Single Sign-On Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Single Sign-On skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 356 422
Rank change year-on-year +80 +66 -72
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 120 93 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.40% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.16% 2.68% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 63 53
10th Percentile £350 £355 £336
25th Percentile £403 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% +4.76% +6.92%
75th Percentile £622 £623 £613
90th Percentile £645 £698 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £89.20 - -
25th Percentile £91.00 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £98.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £103.00 - £16.50
90th Percentile £103.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.25 - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -35.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,325 3,468 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.46% 15.07% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 2,529 2,955
10th Percentile £213 £286 £248
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 129 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -11.62%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £70.93 £75.10 £51.25
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

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

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK excluding London

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +58 37 £620 +3.33% 3
North of England +36 26 £497 -13.52% 9
South West +17 23 £439 -20.14% 3
West Midlands +41 21 £600 - 1
North West +28 19 £560 +4.19% 7
South East +12 17 £450 -19.28% 6
East Midlands - 16 £620 - 2
Wales +9 9 £450 -4.26%
Yorkshire +17 7 £388 -32.61% 2
Scotland +26 5 £750 +61.29% 2
East of England +9 4 £550 -4.35% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Single Sign-On
UK

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 15 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.00%) Confluence
4 5 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (3.33%) IIS
6 2 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.83%) iTrent
3 1 (0.83%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 58 (48.33%) Azure
2 45 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 21 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 13 (10.83%) AWS
6 11 (9.17%) PaaS
7 10 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (7.50%) GCP
8 9 (7.50%) OneDrive
9 8 (6.67%) PowerApps
10 7 (5.83%) SaaS
11 6 (5.00%) Apigee
11 6 (5.00%) Kong
11 6 (5.00%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.33%) Azure API Management
13 4 (3.33%) IaaS
14 3 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
15 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) Firewall
2 6 (5.00%) Unified Communications
3 4 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.33%) Wireshark
4 3 (2.50%) DNS
4 3 (2.50%) Network Security
4 3 (2.50%) VPN
5 2 (1.67%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.83%) DHCP
6 1 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.83%) LAN
6 1 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.83%) Skype
6 1 (0.83%) SSL
6 1 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) Power BI
2 10 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.00%) OLAP
4 6 (5.00%) OLTP
5 5 (4.17%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.83%) MySQL
6 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) JIRA
2 4 (3.33%) Fiddler
2 4 (3.33%) Maven
3 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.50%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.83%) MSI
5 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (15.83%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.00%) Finance
4 7 (5.83%) Banking
5 4 (3.33%) Local Government
6 3 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (25.83%) Architect
2 18 (15.00%) Developer
3 12 (10.00%) ForgeRock Architect
4 11 (9.17%) Administrator
5 10 (8.33%) SharePoint Administrator
6 9 (7.50%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Senior
9 6 (5.00%) AWS Architect
9 6 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Consultant
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Administrator
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) IAM Consultant
11 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (36.67%) SAML
2 25 (20.83%) OAuth
3 22 (18.33%) LDAP
4 20 (16.67%) OpenID
5 14 (11.67%) Spring
5 14 (11.67%) Spring Boot
6 12 (10.00%) Web Services
7 10 (8.33%) .NET
7 10 (8.33%) REST
8 8 (6.67%) GWT
8 8 (6.67%) JAX-RS
8 8 (6.67%) Restlet
9 7 (5.83%) HTML
9 7 (5.83%) Keycloak
10 6 (5.00%) CSS
10 6 (5.00%) IBM Integration Bus
10 6 (5.00%) J2EE
10 6 (5.00%) Kafka
10 6 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) NHS
2 9 (7.50%) PKI
2 9 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.00%) DataPower
3 6 (5.00%) Digital Signage
3 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.33%) Insider Threat
4 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.50%) CMDB
5 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.83%) Clustering
7 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.83%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Windows
2 8 (6.67%) VMS
2 8 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 8 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 7 (5.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.67%) Android
4 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.83%) Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.50%) Identity Access Management
2 30 (25.00%) Migration
3 24 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 23 (19.17%) DevOps
5 16 (13.33%) Agile
5 16 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 13 (10.83%) Cloud Security
8 12 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (9.17%) ITIL
9 11 (9.17%) Key Management
9 11 (9.17%) Risk Management
9 11 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (8.33%) API Management
10 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (7.50%) Microservices
12 8 (6.67%) Containerisation
12 8 (6.67%) Customer Service
12 8 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (5.83%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 18 (15.00%) Java
3 13 (10.83%) SQL
4 10 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.33%) Python
5 6 (5.00%) C#
6 4 (3.33%) Bash
6 4 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.50%) PHP
7 3 (2.50%) Ruby
8 2 (1.67%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.67%) SOQL
9 1 (0.83%) ABAP
9 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.67%) Degree
2 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CAPM
6 1 (0.83%) CISM
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.50%) QA
2 2 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.67%) GRC
3 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) HL7
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
3 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.83%) SLA
3 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (32.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.00%) Docker
3 11 (9.17%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.33%) SCOM
3 2 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.67%) CA Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.67%) Terraform
4 1 (0.83%) Ansible
4 1 (0.83%) NetIQ Identity Manager
4 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
4 1 (0.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.67%) CA
3 13 (10.83%) ForgeRock
4 12 (10.00%) Oracle
5 11 (9.17%) Salesforce
6 10 (8.33%) Google
6 10 (8.33%) Okta
7 8 (6.67%) VMware
8 7 (5.83%) IBM
9 6 (5.00%) TSYS
10 5 (4.17%) ServiceNow
10 5 (4.17%) Zscaler
11 4 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (3.33%) F5
11 4 (3.33%) SAP
12 2 (1.67%) Adobe
12 2 (1.67%) Ariba
12 2 (1.67%) CyberArk
13 1 (0.83%) BeyondTrust
13 1 (0.83%) Concur