Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Single Sign-On skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 643 689 770
Rank change year-on-year +46 +81 -106
Permanent jobs citing Single Sign-On 276 325 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.77% 2.15% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 204 176 290
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £84,919 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,290 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.15% - +2.33%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Single Sign-On is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,955 15,150 28,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.11% 14.63% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,174 9,323 14,201
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
England +51 254 £63,891 +6.49% 49
UK excluding London +14 153 £62,783 +14.15% 26
Work from Home +109 123 £62,783 -3.41% 35
London +71 118 £73,750 -4.84% 19
North of England +48 54 £62,783 +14.15% 9
South East +15 43 £60,000 +14.29% 4
North West +12 29 £62,783 +14.15% 7
Midlands +6 19 £55,000 +31.74% 1
West Midlands +9 16 £55,000 +42.86%
North East - 15 £42,500 -
South West -16 11 £41,250 -8.33% 3
Yorkshire +87 10 £79,842 - 2
Wales +22 10 £55,000 -35.29%
East of England +28 9 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Scotland -60 8 £85,000 +11.48% 2
East Midlands -16 3 - - 1

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 37 (13.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (10.51%) WebLogic
3 15 (5.43%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.90%) Skype for Business
5 6 (2.17%) Apache
5 6 (2.17%) JBoss
6 4 (1.45%) Confluence
6 4 (1.45%) IIS
7 3 (1.09%) GlassFish
7 3 (1.09%) nginx
7 3 (1.09%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.72%) CMS
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.36%) SAS
9 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.45%) Trello
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (5.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.72%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 165 (59.78%) Azure
2 101 (36.59%) Entra ID
3 84 (30.43%) AWS
4 77 (27.90%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.07%) IaaS
5 14 (5.07%) PaaS
5 14 (5.07%) SaaS
6 12 (4.35%) AWS KMS
6 12 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (3.99%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (2.54%) Azure Storage
8 7 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.17%) Akamai
9 6 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.17%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.17%) GCP
9 6 (2.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 72 (26.09%) Firewall
2 51 (18.48%) DNS
3 47 (17.03%) WAN
4 44 (15.94%) SD-WAN
5 22 (7.97%) VPN
6 21 (7.61%) Wireless
7 20 (7.25%) NAS
8 14 (5.07%) DHCP
9 12 (4.35%) Network Security
9 12 (4.35%) SSL
9 12 (4.35%) TCP/IP
10 11 (3.99%) Broadband
10 11 (3.99%) LAN
10 11 (3.99%) Reverse Proxy
11 10 (3.62%) VoIP
12 8 (2.90%) BGP
12 8 (2.90%) Internet
12 8 (2.90%) MPLS
12 8 (2.90%) OSPF
12 8 (2.90%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.23%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.81%) Power BI
4 5 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.72%) CouchDB
7 2 (0.72%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.72%) MySQL
7 2 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (9.78%) JIRA
2 17 (6.16%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.62%) GitLab
4 9 (3.26%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.54%) Git
6 4 (1.45%) Ant
6 4 (1.45%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.72%) Maven
8 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.36%) MSI
9 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 89 (32.25%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.06%) Police
4 20 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.16%) Law
7 15 (5.43%) Finance
8 13 (4.71%) Games
9 12 (4.35%) Banking
9 12 (4.35%) Legal
10 7 (2.54%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.81%) Marketing
12 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.72%) German Language
13 2 (0.72%) Retail
14 1 (0.36%) Automotive
14 1 (0.36%) Publishing
14 1 (0.36%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 74 (26.81%) Senior
2 57 (20.65%) Analyst
3 45 (16.30%) Architect
3 45 (16.30%) Lead
4 35 (12.68%) Security Architect
5 34 (12.32%) Support Analyst
6 31 (11.23%) Senior Analyst
7 30 (10.87%) Senior Support Analyst
8 29 (10.51%) Applications Support
8 29 (10.51%) Applications Support Analyst
8 29 (10.51%) Senior Applications Support
8 29 (10.51%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 27 (9.78%) Lead Architect
9 27 (9.78%) Lead Security Architect
10 26 (9.42%) Developer
11 21 (7.61%) Security Engineer
12 18 (6.52%) Administrator
13 17 (6.16%) Consultant
13 17 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (6.16%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.32%) J2EE
1 34 (12.32%) LDAP
2 31 (11.23%) OAuth
3 30 (10.87%) Java EE
4 29 (10.51%) Spring
5 28 (10.14%) SAML
6 23 (8.33%) CSS
7 21 (7.61%) HTML
8 19 (6.88%) AngularJS
8 19 (6.88%) Web Services
9 18 (6.52%) JSON
