12 (3.61%) Java Developer
8 10 (3.01%) Active Directory Engineer
8 10 (3.01%) Analyst
8 10 (3.01%) Security Engineer
9 9 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (2.71%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (2.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (2.41%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (2.41%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (26.51%) SAML
2 79 (23.80%) OAuth
3 70 (21.08%) OpenID
4 36 (10.84%) OAuth2
4 36 (10.84%) REST
5 35 (10.54%) LDAP
6 31 (9.34%) Terraform
7 21 (6.33%) SailPoint
8 18 (5.42%) SOAP
9 17 (5.12%) Web Services
10 16 (4.82%) XML
11 13 (3.92%) Node.js
12 10 (3.01%) .NET
13 9 (2.71%) ActiveX
13 9 (2.71%) Express.js
14 8 (2.41%) React
15 7 (2.11%) FIDO
15 7 (2.11%) Kafka
15 7 (2.11%) Middleware
16 6 (1.81%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (19.88%) Onboarding
2 39 (11.75%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (10.54%) PKI
4 23 (6.93%) Cloud Native
5 16 (4.82%) Management Information System
6 14 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.41%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.11%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.51%) Clustering
10 5 (1.51%) Replication
11 4 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.64%) Windows
2 19 (5.72%) Linux
3 14 (4.22%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.71%) Unix
5 8 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.20%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.60%) Android
9 2 (0.60%) VMS
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) CatOS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (37.95%) Identity Access Management
2 79 (23.80%) RBAC
3 54 (16.27%) Migration
4 51 (15.36%) CI/CD
5 49 (14.76%) DevOps
6 48 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (12.65%) Privileged Access Management
9 37 (11.14%) Agile
10 35 (10.54%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (10.54%) Zero Trust
11 33 (9.94%) ITIL
11 33 (9.94%) Roadmaps
12 32 (9.64%) Microservices
13 31 (9.34%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 31 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (9.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (8.73%) Change Management
14 29 (8.73%) Identity Management
15 28 (8.43%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 61 (18.37%) PowerShell
2 46 (13.86%) Python
3 42 (12.65%) Java
4 15 (4.52%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.22%) Bash
6 13 (3.92%) SQL
7 9 (2.71%) VB
7 9 (2.71%) VB6
7 9 (2.71%) VBA
8 8 (2.41%) C#
9 4 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.90%) Go
10 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.60%) Groovy
12 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.30%) Bicep
12 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.30%) R
12 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 57 (17.17%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (5.12%) Degree
6 16 (4.82%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.92%) CISSP
8 8 (2.41%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.20%) CISM
11 3 (0.90%) GIAC
11 3 (0.90%) MCSE
11 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.90%) PMP
12 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.60%) CEH
12 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (6.63%) NIST
3 21 (6.33%) GDPR
4 16 (4.82%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.52%) SLA
6 11 (3.31%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.41%) QA
8 6 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.51%) PMO
10 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.20%) SNOMED CT
10 4 (1.20%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.90%) NCSC
11 3 (0.90%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.60%) GRC
12 2 (0.60%) ITGC
System Software
1 137 (41.27%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.22%) Docker
3 7 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.20%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.90%) vSphere
7 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.30%) KVM
Systems Management
1 27 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (4.82%) Grafana
4 15 (4.52%) Ansible
5 9 (2.71%) Argo
6 7 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.51%) CASB
8 5 (1.51%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.20%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.90%) Packer
10 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.90%) SELinux
11 2 (0.60%) Consul
11 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.60%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.30%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 146 (43.98%) Microsoft
2 60 (18.07%) Okta
3 28 (8.43%) ServiceNow
4 27 (8.13%) BeyondTrust
5 25 (7.53%) CyberArk
6 18 (5.42%) Google
6 18 (5.42%) Oracle
7 15 (4.52%) Red Hat
8 13 (3.92%) Zscaler
9 12 (3.61%) Ping Identity
9 12 (3.61%) VMware
10 9 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (2.41%) ForgeRock
12 7 (2.11%) Cisco
13 6 (1.81%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.51%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.51%) SAP
14 5 (1.51%) Splunk
14 5 (1.51%) Workday
15 4 (1.20%) OpenAI