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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 330 346
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 +69
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 335 218 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.72% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.90% 4.56% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 149 175
10th Percentile £321 £400 £328
25th Percentile £438 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £552 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% +7.71% -6.82%
75th Percentile £611 £650 £625
90th Percentile £679 £703 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £497
% change year-on-year +5.00% +0.55% -9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 5
10th Percentile £55.75 - £24.51
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £32.75
90th Percentile £92.50 - £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - £96.00

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 6,833 4,776 5,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.40% 15.75% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,676 3,181 3,832
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £421 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £491 £500
% change year-on-year +1.83% -1.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 54 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.05
25th Percentile £22.05 £20.54 £21.29
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £78.34 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +37.50% -8.57%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -28 288 £525 -4.55% 70
UK excluding London -30 169 £525 +5.00% 49
London -11 136 £550 -3.17% 39
Work from Home -40 109 £575 +4.55% 35
North of England -56 54 £525 +14.25% 11
South East -37 34 £510 -20.31% 18
Midlands -46 33 £450 - 4
South West -15 30 £525 +5.00% 4
Yorkshire -31 28 £550 +17.27% 3
North West -44 25 £475 +5.56% 7
Scotland +6 21 £450 -25.00% 7
West Midlands -56 19 £425 -22.73% 3
East Midlands -5 13 £463 +15.05% 1
East of England -26 2 £565 -16.30% 7
North East -36 2 £413 -31.25% 1
Wales - 2 £538 - 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 27 (8.06%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.57%) Confluence
3 21 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.69%) nginx
5 2 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.60%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 167 (49.85%) Azure
2 153 (45.67%) Entra ID
3 79 (23.58%) AWS
4 48 (14.33%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (13.43%) SaaS
6 39 (11.64%) GCP
7 26 (7.76%) Serverless
8 19 (5.67%) GitHub
9 17 (5.07%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.78%) OpenShift
11 14 (4.18%) PaaS
12 13 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.58%) Google Workspace
13 12 (3.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.28%) IaaS
15 9 (2.69%) OneDrive
15 9 (2.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 76 (22.69%) DNS
2 38 (11.34%) Firewall
3 33 (9.85%) VPN
4 31 (9.25%) DHCP
5 26 (7.76%) Kerberos
5 26 (7.76%) SSL
6 25 (7.46%) TCP/IP
7 20 (5.97%) Network Security
8 16 (4.78%) IPsec
8 16 (4.78%) WAN
9 14 (4.18%) HTTP
9 14 (4.18%) HTTPS
10 13 (3.88%) LAN
11 9 (2.69%) BIG-IP
11 9 (2.69%) DKIM
11 9 (2.69%) DMARC
11 9 (2.69%) OpenVPN
12 8 (2.39%) SD-WAN
12 8 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (2.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.09%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.09%) Metadata
3 5 (1.49%) MySQL
4 4 (1.19%) Power BI
5 3 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.30%) Db2
7 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (12.84%) JIRA
2 10 (2.99%) Browser DevTools
2 10 (2.99%) Git
3 9 (2.69%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.39%) GitLab
4 8 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.09%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.09%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.19%) Postman
8 3 (0.90%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.60%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.60%) Snyk
10 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.30%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.03%) Finance
3 46 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 33 (9.85%) Documentation Skills
5 30 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.58%) Banking
7 11 (3.28%) Publishing
8 8 (2.39%) Legal
9 6 (1.79%) Military
9 6 (1.79%) Retail
10 4 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Aviation
13 1 (0.30%) Front Office
13 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (15.22%) Architect
2 29 (8.66%) Developer
3 27 (8.06%) Senior
4 23 (6.87%) Lead
5 22 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (6.27%) Administrator
7 19 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (5.67%) Support Engineer
8 14 (4.18%) Security Engineer
8 14 (4.18%) Technical Architect
9 13 (3.88%) Consultant
9 13 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (3.88%) Project Manager
10 10 (2.99%) Analyst
11 8 (2.39%) Active Directory Engineer
11 8 (2.39%) IAM Project Manager
11 8 (2.39%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (2.39%) Network Engineer
