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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 377 346
Rank change year-on-year +41 -31 +99
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 281 169 271
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.49% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.77% 3.36% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 111 204
10th Percentile £368 £400 £396
25th Percentile £425 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £645
90th Percentile £675 £788 £713
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 5,897 5,025 6,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 14.70% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,027 3,214 4,314
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £513
% change year-on-year +1.42% -3.80% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 172
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.16 £17.07
25th Percentile £20.16 £22.50 £22.56
Median hourly rate £40.73 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +53.68% -42.62% +34.83%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.75 £72.05
90th Percentile £81.40 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.25 £25.34 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.52% -45.13% +53.50%

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 18 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 18 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 +39 234 £525 -12.50% 62
UK excluding London +21 136 £525 -16.00% 52
London +12 93 £525 -12.50% 21
Work from Home +5 78 £525 -12.50% 27
South West +40 45 £524 +23.29% 6
North of England -24 39 £492 -1.60% 16
Yorkshire -19 22 £525 - 11
South East -22 22 £538 -23.21% 19
North West -13 17 £423 -15.40% 5
Midlands -39 17 £450 -10.00% 7
West Midlands -30 15 £443 -11.50% 7
Scotland +7 8 £600 -4.76% 1
East of England -20 6 £625 +42.86% 5
East Midlands -18 2 £475 -
Wales +6 1 £550 +10.00% 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 19 (6.76%) Confluence
2 18 (6.41%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.14%) Apache
4 6 (2.14%) IIS
5 5 (1.78%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.78%) JBoss
5 5 (1.78%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.78%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.71%) CMS
8 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.71%) Windchill
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (3.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.36%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (48.04%) Azure
2 114 (40.57%) Entra ID
3 66 (23.49%) AWS
4 44 (15.66%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (13.52%) SaaS
6 23 (8.19%) GitHub
7 19 (6.76%) GCP
8 12 (4.27%) PaaS
9 9 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.20%) IaaS
9 9 (3.20%) Nutanix
10 8 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 7 (2.49%) OneDrive
11 7 (2.49%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.14%) Google Workspace
12 6 (2.14%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 48 (17.08%) DNS
2 32 (11.39%) Firewall
3 25 (8.90%) VPN
4 21 (7.47%) SSL
5 17 (6.05%) Kerberos
6 12 (4.27%) DHCP
7 10 (3.56%) HTTP
8 9 (3.20%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.49%) HTTPS
9 7 (2.49%) LAN
9 7 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.14%) Network Security
10 6 (2.14%) SSH
10 6 (2.14%) WAN
10 6 (2.14%) Wireshark
11 4 (1.42%) Internet
11 4 (1.42%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.42%) Wireless
12 3 (1.07%) BGP
12 3 (1.07%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.78%) Oracle Database
1 5 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.78%) Power BI
1 5 (1.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.71%) MySQL
2 2 (0.71%) SQLite
3 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (13.52%) JIRA
2 20 (7.12%) Git
3 11 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.78%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (1.78%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (1.78%) MSI
4 5 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.71%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.71%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.71%) fastlane
5 2 (0.71%) Postman
5 2 (0.71%) Selenium
5 2 (0.71%) Xcode
6 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.36%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.36%) GitLab
6 1 (0.36%) gulp
6 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.36%) Maven
6 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 79 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.74%) Finance
3 26 (9.25%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.85%) Banking
7 4 (1.42%) Aviation
7 4 (1.42%) Retail
7 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.07%) Marketing
8 3 (1.07%) Publishing
9 2 (0.71%) Electronics
9 2 (0.71%) Legal
9 2 (0.71%) Local Government
9 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Police
10 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (16.37%) Architect
2 35 (12.46%) Senior
3 22 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (7.47%) Developer
5 19 (6.76%) Consultant
6 18 (6.41%) Administrator
7 14 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (4.98%) Lead
8 13 (4.63%) Analyst
