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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 395 356
Rank change year-on-year +78 -39 +94
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 292 161 294
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.44% 0.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.12% 3.07% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 108 228
10th Percentile £380 £400 £380
25th Percentile £425 £498 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.01% -1.57%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £644
90th Percentile £675 £779 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £630 £533
% change year-on-year -18.33% +18.31% +1.43%
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 5,699 5,249 6,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.30% 14.29% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,789 3,385 4,799
10th Percentile £304 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £632 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.82% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 57 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.82 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.80 £29.31
Median hourly rate £26.00 £36.17 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.11% -29.43% +105.00%
75th Percentile £63.33 £62.50 £75.31
90th Percentile £76.85 £76.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.42 £36.17 £46.18
% change year-on-year -38.01% -21.69% +109.91%

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 7 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 14 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 7 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 +71 246 £523 -12.83% 208
UK excluding London +26 127 £515 -18.33% 151
London +26 110 £525 -8.70% 113
Work from Home +51 88 £525 -16.67% 100
North of England +3 39 £471 -33.85% 8
South West +36 35 £517 +6.10% 23
Midlands -19 21 £500 -1.96% 17
Yorkshire - 21 £518 - 3
South East -4 19 £560 -20.00% 91
North West -10 18 £446 -37.36% 5
West Midlands -28 17 £550 +7.84% 8
Scotland +15 10 £575 -8.73% 3
East of England -11 5 £700 +40.00% 7
East Midlands -18 4 £402 - 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 24 (8.22%) Confluence
2 18 (6.16%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.74%) WebSphere
4 8 (2.74%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (2.05%) Apache
5 6 (2.05%) JBoss
6 5 (1.71%) IIS
6 5 (1.71%) iPlanet
7 2 (0.68%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.34%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Windchill
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (4.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.68%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.34%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (50.68%) Azure
2 116 (39.73%) Entra ID
3 95 (32.53%) AWS
4 45 (15.41%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (15.41%) SaaS
5 36 (12.33%) GCP
6 26 (8.90%) GitHub
7 14 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (4.11%) Azure AKS
8 12 (4.11%) PaaS
9 11 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.08%) IaaS
10 9 (3.08%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.08%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.74%) Nutanix
11 8 (2.74%) Serverless
12 7 (2.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (2.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.64%) DNS
2 31 (10.62%) Firewall
3 24 (8.22%) SSL
4 18 (6.16%) VPN
5 16 (5.48%) Kerberos
6 8 (2.74%) DHCP
7 7 (2.40%) HTTP
7 7 (2.40%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.05%) Network Security
8 6 (2.05%) SSH
9 5 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.37%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.37%) LAN
10 4 (1.37%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.03%) BGP
11 3 (1.03%) Internet
11 3 (1.03%) OSPF
11 3 (1.03%) SMTP
11 3 (1.03%) WAN
11 3 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.40%) Power BI
3 6 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.71%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.68%) MySQL
5 2 (0.68%) SQLite
6 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.34%) Big Data
6 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.34%) Metadata
6 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.34%) Redis
6 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (13.70%) JIRA
2 22 (7.53%) Git
3 15 (5.14%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.71%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.71%) MSI
4 5 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.03%) GitLab
5 3 (1.03%) Log4j
6 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.68%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.68%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.68%) fastlane
6 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.68%) Xcode
7 1 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.34%) gulp
7 1 (0.34%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.34%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 94 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 36 (12.33%) Finance
3 35 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.74%) Banking
7 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.37%) Aviation
8 4 (1.37%) Marketing
9 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Electronics
10 2 (0.68%) Local Government
10 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (19.18%) Architect
