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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 336 341
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +85
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 308 184 259
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.63% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.80% 4.02% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 120 179
10th Percentile £313 £410 £350
25th Percentile £447 £484 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +10.05% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £638
90th Percentile £697 £750 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -1.43% +10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 6
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile £92.50 - £102.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.25 - £98.00

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 6,414 4,581 5,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 15.76% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,407 3,123 3,643
10th Percentile £325 £311 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -8.54%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £499 £495
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.86% -5.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 53 112
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.39 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -53.15%
75th Percentile £69.69 £53.75 £50.06
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +103.70% -6.09% -32.35%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -20 258 £525 -7.57% 80
UK excluding London -15 154 £518 -1.43% 54
London -17 111 £533 -7.32% 34
Work from Home -30 84 £600 +9.09% 36
North of England -46 55 £525 +8.58% 9
Yorkshire -31 36 £550 +2.90%
South East -33 35 £493 -23.05% 19
Midlands -50 29 £450 -18.18% 11
South West -12 28 £525 +20.00% 5
North West -41 18 £450 -2.70% 8
West Midlands -58 15 £370 -32.73% 7
Scotland +11 13 £449 -45.64% 4
East Midlands -16 13 £550 - 4
North East -19 2 £413 -31.25% 1
East of England -34 1 £575 +15.00% 8

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 25 (8.12%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.17%) Confluence
3 17 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.92%) nginx
5 3 (0.97%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (10.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.65%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 150 (48.70%) Azure
2 145 (47.08%) Entra ID
3 66 (21.43%) AWS
4 49 (15.91%) SaaS
5 42 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (9.74%) GCP
7 29 (9.42%) Serverless
8 18 (5.84%) Amazon S3
8 18 (5.84%) PaaS
9 16 (5.19%) Google Workspace
10 14 (4.55%) GitHub
10 14 (4.55%) OpenShift
11 13 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.57%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (2.92%) IaaS
15 9 (2.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 73 (23.70%) DNS
2 33 (10.71%) Firewall
3 32 (10.39%) VPN
4 30 (9.74%) DHCP
5 29 (9.42%) Kerberos
6 26 (8.44%) SSL
7 22 (7.14%) TCP/IP
8 17 (5.52%) HTTP
9 16 (5.19%) IPsec
9 16 (5.19%) Network Security
10 14 (4.55%) LAN
11 13 (4.22%) BIG-IP
11 13 (4.22%) HTTPS
11 13 (4.22%) WAN
12 10 (3.25%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (3.25%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (3.25%) Wireless
13 9 (2.92%) DKIM
13 9 (2.92%) DMARC
13 9 (2.92%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.27%) DynamoDB
3 6 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.62%) Metadata
5 4 (1.30%) MySQL
6 3 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.97%) CockroachDB
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.97%) Pinecone
6 3 (0.97%) Power BI
7 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.65%) GIS
7 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (12.66%) JIRA
2 10 (3.25%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.27%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.27%) Git
3 7 (2.27%) GitLab
3 7 (2.27%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.62%) Postman
5 4 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.97%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.65%) JUnit
7 2 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.32%) Gatling
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.32%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 73 (23.70%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.66%) Public Sector
3 37 (12.01%) Finance
4 33 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.19%) Publishing
7 12 (3.90%) Banking
8 7 (2.27%) Legal
9 6 (1.95%) Retail
10 4 (1.30%) Military
11 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.32%) Aviation
13 1 (0.32%) Front Office
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (16.56%) Architect
2 27 (8.77%) Senior
3 25 (8.12%) Administrator
3 25 (8.12%) Lead
4 23 (7.47%) Developer
5 18 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.19%) Support Engineer
7 13 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (4.22%) Technical Architect
8 12 (3.90%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.57%) Network Engineer
10 9 (2.92%) Analyst
10 9 (2.92%) Consultant
10 9 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (2.92%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.60%) IAM Project Manager
