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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 254 306
Rank change year-on-year +43 +52 +89
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 90 94 173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.91% 0.62% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.88% 5.74% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 69 129
10th Percentile £409 £413 £400
25th Percentile £472 £475 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £600
90th Percentile £791 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £568 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +10.83% -6.82% -

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 1,531 1,638 4,219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.47% 10.81% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,215 3,118
10th Percentile £388 £350 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -5.83% -0.89%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £675
90th Percentile £783 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 78
10th Percentile £17.41 £21.49 £25.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £37.71 £52.81
Median hourly rate £54.50 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% -28.03% +76.00%
75th Percentile £64.38 £56.88 £76.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £65.75 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -2.75% -52.61% +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 6 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 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.78%) Azure
2 37 (41.11%) Entra ID
3 20 (22.22%) AWS
4 16 (17.78%) SaaS
5 13 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.67%) GCP
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.44%) AWS KMS
8 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.33%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (3.33%) IaaS
9 3 (3.33%) PaaS
9 3 (3.33%) Route 53
9 3 (3.33%) Serverless
9 3 (3.33%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 4 (4.44%) Kerberos
2 4 (4.44%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (4.44%) SSL
3 3 (3.33%) IPsec
3 3 (3.33%) POP3
3 3 (3.33%) SMTP
4 2 (2.22%) HTTP
4 2 (2.22%) Network Security
4 2 (2.22%) VPN
5 1 (1.11%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.11%) NGFW
5 1 (1.11%) VSAN
5 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) MySQL
1 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
1 4 (4.44%) Oracle Database
1 4 (4.44%) Power BI
2 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.33%) Metadata
2 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) GitLab
1 7 (7.78%) JIRA
2 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.33%) Maven
2 3 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.11%) MSI
3 1 (1.11%) Postman
3 1 (1.11%) ScriptRunner
General
1 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Finance
4 4 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.22%) Billing
6 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Automotive
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.11%) Retail
7 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (30.00%) Architect
2 13 (14.44%) Lead
3 11 (12.22%) Security Architect
4 9 (10.00%) Developer
4 9 (10.00%) Senior
5 5 (5.56%) Analyst
5 5 (5.56%) IT Security Officer
5 5 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 5 (5.56%) Security Officer
6 4 (4.44%) AWS Specialist
6 4 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) IAM Specialist
6 4 (4.44%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.44%) Lead Architect
6 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (37.78%) OAuth
2 29 (32.22%) SAML
3 22 (24.44%) OpenID
4 21 (23.33%) LDAP
5 14 (15.56%) OAuth2
6 10 (11.11%) REST
7 9 (10.00%) SailPoint
7 9 (10.00%) Web Services
8 8 (8.89%) SOAP
9 7 (7.78%) Spring
10 6 (6.67%) Spring Boot
11 5 (5.56%) Keycloak
11 5 (5.56%) Node.js
12 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
12 4 (4.44%) CSS
12 4 (4.44%) HTML
12 4 (4.44%) JDBC
12 4 (4.44%) XACML
13 3 (3.33%) Bootstrap
13 3 (3.33%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.67%) PKI
3 6 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.44%) Taxonomies
6 3 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.22%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Life Science
8 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.67%) Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.22%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (35.56%) Agile
3 31 (34.44%) Identity Access Management
4 22 (24.44%) RBAC
5 17 (18.89%) DevOps
5 17 (18.89%) Migration
6 13 (14.44%) Identity Management
6 13 (14.44%) ITIL
7 12 (13.33%) Cloud Security
8 11 (12.22%) SIEM
9 10 (11.11%) API Integration
9 10 (11.11%) Microservices
10 9 (10.00%) CI/CD
10 9 (10.00%) ITSM
10 9 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 9 (10.00%) Scrum
11 8 (8.89%) Privileged Access Management
11 8 (8.89%) Project Management
12 7 (7.78%) Security Architecture
12 7 (7.78%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) Java
2 16 (17.78%) PowerShell
3 12 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.11%) Python
5 8 (8.89%) SQL
6 3 (3.33%) C
7 1 (1.11%) Groovy
7 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.22%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.22%) ACSP
5 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.22%) CISM
5 2 (2.22%) CISSP
5 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.89%) GDPR
2 6 (6.67%) NIST
3 5 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.22%) SLA
6 1 (1.11%) NCSC
6 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.11%) QA
6 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (45.56%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.11%) Docker
3 3 (3.33%) RACF
4 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (11.11%) Terraform
2 7 (7.78%) Ansible
2 7 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.44%) PingFederate
5 3 (3.33%) Packer
6 2 (2.22%) Kibana
7 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.11%) Grafana
7 1 (1.11%) Perfmon
7 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 14 (15.56%) CyberArk
4 13 (14.44%) Okta
5 12 (13.33%) Ping Identity
6 7 (7.78%) Oracle
7 5 (5.56%) Google
7 5 (5.56%) Splunk
8 4 (4.44%) ForgeRock
9 3 (3.33%) VMware
10 2 (2.22%) Apple
10 2 (2.22%) Cisco
10 2 (2.22%) OneLogin
10 2 (2.22%) Varonis
10 2 (2.22%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.11%) Centrify
11 1 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.11%) Netskope
11 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.11%) Thycotic