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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 394 348
Rank change year-on-year +80 -46 +96
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 286 170 276
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.49% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.85% 3.35% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 110 207
10th Percentile £373 £423 £398
25th Percentile £425 £502 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £644
90th Percentile £683 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £625 £533
% change year-on-year -16.00% +17.37% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £43.25 - -
25th Percentile £47.38 - -
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £100.00
75th Percentile £57.13 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +66.67%

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 5,896 5,072 6,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.18% 14.67% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,229 4,324
10th Percentile £312 £313 £303
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £690 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.53% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 69 171
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.81 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.13 £22.50 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -41.53% +62.04%
75th Percentile £64.88 £50.00 £72.20
90th Percentile £80.80 £74.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.47% -44.78% +77.62%

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 December 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 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 14 December 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 +51 241 £525 -12.50% 202
UK excluding London +21 134 £525 -16.00% 192
London +21 101 £525 -12.50% 33
Work from Home +35 79 £525 -16.00% 33
South West +36 45 £524 -0.19% 19
North of England -9 37 £492 -1.60% 43
South East -2 22 £538 -23.21% 56
Yorkshire -24 21 £525 - 23
Midlands -41 17 £450 -10.00% 35
North West -12 16 £446 -10.80% 18
West Midlands -37 15 £443 -11.50% 19
Scotland +6 8 £600 -4.76% 8
East of England -22 6 £625 +42.86% 27
East Midlands -21 2 £475 - 14
Wales -2 1 £550 +10.00% 4

