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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 312 395
Rank change year-on-year -72 +83 -40
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 329 261 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.79% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.42% 5.50% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 170 117
10th Percentile £363 £384 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £700
90th Percentile £654 £671 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +2.00% -20.00% +12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £51.25 £44.48 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £50.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.25% +109.88% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.56 -
90th Percentile £81.92 £56.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 6,066 4,749 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.12% 14.34% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,019 3,070 3,015
10th Percentile £316 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £680 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £494
% change year-on-year +3.63% -2.33% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 94 57
10th Percentile £18.25 £14.65 £20.61
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.59% -32.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £73.38 £61.69 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.96 £67.18 £74.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £38.00
% change year-on-year +195.16% -43.71% -20.55%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -72 269 £525 +2.64% 266
UK excluding London -23 169 £510 +2.00% 106
London -72 124 £545 +3.81% 166
Work from Home -44 101 £500 -4.76% 131
North of England -51 54 £500 +8.23% 30
North West -30 34 £500 +10.38% 21
Scotland -3 31 £486 -15.57% 8
Midlands -35 30 £425 -15.00% 12
West Midlands -42 24 £425 -22.73% 12
South East -55 23 £443 -19.55% 33
South West -25 19 £525 +5.00% 14
Yorkshire -30 14 £570 +20.00% 8
East of England -20 11 £539 -23.07% 7
North East - 6 £500 - 1
East Midlands -8 5 £463 +15.05%
Wales - 4 £525 - 1

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 32 (9.73%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (4.26%) Confluence
4 4 (1.22%) nginx
5 3 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.91%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.61%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Actimize
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 151 (45.90%) Entra ID
2 149 (45.29%) Azure
3 73 (22.19%) AWS
4 48 (14.59%) GCP
5 44 (13.37%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (12.16%) SaaS
7 19 (5.78%) GitHub
8 16 (4.86%) OpenShift
9 12 (3.65%) Google Workspace
10 10 (3.04%) Serverless
11 9 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.43%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (2.43%) OCI
13 7 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.13%) Google Drive
14 6 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.82%) Figma
14 6 (1.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.33%) DNS
2 29 (8.81%) Firewall
3 19 (5.78%) VPN
4 16 (4.86%) SSL
4 16 (4.86%) TCP/IP
5 12 (3.65%) Network Security
5 12 (3.65%) WAN
6 11 (3.34%) DHCP
7 9 (2.74%) DKIM
7 9 (2.74%) DMARC
8 8 (2.43%) HTTPS
8 8 (2.43%) IPsec
8 8 (2.43%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.43%) SSH
9 7 (2.13%) Kerberos
9 7 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.82%) HTTP
10 6 (1.82%) LAN
11 4 (1.22%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.43%) Metadata
3 5 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
3 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.52%) Power BI
4 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.22%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.22%) Tableau
5 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.61%) MySQL
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.30%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 27 (8.21%) JIRA
2 14 (4.26%) Git
3 10 (3.04%) GitLab
3 10 (3.04%) Team Foundation Server
3 10 (3.04%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.22%) Postman
5 4 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.61%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.61%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.61%) JUnit
7 2 (0.61%) Maven
7 2 (0.61%) Mockito
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.61%) Snyk
7 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.30%) Serenity BDD
General
1 68 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.24%) Finance
3 48 (14.59%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.99%) Documentation Skills
5 21 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.08%) Banking
7 10 (3.04%) Retail
8 8 (2.43%) Military
9 7 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.13%) Legal
10 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Local Government
10 3 (0.91%) Marketing
10 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.61%) German Language
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (14.29%) Architect
2 37 (11.25%) Developer
3 20 (6.08%) Senior
4 19 (5.78%) Support Engineer
5 18 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (3.65%) Administrator
7 12 (3.65%) Analyst
7 12 (3.65%) Consultant
7 12 (3.65%) Java Developer
7 12 (3.65%) Lead
8 10 (3.04%) Applications Engineer
