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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 324 380
Rank change year-on-year -53 +56 +10
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 317 243 185
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.74% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.34% 5.34% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 158 122
10th Percentile £351 £383 £365
25th Percentile £447 £415 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -10.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £688
90th Percentile £671 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £492 £622
% change year-on-year +3.66% -20.90% +12.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile £52.75 - £30.56
25th Percentile £66.25 £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 £71.25 - £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 5,939 4,552 4,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.97% 13.93% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,935 2,951 3,121
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 84 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.99
25th Percentile £30.63 £18.87 £24.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.25 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +130.09% -26.14% -30.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.40 £60.63
90th Percentile £89.59 £70.93 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £24.70 £38.50
% change year-on-year +163.21% -35.86% -16.63%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -57 262 £525 +3.09% 304
UK excluding London -26 163 £510 +3.66% 112
London -66 120 £540 +0.56% 200
Work from Home -51 96 £500 -5.84% 202
North of England -49 57 £500 +6.61% 27
North West -35 34 £492 +4.02% 19
Scotland -2 28 £481 -19.83% 3
Midlands -41 28 £425 -5.56% 12
South East -41 23 £435 -17.14% 44
West Midlands -42 22 £425 -19.05% 8
South West -37 19 £525 +5.00% 12
Yorkshire -31 17 £558 +36.31% 7
East of England -28 8 £553 -19.64% 10
North East - 6 £500 - 1
East Midlands -15 5 £463 +15.05% 4
Wales - 3 £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 (10.09%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (6.31%) Confluence
4 5 (1.58%) nginx
5 3 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.95%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) JBoss
6 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.63%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (46.69%) Azure
2 144 (45.43%) Entra ID
3 74 (23.34%) AWS
4 47 (14.83%) GCP
5 46 (14.51%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (11.04%) SaaS
7 22 (6.94%) GitHub
8 15 (4.73%) OpenShift
9 13 (4.10%) Google Workspace
10 10 (3.15%) Serverless
10 10 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.21%) Google Drive
13 7 (2.21%) OCI
13 7 (2.21%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.89%) Asana
14 6 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.98%) DNS
2 29 (9.15%) Firewall
3 23 (7.26%) VPN
4 20 (6.31%) SSL
5 19 (5.99%) TCP/IP
6 16 (5.05%) DHCP
7 14 (4.42%) WAN
8 13 (4.10%) Network Security
9 10 (3.15%) SD-WAN
10 9 (2.84%) DKIM
10 9 (2.84%) DMARC
10 9 (2.84%) HTTPS
11 8 (2.52%) IPsec
11 8 (2.52%) Kerberos
11 8 (2.52%) LAN
12 7 (2.21%) HTTP
12 7 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.89%) SSH
14 5 (1.58%) Internet
14 5 (1.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.79%) Metadata
1 12 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.58%) Metadata Repository
2 5 (1.58%) Power BI
3 4 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.26%) Tableau
4 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.63%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.63%) Redis
6 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (11.36%) JIRA
2 13 (4.10%) Git
3 10 (3.15%) GitLab
4 9 (2.84%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (2.84%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.21%) Browser DevTools
5 7 (2.21%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.95%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.63%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.63%) Postman
8 2 (0.63%) Snyk
8 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
General
1 62 (19.56%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.30%) Finance
3 43 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.57%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (6.31%) Banking
7 10 (3.15%) Retail
8 7 (2.21%) Military
9 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.58%) Legal
11 3 (0.95%) Publishing
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Local Government
12 2 (0.63%) Marketing
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (15.14%) Architect
2 34 (10.73%) Developer
3 19 (5.99%) Support Engineer
4 18 (5.68%) Senior
5 16 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (4.42%) Administrator
7 13 (4.10%) Lead
8 12 (3.79%) Consultant
9 10 (3.15%) Security Engineer
10 9 (2.84%) Active Directory Engineer
10 9 (2.84%) Analyst
10 9 (2.84%) IAM Specialist
