Single Sign-On Contracts

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Single Sign-On skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Single Sign-On over the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 338 411
Rank change year-on-year +11 +73 +80
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 202 256 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.59% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.38% 4.89% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 177 207
10th Percentile £403 £350 £383
25th Percentile £475 £418 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £654 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £712 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £482 £563
% change year-on-year +11.51% -14.31% +9.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £28.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 4,614 5,232 8,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.86% 12.15% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,121 3,789 6,232
10th Percentile £308 £281 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.36% -2.65%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +1.21% -5.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 98 197
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.77 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.76 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £33.25 £30.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -46.52% +165.71%
75th Percentile £63.29 £50.19 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.09 £71.25 £83.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +112.50%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On.

Daily rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 6 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On.

Hourly rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Top 15 Contract 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 6 June 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 +12 160 £564 +7.43% 770
Work from Home +27 91 £550 -8.33% 382
UK excluding London +4 76 £538 +11.51% 694
London +9 68 £568 -4.14% 152
North of England +23 35 £484 -2.77% 154
North West +16 23 £450 -19.64% 75
Midlands -5 21 £525 -15.32% 131
West Midlands +7 17 £550 -8.33% 69
South East +34 12 £650 +44.44% 203
South West +24 10 £438 -0.39% 80
Yorkshire +14 10 £500 +29.03% 59
Scotland +9 5 £675 -10.00% 26
East Midlands -5 4 £402 -35.16% 54
East of England +25 2 £588 +6.82% 99
North East - 2 £600 - 20

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (8.91%) Confluence
2 16 (7.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (5.94%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.49%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.49%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.99%) Camunda
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (4.46%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.50%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 104 (51.49%) Azure
2 84 (41.58%) Entra ID
3 59 (29.21%) AWS
4 31 (15.35%) SaaS
5 24 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (9.90%) GCP
7 16 (7.92%) Serverless
8 14 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.45%) IaaS
9 11 (5.45%) PaaS
10 7 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.47%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.97%) GitHub
11 6 (2.97%) SuccessFactors
12 5 (2.48%) Google Workspace
12 5 (2.48%) Lucidchart
13 4 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.42%) Firewall
2 13 (6.44%) VPN
3 12 (5.94%) Kerberos
4 11 (5.45%) SSL
5 10 (4.95%) HTTPS
6 8 (3.96%) POP3
6 8 (3.96%) SMTP
7 4 (1.98%) HTTP
7 4 (1.98%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.49%) DNS
8 3 (1.49%) IPsec
9 2 (0.99%) Network Security
10 1 (0.50%) DHCP
10 1 (0.50%) DKIM
10 1 (0.50%) DMARC
10 1 (0.50%) FTP
10 1 (0.50%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.96%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.47%) Power BI
3 6 (2.97%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.97%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.48%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.48%) Metadata
5 4 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.98%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.98%) MySQL
5 4 (1.98%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.49%) SSDT
7 2 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.50%) Big Data
8 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.50%) Redis
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (9.41%) JIRA
2 10 (4.95%) GitLab
2 10 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.97%) Git
4 4 (1.98%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.49%) Log4j
5 3 (1.49%) Maven
5 3 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.99%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.50%) MSI
7 1 (0.50%) Postman
7 1 (0.50%) ScriptRunner
General
1 43 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (8.91%) Finance
4 11 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.47%) Marketing
6 6 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.48%) Banking
8 4 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.99%) French Language
9 2 (0.99%) Retail
9 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (24.26%) Architect
2 27 (13.37%) Developer
3 17 (8.42%) Lead
4 15 (7.43%) IAM Specialist
5 14 (6.93%) AWS Specialist
6 13 (6.44%) Security Architect
7 11 (5.45%) Consultant
7 11 (5.45%) Senior
8 10 (4.95%) Analyst
8 10 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.96%) Administrator
9 8 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.47%) ForgeRock Engineer
10 7 (3.47%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.47%) ServiceNow Developer
10 7 (3.47%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.97%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.48%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (35.15%) OAuth
2 67 (33.17%) SAML
3 59 (29.21%) OpenID
4 50 (24.75%) LDAP
5 24 (11.88%) REST
6 23 (11.39%) OAuth2
7 22 (10.89%) SailPoint
7 22 (10.89%) SOAP
8 21 (10.40%) Web Services
9 15 (7.43%) CSS
10 14 (6.93%) JDBC
11 13 (6.44%) AngularJS
11 13 (6.44%) HTML
12 10 (4.95%) JSON
12 10 (4.95%) Spring
13 9 (4.46%) .NET
14 8 (3.96%) Bootstrap
14 8 (3.96%) CSS3
14 8 (3.96%) Node.js
14 8 (3.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.89%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (10.40%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.43%) PKI
4 12 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.95%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.96%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.96%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.47%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.47%) Taxonomies
8 6 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.99%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.89%) Windows
2 11 (5.45%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.95%) Linux
4 4 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.15%) Agile
2 69 (34.16%) Identity Access Management
3 68 (33.66%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (25.25%) RBAC
5 48 (23.76%) Identity Management
6 43 (21.29%) DevOps
7 39 (19.31%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 38 (18.81%) Migration
9 26 (12.87%) CI/CD
9 26 (12.87%) Scrum
10 25 (12.38%) Zero Trust
11 22 (10.89%) Privileged Access Management
11 22 (10.89%) Roadmaps
12 20 (9.90%) Cloud Security
13 19 (9.41%) Containerisation
13 19 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (9.41%) Mentoring
13 19 (9.41%) Microservices
14 18 (8.91%) API Integration
15 17 (8.42%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.79%) PowerShell
2 37 (18.32%) Java
3 31 (15.35%) JavaScript
3 31 (15.35%) Python
4 13 (6.44%) SQL
5 8 (3.96%) C#
6 7 (3.47%) Bicep
7 5 (2.48%) Ruby
8 4 (1.98%) Bash
9 3 (1.49%) C
9 3 (1.49%) Groovy
9 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.50%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 51 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 44 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.93%) Azure Certification
4 13 (6.44%) Degree
5 9 (4.46%) CISSP
6 8 (3.96%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.98%) CISM
8 4 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.99%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (9.41%) GDPR
3 15 (7.43%) NIST
3 15 (7.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (6.93%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.48%) QA
6 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.99%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.99%) SLA
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.50%) NCSC
8 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 93 (46.04%) Active Directory
2 24 (11.88%) Docker
3 4 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.49%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.49%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.49%) RACF
4 3 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.50%) NFS
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (13.86%) Terraform
2 23 (11.39%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (5.45%) Ansible
5 4 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.49%) Kibana
6 3 (1.49%) Packer
6 3 (1.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
7 1 (0.50%) Grafana
7 1 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.50%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.50%) SCCM
7 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 54 (26.73%) Microsoft
2 33 (16.34%) Okta
3 27 (13.37%) Ping Identity
4 22 (10.89%) ServiceNow
5 21 (10.40%) CyberArk
6 18 (8.91%) ForgeRock
7 17 (8.42%) Google
8 9 (4.46%) Oracle
8 9 (4.46%) SAP
9 6 (2.97%) Qualtrics
10 5 (2.48%) Autodesk
10 5 (2.48%) IBM
10 5 (2.48%) VMware
10 5 (2.48%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.98%) Citrix
11 4 (1.98%) OpenText
11 4 (1.98%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.98%) Splunk
12 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.49%) MuleSoft