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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 418 488
Rank change year-on-year +83 +70 -17
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 255 285 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.89% 3.23% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 206 272
10th Percentile £350 £389 £396
25th Percentile £418 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £712 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £563 £523
% change year-on-year -14.31% +7.66% +4.50%
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 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +116 218 £525 -5.19% 54
UK excluding London +72 120 £482 -14.31% 32
London +77 102 £593 +9.32% 25
Work from Home +41 93 £600 +7.14% 43
Midlands +53 37 £620 +3.33% 2
North of England +34 25 £497 -13.52% 12
South West +17 24 £439 -26.80% 4
West Midlands +29 21 £600 +4.35% 1
North West +31 18 £560 +5.41% 8
South East +9 17 £450 -21.74% 10
East Midlands +27 16 £620 +3.33% 1
Wales +13 9 £450 -4.26%
Yorkshire +20 7 £388 -38.00% 3
Scotland +28 5 £750 +61.29% 3
East of England +4 4 £550 -4.35% 2
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 (9.80%) SharePoint
2 18 (7.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.35%) Confluence
3 6 (2.35%) IIS
4 5 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (1.57%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.78%) GroupWise
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.35%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (2.35%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) iTrent
3 1 (0.39%) Maximo
3 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 108 (42.35%) Azure
2 83 (32.55%) Entra ID
3 37 (14.51%) AWS
4 34 (13.33%) GCP
5 31 (12.16%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (7.45%) PaaS
6 19 (7.45%) Power Platform
7 18 (7.06%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (6.67%) SaaS
9 15 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (3.92%) IaaS
10 10 (3.92%) OneDrive
10 10 (3.92%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.35%) Apigee
12 6 (2.35%) Kong
12 6 (2.35%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.96%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.06%) Firewall
2 11 (4.31%) Kerberos
3 10 (3.92%) DNS
4 8 (3.14%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.75%) SSH
5 7 (2.75%) VPN
6 6 (2.35%) Unified Communications
7 5 (1.96%) Wireshark
8 4 (1.57%) SSL
9 3 (1.18%) DHCP
9 3 (1.18%) Internet
9 3 (1.18%) MPLS
9 3 (1.18%) Network Security
9 3 (1.18%) SNMP
9 3 (1.18%) VoIP
10 2 (0.78%) FTP
10 2 (0.78%) HTTP
10 2 (0.78%) SMTP
10 2 (0.78%) Telnet
10 2 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.45%) Power BI
3 8 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (2.75%) Redis
5 6 (2.35%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.35%) OLAP
5 6 (2.35%) OLTP
5 6 (2.35%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.96%) MySQL
6 5 (1.96%) Oracle OLAP
6 5 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.49%) JIRA
2 6 (2.35%) Git
2 6 (2.35%) Maven
3 5 (1.96%) Fiddler
3 5 (1.96%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.57%) GitLab
4 4 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.39%) Ant
7 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.39%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.39%) MSI
General
1 39 (15.29%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.94%) Finance
3 28 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.92%) Banking
6 6 (2.35%) Local Government
7 5 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.57%) Electronics
8 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
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
10 1 (0.39%) Marketing
10 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (21.96%) Architect
2 50 (19.61%) Developer
3 30 (11.76%) Senior
4 19 (7.45%) Java Developer
5 16 (6.27%) Administrator
6 15 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 14 (5.49%) Consultant
7 14 (5.49%) Security Architect
7 14 (5.49%) SharePoint Administrator
8 13 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.71%) ForgeRock Architect
10 10 (3.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (3.14%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (3.14%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) Lead
12 7 (2.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (41.96%) SAML
2 53 (20.78%) OpenID
3 40 (15.69%) OAuth
4 38 (14.90%) REST
5 34 (13.33%) LDAP
6 26 (10.20%) Spring
6 26 (10.20%) Spring Boot
7 21 (8.24%) .NET
7 21 (8.24%) Restlet
8 20 (7.84%) GWT
8 20 (7.84%) JAX-RS
9 19 (7.45%) CSS
10 18 (7.06%) AngularJS
10 18 (7.06%) XACML
11 17 (6.67%) HTML
11 17 (6.67%) Web Services
12 13 (5.10%) React
12 13 (5.10%) SailPoint
13 10 (3.92%) OAuth2
13 10 (3.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.49%) PKI
3 12 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.71%) NHS
3 12 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.75%) Insider Threat
6 6 (2.35%) DataPower
6 6 (2.35%) Digital Signage
7 5 (1.96%) CMDB
7 5 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.96%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.57%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.57%) Clustering
8 4 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.57%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.98%) Windows
2 11 (4.31%) Windows Server
3 10 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
3 10 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (3.53%) Linux
5 8 (3.14%) VMS
6 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.78%) NetWare
7 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.39%) Android
8 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.39%) Unix
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (24.71%) Identity Access Management
2 54 (21.18%) Migration
3 48 (18.82%) DevOps
4 36 (14.12%) Identity Management
5 35 (13.73%) Agile
6 33 (12.94%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 27 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (9.41%) Cloud Security
9 22 (8.63%) CI/CD
10 21 (8.24%) Security Architecture
11 20 (7.84%) ITIL
11 20 (7.84%) Scrum
12 19 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (7.45%) User Experience
13 18 (7.06%) RBAC
14 16 (6.27%) Microservices
15 15 (5.88%) Computer Science
15 15 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (5.49%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.78%) PowerShell
2 42 (16.47%) Java
3 35 (13.73%) JavaScript
4 29 (11.37%) Python
5 24 (9.41%) SQL
6 20 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.88%) C#
8 7 (2.75%) Bicep
9 5 (1.96%) Perl
10 4 (1.57%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.57%) Bash
10 4 (1.57%) Scala
11 3 (1.18%) PHP
11 3 (1.18%) Ruby
11 3 (1.18%) SOQL
12 1 (0.39%) ABAP
12 1 (0.39%) Groovy
12 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 41 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.41%) Degree
4 9 (3.53%) CISSP
5 8 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.78%) CISM
10 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.39%) CAPM
11 1 (0.39%) CEH
11 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.39%) PMP
11 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.71%) QA
2 8 (3.14%) WCAG
3 4 (1.57%) GDPR
4 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.18%) GRC
4 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) NIST
4 3 (1.18%) SLA
5 2 (0.78%) COBIT
5 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.78%) NCSC
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
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%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (32.55%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (5.10%) Docker
4 7 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.96%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.57%) 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 14 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (4.71%) Terraform
3 11 (4.31%) Ansible
4 10 (3.92%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.14%) PingFederate
6 5 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.96%) SCOM
7 3 (1.18%) CA Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.18%) CASB
7 3 (1.18%) SCCM
8 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.78%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 2 (0.78%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.39%) Puppet
9 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.39%) TADDM
9 1 (0.39%) WMI
Vendors
1 73 (28.63%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.90%) Okta
3 35 (13.73%) Google
4 28 (10.98%) Oracle
5 24 (9.41%) ServiceNow
6 20 (7.84%) ForgeRock
7 18 (7.06%) IBM
8 17 (6.67%) CA
9 13 (5.10%) Salesforce
10 12 (4.71%) CyberArk
11 10 (3.92%) VMware
12 6 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (2.35%) Ping Identity
12 6 (2.35%) TSYS
13 5 (1.96%) F5
13 5 (1.96%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.96%) SAP
13 5 (1.96%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.57%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.57%) Roku