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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 369 329
Rank change year-on-year +68 -40 +94
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 317 161 266
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.32% 3.39% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 105 201
10th Percentile £359 £410 £363
25th Percentile £443 £500 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £568
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +3.52% +3.18%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £644
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -13.58% +20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £45.93 - -
25th Percentile £52.75 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
75th Percentile £66.06 - -
90th Percentile £92.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00

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 5,959 4,746 5,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 14.98% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,128 3,060 3,978
10th Percentile £313 £312 £269
25th Percentile £413 £418 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -0.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 167
10th Percentile £18.33 £15.33 £15.65
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +93.40% -42.62% +19.95%
75th Percentile £63.32 £58.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +125.39% -47.64% +13.81%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -12.50% 95
UK excluding London +17 147 £519 -13.58% 85
London +18 112 £525 -12.50% 24
Work from Home +27 96 £554 -6.42% 23
South West +35 49 £524 +23.29% 16
North of England -29 42 £482 -3.70% 19
South East -12 29 £490 -24.62% 25
Yorkshire -23 28 £525 -12.50% 11
Midlands -53 16 £447 -23.91% 12
North West -28 14 £423 -15.40% 6
West Midlands -49 13 £420 -28.51% 7
Scotland +13 7 £650 - 3
East of England -22 5 £625 +42.86% 11
East Midlands -29 3 £447 - 5
Wales -3 1 £550 +10.00% 2

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 18 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.05%) Confluence
3 9 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.21%) IIS
5 6 (1.89%) Apache
6 5 (1.58%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.58%) JBoss
6 5 (1.58%) nginx
6 5 (1.58%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.58%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.63%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.63%) CMS
9 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.26%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.63%) Windchill
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (4.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.63%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 155 (48.90%) Azure
2 131 (41.32%) Entra ID
3 75 (23.66%) AWS
4 45 (14.20%) SaaS
5 40 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (6.62%) GCP
7 19 (5.99%) PaaS
8 14 (4.42%) GitHub
9 13 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (4.10%) Serverless
10 11 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.47%) IaaS
11 10 (3.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 10 (3.15%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.15%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.84%) OneDrive
13 8 (2.52%) Nutanix
13 8 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (22.40%) DNS
2 41 (12.93%) Firewall
3 35 (11.04%) VPN
4 32 (10.09%) Kerberos
5 27 (8.52%) DHCP
6 17 (5.36%) SSL
7 14 (4.42%) TCP/IP
8 13 (4.10%) HTTP
9 10 (3.15%) LAN
10 9 (2.84%) HTTPS
10 9 (2.84%) WAN
10 9 (2.84%) Wireshark
11 8 (2.52%) BIG-IP
11 8 (2.52%) Network Security
12 7 (2.21%) IPsec
12 7 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.21%) Wireless
13 6 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.89%) Ethereal
13 6 (1.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.58%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.95%) CockroachDB
4 3 (0.95%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.95%) MySQL
4 3 (0.95%) Pinecone
4 3 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.63%) GIS
5 2 (0.63%) Power BI
5 2 (0.63%) SQLite
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.32%) Metadata
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (9.78%) JIRA
2 22 (6.94%) Git
3 12 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.58%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.58%) GitLab
4 5 (1.58%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.26%) MSI
6 3 (0.95%) Postman
7 2 (0.63%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.63%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.63%) fastlane
7 2 (0.63%) Selenium
7 2 (0.63%) Xcode
8 1 (0.32%) gulp
8 1 (0.32%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 77 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.36%) Finance
3 26 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
4 25 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.15%) Publishing
7 9 (2.84%) Banking
8 5 (1.58%) Aviation
9 3 (0.95%) Legal
9 3 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.95%) Marketing
9 3 (0.95%) Retail
9 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.63%) Electronics
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (17.35%) Architect
2 36 (11.36%) Senior
3 25 (7.89%) Developer
3 25 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (5.68%) Consultant
5 17 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (5.05%) Administrator
7 15 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.42%) Security Engineer
9 12 (3.79%) Analyst
