Single Sign-On Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 447 599
Rank change year-on-year -45 +152 -9
Permanent jobs citing Single Sign-On 88 79 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.51% 2.51% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 51 46 108
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £78,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -36.31% +25.03% +14.15%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Single Sign-On falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,509 3,150 6,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.80% 10.87% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,869 1,629 4,345
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.17%
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £84,985
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Single Sign-On relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Single Sign-On.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Single Sign-On within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -10 30 £67,966 +2.98% 10
North West +20 26 £72,966 +10.55% 9
Midlands -7 24 £33,500 -37.67% 11
Scotland -2 15 - - 4
West Midlands -27 15 £59,527 +8.23% 7
South West -43 12 £45,000 -11.33% 6
East Midlands -22 9 £33,500 -36.19% 4
South East -39 6 £55,000 -35.29% 19
Yorkshire -53 3 £48,445 -
Wales -27 1 £73,925 +40.81% 1
North East - 1 £48,445 - 1
Single Sign-On
UK

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (21.59%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.27%) Apache
4 2 (2.27%) Confluence
4 2 (2.27%) JBoss
4 2 (2.27%) nginx
5 1 (1.14%) CMS
5 1 (1.14%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (13.64%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (4.55%) Exchequer
2 4 (4.55%) Primavera
3 1 (1.14%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.14%) SAP GRC
3 1 (1.14%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (73.86%) Azure
2 45 (51.14%) Entra ID
3 24 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (20.45%) AWS
5 17 (19.32%) OCI
5 17 (19.32%) SaaS
6 14 (15.91%) GitHub
6 14 (15.91%) Power Platform
7 13 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (11.36%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (10.23%) OneDrive
10 8 (9.09%) IaaS
10 8 (9.09%) PaaS
11 7 (7.95%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (6.82%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (3.41%) Google Workspace
13 3 (3.41%) Slack
14 2 (2.27%) Datadog
14 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (2.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.59%) VPN
2 10 (11.36%) SSL
3 8 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (5.68%) Firewall
5 4 (4.55%) DNS
5 4 (4.55%) LTE
6 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.27%) Internet
7 2 (2.27%) LAN
7 2 (2.27%) VSAN
8 1 (1.14%) DHCP
8 1 (1.14%) DKIM
8 1 (1.14%) DMARC
8 1 (1.14%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.82%) Power BI
2 6 (6.82%) Tableau
3 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.14%) MySQL
3 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (13.64%) Jenkins
1 12 (13.64%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (11.36%) JIRA
3 9 (10.23%) Git
4 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.27%) Subversion
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.14%) Finance
3 14 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Legal
7 5 (5.68%) Billing
8 4 (4.55%) Law
9 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (18.18%) Senior
2 15 (17.05%) Architect
3 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (13.64%) Applications Engineer
6 11 (12.50%) IT Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Security Architect
8 9 (10.23%) Analyst
9 7 (7.95%) Applications Support
9 7 (7.95%) Applications Support Analyst
9 7 (7.95%) Support Analyst
10 6 (6.82%) Developer
10 6 (6.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.68%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (5.68%) IT Support
12 4 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 4 (4.55%) Support Engineer
12 4 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) SAML
2 15 (17.05%) OAuth
3 13 (14.77%) OAuth2
3 13 (14.77%) RESTful
4 11 (12.50%) OpenID
5 6 (6.82%) JSON
5 6 (6.82%) SOAP
5 6 (6.82%) XML
6 4 (4.55%) LDAP
7 3 (3.41%) JDBC
7 3 (3.41%) REST
7 3 (3.41%) Web Services
8 2 (2.27%) CSS
8 2 (2.27%) CSS3
8 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.27%) HTML
8 2 (2.27%) HTML5
8 2 (2.27%) Keycloak
8 2 (2.27%) Node.js
8 2 (2.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.95%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 9 (10.23%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.82%) PKI
5 5 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (5.68%) iPad
5 5 (5.68%) iPhone
5 5 (5.68%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (5.68%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.68%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.27%) Clustering
7 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.14%) CMDB
8 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.41%) Windows
2 17 (19.32%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.95%) Apple iOS
4 5 (5.68%) Linux
5 4 (4.55%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.27%) Android
7 2 (2.27%) CentOS
8 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.82%) RBAC
2 25 (28.41%) Identity Access Management
3 24 (27.27%) Agile
4 21 (23.86%) Coaching
4 21 (23.86%) DevOps
5 19 (21.59%) Data Loss Prevention
6 17 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (18.18%) API Integration
7 16 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 15 (17.05%) AI
8 15 (17.05%) Incident Response
8 15 (17.05%) Migration
8 15 (17.05%) Observability
9 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
9 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (15.91%) Microservices
10 13 (14.77%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (14.77%) Identity Management
10 13 (14.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 16 (18.18%) Python
2 16 (18.18%) SQL
3 12 (13.64%) Java
3 12 (13.64%) PL/SQL
3 12 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 6 (6.82%) Bash
5 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.27%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.14%) Bicep
7 1 (1.14%) PHP
7 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) CISSP
2 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.14%) CBAP
4 1 (1.14%) Degree
4 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.14%) PMP
4 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) NIST
2 8 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.27%) GDPR
6 1 (1.14%) GRC
6 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.27%) vSphere
4 1 (1.14%) Docker
4 1 (1.14%) IAG
4 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (26.14%) Terraform
2 13 (14.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (10.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (4.55%) CASB
6 3 (3.41%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.27%) Ansible
7 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.27%) Nagios
7 2 (2.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 54 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.05%) Okta
3 12 (13.64%) Oracle
4 9 (10.23%) New Relic
4 9 (10.23%) Splunk
5 8 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 6 (6.82%) Apple
6 6 (6.82%) VMware
7 5 (5.68%) CyberArk
8 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.55%) Sage
8 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
9 3 (3.41%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.41%) Google
9 3 (3.41%) Netskope
10 2 (2.27%) EMC
10 2 (2.27%) Logitech
10 2 (2.27%) Yealink
11 1 (1.14%) Dell
11 1 (1.14%) SAP