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 23 (8.04%) Confluence
2 19 (6.64%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.10%) Apache
4 6 (2.10%) IIS
5 5 (1.75%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.75%) JBoss
5 5 (1.75%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.75%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.70%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.70%) Windchill
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.70%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (47.90%) Azure
2 113 (39.51%) Entra ID
3 70 (24.48%) AWS
4 44 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (13.29%) SaaS
6 23 (8.04%) GitHub
7 21 (7.34%) GCP
8 12 (4.20%) PaaS
9 10 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.15%) IaaS
10 9 (3.15%) Nutanix
11 8 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.80%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (2.45%) OneDrive
13 6 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.75%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (1.75%) OCI
14 5 (1.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (16.78%) DNS
2 33 (11.54%) Firewall
3 25 (8.74%) SSL
3 25 (8.74%) VPN
4 17 (5.94%) Kerberos
5 12 (4.20%) DHCP
6 10 (3.50%) HTTP
7 9 (3.15%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.45%) HTTPS
8 7 (2.45%) LAN
8 7 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.10%) Network Security
9 6 (2.10%) SSH
9 6 (2.10%) WAN
9 6 (2.10%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.40%) Internet
10 4 (1.40%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.40%) Wireless
11 3 (1.05%) IPsec
11 3 (1.05%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.75%) Oracle Database
1 5 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.75%) Power BI
1 5 (1.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.70%) MySQL
2 2 (0.70%) SQLite
3 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (14.34%) JIRA
2 20 (6.99%) Git
3 10 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.75%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.75%) MSI
4 5 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.70%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.70%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.70%) fastlane
5 2 (0.70%) Postman
5 2 (0.70%) Selenium
5 2 (0.70%) Xcode
6 1 (0.35%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.35%) Gatling
6 1 (0.35%) gulp
6 1 (0.35%) JMeter
6 1 (0.35%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 83 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.89%) Finance
3 27 (9.44%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.45%) Banking
7 4 (1.40%) Aviation
7 4 (1.40%) Retail
7 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.05%) Marketing
8 3 (1.05%) Publishing
9 2 (0.70%) Electronics
9 2 (0.70%) Legal
9 2 (0.70%) Local Government
9 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (19.58%) Architect
2 40 (13.99%) Senior
3 23 (8.04%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (6.99%) Consultant
4 20 (6.99%) Developer
5 17 (5.94%) Administrator
6 14 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.55%) Lead
8 12 (4.20%) Analyst
8 12 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.85%) Senior Architect
10 10 (3.50%) Security Engineer
10 10 (3.50%) ServiceNow Architect
11 9 (3.15%) IAM Consultant
11 9 (3.15%) IAM Specialist
12 7 (2.45%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.45%) Business Analyst
12 7 (2.45%) ForgeRock Developer
13 6 (2.10%) Network Engineer
13 6 (2.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (38.81%) SAML
2 100 (34.97%) OAuth
3 78 (27.27%) OpenID
4 60 (20.98%) LDAP
5 43 (15.03%) OAuth2
6 35 (12.24%) SailPoint
7 28 (9.79%) REST
8 19 (6.64%) SOAP
9 17 (5.94%) JSON
10 16 (5.59%) HTML
10 16 (5.59%) HTML5
10 16 (5.59%) JDBC
11 15 (5.24%) AngularJS
12 14 (4.90%) Web Services
13 13 (4.55%) Apache Camel
13 13 (4.55%) jQuery
13 13 (4.55%) ODBC
13 13 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.85%) RESTful
15 9 (3.15%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.69%) Onboarding
2 17 (5.94%) PKI
3 15 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.20%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.15%) Replication
7 8 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.80%) Taxonomies
8 7 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.45%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.45%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.70%) Animation
12 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.70%) NHS
13 1 (0.35%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.98%) Windows
2 33 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 21 (7.34%) Linux
4 7 (2.45%) Unix
5 4 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.70%) Android
7 2 (0.70%) CatOS
7 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.32%) Identity Access Management
2 71 (24.83%) RBAC
3 66 (23.08%) Agile
3 66 (23.08%) Identity Management
4 60 (20.98%) DevOps
5 47 (16.43%) Zero Trust
6 44 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 38 (13.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 37 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (8.74%) Cloud Security
12 25 (8.74%) Privileged Access Management
13 24 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (8.04%) ITSM
14 23 (8.04%) Microservices
15 21 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.34%) Scrum
16 20 (6.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 69 (24.13%) PowerShell
2 28 (9.79%) Python
3 27 (9.44%) JavaScript
4 13 (4.55%) Java
5 9 (3.15%) Shell Script
5 9 (3.15%) SQL
6 8 (2.80%) Groovy
7 5 (1.75%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.40%) Bicep
8 4 (1.40%) C#
8 4 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.70%) Bash
9 2 (0.70%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.70%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 102 (35.66%) Security Cleared
2 71 (24.83%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.09%) CISSP
4 24 (8.39%) DV Cleared
5 22 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.94%) CISM
7 12 (4.20%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.80%) Degree
9 7 (2.45%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.75%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.05%) CCSP
12 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.05%) PhD
13 2 (0.70%) MCP
13 2 (0.70%) MCSA
13 2 (0.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.38%) GDPR
2 30 (10.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.24%) NIST
3 15 (5.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (3.50%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.80%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.10%) NCSC
7 6 (2.10%) PSD2
8 5 (1.75%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.40%) QA
9 4 (1.40%) SLA
10 3 (1.05%) WCAG
11 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 141 (49.30%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.24%) Docker
4 8 (2.80%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.75%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.05%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.05%) vSphere
7 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.70%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.70%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.70%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (13.64%) Terraform
2 35 (12.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 32 (11.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (5.94%) Kubernetes
5 16 (5.59%) Ansible
6 14 (4.90%) PingFederate
7 7 (2.45%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.10%) SCCM
9 5 (1.75%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.75%) Tivoli
10 3 (1.05%) Grafana
10 3 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.05%) Kibana
11 2 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.70%) logstash
11 2 (0.70%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.70%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.35%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 123 (43.01%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.89%) Okta
3 33 (11.54%) VMware
4 31 (10.84%) CyberArk
5 30 (10.49%) ServiceNow
6 18 (6.29%) ForgeRock
7 16 (5.59%) Google
7 16 (5.59%) Ping Identity
8 14 (4.90%) HP
8 14 (4.90%) Zscaler
9 13 (4.55%) BMC
9 13 (4.55%) Ivanti
9 13 (4.55%) Remedy
9 13 (4.55%) Splunk
10 9 (3.15%) Salesforce
10 9 (3.15%) SAP
11 8 (2.80%) Cisco
11 8 (2.80%) Oracle
12 7 (2.45%) Palo Alto
13 6 (2.10%) Tenable