9 12 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.56%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.20%) IAM Specialist
12 8 (2.85%) IAM Consultant
13 7 (2.49%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (2.49%) Business Analyst
13 7 (2.49%) ForgeRock Developer
13 7 (2.49%) Senior Architect
14 6 (2.14%) Network Engineer
14 6 (2.14%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (37.01%) SAML
2 96 (34.16%) OAuth
3 72 (25.62%) OpenID
4 54 (19.22%) LDAP
5 39 (13.88%) OAuth2
6 35 (12.46%) SailPoint
7 22 (7.83%) REST
8 15 (5.34%) SOAP
9 13 (4.63%) JSON
10 12 (4.27%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.27%) HTML
10 12 (4.27%) HTML5
10 12 (4.27%) JDBC
11 10 (3.56%) RESTful
11 10 (3.56%) Web Services
12 9 (3.20%) Apache Camel
12 9 (3.20%) jQuery
12 9 (3.20%) ODBC
12 9 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.30%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.05%) PKI
3 14 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.56%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.20%) Replication
6 8 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.85%) Private Cloud
6 8 (2.85%) Taxonomies
7 7 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.71%) Animation
11 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.71%) Windows
2 33 (11.74%) Windows Server
3 21 (7.47%) Linux
4 7 (2.49%) Unix
5 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.71%) Android
7 2 (0.71%) CatOS
7 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (27.40%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (25.62%) RBAC
3 63 (22.42%) Agile
4 62 (22.06%) Identity Management
5 51 (18.15%) DevOps
6 45 (16.01%) Zero Trust
7 39 (13.88%) CI/CD
8 36 (12.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 34 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
10 29 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (8.90%) Privileged Access Management
13 24 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (8.19%) Cloud Security
15 21 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (7.12%) Migration
16 20 (7.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (7.12%) Technical Leadership
17 19 (6.76%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.20%) PowerShell
2 27 (9.61%) Python
3 23 (8.19%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.98%) Java
5 9 (3.20%) Shell Script
5 9 (3.20%) SQL
6 8 (2.85%) Groovy
7 5 (1.78%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.42%) Bicep
8 4 (1.42%) C#
8 4 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.71%) Bash
9 2 (0.71%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.71%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 102 (36.30%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.90%) CISSP
3 25 (8.90%) DV Cleared
4 22 (7.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.69%) CISM
6 11 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.85%) Degree
8 7 (2.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.78%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.78%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.07%) PhD
12 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.71%) MCITP
12 2 (0.71%) MCTS
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.66%) GDPR
2 29 (10.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (4.98%) NIST
5 10 (3.56%) HIPAA
6 8 (2.85%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.14%) NCSC
8 6 (2.14%) PSD2
9 5 (1.78%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.42%) QA
10 4 (1.42%) SLA
11 3 (1.07%) WCAG
12 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.36%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 137 (48.75%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.34%) Docker
4 8 (2.85%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.07%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.07%) vSphere
7 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.71%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.71%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.71%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (13.52%) Terraform
2 36 (12.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 30 (10.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (6.05%) Kubernetes
5 16 (5.69%) Ansible
6 14 (4.98%) PingFederate
7 7 (2.49%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.14%) SCCM
9 5 (1.78%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.78%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.78%) Tivoli
10 3 (1.07%) Grafana
10 3 (1.07%) Kibana
11 2 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.71%) logstash
11 2 (0.71%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.71%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.36%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 121 (43.06%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.74%) VMware
3 32 (11.39%) Okta
4 31 (11.03%) CyberArk
5 24 (8.54%) ServiceNow
6 16 (5.69%) Ping Identity
7 15 (5.34%) ForgeRock
7 15 (5.34%) Google
8 13 (4.63%) Splunk
8 13 (4.63%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.56%) HP
10 9 (3.20%) BMC
10 9 (3.20%) Ivanti
10 9 (3.20%) Remedy
10 9 (3.20%) Salesforce
10 9 (3.20%) SAP
11 8 (2.85%) Cisco
11 8 (2.85%) Oracle
12 7 (2.49%) Palo Alto
13 6 (2.14%) Tenable