Single Sign-On Contracts

Single Sign-On (SSO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 424 506
Rank change year-on-year +95 +82 -41
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 258 295 386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.08% 3.23% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 207 250
10th Percentile £350 £383 £400
25th Percentile £418 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £712 £675 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -12.36% +4.76% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £24.59 - £18.65
25th Percentile £25.00 - £23.38
Median hourly rate £28.25 - £32.50
75th Percentile £83.19 - £34.38
90th Percentile £102.00 - £34.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £98.00 - £16.00

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,079 9,138 13,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 16.00% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 6,565 10,050
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 200 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.67 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.08 £62.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -12.74%

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 15 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Single Sign-On over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the UK

Single Sign-On
Top 16 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 15 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
England +124 219 £525 -4.55% 45
UK excluding London +72 120 £482 -12.36% 23
London +93 103 £581 +5.68% 17
Work from Home +57 96 £600 +9.09% 14
Midlands +62 37 £620 +3.33% 2
North of England +30 26 £497 -13.52% 7
South West +25 23 £439 -20.14% 2
West Midlands +33 21 £600 -
North West +27 19 £560 +4.19% 5
South East +18 17 £450 -19.28% 6
East Midlands - 16 £620 - 2
Wales +13 9 £450 -4.26%
Yorkshire +23 7 £388 -32.61% 2
Scotland +38 5 £750 +61.29% 1
East of England +11 4 £550 -4.35% 6
Northern Ireland - 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 25 (9.69%) SharePoint
2 19 (7.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.33%) Confluence
3 6 (2.33%) IIS
4 5 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.78%) GroupWise
7 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (2.33%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.39%) iTrent
3 1 (0.39%) Maximo
3 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 109 (42.25%) Azure
2 82 (31.78%) Entra ID
3 39 (15.12%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (13.95%) AWS
5 32 (12.40%) GCP
6 20 (7.75%) PaaS
7 19 (7.36%) Power Platform
8 17 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (6.59%) SaaS
9 16 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (3.88%) IaaS
10 10 (3.88%) OneDrive
10 10 (3.88%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.33%) Apigee
12 6 (2.33%) Kong
12 6 (2.33%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.59%) Firewall
2 11 (4.26%) DNS
2 11 (4.26%) Kerberos
3 9 (3.49%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.10%) VPN
5 6 (2.33%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.94%) SSH
6 5 (1.94%) SSL
6 5 (1.94%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.55%) DHCP
8 3 (1.16%) LAN
8 3 (1.16%) MPLS
8 3 (1.16%) Network Security
8 3 (1.16%) VoIP
9 2 (0.78%) FTP
9 2 (0.78%) HTTP
9 2 (0.78%) SMTP
9 2 (0.78%) SNMP
9 2 (0.78%) Telnet
9 2 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.36%) Power BI
3 7 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (2.71%) Redis
4 6 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.33%) OLAP
4 6 (2.33%) OLTP
4 6 (2.33%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.94%) Oracle OLAP
6 4 (1.55%) MySQL
6 4 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.04%) JIRA
2 7 (2.71%) Git
3 6 (2.33%) Maven
4 5 (1.94%) Fiddler
4 5 (1.94%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.55%) GitLab
5 4 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.16%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.39%) InstallShield
8 1 (0.39%) MSI
General
1 43 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.40%) Finance
3 31 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.49%) Banking
6 6 (2.33%) Local Government
7 5 (1.94%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.55%) Electronics
8 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.78%) Games
9 2 (0.78%) Legal
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) Automotive
10 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 54 (20.93%) Architect
2 48 (18.60%) Developer
3 29 (11.24%) Senior
4 19 (7.36%) Java Developer
5 16 (6.20%) Administrator
6 14 (5.43%) Consultant
6 14 (5.43%) SharePoint Administrator
7 13 (5.04%) Security Architect
