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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 328 338
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +87
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 330 200 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.69% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.98% 4.36% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 132 178
10th Percentile £300 £403 £350
25th Percentile £431 £475 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +10.05% -8.07%
75th Percentile £609 £655 £638
90th Percentile £677 £716 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £482
% change year-on-year -5.45% +14.11% -16.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 6
10th Percentile £51.40 - £24.59
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £28.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £83.19
90th Percentile £91.59 - £102.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 - £98.00

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 6,629 4,590 5,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.90% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,536 3,121 3,766
10th Percentile £325 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +0.19% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £492 £495
% change year-on-year -0.41% -0.61% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 48 101
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.95 £19.70 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.29 £50.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.09 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -7.78%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -20 278 £525 -6.91% 91
UK excluding London -9 166 £520 -5.45% 46
London -11 122 £525 -7.57% 50
Work from Home -48 103 £600 +9.09% 39
North of England -55 57 £525 +11.23% 12
Yorkshire -37 37 £550 +2.90% 3
Midlands -43 37 £449 -18.45% 7
South East -42 35 £500 -23.08% 16
South West -17 28 £525 +20.00% 6
West Midlands -63 22 £425 -22.73% 5
North West -50 19 £458 +1.67% 7
Scotland +9 15 £450 -45.45%
East Midlands -12 14 £506 +25.93% 2
North East -24 2 £413 -31.25% 2
East of England -32 1 £575 -2.13% 6

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 26 (7.88%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.76%) Confluence
3 18 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.73%) nginx
5 3 (0.91%) IIS
6 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.42%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (9.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.61%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 169 (51.21%) Azure
2 159 (48.18%) Entra ID
3 71 (21.52%) AWS
4 51 (15.45%) SaaS
5 46 (13.94%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (10.00%) GCP
7 28 (8.48%) Serverless
8 18 (5.45%) Amazon S3
8 18 (5.45%) PaaS
9 17 (5.15%) OpenShift
10 16 (4.85%) GitHub
10 16 (4.85%) Google Workspace
11 13 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.33%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.03%) IaaS
15 9 (2.73%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 78 (23.64%) DNS
2 34 (10.30%) Firewall
3 32 (9.70%) DHCP
4 31 (9.39%) VPN
5 30 (9.09%) SSL
6 29 (8.79%) Kerberos
7 24 (7.27%) TCP/IP
8 20 (6.06%) IPsec
9 18 (5.45%) Network Security
10 17 (5.15%) HTTP
10 17 (5.15%) HTTPS
10 17 (5.15%) WAN
11 14 (4.24%) LAN
12 13 (3.94%) BIG-IP
13 10 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (3.03%) Wireless
14 9 (2.73%) DKIM
14 9 (2.73%) DMARC
14 9 (2.73%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.12%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.82%) Metadata
5 5 (1.52%) MySQL
6 3 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.91%) CockroachDB
6 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.91%) Pinecone
6 3 (0.91%) Power BI
7 2 (0.61%) GIS
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.30%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (11.82%) JIRA
2 10 (3.03%) Browser DevTools
3 8 (2.42%) Git
4 7 (2.12%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.12%) GitLab
4 7 (2.12%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.12%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.21%) Postman
7 3 (0.91%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.61%) JUnit
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.30%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.94%) Public Sector
3 39 (11.82%) Finance
4 35 (10.61%) Documentation Skills
5 32 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.85%) Publishing
7 12 (3.64%) Banking
8 6 (1.82%) Legal
8 6 (1.82%) Retail
9 5 (1.52%) Military
10 4 (1.21%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Aviation
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (15.76%) Architect
2 28 (8.48%) Developer
2 28 (8.48%) Senior
3 27 (8.18%) Lead
4 26 (7.88%) Administrator
5 18 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.45%) Support Engineer
6 16 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (4.24%) Technical Architect
8 12 (3.64%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.33%) Network Engineer
9 11 (3.33%) Security Engineer