9 12 (3.79%) Lead
10 11 (3.47%) Technical Architect
11 10 (3.15%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.84%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.52%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.52%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.52%) IAM Consultant
13 8 (2.52%) IAM Specialist
14 7 (2.21%) SAP Administrator
14 7 (2.21%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (35.33%) SAML
2 108 (34.07%) OAuth
3 75 (23.66%) OpenID
4 66 (20.82%) LDAP
5 42 (13.25%) OAuth2
6 27 (8.52%) SailPoint
7 15 (4.73%) REST
8 13 (4.10%) SAP Basis
9 12 (3.79%) React
10 11 (3.47%) RESTful
11 10 (3.15%) SOAP
12 9 (2.84%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.84%) HTML
13 8 (2.52%) CSS
13 8 (2.52%) Entity Framework
14 7 (2.21%) .NET
14 7 (2.21%) YAML
15 6 (1.89%) JDBC
15 6 (1.89%) JSON
16 5 (1.58%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.46%) Onboarding
2 23 (7.26%) Replication
3 20 (6.31%) PKI
4 16 (5.05%) Taxonomies
5 10 (3.15%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.84%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.21%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.89%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.26%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.63%) Animation
11 2 (0.63%) CMDB
11 2 (0.63%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 83 (26.18%) Windows
2 51 (16.09%) Windows Server
3 25 (7.89%) Linux
4 7 (2.21%) Unix
5 5 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.26%) CatOS
6 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (28.39%) RBAC
2 88 (27.76%) Identity Access Management
3 59 (18.61%) DevOps
4 56 (17.67%) Identity Management
5 52 (16.40%) CI/CD
6 51 (16.09%) Agile
7 46 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (12.62%) Zero Trust
9 33 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (9.78%) High Availability
10 31 (9.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 29 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (9.15%) Roadmaps
12 28 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (8.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (7.89%) Task Automation
14 24 (7.57%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (7.57%) Privileged Access Management
14 24 (7.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (24.29%) PowerShell
2 35 (11.04%) Python
3 22 (6.94%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.05%) SQL
5 14 (4.42%) Java
6 9 (2.84%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.52%) Groovy
7 8 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.89%) Bicep
8 6 (1.89%) C#
8 6 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.58%) Bash
10 2 (0.63%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.63%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.63%) Swift
11 1 (0.32%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (41.64%) Security Cleared
2 92 (29.02%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.41%) DV Cleared
4 26 (8.20%) CISSP
5 23 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.05%) CISM
7 14 (4.42%) Degree
8 11 (3.47%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.26%) MCP
12 3 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.95%) OCP
12 3 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.95%) PhD
13 2 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (17.03%) GDPR
2 32 (10.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (4.42%) NIST
5 12 (3.79%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.84%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.89%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.89%) NCSC
8 6 (1.89%) PSD2
8 6 (1.89%) SLA
9 4 (1.26%) QA
10 3 (0.95%) GRC
10 3 (0.95%) WCAG
11 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.32%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 151 (47.63%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.68%) Docker
4 11 (3.47%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.89%) Squid
6 5 (1.58%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.58%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 3 (0.95%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.63%) Firmware
8 2 (0.63%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.63%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.63%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.32%) RACF
9 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (17.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 40 (12.62%) Terraform
3 28 (8.83%) Kubernetes
4 22 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.73%) Ansible
6 14 (4.42%) PingFederate
7 10 (3.15%) Grafana
8 7 (2.21%) CA Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.21%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.89%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.89%) SCCM
10 5 (1.58%) CA Wily
10 5 (1.58%) Consul
10 5 (1.58%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.58%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.95%) VxRail
12 2 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.63%) Kibana
12 2 (0.63%) logstash
Vendors
1 148 (46.69%) Microsoft
2 45 (14.20%) Okta
3 37 (11.67%) VMware
4 19 (5.99%) CyberArk
5 18 (5.68%) SAP
6 16 (5.05%) Ping Identity
6 16 (5.05%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.73%) Google
7 15 (4.73%) Splunk
8 14 (4.42%) ForgeRock
9 11 (3.47%) Pega
9 11 (3.47%) Zscaler
10 10 (3.15%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.15%) Red Hat
11 9 (2.84%) Cisco
11 9 (2.84%) Salesforce
12 8 (2.52%) F5
12 8 (2.52%) Oracle
13 7 (2.21%) Atlassian
14 6 (1.89%) CheckPoint