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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 335 343
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +78
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 304 192 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.66% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.73% 4.17% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 125 175
10th Percentile £333 £400 £350
25th Percentile £438 £475 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +10.83% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £696 £736 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £525 £489
% change year-on-year -1.43% +7.36% -9.44%
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 6,429 4,604 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 15.72% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,420 3,156 3,656
10th Percentile £325 £313 £258
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.85%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.00% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 55 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £34.61 £20.13 £17.73
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +113.21% -2.75% -52.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.95 £69.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £34.25
% change year-on-year +117.05% -26.01% -23.68%

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 4 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 4 May 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 4 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 -18 257 £525 -7.89% 72
UK excluding London -16 156 £518 -1.43% 44
London -11 108 £525 -10.26% 45
Work from Home -33 87 £600 +9.09% 36
North of England -43 56 £525 +8.58% 7
South East -28 38 £500 -21.88% 17
Yorkshire -21 36 £550 +2.90% 3
Midlands -57 28 £450 -23.40% 1
South West -17 27 £525 +20.00% 5
North West -44 19 £425 -8.11% 4
West Midlands -59 15 £370 -37.02% 1
East Midlands -21 12 £594 -
Scotland -2 10 £449 -45.64% 7
North East -20 2 £413 -31.25%
East of England -38 2 £563 +28.57% 10
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 22 (7.24%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.25%) Confluence
3 16 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.96%) nginx
5 3 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.99%) IIS
6 2 (0.66%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.99%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (10.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.66%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 150 (49.34%) Azure
2 148 (48.68%) Entra ID
3 63 (20.72%) AWS
4 46 (15.13%) SaaS
5 45 (14.80%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (9.54%) Serverless
7 25 (8.22%) GCP
8 19 (6.25%) PaaS
9 18 (5.92%) Amazon S3
10 15 (4.93%) GitHub
11 14 (4.61%) Google Workspace
12 13 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.29%) IaaS
14 10 (3.29%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.29%) OpenShift
15 9 (2.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 76 (25.00%) DNS
2 35 (11.51%) Firewall
2 35 (11.51%) VPN
3 32 (10.53%) DHCP
4 29 (9.54%) Kerberos
5 26 (8.55%) SSL
6 23 (7.57%) TCP/IP
7 17 (5.59%) HTTP
8 16 (5.26%) IPsec
9 15 (4.93%) Network Security
10 14 (4.61%) LAN
11 13 (4.28%) BIG-IP
11 13 (4.28%) HTTPS
11 13 (4.28%) WAN
12 10 (3.29%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (3.29%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (3.29%) Wireless
13 9 (2.96%) OpenVPN
13 9 (2.96%) Wireshark
14 8 (2.63%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.30%) DynamoDB
3 6 (1.97%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.64%) Metadata
5 4 (1.32%) MySQL
5 4 (1.32%) Power BI
6 3 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.99%) CockroachDB
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.99%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.66%) GIS
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (12.17%) JIRA
2 9 (2.96%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.30%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.30%) Git
3 7 (2.30%) GitLab
3 7 (2.30%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.64%) Postman
5 4 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.66%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.66%) JUnit
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.33%) Gatling
7 1 (0.33%) JMeter
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.33%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 74 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.51%) Finance
3 34 (11.18%) Documentation Skills
4 33 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 29 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.26%) Publishing
7 10 (3.29%) Banking
8 8 (2.63%) Retail
9 7 (2.30%) Legal
10 3 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.99%) Military
11 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Front Office
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (16.78%) Architect
2 30 (9.87%) Senior
3 25 (8.22%) Lead
4 23 (7.57%) Administrator
5 19 (6.25%) Developer
6 18 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.28%) Support Engineer
8 13 (4.28%) Technical Architect
9 12 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (3.95%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.62%) Network Engineer