7 13 (5.04%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.65%) ForgeRock Architect
9 11 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.49%) Analyst
11 9 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.49%) Lead
11 9 (3.49%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (3.10%) Applications Engineer
12 8 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.10%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (39.92%) SAML
2 50 (19.38%) OpenID
3 37 (14.34%) OAuth
4 35 (13.57%) REST
5 34 (13.18%) LDAP
6 26 (10.08%) Spring
6 26 (10.08%) Spring Boot
7 21 (8.14%) Restlet
8 20 (7.75%) .NET
8 20 (7.75%) GWT
8 20 (7.75%) JAX-RS
9 19 (7.36%) CSS
10 18 (6.98%) XACML
11 17 (6.59%) AngularJS
12 16 (6.20%) HTML
12 16 (6.20%) Web Services
13 14 (5.43%) SailPoint
14 12 (4.65%) React
15 10 (3.88%) Tailwind CSS
15 10 (3.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.81%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (4.65%) NHS
2 12 (4.65%) PKI
3 11 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.71%) Insider Threat
6 6 (2.33%) DataPower
6 6 (2.33%) Digital Signage
7 5 (1.94%) CMDB
7 5 (1.94%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.55%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.16%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.16%) Clustering
9 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.63%) Windows
2 13 (5.04%) Windows Server 2016
2 13 (5.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.10%) VMS
5 7 (2.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.33%) Linux
7 2 (0.78%) Android
7 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.78%) NetWare
7 2 (0.78%) Unix
7 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.03%) Identity Access Management
2 53 (20.54%) Migration
3 48 (18.60%) DevOps
4 37 (14.34%) Agile
5 36 (13.95%) Identity Management
6 28 (10.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 26 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (8.91%) CI/CD
8 23 (8.91%) ITIL
9 22 (8.53%) Cloud Security
10 21 (8.14%) Scrum
11 20 (7.75%) Security Architecture
12 19 (7.36%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (6.59%) RBAC
13 17 (6.59%) User Experience
14 16 (6.20%) Computer Science
14 16 (6.20%) Microservices
15 15 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (5.43%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 52 (20.16%) PowerShell
2 42 (16.28%) Java
3 35 (13.57%) JavaScript
4 28 (10.85%) Python
4 28 (10.85%) SQL
5 20 (7.75%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.43%) C#
7 7 (2.71%) Bicep
8 4 (1.55%) Bash
8 4 (1.55%) Perl
8 4 (1.55%) Scala
9 3 (1.16%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.16%) PHP
9 3 (1.16%) Ruby
9 3 (1.16%) SOQL
10 1 (0.39%) ABAP
10 1 (0.39%) Groovy
10 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.30%) Degree
4 9 (3.49%) CISSP
5 8 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.78%) CAPM
8 2 (0.78%) CISM
8 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CEH
9 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.39%) PMP
9 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.65%) QA
2 8 (3.10%) WCAG
3 4 (1.55%) SLA
4 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.16%) GRC
4 3 (1.16%) NIST
5 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) HL7
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (32.95%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (4.65%) Docker
4 7 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.94%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.55%) Firmware
8 2 (0.78%) XenApp
9 1 (0.39%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.39%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.39%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (7.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (4.65%) Terraform
3 11 (4.26%) Ansible
4 9 (3.49%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.10%) PingFederate
6 5 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.94%) SCOM
7 4 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.16%) CA Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.39%) CASB
10 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.39%) NetIQ Identity Manager
10 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.39%) Puppet
10 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 80 (31.01%) Microsoft
2 39 (15.12%) Okta
3 35 (13.57%) Google
4 26 (10.08%) Oracle
5 22 (8.53%) ServiceNow
6 18 (6.98%) ForgeRock
6 18 (6.98%) IBM
7 17 (6.59%) CA
8 12 (4.65%) CyberArk
8 12 (4.65%) Salesforce
9 10 (3.88%) VMware
10 6 (2.33%) Ping Identity
10 6 (2.33%) SAP
10 6 (2.33%) TSYS
11 5 (1.94%) F5
11 5 (1.94%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.94%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.55%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.55%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.55%) Roku