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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 349 346
Rank change year-on-year -38 -3 +67
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 307 225 234
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.68% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.33% 4.33% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 151 159
10th Percentile £350 £381 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +5.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £680 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £484 £610
% change year-on-year +8.58% -20.74% +10.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 4
10th Percentile £58.75 - £24.43
25th Percentile £66.25 - £24.80
Median hourly rate £71.25 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £44.75
90th Percentile - - £80.30
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 7,083 5,194 5,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 15.69% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,818 3,423 3,719
10th Percentile £326 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £503 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -3.37% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 75 75
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.20
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.56 £23.99
Median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.33% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.22 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +9.09% +40.13% -15.01%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -53 255 £525 -4.55% 121
UK excluding London -18 164 £525 +8.58% 55
London -34 114 £522 -5.13% 80
Work from Home -50 96 £510 -7.27% 67
North of England -57 52 £525 +16.67% 21
Midlands -37 33 £450 +9.76% 6
South East -47 30 £600 +9.09% 17
North West -46 29 £513 +22.90% 15
Scotland +11 25 £450 -18.18% 6
South West -20 24 £525 -5.75% 6
Yorkshire -40 21 £558 +26.99% 6
West Midlands -53 21 £425 -5.56% 6
East Midlands -6 11 £638 +58.58%
East of England -12 4 £543 -19.63% 2
North East -37 3 £413 -31.25% 1
Wales - 3 £525 -

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 28 (9.12%) SharePoint
2 22 (7.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (6.51%) Confluence
4 8 (2.61%) nginx
5 3 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.65%) JBoss
6 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) Apache
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.65%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (48.21%) Azure
2 137 (44.63%) Entra ID
3 73 (23.78%) AWS
4 46 (14.98%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (13.36%) SaaS
6 38 (12.38%) GCP
7 20 (6.51%) Serverless
8 19 (6.19%) GitHub
9 13 (4.23%) OpenShift
10 11 (3.58%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.58%) Google Workspace
10 11 (3.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.93%) OneDrive
13 7 (2.28%) Google Drive
13 7 (2.28%) PaaS
14 6 (1.95%) Asana
14 6 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (18.24%) DNS
2 32 (10.42%) Firewall
3 25 (8.14%) TCP/IP
3 25 (8.14%) VPN
4 23 (7.49%) SSL
5 18 (5.86%) Network Security
6 17 (5.54%) DHCP
7 14 (4.56%) WAN
8 12 (3.91%) IPsec
9 11 (3.58%) HTTP
9 11 (3.58%) HTTPS
9 11 (3.58%) Kerberos
9 11 (3.58%) LAN
10 9 (2.93%) DKIM
10 9 (2.93%) DMARC
10 9 (2.93%) SD-WAN
11 8 (2.61%) OpenVPN
12 7 (2.28%) Internet
13 6 (1.95%) VLAN
13 6 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.58%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.95%) Metadata
3 5 (1.63%) Power BI
4 4 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.30%) MySQL
5 3 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.33%) Db2
7 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (11.40%) JIRA
2 11 (3.58%) Browser DevTools
2 11 (3.58%) Git
3 10 (3.26%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.93%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (1.95%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.63%) GitLab
7 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.98%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.98%) Postman
9 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.65%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.65%) Snyk
10 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.33%) JUnit
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.26%) Finance
3 47 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.79%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.21%) Banking
7 8 (2.61%) Military
8 7 (2.28%) Publishing
9 6 (1.95%) Legal
9 6 (1.95%) Retail
10 4 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) Front Office
13 1 (0.33%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (14.98%) Architect
2 31 (10.10%) Developer
3 25 (8.14%) Lead
4 22 (7.17%) Senior
5 21 (6.84%) Support Engineer
6 20 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (5.86%) Administrator
7 18 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.23%) Consultant
8 13 (4.23%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.58%) Security Engineer
10 10 (3.26%) Technical Architect
11 9 (2.93%) IAM Project Manager
11 9 (2.93%) IAM Specialist
11 9 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.61%) Active Directory Engineer