11 9 (2.96%) Analyst
11 9 (2.96%) Consultant
11 9 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (2.96%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.63%) IAM Project Manager
12 8 (2.63%) Senior Architect
12 8 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (30.26%) SAML
2 89 (29.28%) OAuth
3 65 (21.38%) LDAP
4 64 (21.05%) OpenID
5 36 (11.84%) OAuth2
6 20 (6.58%) SailPoint
6 20 (6.58%) SAP Basis
7 19 (6.25%) REST
8 10 (3.29%) Web Services
9 8 (2.63%) ARM Templates
9 8 (2.63%) CSS
9 8 (2.63%) Entity Framework
9 8 (2.63%) React
10 7 (2.30%) Express.js
10 7 (2.30%) HTML
10 7 (2.30%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (2.30%) Node.js
11 6 (1.97%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.97%) YAML
12 5 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.43%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.58%) PKI
2 20 (6.58%) Replication
2 20 (6.58%) Taxonomies
3 14 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.62%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.32%) Clustering
9 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.32%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 63 (20.72%) Windows
2 35 (11.51%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.58%) Linux
4 8 (2.63%) Unix
5 6 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.64%) CatOS
6 5 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (26.64%) Identity Access Management
2 74 (24.34%) RBAC
3 70 (23.03%) DevOps
4 56 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (18.42%) Roadmaps
5 47 (15.46%) CI/CD
6 41 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (12.83%) Agile
8 37 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (11.84%) Zero Trust
10 31 (10.20%) Validation
11 30 (9.87%) High Availability
12 27 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (8.88%) Vulnerability Management
13 26 (8.55%) Migration
14 25 (8.22%) Identity Management
14 25 (8.22%) Microservices
15 24 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
16 23 (7.57%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.43%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.89%) Python
3 20 (6.58%) SQL
4 19 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.93%) Java
6 12 (3.95%) Bash
7 9 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.64%) C#
9 4 (1.32%) Bicep
9 4 (1.32%) Groovy
9 4 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.33%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.33%) Go
11 1 (0.33%) Korn
11 1 (0.33%) PHP
11 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 116 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 84 (27.63%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.92%) Degree
5 11 (3.62%) CISSP
6 9 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.64%) CISM
9 4 (1.32%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.32%) PMP
10 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.99%) OCP
10 3 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.66%) FFIEC
11 2 (0.66%) RHCE
11 2 (0.66%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.82%) GDPR
2 27 (8.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (6.91%) NIST
5 11 (3.62%) GRC
6 10 (3.29%) QA
6 10 (3.29%) SOC 2
7 8 (2.63%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.63%) SLA
8 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.32%) PMO
9 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.99%) NCSC
9 3 (0.99%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 148 (48.68%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.59%) Docker
3 17 (5.59%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.29%) Squid
5 7 (2.30%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.64%) RACF
7 4 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.99%) Firmware
8 3 (0.99%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.66%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.66%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.66%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.66%) vSphere
10 1 (0.33%) KVM
10 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (15.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 31 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 30 (9.87%) Terraform
4 18 (5.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.93%) Grafana
6 13 (4.28%) Ansible
7 12 (3.95%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.96%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.63%) Consul
10 6 (1.97%) CA Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.97%) PingFederate
10 6 (1.97%) SCCM
11 4 (1.32%) Argo
11 4 (1.32%) VxRail
12 3 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.66%) CASB
13 2 (0.66%) Packer
13 2 (0.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 1 (0.33%) Istio
14 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 121 (39.80%) Microsoft
2 57 (18.75%) Okta
3 31 (10.20%) SAP
3 31 (10.20%) VMware
4 18 (5.92%) CyberArk
4 18 (5.92%) Red Hat
5 16 (5.26%) Google
6 15 (4.93%) Palo Alto
7 14 (4.61%) Zscaler
8 13 (4.28%) F5
8 13 (4.28%) ServiceNow
9 12 (3.95%) Cisco
10 11 (3.62%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.62%) Pega
11 10 (3.29%) Dynatrace
11 10 (3.29%) Oracle
12 9 (2.96%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (2.63%) Atlassian
14 6 (1.97%) Ping Identity
14 6 (1.97%) SolarWinds