2 33 (11.30%) Senior
3 26 (8.90%) Developer
4 25 (8.56%) Consultant
5 20 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (5.82%) Analyst
7 16 (5.48%) Lead
8 14 (4.79%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.45%) Administrator
9 13 (4.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.11%) IAM Specialist
11 10 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.42%) Security Engineer
11 10 (3.42%) Senior Architect
11 10 (3.42%) ServiceNow Architect
12 8 (2.74%) IAM Consultant
12 8 (2.74%) Product Owner
13 6 (2.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.05%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (39.38%) SAML
2 106 (36.30%) OAuth
3 85 (29.11%) OpenID
4 66 (22.60%) LDAP
5 45 (15.41%) OAuth2
6 40 (13.70%) SailPoint
7 33 (11.30%) REST
8 23 (7.88%) SOAP
9 22 (7.53%) JSON
10 21 (7.19%) HTML
11 19 (6.51%) JDBC
12 18 (6.16%) AngularJS
12 18 (6.16%) Web Services
13 16 (5.48%) HTML5
14 15 (5.14%) jQuery
15 13 (4.45%) Apache Camel
15 13 (4.45%) ODBC
15 13 (4.45%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (4.45%) RESTful
16 10 (3.42%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.73%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.14%) PKI
5 12 (4.11%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.74%) Replication
7 7 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.40%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.71%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.03%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.68%) Animation
12 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.73%) Windows
2 26 (8.90%) Windows Server
3 23 (7.88%) Linux
4 7 (2.40%) Unix
5 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.68%) Android
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.79%) Identity Access Management
2 85 (29.11%) Agile
3 77 (26.37%) Identity Management
4 71 (24.32%) RBAC
5 70 (23.97%) DevOps
6 52 (17.81%) Zero Trust
7 49 (16.78%) CI/CD
8 46 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (15.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 39 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (10.27%) Migration
12 29 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (9.59%) Cloud Security
13 28 (9.59%) Privileged Access Management
13 28 (9.59%) Scrum
14 26 (8.90%) ITSM
15 25 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
16 24 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (7.88%) Microservices
18 22 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (21.58%) PowerShell
2 34 (11.64%) JavaScript
3 31 (10.62%) Python
4 19 (6.51%) Java
5 9 (3.08%) Groovy
5 9 (3.08%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.71%) Bash
6 5 (1.71%) Bicep
6 5 (1.71%) C#
6 5 (1.71%) SQL
6 5 (1.71%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.68%) BeanShell
8 2 (0.68%) Objective-C
8 2 (0.68%) Swift
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 86 (29.45%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.25%) CISSP
4 18 (6.16%) CISM
5 17 (5.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.48%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.45%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.45%) Degree
8 7 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (2.05%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.71%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.03%) CCSP
12 3 (1.03%) PhD
13 2 (0.68%) IBM Certification
13 2 (0.68%) MCITP
13 2 (0.68%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.73%) GDPR
2 37 (12.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.51%) NIST
4 15 (5.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (4.11%) HIPAA
6 10 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (3.42%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.05%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.05%) PSD2
9 5 (1.71%) NCSC
9 5 (1.71%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.71%) SLA
10 4 (1.37%) NIST 800
11 3 (1.03%) WCAG
12 2 (0.68%) QA
13 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.34%) SOC 1
System Software
1 136 (46.58%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.85%) Docker
3 14 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.71%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.68%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 50 (17.12%) Terraform
2 32 (10.96%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (7.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (6.51%) Ansible
5 12 (4.11%) PingFederate
6 7 (2.40%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.71%) CA Wily
7 5 (1.71%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.71%) Tivoli
8 4 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.37%) SCCM
9 3 (1.03%) Grafana
9 3 (1.03%) Kibana
9 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.68%) logstash
10 2 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.68%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.34%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 112 (38.36%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.67%) Okta
3 35 (11.99%) CyberArk
4 33 (11.30%) ServiceNow
5 25 (8.56%) ForgeRock
6 21 (7.19%) Ping Identity
6 21 (7.19%) VMware
7 16 (5.48%) Splunk
8 15 (5.14%) Google
9 14 (4.79%) HP
10 13 (4.45%) BMC
10 13 (4.45%) Ivanti
10 13 (4.45%) Remedy
11 11 (3.77%) Zscaler
12 10 (3.42%) Oracle
13 9 (3.08%) IBM
13 9 (3.08%) Salesforce
14 8 (2.74%) Alibaba
15 6 (2.05%) Autodesk
15 6 (2.05%) Tenable