12 7 (2.09%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (1.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (27.76%) SAML
2 86 (25.67%) OAuth
3 69 (20.60%) OpenID
4 61 (18.21%) LDAP
5 38 (11.34%) OAuth2
6 26 (7.76%) REST
7 21 (6.27%) SailPoint
8 14 (4.18%) Node.js
9 13 (3.88%) Express.js
9 13 (3.88%) SOAP
9 13 (3.88%) Web Services
10 12 (3.58%) SAP Basis
11 9 (2.69%) React
12 8 (2.39%) CSS
13 7 (2.09%) .NET
13 7 (2.09%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.09%) HTML
13 7 (2.09%) Middleware
14 6 (1.79%) Keycloak
14 6 (1.79%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 65 (19.40%) Onboarding
2 25 (7.46%) PKI
3 24 (7.16%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.16%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.37%) Replication
5 12 (3.58%) Taxonomies
6 11 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.69%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.39%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.39%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.19%) Clustering
11 4 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.90%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.82%) Windows
2 29 (8.66%) Windows Server
3 19 (5.67%) Linux
4 9 (2.69%) Unix
5 8 (2.39%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.90%) Android
7 3 (0.90%) CatOS
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.94%) Identity Access Management
2 75 (22.39%) DevOps
3 69 (20.60%) RBAC
4 56 (16.72%) CI/CD
5 54 (16.12%) Cybersecurity
6 53 (15.82%) Roadmaps
7 49 (14.63%) Agile
7 49 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 39 (11.64%) Zero Trust
10 37 (11.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (9.85%) Migration
12 29 (8.66%) High Availability
12 29 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (8.36%) Privileged Access Management
13 28 (8.36%) Validation
14 27 (8.06%) Identity Management
15 26 (7.76%) Microservices
16 25 (7.46%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.82%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.16%) Python
3 22 (6.57%) Java
4 19 (5.67%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.07%) SQL
6 11 (3.28%) Bash
7 8 (2.39%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.49%) Bicep
8 5 (1.49%) VB
8 5 (1.49%) VB6
8 5 (1.49%) VBA
9 4 (1.19%) C#
10 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.60%) Groovy
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) AppleScript
12 1 (0.30%) Korn
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 91 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 72 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.57%) Degree
4 16 (4.78%) CISSP
5 13 (3.88%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.79%) CISM
10 4 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.19%) PMP
11 3 (0.90%) GIAC
11 3 (0.90%) OCP
11 3 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.60%) MCSE
12 2 (0.60%) RHCE
12 2 (0.60%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.84%) GDPR
2 32 (9.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (7.16%) NIST
4 21 (6.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.58%) QA
6 11 (3.28%) GRC
6 11 (3.28%) SLA
7 10 (2.99%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.09%) PMO
8 7 (2.09%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.79%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.79%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.90%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 143 (42.69%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.07%) Docker
3 14 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.99%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.69%) Squid
6 7 (2.09%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.19%) RACF
9 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.90%) vSphere
10 2 (0.60%) Firmware
11 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.30%) KVM
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (11.94%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.75%) Terraform
3 31 (9.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (5.67%) Grafana
4 19 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (3.88%) Ansible
6 11 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.99%) Argo
8 9 (2.69%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.39%) Consul
10 6 (1.79%) CA Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.49%) CASB
11 5 (1.49%) PingFederate
11 5 (1.49%) VxRail
12 4 (1.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.90%) SCCM
14 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.60%) Packer
15 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 130 (38.81%) Microsoft
2 78 (23.28%) Okta
3 23 (6.87%) CyberArk
3 23 (6.87%) VMware
4 22 (6.57%) Red Hat
4 22 (6.57%) ServiceNow
5 21 (6.27%) SAP
6 17 (5.07%) Zscaler
7 15 (4.48%) Google
8 13 (3.88%) Cisco
8 13 (3.88%) Oracle
9 11 (3.28%) BeyondTrust
10 10 (2.99%) Dynatrace
10 10 (2.99%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.69%) F5
12 8 (2.39%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.39%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.79%) Dell
13 6 (1.79%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.79%) Ping Identity