10 9 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (2.84%) Java Developer
11 8 (2.52%) IT Engineer
11 8 (2.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.21%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.21%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (25.87%) SAML
2 70 (22.08%) OAuth
3 65 (20.50%) OpenID
4 36 (11.36%) LDAP
5 34 (10.73%) OAuth2
5 34 (10.73%) REST
6 29 (9.15%) Terraform
7 21 (6.62%) SailPoint
8 16 (5.05%) SOAP
9 15 (4.73%) Web Services
9 15 (4.73%) XML
10 13 (4.10%) Node.js
11 10 (3.15%) .NET
12 9 (2.84%) ActiveX
12 9 (2.84%) Express.js
13 8 (2.52%) React
14 7 (2.21%) FIDO
14 7 (2.21%) Middleware
15 6 (1.89%) CSS
15 6 (1.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 65 (20.50%) Onboarding
2 37 (11.67%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (10.73%) PKI
4 21 (6.62%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.52%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.52%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.52%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.21%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.58%) Clustering
11 4 (1.26%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.26%) Replication
12 3 (0.95%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.09%) Windows
2 16 (5.05%) Linux
3 12 (3.79%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.84%) Unix
5 8 (2.52%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.63%) Android
9 2 (0.63%) VMS
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.32%) CatOS
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (36.59%) Identity Access Management
2 76 (23.97%) RBAC
3 50 (15.77%) DevOps
4 49 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 49 (15.46%) Migration
5 47 (14.83%) CI/CD
6 46 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (12.93%) Privileged Access Management
8 37 (11.67%) Agile
9 36 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (10.73%) Zero Trust
11 32 (10.09%) ITIL
11 32 (10.09%) Roadmaps
12 31 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 30 (9.46%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 29 (9.15%) Microservices
15 27 (8.52%) Change Management
16 25 (7.89%) Identity Management
16 25 (7.89%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 56 (17.67%) PowerShell
2 42 (13.25%) Python
3 38 (11.99%) Java
4 15 (4.73%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.10%) Bash
6 11 (3.47%) SQL
7 9 (2.84%) VB
7 9 (2.84%) VB6
7 9 (2.84%) VBA
8 7 (2.21%) C#
9 3 (0.95%) Go
9 3 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.63%) Groovy
10 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.32%) Bicep
11 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.32%) Swift
11 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 66 (20.82%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (5.36%) Degree
4 17 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.42%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.79%) CISSP
7 7 (2.21%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.26%) CISM
10 3 (0.95%) GIAC
10 3 (0.95%) MCSE
10 3 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.95%) PMP
11 2 (0.63%) CEH
11 2 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (6.94%) NIST
3 21 (6.62%) GDPR
4 14 (4.42%) Data Quality
5 13 (4.10%) SLA
6 11 (3.47%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.21%) QA
9 5 (1.58%) PMO
10 4 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.26%) SNOMED CT
10 4 (1.26%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.95%) NCSC
11 3 (0.95%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.63%) GRC
12 2 (0.63%) ITGC
System Software
1 130 (41.01%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.42%) Docker
3 7 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.26%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.95%) vSphere
7 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (4.73%) Ansible
3 15 (4.73%) Grafana
4 9 (2.84%) Argo
5 8 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.89%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.58%) CASB
7 5 (1.58%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.58%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.26%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.95%) Packer
9 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.95%) SELinux
10 2 (0.63%) Consul
10 2 (0.63%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.63%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 135 (42.59%) Microsoft
2 61 (19.24%) Okta
3 25 (7.89%) CyberArk
3 25 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 24 (7.57%) BeyondTrust
5 19 (5.99%) Google
6 14 (4.42%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.10%) Oracle
7 13 (4.10%) Zscaler
8 12 (3.79%) VMware
9 11 (3.47%) Ping Identity
10 9 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.21%) Cisco
11 7 (2.21%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.89%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.89%) SAP
13 5 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.58%) Workday
14 4 (1.26%) F5
14 4 (1.26%) OpenAI