12 8 (2.61%) Analyst
12 8 (2.61%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.28%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (25.41%) SAML
2 67 (21.82%) OAuth
3 64 (20.85%) OpenID
4 41 (13.36%) LDAP
5 36 (11.73%) OAuth2
6 25 (8.14%) REST
7 23 (7.49%) SailPoint
8 15 (4.89%) SOAP
8 15 (4.89%) Web Services
9 14 (4.56%) Node.js
10 13 (4.23%) Express.js
11 12 (3.91%) XML
12 9 (2.93%) ActiveX
13 8 (2.61%) .NET
13 8 (2.61%) Middleware
14 7 (2.28%) React
15 6 (1.95%) AngularJS
15 6 (1.95%) SAP Basis
16 5 (1.63%) CSS
16 5 (1.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.85%) Onboarding
2 31 (10.10%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (9.77%) PKI
4 22 (7.17%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.58%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.93%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.28%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.28%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.95%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.95%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.30%) Clustering
11 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.30%) Replication
12 3 (0.98%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.40%) Windows
2 19 (6.19%) Linux
3 10 (3.26%) Mac OS
3 10 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.93%) Unix
5 6 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.98%) Android
7 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.65%) VMS
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.33%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (33.88%) Identity Access Management
2 64 (20.85%) RBAC
3 61 (19.87%) DevOps
4 49 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (15.64%) Agile
6 47 (15.31%) Cybersecurity
7 45 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (14.01%) CI/CD
9 41 (13.36%) Roadmaps
10 37 (12.05%) Zero Trust
11 36 (11.73%) Migration
12 35 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (11.07%) Privileged Access Management
14 33 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 26 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
16 24 (7.82%) Analytics
16 24 (7.82%) ITIL
16 24 (7.82%) Microservices
17 22 (7.17%) Identity Management
17 22 (7.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 42 (13.68%) PowerShell
2 32 (10.42%) Java
3 26 (8.47%) Python
4 16 (5.21%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.23%) SQL
6 10 (3.26%) Bash
7 9 (2.93%) VB
7 9 (2.93%) VB6
7 9 (2.93%) VBA
8 6 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.63%) C#
10 2 (0.65%) Bicep
10 2 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.33%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.33%) Go
11 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.33%) R
11 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 67 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.51%) Degree
4 15 (4.89%) CISSP
5 13 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.28%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.95%) CISM
9 6 (1.95%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.95%) PMP
10 4 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.98%) GIAC
11 3 (0.98%) MCSE
12 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.65%) CEH
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (8.79%) GDPR
3 26 (8.47%) NIST
4 13 (4.23%) SLA
5 12 (3.91%) QA
6 11 (3.58%) Accessibility
7 10 (3.26%) Data Quality
7 10 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.28%) GRC
8 7 (2.28%) PMO
9 4 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.98%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.65%) ITGC
11 2 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 131 (42.67%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.21%) Docker
3 9 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.95%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.30%) Squid
7 3 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.98%) RACF
7 3 (0.98%) vSphere
8 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.33%) Firmware
9 1 (0.33%) KVM
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.82%) Terraform
3 19 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.23%) Ansible
4 13 (4.23%) Grafana
5 12 (3.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (2.93%) Argo
7 5 (1.63%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.63%) CASB
7 5 (1.63%) PingFederate
7 5 (1.63%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.98%) Consul
9 3 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.98%) SELinux
10 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.65%) Packer
10 2 (0.65%) SCCM
11 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 116 (37.79%) Microsoft
2 67 (21.82%) Okta
3 28 (9.12%) CyberArk
4 24 (7.82%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.86%) Red Hat
5 18 (5.86%) Zscaler
6 17 (5.54%) BeyondTrust
6 17 (5.54%) SAP
7 14 (4.56%) Google
7 14 (4.56%) VMware
8 13 (4.23%) Oracle
9 10 (3.26%) Cisco
9 10 (3.26%) Ping Identity
10 8 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.28%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.95%) ForgeRock
13 5 (1.63%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.63%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.63%) Netskope
13 5 (1.63%) Workday