8 10 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (2.74%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (2.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (2.74%) Integration Engineer
9 9 (2.74%) Security Engineer
10 8 (2.43%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.43%) IAM Consultant
10 8 (2.43%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (27.36%) SAML
2 82 (24.92%) OAuth
3 72 (21.88%) OpenID
4 36 (10.94%) REST
5 35 (10.64%) OAuth2
5 35 (10.64%) Terraform
6 33 (10.03%) LDAP
7 22 (6.69%) SailPoint
8 18 (5.47%) XML
9 17 (5.17%) SOAP
9 17 (5.17%) Web Services
10 13 (3.95%) Node.js
11 10 (3.04%) .NET
11 10 (3.04%) ActiveX
11 10 (3.04%) WebAuthn
12 9 (2.74%) Express.js
12 9 (2.74%) FIDO
13 8 (2.43%) React
14 7 (2.13%) Kafka
14 7 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 66 (20.06%) Onboarding
2 42 (12.77%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (12.16%) PKI
4 24 (7.29%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.17%) Management Information System
6 14 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.74%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.43%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.13%) Freedom of Information
9 7 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.13%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.82%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.91%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.81%) Windows
2 18 (5.47%) Linux
3 14 (4.26%) macOS
4 8 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.13%) Unix
6 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.61%) Android
8 2 (0.61%) VMS
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.30%) CatOS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (40.73%) Identity Access Management
2 82 (24.92%) RBAC
3 56 (17.02%) Migration
4 55 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (15.20%) CI/CD
6 48 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (12.46%) DevOps
8 40 (12.16%) Privileged Access Management
9 38 (11.55%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (11.25%) Agile
11 35 (10.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 32 (9.73%) Microservices
13 31 (9.42%) Identity Management
13 31 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (9.12%) Infrastructure as Code
14 30 (9.12%) ITIL
14 30 (9.12%) Roadmaps
15 29 (8.81%) Cloud Security
15 29 (8.81%) Zero Trust
16 28 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 67 (20.36%) PowerShell
2 51 (15.50%) Python
3 39 (11.85%) Java
4 16 (4.86%) SQL
5 15 (4.56%) Bash
6 13 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.04%) VB
7 10 (3.04%) VB6
7 10 (3.04%) VBA
8 8 (2.43%) C#
9 5 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.22%) Go
11 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.61%) Bicep
12 2 (0.61%) Groovy
13 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.30%) R
13 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 57 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (5.17%) Degree
6 15 (4.56%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.65%) CISSP
8 8 (2.43%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.91%) CISM
10 3 (0.91%) GIAC
10 3 (0.91%) MCSE
10 3 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.61%) CEH
11 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.61%) PMP
11 2 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.86%) SLA
4 14 (4.26%) NIST
5 11 (3.34%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.34%) GDPR
6 8 (2.43%) QA
7 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.22%) PMO
7 4 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.22%) SNOMED CT
8 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.91%) NCSC
9 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.61%) GRC
9 2 (0.61%) ITGC
9 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 137 (41.64%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.26%) Docker
3 7 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.91%) vSphere
7 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.30%) KVM
8 1 (0.30%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.30%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (8.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (5.47%) Grafana
4 13 (3.95%) Ansible
5 9 (2.74%) Argo
6 8 (2.43%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.52%) CASB
9 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.91%) Packer
9 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.91%) SELinux
9 3 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.61%) Consul
10 2 (0.61%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.61%) SCCM
10 2 (0.61%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.30%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.30%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.30%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 155 (47.11%) Microsoft
2 63 (19.15%) Okta
3 32 (9.73%) BeyondTrust
4 25 (7.60%) CyberArk
4 25 (7.60%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.47%) Google
6 17 (5.17%) Oracle
7 15 (4.56%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.34%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (3.34%) VMware
8 11 (3.34%) Zscaler
9 9 (2.74%) ForgeRock
9 9 (2.74%) Ping Identity
10 7 (2.13%) Cisco
11 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.52%) Splunk
13 4 (1.22%) Apple
13 4 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.22%) SAP