10 16 (5.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 16 (5.80%) XML
11 15 (5.43%) REST
12 12 (4.35%) 802.1X
13 11 (3.99%) OpenID
14 10 (3.62%) Visualforce
15 9 (3.26%) OAuth2
15 9 (3.26%) SOAP
16 7 (2.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.93%) Management Information System
2 34 (12.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 34 (12.32%) PKI
3 22 (7.97%) Clustering
3 22 (7.97%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (7.61%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.61%) Video Conferencing
5 20 (7.25%) Onboarding
6 17 (6.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (5.80%) CMDB
8 11 (3.99%) Cloud Native
8 11 (3.99%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.62%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.90%) Client/Server
11 7 (2.54%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
13 5 (1.81%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
15 3 (1.09%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 102 (36.96%) Windows
2 66 (23.91%) Windows Server
3 36 (13.04%) Unix
4 22 (7.97%) Linux
5 16 (5.80%) Mac OS
6 15 (5.43%) Windows 10
7 10 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.54%) Android
9 7 (2.54%) Apple iOS
9 7 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.09%) AIX
10 3 (1.09%) Solaris
10 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.36%) HPUX
11 1 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.43%) Identity Management
2 82 (29.71%) Information Security
3 71 (25.72%) ITIL
4 55 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (19.20%) Identity Access Management
6 46 (16.67%) Application Security
7 43 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (15.22%) CI/CD
9 39 (14.13%) Security Architecture
10 37 (13.41%) Service Management
11 35 (12.68%) DevOps
11 35 (12.68%) Enterprise Architecture
11 35 (12.68%) Mentoring
12 34 (12.32%) Incident Management
13 33 (11.96%) OWASP
13 33 (11.96%) Secure Coding
14 32 (11.59%) Containerisation
15 29 (10.51%) Actionable Insight
15 29 (10.51%) Enterprise Search
15 29 (10.51%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.22%) Java
2 41 (14.86%) PowerShell
3 29 (10.51%) Shell Script
4 28 (10.14%) JavaScript
5 25 (9.06%) Bash
6 22 (7.97%) SQL
7 19 (6.88%) Python
8 10 (3.62%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.17%) Perl
10 5 (1.81%) C#
11 4 (1.45%) Go
11 4 (1.45%) Lua
11 4 (1.45%) Ruby
11 4 (1.45%) Rust
12 2 (0.72%) Dart
12 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.72%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.72%) PHP
12 2 (0.72%) Swift
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.30%) CISSP
3 44 (15.94%) Cisco Certification
4 41 (14.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 41 (14.86%) CCSP
4 41 (14.86%) SC Cleared
5 38 (13.77%) Azure Certification
5 38 (13.77%) CCSK
6 36 (13.04%) CISM
7 34 (12.32%) AWS Certification
8 20 (7.25%) Degree
9 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.09%) CEH
11 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.72%) CCNA
12 2 (0.72%) CISA
12 2 (0.72%) MCSE
13 1 (0.36%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (18.12%) NIST
2 41 (14.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (11.23%) SLA
4 29 (10.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.99%) SOC 2
6 6 (2.17%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.45%) GDPR
8 3 (1.09%) PMO
9 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.72%) GRC
9 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 132 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 57 (20.65%) Docker
3 28 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (9.78%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (6.16%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.45%) vSphere
8 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.72%) Firmware
10 1 (0.36%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.36%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.36%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.36%) RACF
10 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.36%) XenApp
10 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (19.93%) Kubernetes
2 47 (17.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (10.51%) OpenSSO
4 27 (9.78%) vCenter Server
5 21 (7.61%) Microsoft Clustering
6 19 (6.88%) Terraform
7 15 (5.43%) Ansible
8 12 (4.35%) CA Single Sign-On
8 12 (4.35%) Puppet
9 9 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (3.26%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (2.17%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.17%) SCCM
11 5 (1.81%) SCOM
12 4 (1.45%) PowerCLI
12 4 (1.45%) vRealize
12 4 (1.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (1.09%) Nagios
13 3 (1.09%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 97 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 56 (20.29%) ServiceNow
3 55 (19.93%) VMware
4 45 (16.30%) Remedy
5 43 (15.58%) Oracle
6 24 (8.70%) Commvault
7 23 (8.33%) HP
8 20 (7.25%) Sun
9 19 (6.88%) CA
9 19 (6.88%) Cisco
10 16 (5.80%) Apple
10 16 (5.80%) BMC
10 16 (5.80%) Red Hat
11 14 (5.07%) Salesforce
12 13 (4.71%) CyberArk
12 13 (4.71%) Google
13 11 (3.99%) Fortinet
14 9 (3.26%) ForgeRock
14 9 (3.26%) SolarWinds
15 8 (2.90%) Ribbon