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

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 642 771
Rank change year-on-year +4 +129 -106
Permanent jobs citing Single Sign-On 281 338 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.85% 2.32% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 212 185 293
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,350 £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 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £55,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year +14.15% -3.08% +8.10%

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 9,850 14,542 29,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 14.71% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,064 9,006 14,139
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

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 21 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 21 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 +39 262 £65,000 - 48
UK excluding London -31 151 £62,783 +14.15% 24
Work from Home +90 125 £62,783 -3.41% 13
London +71 125 £72,500 -8.96% 22
North of England +50 54 £62,783 +14.15% 9
South East -15 44 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North West +7 29 £62,783 +14.15% 8
Midlands -20 17 £55,000 +15.79% 2
North East - 15 £42,500 -
West Midlands -6 14 £55,000 +15.79%
South West -7 12 £45,000 - 2
Yorkshire +68 10 £79,842 -15.96% 1
East of England +11 10 £72,500 +20.83% 4
Scotland -61 8 £85,000 +11.48% 1
Wales +11 7 £55,000 -
East Midlands -16 3 - - 2

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 40 (14.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (9.25%) WebLogic
3 14 (4.98%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.85%) Apache
4 8 (2.85%) JBoss
4 8 (2.85%) Skype for Business
5 6 (2.14%) Confluence
6 5 (1.78%) IIS
6 5 (1.78%) nginx
7 3 (1.07%) GlassFish
7 3 (1.07%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.71%) CMS
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.36%) SAS
9 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.42%) Trello
3 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (5.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.71%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 173 (61.57%) Azure
2 101 (35.94%) Entra ID
3 90 (32.03%) AWS
4 79 (28.11%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (4.98%) IaaS
6 13 (4.63%) PaaS
6 13 (4.63%) SaaS
7 12 (4.27%) AWS KMS
7 12 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (4.27%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.49%) Akamai
8 7 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.49%) Azure AKS
8 7 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (2.49%) Azure Storage
8 7 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 73 (25.98%) Firewall
2 55 (19.57%) DNS
3 47 (16.73%) WAN
4 44 (15.66%) SD-WAN
5 22 (7.83%) VPN
6 21 (7.47%) Wireless
7 20 (7.12%) NAS
8 17 (6.05%) DHCP
9 13 (4.63%) SSL
10 12 (4.27%) Network Security
10 12 (4.27%) TCP/IP
11 11 (3.91%) Broadband
11 11 (3.91%) LAN
11 11 (3.91%) Reverse Proxy
12 10 (3.56%) VoIP
13 8 (2.85%) BGP
13 8 (2.85%) Internet
13 8 (2.85%) MPLS
13 8 (2.85%) OSPF
13 8 (2.85%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.96%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (6.41%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.78%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.78%) Power BI
4 5 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.42%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.07%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.71%) CouchDB
7 2 (0.71%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.71%) MySQL
7 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.36%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 29 (10.32%) JIRA
2 21 (7.47%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.27%) Bitbucket
4 11 (3.91%) GitLab
5 9 (3.20%) Git
6 4 (1.42%) Ant
6 4 (1.42%) Eclipse
6 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.42%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.71%) Maven
8 1 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.36%) MSI
8 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.36%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 88 (31.32%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (8.90%) Police
4 23 (8.19%) Finance
5 20 (7.12%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (6.41%) Law
8 15 (5.34%) Banking
9 13 (4.63%) Games
9 13 (4.63%) Legal
10 7 (2.49%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.78%) Marketing
11 5 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.07%) Retail
13 2 (0.71%) German Language
14 1 (0.36%) Advertising
14 1 (0.36%) Automotive
14 1 (0.36%) Back Office
14 1 (0.36%) Publishing
14 1 (0.36%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 72 (25.62%) Senior
2 57 (20.28%) Analyst
3 46 (16.37%) Architect
4 45 (16.01%) Lead
5 35 (12.46%) Security Architect
6 31 (11.03%) Support Analyst
7 28 (9.96%) Senior Analyst
8 27 (9.61%) Lead Architect
8 27 (9.61%) Lead Security Architect
8 27 (9.61%) Senior Support Analyst
9 26 (9.25%) Applications Support
9 26 (9.25%) Applications Support Analyst
9 26 (9.25%) Developer
9 26 (9.25%) Senior Applications Support
9 26 (9.25%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
10 21 (7.47%) Security Engineer
11 18 (6.41%) Administrator
12 17 (6.05%) Consultant
