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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 376 355
Rank change year-on-year +56 -21 +90
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 289 164 284
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.44% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.01% 3.10% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 106 221
10th Percentile £384 £400 £373
25th Percentile £425 £502 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.62% +1.36%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £613
90th Percentile £675 £781 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £625 £515
% change year-on-year -17.12% +21.36% -0.19%
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 5,771 5,288 6,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 14.31% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,872 3,360 4,667
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 70 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.47 £17.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.77 £25.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.63 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -41.58% +90.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.69 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.25 £74.50 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -16.67% -35.04% +84.72%

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 November 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 23 November 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 +63 245 £525 -12.50% 104
UK excluding London +37 133 £518 -17.12% 67
London +36 104 £525 -12.50% 52
Work from Home +45 83 £525 -19.54% 56
South West +38 42 £512 -2.57% 13
North of England +3 42 £473 -5.40% 5
Yorkshire - 23 £522 - 2
South East -7 20 £560 -20.00% 23
North West -6 19 £423 -15.40% 2
Midlands -35 14 £455 -10.78% 13
West Midlands -22 12 £500 -1.96% 11
Scotland -1 10 £575 -8.73% 4
East of England -13 6 £625 +66.67% 4
East Midlands -12 2 £405 - 2
Wales -2 1 £550 +10.00% 4

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 24 (8.30%) Confluence
2 18 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.77%) WebSphere
4 8 (2.77%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (2.08%) Apache
5 6 (2.08%) JBoss
6 5 (1.73%) IIS
6 5 (1.73%) iPlanet
7 2 (0.69%) CMS
7 2 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.35%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Windchill
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (4.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.69%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (47.40%) Azure
2 109 (37.72%) Entra ID
3 86 (29.76%) AWS
4 46 (15.92%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (14.53%) SaaS
6 31 (10.73%) GCP
7 26 (9.00%) GitHub
8 14 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.15%) PaaS
10 11 (3.81%) Azure AKS
10 11 (3.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (3.46%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.11%) IaaS
12 9 (3.11%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.77%) Nutanix
14 7 (2.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 6 (2.08%) OneDrive
15 6 (2.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.49%) DNS
2 31 (10.73%) Firewall
3 24 (8.30%) SSL
4 20 (6.92%) VPN
5 15 (5.19%) Kerberos
6 9 (3.11%) DHCP
7 7 (2.42%) HTTP
7 7 (2.42%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.08%) Network Security
8 6 (2.08%) SSH
9 5 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.38%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.38%) LAN
11 3 (1.04%) BGP
11 3 (1.04%) Internet
11 3 (1.04%) OSPF
11 3 (1.04%) SMTP
11 3 (1.04%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.04%) WAN
11 3 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (2.77%) Power BI
2 6 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.73%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.69%) MySQL
4 2 (0.69%) SQLite
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.35%) Big Data
5 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.35%) Metadata
5 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.35%) Redis
5 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (13.84%) JIRA
2 22 (7.61%) Git
3 14 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.73%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.73%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.73%) MSI
4 5 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.04%) GitLab
5 3 (1.04%) Log4j
6 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.69%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.69%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.69%) fastlane
6 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.69%) Xcode
7 1 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.35%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 94 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.11%) Finance
3 32 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.77%) Banking
7 4 (1.38%) Aviation
7 4 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.04%) Marketing
8 3 (1.04%) Retail
9 2 (0.69%) Electronics
9 2 (0.69%) Local Government
9 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (19.38%) Architect
2 37 (12.80%) Senior
3 25 (8.65%) Consultant
3 25 (8.65%) Developer
4 21 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.54%) Analyst
6 14 (4.84%) Administrator
6 14 (4.84%) Business Analyst
6 14 (4.84%) Lead
