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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 631 665 781
Rank change year-on-year +34 +116 -105
Permanent jobs citing Single Sign-On 276 322 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.79% 2.17% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 206 177 286
10th Percentile £41,875 £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 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.15% - +4.76%

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 9,909 14,819 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.62% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,136 9,161 14,046
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +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 9 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 9 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 +62 256 £65,000 +8.33% 47
UK excluding London +24 151 £62,783 +14.15% 24
Work from Home +104 123 £62,783 -3.41% 14
London +63 120 £72,500 -7.72% 20
North of England +66 54 £62,783 +14.15% 8
South East +1 43 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North West +14 29 £62,783 +14.15% 6
Midlands -23 18 £57,500 +27.78% 1
West Midlands +3 15 £57,500 +49.35%
North East - 15 £42,500 -
South West -18 11 £41,250 -8.33% 3
Yorkshire +87 10 £79,842 - 2
East of England +27 10 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Scotland -61 8 £85,000 +11.48% 2
Wales - 8 £55,000 -
East Midlands -20 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 38 (13.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (9.78%) WebLogic
3 15 (5.43%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.90%) Skype for Business
5 7 (2.54%) Apache
5 7 (2.54%) JBoss
6 4 (1.45%) Confluence
6 4 (1.45%) IIS
6 4 (1.45%) nginx
7 3 (1.09%) GlassFish
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
1 166 (60.14%) Azure
2 100 (36.23%) Entra ID
3 86 (31.16%) 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%) Nutanix
9 6 (2.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 72 (26.09%) Firewall
2 52 (18.84%) 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 13 (4.71%) SSL
10 12 (4.35%) Network Security
10 12 (4.35%) TCP/IP
11 11 (3.99%) Broadband
11 11 (3.99%) LAN
11 11 (3.99%) Reverse Proxy
12 10 (3.62%) VoIP
13 8 (2.90%) BGP
13 8 (2.90%) Internet
13 8 (2.90%) MPLS
13 8 (2.90%) OSPF
13 8 (2.90%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.51%) 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 18 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.62%) Bitbucket
3 10 (3.62%) GitLab
4 8 (2.90%) Git
5 4 (1.45%) Ant
5 4 (1.45%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.09%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.72%) Maven
8 1 (0.36%) MSI
8 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 88 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.75%) 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 16 (5.80%) 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 4 (1.45%) 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 56 (20.29%) Analyst
3 46 (16.67%) Architect
4 45 (16.30%) Lead
5 35 (12.68%) Security Architect
6 32 (11.59%) Support Analyst
7 29 (10.51%) Senior Analyst
8 28 (10.14%) Senior Support Analyst
9 27 (9.78%) Applications Support
9 27 (9.78%) Applications Support Analyst
9 27 (9.78%) Lead Architect
9 27 (9.78%) Lead Security Architect
9 27 (9.78%) Senior Applications Support
9 27 (9.78%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
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%) LDAP
2 32 (11.59%) J2EE
2 32 (11.59%) OAuth
3 28 (10.14%) Java EE
3 28 (10.14%) SAML
4 27 (9.78%) Spring
5 24 (8.70%) CSS
6 22 (7.97%) HTML
7 19 (6.88%) AngularJS
7 19 (6.88%) Web Services
8 18 (6.52%) JSON
9 16 (5.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 16 (5.80%) XML
10 15 (5.43%) REST
11 12 (4.35%) 802.1X
11 12 (4.35%) OpenID
12 10 (3.62%) OAuth2
12 10 (3.62%) Visualforce
13 9 (3.26%) SOAP
14 8 (2.90%) Keycloak
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%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (7.97%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.61%) Clustering
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%) Mobile App
12 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
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 34 (12.32%) Unix
4 23 (8.33%) Linux
5 16 (5.80%) Mac OS
5 16 (5.80%) Windows 10
6 11 (3.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.54%) Android
7 7 (2.54%) Apple iOS
7 7 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.09%) AIX
9 3 (1.09%) Solaris
10 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.36%) HPUX
11 1 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.43%) Identity Management
2 82 (29.71%) Information Security
3 69 (25.00%) ITIL
4 56 (20.29%) Identity Access Management
5 53 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (16.67%) Application Security
7 43 (15.58%) CI/CD
7 43 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
8 39 (14.13%) Security Architecture
9 36 (13.04%) DevOps
10 35 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 35 (12.68%) Service Management
11 33 (11.96%) Enterprise Architecture
11 33 (11.96%) OWASP
11 33 (11.96%) Secure Coding
12 32 (11.59%) Incident Management
13 31 (11.23%) Containerisation
14 27 (9.78%) Actionable Insight
14 27 (9.78%) Enterprise Search
14 27 (9.78%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.22%) PowerShell
2 40 (14.49%) Java
3 29 (10.51%) JavaScript
4 27 (9.78%) Shell Script
5 26 (9.42%) Bash
6 22 (7.97%) SQL
7 20 (7.25%) 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 50 (18.12%) 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
5 39 (14.13%) SC Cleared
6 38 (13.77%) Azure Certification
6 38 (13.77%) CCSK
7 36 (13.04%) CISM
8 34 (12.32%) AWS Certification
9 20 (7.25%) Degree
10 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.09%) CEH
12 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.72%) CCNA
13 2 (0.72%) CISA
13 2 (0.72%) MCSE
14 1 (0.36%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (18.12%) NIST
2 41 (14.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 29 (10.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (10.51%) SLA
4 11 (3.99%) SOC 2
5 6 (2.17%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.45%) GDPR
7 3 (1.09%) PMO
8 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.72%) GRC
8 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 132 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 58 (21.01%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.45%) vSphere
8 3 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.72%) Firmware
9 2 (0.72%) XenApp
9 2 (0.72%) XenDesktop
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
Systems Management
1 56 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (9.78%) OpenSSO
3 27 (9.78%) vCenter Server
4 21 (7.61%) Terraform
5 20 (7.25%) Microsoft Clustering
6 16 (5.80%) Ansible
7 13 (4.71%) Puppet
8 12 (4.35%) CA Single Sign-On
9 10 (3.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (3.62%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.54%) SCCM
11 6 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (2.17%) Prometheus
12 5 (1.81%) SCOM
13 4 (1.45%) Nagios
13 4 (1.45%) PowerCLI
13 4 (1.45%) vRealize
13 4 (1.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (1.09%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 97 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 56 (20.29%) ServiceNow
2 56 (20.29%) VMware
3 43 (15.58%) Remedy
4 41 (14.86%) Oracle
5 24 (8.70%) Commvault
6 23 (8.33%) HP
7 20 (7.25%) Sun
8 19 (6.88%) CA
8 19 (6.88%) Cisco
9 17 (6.16%) Red Hat
10 16 (5.80%) Apple
10 16 (5.80%) BMC
11 14 (5.07%) Salesforce
12 13 (4.71%) CyberArk
12 13 (4.71%) Google
13 11 (3.99%) Fortinet
14 9 (3.26%) Citrix
14 9 (3.26%) ForgeRock
14 9 (3.26%) SolarWinds