Single Sign-On Contracts

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Single Sign-On skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Single Sign-On over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 345 426
Rank change year-on-year +16 +81 +53
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 223 251 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.58% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.46% 4.61% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 173 201
10th Percentile £398 £350 £360
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 4,999 5,441 8,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 12.56% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,316 3,864 6,189
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 102 187
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.30 £19.60
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.25 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £84.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.38% +130.90%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On.

Daily rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On.

Hourly rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Top 15 Contract 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 6 July 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 +18 175 £550 +0.92% 238
Work from Home +29 90 £550 -8.33% 86
UK excluding London +27 89 £500 -2.44% 149
London 0 77 £560 -1.75% 100
North of England +22 42 £460 -7.59% 36
North West +12 21 £450 -19.64% 21
Yorkshire +18 19 £469 +21.03% 13
Midlands -3 19 £450 -27.42% 33
West Midlands -1 14 £550 +4.76% 23
South East +35 12 £630 +9.57% 39
Scotland +11 10 £600 -20.00% 5
South West +29 9 £500 +18.48% 14
East Midlands -7 5 £402 -35.37% 10
East of England +28 2 £675 +22.73% 20
North East - 2 £600 - 2

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (9.87%) Confluence
2 16 (7.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (4.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.35%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.35%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.90%) Camunda
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 113 (50.67%) Azure
2 96 (43.05%) Entra ID
3 74 (33.18%) AWS
4 33 (14.80%) GCP
4 33 (14.80%) SaaS
5 31 (13.90%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (8.52%) GitHub
7 14 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (5.83%) Serverless
9 12 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.04%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (3.59%) IaaS
11 8 (3.59%) PaaS
12 7 (3.14%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.69%) OCI
13 6 (2.69%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (2.24%) Google Workspace
14 5 (2.24%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.07%) Firewall
2 14 (6.28%) SSL
3 13 (5.83%) VPN
4 10 (4.48%) HTTPS
5 9 (4.04%) Kerberos
6 5 (2.24%) POP3
6 5 (2.24%) SMTP
7 4 (1.79%) DNS
7 4 (1.79%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.90%) DKIM
8 2 (0.90%) DMARC
8 2 (0.90%) HTTP
8 2 (0.90%) Network Security
8 2 (0.90%) VSAN
9 1 (0.45%) FTP
9 1 (0.45%) Internet
9 1 (0.45%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.69%) Power BI
3 5 (2.24%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.24%) Metadata
3 5 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.79%) MySQL
4 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.90%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.45%) Big Data
7 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.45%) Redis
7 1 (0.45%) SSDT
7 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (11.21%) JIRA
2 10 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.14%) Git
3 7 (3.14%) GitLab
4 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.35%) Log4j
6 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.45%) MSI
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.45%) Postman
7 1 (0.45%) ScriptRunner
General
1 65 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.28%) Finance
4 12 (5.38%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.14%) Marketing
6 6 (2.69%) Banking
7 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.35%) Retail
9 2 (0.90%) French Language
9 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.45%) Billing
10 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 51 (22.87%) Architect
2 25 (11.21%) Developer
3 20 (8.97%) Lead
4 15 (6.73%) IAM Specialist
4 15 (6.73%) Senior
5 14 (6.28%) AWS Specialist
5 14 (6.28%) Consultant
6 13 (5.83%) Analyst
7 12 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.93%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.48%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.04%) Administrator
11 8 (3.59%) Java Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Product Owner
12 7 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) ForgeRock Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.14%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.69%) Project Manager
13 6 (2.69%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (39.91%) OAuth
2 87 (39.01%) SAML
3 74 (33.18%) OpenID
4 56 (25.11%) LDAP
5 31 (13.90%) REST
5 31 (13.90%) SailPoint
6 30 (13.45%) OAuth2
7 27 (12.11%) SOAP
8 22 (9.87%) Web Services
9 19 (8.52%) JSON
10 18 (8.07%) JDBC
11 17 (7.62%) AngularJS
11 17 (7.62%) HTML
12 15 (6.73%) CSS
13 9 (4.04%) .NET
13 9 (4.04%) RESTful
14 8 (3.59%) ODBC
14 8 (3.59%) Spring
14 8 (3.59%) XML
15 6 (2.69%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.21%) Onboarding
2 21 (9.42%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (8.97%) Cloud Native
4 17 (7.62%) PKI
5 13 (5.83%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.59%) Data Centre
8 7 (3.14%) Taxonomies
9 6 (2.69%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.24%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
13 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.90%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.87%) Windows
2 13 (5.83%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.14%) Linux
4 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (34.08%) Agile
2 72 (32.29%) Identity Access Management
3 63 (28.25%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (27.80%) Identity Management
5 56 (25.11%) DevOps
5 56 (25.11%) RBAC
6 43 (19.28%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 39 (17.49%) Migration
8 36 (16.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (14.35%) Scrum
10 29 (13.00%) Zero Trust
11 28 (12.56%) CI/CD
12 26 (11.66%) Privileged Access Management
13 23 (10.31%) Roadmaps
14 22 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (8.97%) Cloud Security
15 20 (8.97%) Microservices
16 19 (8.52%) API Integration
16 19 (8.52%) Mentoring
17 18 (8.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 44 (19.73%) PowerShell
2 35 (15.70%) Java
3 32 (14.35%) JavaScript
4 28 (12.56%) Python
5 8 (3.59%) C#
5 8 (3.59%) SQL
6 7 (3.14%) Bicep
7 5 (2.24%) Ruby
8 4 (1.79%) Bash
8 4 (1.79%) Groovy
9 3 (1.35%) C
10 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.45%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.83%) Azure Certification
3 13 (5.83%) Degree
4 8 (3.59%) CISSP
5 7 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.79%) CISM
7 4 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.90%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.87%) GDPR
2 21 (9.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (8.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 17 (7.62%) HIPAA
4 17 (7.62%) NIST
5 5 (2.24%) QA
6 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.79%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.90%) SLA
9 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.45%) NCSC
9 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 107 (47.98%) Active Directory
2 22 (9.87%) Docker
3 6 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.35%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.35%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.90%) vSphere
7 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 38 (17.04%) Terraform
2 35 (15.70%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.04%) Ansible
5 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.90%) Kibana
7 2 (0.90%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.90%) SCCM
8 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.45%) Argo
8 1 (0.45%) Grafana
8 1 (0.45%) Istio
8 1 (0.45%) linkerd
8 1 (0.45%) Perfmon
8 1 (0.45%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 55 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.70%) Okta
3 30 (13.45%) CyberArk
4 26 (11.66%) Ping Identity
5 24 (10.76%) ServiceNow
6 20 (8.97%) ForgeRock
7 19 (8.52%) Google
8 9 (4.04%) SAP
9 8 (3.59%) Alibaba
9 8 (3.59%) VMware
10 7 (3.14%) Oracle
10 7 (3.14%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.69%) IBM
11 6 (2.69%) Qualtrics
12 5 (2.24%) Autodesk
12 5 (2.24%) Ivanti
13 4 (1.79%) BMC
13 4 (1.79%) HP
13 4 (1.79%) OpenText
13 4 (1.79%) Remedy