11 8 (2.60%) Senior Architect
11 8 (2.60%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.27%) SAP Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (29.87%) SAML
2 91 (29.55%) OAuth
3 67 (21.75%) OpenID
4 66 (21.43%) LDAP
5 35 (11.36%) OAuth2
6 22 (7.14%) SailPoint
7 20 (6.49%) REST
7 20 (6.49%) SAP Basis
8 11 (3.57%) Web Services
9 10 (3.25%) Express.js
9 10 (3.25%) Node.js
10 9 (2.92%) CSS
10 9 (2.92%) React
11 8 (2.60%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.60%) Entity Framework
11 8 (2.60%) HTML
12 7 (2.27%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.27%) Model Context Protocol
13 6 (1.95%) YAML
14 5 (1.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.16%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.49%) Replication
2 20 (6.49%) Taxonomies
3 19 (6.17%) PKI
4 18 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.22%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.95%) Freedom of Information
9 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.62%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.30%) Clustering
11 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.30%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 58 (18.83%) Windows
2 31 (10.06%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.49%) Linux
4 9 (2.92%) Unix
5 5 (1.62%) CatOS
5 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.65%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (27.92%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (24.35%) RBAC
3 70 (22.73%) DevOps
4 56 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 55 (17.86%) Roadmaps
6 51 (16.56%) CI/CD
7 44 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (13.64%) Agile
9 40 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (10.71%) Zero Trust
12 32 (10.39%) High Availability
13 30 (9.74%) Validation
14 29 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (9.09%) Migration
16 27 (8.77%) Vulnerability Management
17 26 (8.44%) Microservices
18 24 (7.79%) Identity Management
19 23 (7.47%) Data Governance
19 23 (7.47%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 51 (16.56%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.79%) Python
3 21 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 19 (6.17%) SQL
5 16 (5.19%) Java
6 12 (3.90%) Bash
7 9 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.62%) C#
9 4 (1.30%) Bicep
9 4 (1.30%) Groovy
9 4 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.32%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.32%) Go
11 1 (0.32%) Korn
11 1 (0.32%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (37.34%) Security Cleared
2 84 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.47%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.84%) Degree
5 11 (3.57%) CISSP
6 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.62%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.62%) CISM
8 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.30%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.30%) PMP
9 3 (0.97%) OCP
9 3 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.65%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.65%) RHCE
10 2 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.96%) GDPR
2 27 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (6.82%) NIST
5 11 (3.57%) GRC
6 10 (3.25%) QA
6 10 (3.25%) SLA
6 10 (3.25%) SOC 2
7 8 (2.60%) PCI DSS
8 7 (2.27%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.30%) PMO
10 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.97%) NCSC
10 3 (0.97%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 144 (46.75%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.84%) Docker
3 16 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.87%) VMware NSX
5 10 (3.25%) Squid
6 7 (2.27%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.62%) RACF
8 4 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.97%) Firmware
10 2 (0.65%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.65%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.65%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.65%) vSphere
11 1 (0.32%) KVM
11 1 (0.32%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (15.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 32 (10.39%) Kubernetes
3 29 (9.42%) Terraform
4 18 (5.84%) Grafana
5 14 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (4.22%) Ansible
7 12 (3.90%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.92%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.60%) Consul
10 7 (2.27%) Argo
10 7 (2.27%) PingFederate
11 6 (1.95%) CA Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.95%) SCCM
12 4 (1.30%) VxRail
13 3 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.65%) CASB
14 2 (0.65%) Packer
15 1 (0.32%) Istio
15 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 113 (36.69%) Microsoft
2 63 (20.45%) Okta
3 31 (10.06%) SAP
4 27 (8.77%) VMware
5 21 (6.82%) Red Hat
6 20 (6.49%) CyberArk
7 19 (6.17%) Google
8 14 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.22%) F5
9 13 (4.22%) Palo Alto
10 12 (3.90%) Cisco
11 11 (3.57%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.57%) Pega
11 11 (3.57%) Zscaler
12 10 (3.25%) Dynatrace
12 10 (3.25%) Oracle
13 9 (2.92%) BeyondTrust
14 8 (2.60%) Atlassian
15 6 (1.95%) ForgeRock
15 6 (1.95%) Ping Identity