12 17 (6.05%) Security Analyst
13 16 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.10%) LDAP
1 34 (12.10%) OAuth
2 32 (11.39%) J2EE
3 28 (9.96%) SAML
4 27 (9.61%) Java EE
4 27 (9.61%) Spring
5 26 (9.25%) CSS
6 24 (8.54%) HTML
7 19 (6.76%) AngularJS
7 19 (6.76%) Web Services
8 18 (6.41%) JSON
9 16 (5.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 16 (5.69%) XML
10 15 (5.34%) REST
11 12 (4.27%) 802.1X
11 12 (4.27%) OpenID
12 10 (3.56%) OAuth2
12 10 (3.56%) SOAP
12 10 (3.56%) Visualforce
13 9 (3.20%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.57%) Management Information System
2 34 (12.10%) PKI
3 33 (11.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 26 (9.25%) Public Cloud
5 23 (8.19%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (7.83%) Clustering
7 21 (7.47%) Onboarding
7 21 (7.47%) Video Conferencing
8 17 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (5.69%) CMDB
10 11 (3.91%) Cloud Native
10 11 (3.91%) Security Posture
11 10 (3.56%) Data Centre
12 8 (2.85%) Client/Server
12 8 (2.85%) Product Ownership
13 7 (2.49%) Mobile App
13 7 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.78%) Cloud Security Posture
15 4 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
16 3 (1.07%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 107 (38.08%) Windows
2 70 (24.91%) Windows Server
3 34 (12.10%) Unix
4 27 (9.61%) Linux
5 19 (6.76%) Windows 10
6 17 (6.05%) Mac OS
7 12 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (2.85%) Android
8 8 (2.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.49%) Apple iOS
9 7 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.07%) AIX
10 3 (1.07%) Solaris
11 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.36%) HPUX
12 1 (0.36%) VMS
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (29.54%) Identity Management
2 82 (29.18%) Information Security
3 70 (24.91%) ITIL
4 62 (22.06%) Identity Access Management
5 51 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (16.37%) Application Security
7 44 (15.66%) CI/CD
8 42 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
9 39 (13.88%) DevOps
9 39 (13.88%) Security Architecture
10 36 (12.81%) Mentoring
11 33 (11.74%) OWASP
11 33 (11.74%) Secure Coding
11 33 (11.74%) Service Management
12 32 (11.39%) Enterprise Architecture
13 31 (11.03%) Containerisation
13 31 (11.03%) Incident Management
14 27 (9.61%) Agile
15 26 (9.25%) Impact Assessments
15 26 (9.25%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.01%) PowerShell
2 41 (14.59%) Java
3 31 (11.03%) JavaScript
4 27 (9.61%) Bash
5 26 (9.25%) Shell Script
6 22 (7.83%) Python
7 21 (7.47%) SQL
8 10 (3.56%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.14%) C#
9 6 (2.14%) Perl
10 5 (1.78%) Go
11 4 (1.42%) Lua
11 4 (1.42%) Ruby
11 4 (1.42%) Rust
12 2 (0.71%) Dart
12 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.71%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.71%) PHP
12 2 (0.71%) Swift
13 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.01%) CISSP
3 44 (15.66%) Cisco Certification
4 41 (14.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 41 (14.59%) CCSP
5 39 (13.88%) Azure Certification
5 39 (13.88%) SC Cleared
6 38 (13.52%) CCSK
7 36 (12.81%) CISM
8 35 (12.46%) AWS Certification
9 21 (7.47%) Degree
10 11 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.07%) CEH
12 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.07%) MCSE
13 2 (0.71%) CCNA
13 2 (0.71%) CISA
13 2 (0.71%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (18.51%) NIST
2 42 (14.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 30 (10.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (9.96%) SLA
5 11 (3.91%) SOC 2
6 6 (2.14%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.78%) GDPR
8 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.07%) PMO
9 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.71%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (48.40%) Active Directory
2 61 (21.71%) Docker
3 29 (10.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (9.96%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (6.05%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.78%) vSphere
8 4 (1.42%) XenApp
8 4 (1.42%) XenDesktop
9 3 (1.07%) Firmware
9 3 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
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%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 50 (17.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (9.96%) vCenter Server
4 26 (9.25%) OpenSSO
5 25 (8.90%) Terraform
6 20 (7.12%) Microsoft Clustering
7 18 (6.41%) Ansible
8 15 (5.34%) Puppet
9 13 (4.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (4.27%) CA Single Sign-On
10 12 (4.27%) Progress Chef
11 9 (3.20%) SCCM
12 7 (2.49%) Prometheus
13 6 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (2.14%) SCOM
14 5 (1.78%) Nagios
15 4 (1.42%) PowerCLI
15 4 (1.42%) vRealize
15 4 (1.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 3 (1.07%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 98 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 59 (21.00%) VMware
3 57 (20.28%) ServiceNow
4 43 (15.30%) Oracle
5 42 (14.95%) Remedy
6 24 (8.54%) Commvault
7 23 (8.19%) HP
8 20 (7.12%) Sun
9 19 (6.76%) CA
9 19 (6.76%) Cisco
10 18 (6.41%) Red Hat
11 16 (5.69%) Apple
11 16 (5.69%) BMC
12 15 (5.34%) Google
13 14 (4.98%) Salesforce
14 13 (4.63%) CyberArk
15 12 (4.27%) Zscaler
16 11 (3.91%) Citrix
16 11 (3.91%) Fortinet
17 10 (3.56%) ForgeRock