Single Sign-On Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 252 306
Rank change year-on-year +36 +54 +98
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 88 93 175
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 0.61% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.74% 5.65% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 68 130
10th Percentile £409 £439 £400
25th Percentile £472 £486 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £638
90th Percentile £791 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £568 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +8.19% -4.55% -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Single Sign-On
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Single Sign-On trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Single Sign-On.

Single Sign-On daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Single Sign-On daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Single Sign-On.

Single Sign-On hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.14%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 42 (47.73%) Azure
2 35 (39.77%) Entra ID
3 17 (19.32%) AWS
4 14 (15.91%) SaaS
5 13 (14.77%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.82%) GCP
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.41%) AWS KMS
9 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.41%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (3.41%) IaaS
9 3 (3.41%) PaaS
9 3 (3.41%) Route 53
9 3 (3.41%) Serverless
9 3 (3.41%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.27%) Apigee
11 1 (1.14%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.14%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.55%) Firewall
2 4 (4.55%) Kerberos
2 4 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (4.55%) SSL
3 3 (3.41%) IPsec
3 3 (3.41%) POP3
3 3 (3.41%) SMTP
4 2 (2.27%) HTTP
4 2 (2.27%) Network Security
4 2 (2.27%) VPN
5 1 (1.14%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.14%) NGFW
5 1 (1.14%) VSAN
5 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) MySQL
1 4 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database
1 4 (4.55%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.41%) Metadata
2 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) JIRA
2 6 (6.82%) GitLab
3 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.41%) Maven
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.14%) MSI
4 1 (1.14%) Postman
4 1 (1.14%) ScriptRunner
General
1 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.27%) Billing
5 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.14%) Automotive
6 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Retail
6 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (29.55%) Architect
2 13 (14.77%) Lead
3 10 (11.36%) Security Architect
4 9 (10.23%) Senior
5 8 (9.09%) Developer
6 5 (5.68%) Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) IT Security Officer
6 5 (5.68%) Network Architect
6 5 (5.68%) Security Officer
6 5 (5.68%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) IAM Specialist
7 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Lead Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (36.36%) OAuth
2 30 (34.09%) SAML
3 22 (25.00%) OpenID
4 21 (23.86%) LDAP
5 14 (15.91%) OAuth2
6 10 (11.36%) REST
7 9 (10.23%) SailPoint
7 9 (10.23%) Web Services
8 8 (9.09%) SOAP
9 7 (7.95%) Spring
10 6 (6.82%) Spring Boot
11 5 (5.68%) Keycloak
12 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
12 4 (4.55%) CSS
12 4 (4.55%) HTML
12 4 (4.55%) JDBC
12 4 (4.55%) Node.js
12 4 (4.55%) XACML
13 3 (3.41%) CSS3
13 3 (3.41%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.95%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.82%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.82%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.68%) PKI
4 5 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.55%) Taxonomies
6 3 (3.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Life Science
7 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Windows
2 6 (6.82%) Linux
3 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.27%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (36.36%) Agile
3 31 (35.23%) Identity Access Management
4 22 (25.00%) RBAC
5 17 (19.32%) Migration
6 16 (18.18%) DevOps
7 13 (14.77%) Identity Management
7 13 (14.77%) ITIL
8 11 (12.50%) Cloud Security
8 11 (12.50%) SIEM
9 10 (11.36%) API Integration
9 10 (11.36%) CI/CD
10 9 (10.23%) ITSM
10 9 (10.23%) Microservices
10 9 (10.23%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 9 (10.23%) Scrum
11 8 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
11 8 (9.09%) Project Management
12 7 (7.95%) Task Automation
12 7 (7.95%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.18%) Java
1 16 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 10 (11.36%) Python
4 8 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (1.14%) C
5 1 (1.14%) Groovy
5 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.55%) Degree
4 2 (2.27%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.27%) ACSP
4 2 (2.27%) CISM
4 2 (2.27%) CISSP
4 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) GDPR
2 6 (6.82%) NIST
3 5 (5.68%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.27%) SLA
6 1 (1.14%) NCSC
6 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.14%) QA
6 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (44.32%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.23%) Docker
3 3 (3.41%) RACF
4 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.27%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Terraform
2 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.95%) Ansible
4 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.55%) PingFederate
6 3 (3.41%) Packer
7 2 (2.27%) Kibana
8 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.14%) Grafana
8 1 (1.14%) Istio
8 1 (1.14%) Perfmon
8 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.05%) ServiceNow
3 14 (15.91%) CyberArk
3 14 (15.91%) Okta
4 12 (13.64%) Ping Identity
5 7 (7.95%) Oracle
6 5 (5.68%) Google
6 5 (5.68%) Splunk
7 4 (4.55%) ForgeRock
8 3 (3.41%) VMware
9 2 (2.27%) Apple
9 2 (2.27%) Cisco
9 2 (2.27%) OneLogin
9 2 (2.27%) Varonis
9 2 (2.27%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.14%) Centrify
10 1 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.14%) Netskope
10 1 (1.14%) Rapid7
10 1 (1.14%) Thycotic