10 9 (2.73%) Analyst
10 9 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (2.42%) IAM Project Manager
11 8 (2.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.42%) Senior Architect
12 7 (2.12%) Consultant
12 7 (2.12%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (30.91%) SAML
2 94 (28.48%) OAuth
3 72 (21.82%) OpenID
4 67 (20.30%) LDAP
5 38 (11.52%) OAuth2
6 24 (7.27%) SailPoint
7 20 (6.06%) SAP Basis
8 19 (5.76%) REST
9 13 (3.94%) Node.js
10 12 (3.64%) Express.js
11 11 (3.33%) React
11 11 (3.33%) Web Services
12 10 (3.03%) CSS
12 10 (3.03%) SOAP
13 9 (2.73%) HTML
14 8 (2.42%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.42%) ARM Templates
14 8 (2.42%) Entity Framework
15 7 (2.12%) Model Context Protocol
16 6 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (20.30%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.67%) PKI
3 20 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (6.06%) Replication
3 20 (6.06%) Taxonomies
4 17 (5.15%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.73%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.42%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.21%) Clustering
10 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.21%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.27%) Windows
2 28 (8.48%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.06%) Linux
4 9 (2.73%) Unix
5 7 (2.12%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.52%) CatOS
6 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.91%) Android
8 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (28.18%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (22.73%) DevOps
3 72 (21.82%) RBAC
4 58 (17.58%) Roadmaps
5 57 (17.27%) CI/CD
5 57 (17.27%) Cybersecurity
6 50 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (13.94%) Agile
8 42 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (12.12%) Zero Trust
10 38 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (9.39%) High Availability
13 30 (9.09%) Migration
14 28 (8.48%) Validation
15 27 (8.18%) Microservices
15 27 (8.18%) Vulnerability Management
16 25 (7.58%) Data Governance
16 25 (7.58%) Identity Management
16 25 (7.58%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 27 (8.18%) Python
3 21 (6.36%) JavaScript
4 20 (6.06%) Java
5 19 (5.76%) SQL
6 12 (3.64%) Bash
7 10 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.52%) Bicep
8 5 (1.52%) VB
8 5 (1.52%) VB6
8 5 (1.52%) VBA
9 4 (1.21%) C#
9 4 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.61%) Groovy
10 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.30%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) Korn
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 108 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 81 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.06%) Degree
4 19 (5.76%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.94%) CISSP
6 9 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.82%) CISM
9 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.21%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.21%) PMP
11 3 (0.91%) OCP
11 3 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.61%) RHCE
12 2 (0.61%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.03%) GDPR
2 28 (8.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (6.36%) NIST
5 11 (3.33%) GRC
5 11 (3.33%) SLA
6 10 (3.03%) SOC 2
7 9 (2.73%) Accessibility
8 8 (2.42%) PCI DSS
8 8 (2.42%) QA
9 4 (1.21%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.21%) PMO
10 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.91%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 146 (44.24%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.45%) Docker
3 15 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 14 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (3.03%) Squid
6 6 (1.82%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.52%) RACF
8 4 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.91%) Firmware
10 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.61%) vSphere
11 1 (0.30%) KVM
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (13.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 35 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.30%) Terraform
4 20 (6.06%) Grafana
5 17 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (3.94%) Ansible
7 12 (3.64%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.03%) Argo
9 9 (2.73%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.42%) Consul
11 6 (1.82%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.52%) PingFederate
12 5 (1.52%) SCCM
13 4 (1.21%) VxRail
14 3 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.61%) CASB
15 2 (0.61%) Packer
16 1 (0.30%) Istio
16 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 124 (37.58%) Microsoft
2 74 (22.42%) Okta
3 31 (9.39%) SAP
4 25 (7.58%) VMware
5 23 (6.97%) Red Hat
6 21 (6.36%) CyberArk
7 20 (6.06%) Google
8 18 (5.45%) ServiceNow
9 15 (4.55%) Zscaler
10 14 (4.24%) Cisco
11 13 (3.94%) F5
11 13 (3.94%) Palo Alto
12 12 (3.64%) Oracle
13 11 (3.33%) CheckPoint
13 11 (3.33%) Pega
14 10 (3.03%) Dynatrace
15 9 (2.73%) BeyondTrust
16 8 (2.42%) Atlassian
17 7 (2.12%) Ping Identity
18 6 (1.82%) Thales