7 13 (4.50%) IAM Specialist
7 13 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (3.46%) IAM Consultant
9 10 (3.46%) Senior Architect
9 10 (3.46%) ServiceNow Architect
10 9 (3.11%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.42%) ForgeRock Developer
12 6 (2.08%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.08%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (40.48%) SAML
2 109 (37.72%) OAuth
3 85 (29.41%) OpenID
4 62 (21.45%) LDAP
5 47 (16.26%) OAuth2
6 38 (13.15%) SailPoint
7 32 (11.07%) REST
8 23 (7.96%) SOAP
9 22 (7.61%) JSON
10 21 (7.27%) HTML
11 19 (6.57%) JDBC
12 18 (6.23%) AngularJS
12 18 (6.23%) Web Services
13 16 (5.54%) HTML5
14 15 (5.19%) jQuery
15 13 (4.50%) Apache Camel
15 13 (4.50%) ODBC
15 13 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
16 12 (4.15%) RESTful
17 10 (3.46%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.19%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.19%) PKI
4 13 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.15%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.42%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.42%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.42%) Replication
7 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.04%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.69%) Animation
11 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 51 (17.65%) Windows
2 30 (10.38%) Windows Server
3 24 (8.30%) Linux
4 7 (2.42%) Unix
5 4 (1.38%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.69%) Android
7 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.03%) Identity Access Management
2 76 (26.30%) Agile
3 73 (25.26%) Identity Management
4 72 (24.91%) RBAC
5 69 (23.88%) DevOps
6 49 (16.96%) Zero Trust
7 48 (16.61%) CI/CD
8 47 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (13.84%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 37 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (9.69%) Migration
13 26 (9.00%) ITSM
13 26 (9.00%) Privileged Access Management
13 26 (9.00%) Scrum
14 25 (8.65%) Cloud Security
15 24 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
15 24 (8.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 23 (7.96%) Microservices
16 23 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (22.84%) PowerShell
2 32 (11.07%) JavaScript
3 29 (10.03%) Python
4 18 (6.23%) Java
5 10 (3.46%) Groovy
6 9 (3.11%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.08%) SQL
8 5 (1.73%) C#
8 5 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.38%) Bash
9 4 (1.38%) Bicep
9 4 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.69%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.69%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.69%) Swift
11 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 96 (33.22%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.00%) CISSP
4 21 (7.27%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.88%) CISM
7 14 (4.84%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.81%) Degree
9 7 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.73%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.73%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.04%) CCSP
13 3 (1.04%) PhD
14 2 (0.69%) IBM Certification
14 2 (0.69%) MCITP
14 2 (0.69%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.53%) GDPR
2 32 (11.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.19%) NIST
4 14 (4.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.81%) HIPAA
6 9 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.11%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.08%) PSD2
9 5 (1.73%) NCSC
9 5 (1.73%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.38%) SLA
11 3 (1.04%) WCAG
12 2 (0.69%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.69%) QA
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%) SOC 1
System Software
1 135 (46.71%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.57%) Docker
3 16 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.73%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.69%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.69%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.69%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.69%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.69%) vSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (15.57%) Terraform
2 32 (11.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (10.38%) Kubernetes
4 27 (9.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (5.54%) Ansible
6 14 (4.84%) PingFederate
7 7 (2.42%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.73%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.73%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.73%) Tivoli
9 4 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.38%) SCCM
10 3 (1.04%) Grafana
10 3 (1.04%) Kibana
10 3 (1.04%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.69%) logstash
11 2 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.69%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.35%) linkerd
Vendors
1 115 (39.79%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.42%) CyberArk
2 33 (11.42%) ServiceNow
3 31 (10.73%) Okta
4 26 (9.00%) VMware
5 23 (7.96%) ForgeRock
6 18 (6.23%) Ping Identity
7 16 (5.54%) Splunk
8 14 (4.84%) HP
9 13 (4.50%) BMC
9 13 (4.50%) Google
9 13 (4.50%) Ivanti
9 13 (4.50%) Remedy
9 13 (4.50%) Zscaler
10 10 (3.46%) Oracle
11 9 (3.11%) IBM
11 9 (3.11%) Salesforce
12 8 (2.77%) Alibaba
13 6 (2.08%) Tenable
14 5 (1.73%) Cisco