Single Sign-On Contracts

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 348 431
Rank change year-on-year +20 +83 +61
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 212 255 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.58% 0.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.50% 4.78% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 176 204
10th Percentile £400 £331 £360
25th Percentile £463 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £716 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £497 £550
% change year-on-year +0.55% -9.59% +9.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £96.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,715 5,338 8,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.73% 12.16% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,151 3,838 6,124
10th Percentile £305 £299 £350
25th Percentile £412 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -6.12% -2.65%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 103 185
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.72 £18.70
25th Percentile £21.39 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +162.68%
75th Percentile £63.40 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.58 £71.25 £84.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.38
% change year-on-year +37.50% -7.78% +116.88%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 June 2025. 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
England +8 169 £550 +5.52% 547
Work from Home +46 89 £550 -8.33% 227
UK excluding London +2 82 £500 +0.55% 270
London +20 73 £568 +0.98% 304
North of England +31 40 £469 -5.68% 57
North West +12 20 £450 -19.64% 33
Midlands -10 19 £500 -19.35% 57
Yorkshire +18 18 £472 +21.81% 21
West Midlands -1 14 £550 -4.35% 29
South East +41 12 £650 +30.00% 81
South West +21 9 £500 +13.84% 21
Scotland +7 6 £525 -30.00% 16
East Midlands -5 5 £402 -35.16% 27
North East - 2 £600 - 3
East of England +24 1 £675 +22.73% 31

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 18 (8.49%) Confluence
2 14 (6.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.25%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.42%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.42%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.94%) Camunda
6 1 (0.47%) JBoss
6 1 (0.47%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (3.30%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 106 (50.00%) Azure
2 84 (39.62%) Entra ID
3 72 (33.96%) AWS
4 34 (16.04%) SaaS
5 30 (14.15%) GCP
6 27 (12.74%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (7.55%) Serverless
8 13 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.19%) IaaS
9 11 (5.19%) PaaS
10 8 (3.77%) Azure AKS
10 8 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (3.30%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.83%) GitHub
12 6 (2.83%) SuccessFactors
13 5 (2.36%) Lucidchart
14 4 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.02%) Firewall
2 15 (7.08%) SSL
3 13 (6.13%) VPN
4 12 (5.66%) Kerberos
5 9 (4.25%) HTTPS
6 6 (2.83%) POP3
6 6 (2.83%) SMTP
7 4 (1.89%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.42%) IPsec
9 2 (0.94%) DNS
9 2 (0.94%) HTTP
9 2 (0.94%) Network Security
10 1 (0.47%) DKIM
10 1 (0.47%) DMARC
10 1 (0.47%) FTP
10 1 (0.47%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.47%) NGFW
10 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.47%) VSAN
10 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.83%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.83%) Power BI
2 6 (2.83%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.36%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.36%) Metadata
4 4 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.89%) MySQL
5 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.42%) SSDT
6 2 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.47%) Big Data
7 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.47%) Redis
7 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (8.96%) JIRA
2 10 (4.72%) GitLab
2 10 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.83%) Git
4 4 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.42%) Log4j
5 3 (1.42%) Maven
6 2 (0.94%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.47%) MSI
7 1 (0.47%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) ScriptRunner
General
1 54 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.55%) Finance
4 11 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.30%) Marketing
6 6 (2.83%) Banking
7 4 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.94%) French Language
8 2 (0.94%) Retail
8 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.47%) Billing
9 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 54 (25.47%) Architect
2 26 (12.26%) Developer
3 16 (7.55%) Lead
4 15 (7.08%) Senior
5 14 (6.60%) AWS Specialist
5 14 (6.60%) IAM Specialist
6 13 (6.13%) Consultant
7 12 (5.66%) Analyst
7 12 (5.66%) Security Architect
8 11 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.25%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.77%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) Administrator
11 7 (3.30%) ForgeRock Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) ServiceNow Developer
11 7 (3.30%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (38.21%) OAuth
2 79 (37.26%) SAML
3 68 (32.08%) OpenID
4 54 (25.47%) LDAP
5 32 (15.09%) REST
6 31 (14.62%) OAuth2
7 27 (12.74%) SOAP
8 26 (12.26%) Web Services
9 19 (8.96%) SailPoint
10 18 (8.49%) AngularJS
10 18 (8.49%) HTML
10 18 (8.49%) JDBC
10 18 (8.49%) JSON
11 16 (7.55%) CSS
12 11 (5.19%) Spring
13 9 (4.25%) .NET
13 9 (4.25%) RESTful
13 9 (4.25%) Spring Boot
14 8 (3.77%) Node.js
14 8 (3.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.32%) Onboarding
2 21 (9.91%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (8.02%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.55%) PKI
5 11 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.72%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.30%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.30%) Taxonomies
8 5 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.94%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.38%) Windows
2 12 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.77%) Linux
4 4 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.42%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Unix
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (35.85%) Agile
2 72 (33.96%) Identity Access Management
3 67 (31.60%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (27.36%) DevOps
5 57 (26.89%) RBAC
6 56 (26.42%) Identity Management
7 40 (18.87%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 38 (17.92%) Migration
9 32 (15.09%) CI/CD
9 32 (15.09%) Scrum
10 27 (12.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (12.26%) Zero Trust
12 24 (11.32%) Microservices
13 23 (10.85%) Roadmaps
14 21 (9.91%) Privileged Access Management
15 20 (9.43%) API Integration
15 20 (9.43%) Cloud Security
16 19 (8.96%) Analytics
16 19 (8.96%) Containerisation
16 19 (8.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (18.40%) Java
2 37 (17.45%) PowerShell
3 36 (16.98%) JavaScript
4 29 (13.68%) Python
5 12 (5.66%) SQL
6 8 (3.77%) C#
7 7 (3.30%) Bicep
8 5 (2.36%) Ruby
9 4 (1.89%) Bash
9 4 (1.89%) Groovy
10 3 (1.42%) C
11 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.47%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (23.11%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.08%) Azure Certification
4 13 (6.13%) Degree
5 8 (3.77%) CISSP
6 7 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.89%) CISM
9 4 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.94%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.47%) CCSP
12 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (8.49%) GDPR
3 17 (8.02%) NIST
4 14 (6.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (6.13%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.36%) QA
7 4 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.89%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.89%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.94%) SLA
10 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.47%) GRC
10 1 (0.47%) NCSC
10 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 97 (45.75%) Active Directory
2 24 (11.32%) Docker
3 5 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.42%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.42%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.42%) RACF
4 3 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.42%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.47%) NFS
5 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (15.57%) Kubernetes
1 33 (15.57%) Terraform
2 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.72%) Ansible
4 4 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.42%) Kibana
5 3 (1.42%) Packer
5 3 (1.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.47%) Grafana
7 1 (0.47%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) linkerd
7 1 (0.47%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.47%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.47%) SCCM
7 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.09%) Okta
3 26 (12.26%) Ping Identity
3 26 (12.26%) ServiceNow
4 20 (9.43%) ForgeRock
5 19 (8.96%) CyberArk
6 17 (8.02%) Google
7 9 (4.25%) SAP
8 8 (3.77%) Oracle
9 7 (3.30%) Alibaba
10 6 (2.83%) IBM
10 6 (2.83%) Qualtrics
10 6 (2.83%) VMware
10 6 (2.83%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.36%) Autodesk
11 5 (2.36%) Ivanti
12 4 (1.89%) BMC
12 4 (1.89%) Citrix
12 4 (1.89%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.89%) Remedy
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