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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 635 673 779
Rank change year-on-year +38 +106 -112
Permanent jobs citing Single Sign-On 277 324 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.77% 2.13% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 205 176 290
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £83,438
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,290 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.15% - +2.33%

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 9,987 15,208 28,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 14.65% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,206 9,346 14,192
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +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 3 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 3 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 +50 255 £62,783 +4.64% 51
UK excluding London +40 154 £62,783 +14.15% 26
Work from Home +122 123 £62,783 -3.41% 35
London +73 118 £73,750 -4.84% 21
North of England +64 54 £62,783 +14.15% 8
South East +9 43 £60,000 +14.29% 4
North West +8 29 £62,783 +14.15% 6
Midlands +4 20 £57,500 +37.72% 1
West Midlands +11 17 £57,500 +49.35%
North East - 15 £42,500 -
South West -20 11 £41,250 -8.33% 4
Yorkshire +76 10 £79,842 - 2
Wales +16 10 £55,000 -35.29%
East of England +23 9 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Scotland -59 8 £85,000 -10.53% 2
East Midlands -9 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 37 (13.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (10.47%) WebLogic
3 16 (5.78%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.89%) Skype for Business
5 6 (2.17%) Apache
5 6 (2.17%) JBoss
6 4 (1.44%) Confluence
6 4 (1.44%) IIS
7 3 (1.08%) GlassFish
7 3 (1.08%) nginx
7 3 (1.08%) 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 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.44%) Trello
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (5.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.72%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 166 (59.93%) Azure
2 101 (36.46%) Entra ID
3 84 (30.32%) AWS
4 77 (27.80%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.42%) PaaS
6 14 (5.05%) IaaS
6 14 (5.05%) SaaS
7 12 (4.33%) AWS KMS
7 12 (4.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (3.97%) Google Workspace
9 7 (2.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (2.53%) Azure Storage
9 7 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.17%) Akamai
10 6 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.17%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.17%) GCP
10 6 (2.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 72 (25.99%) Firewall
2 51 (18.41%) DNS
3 47 (16.97%) WAN
4 44 (15.88%) SD-WAN
5 22 (7.94%) VPN
6 21 (7.58%) Wireless
7 20 (7.22%) NAS
8 14 (5.05%) DHCP
9 12 (4.33%) Network Security
9 12 (4.33%) SSL
9 12 (4.33%) TCP/IP
10 11 (3.97%) Broadband
10 11 (3.97%) LAN
10 11 (3.97%) Reverse Proxy
11 10 (3.61%) VoIP
12 8 (2.89%) BGP
12 8 (2.89%) Internet
12 8 (2.89%) MPLS
12 8 (2.89%) OSPF
12 8 (2.89%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.19%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (6.14%) 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 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.44%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.08%) 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 (9.75%) JIRA
2 17 (6.14%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.61%) GitLab
4 9 (3.25%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.53%) Git
6 4 (1.44%) Ant
6 4 (1.44%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.72%) Maven
8 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.36%) MSI
9 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 89 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.03%) Police
4 20 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.14%) Law
7 15 (5.42%) Finance
8 13 (4.69%) Games
9 12 (4.33%) Banking
9 12 (4.33%) Legal
10 7 (2.53%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.81%) Marketing
12 3 (1.08%) 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 (26.71%) Senior
2 57 (20.58%) Analyst
3 45 (16.25%) Architect
3 45 (16.25%) Lead
4 35 (12.64%) Security Architect
5 34 (12.27%) Support Analyst
6 31 (11.19%) Senior Analyst
7 30 (10.83%) Senior Support Analyst
8 29 (10.47%) Applications Support
8 29 (10.47%) Applications Support Analyst
8 29 (10.47%) Senior Applications Support
8 29 (10.47%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 27 (9.75%) Lead Architect
9 27 (9.75%) Lead Security Architect
10 26 (9.39%) Developer
11 21 (7.58%) Security Engineer
12 18 (6.50%) Administrator
12 18 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (6.14%) Consultant
13 17 (6.14%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.27%) J2EE
1 34 (12.27%) LDAP
2 31 (11.19%) OAuth
3 30 (10.83%) Java EE
4 29 (10.47%) Spring
5 28 (10.11%) SAML
6 23 (8.30%) CSS
7 21 (7.58%) HTML
8 19 (6.86%) AngularJS
8 19 (6.86%) Web Services
9 18 (6.50%) JSON
10 16 (5.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 16 (5.78%) XML
11 15 (5.42%) REST
12 12 (4.33%) 802.1X
13 11 (3.97%) OpenID
14 10 (3.61%) Visualforce
15 9 (3.25%) OAuth2
15 9 (3.25%) SOAP
16 7 (2.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.86%) Management Information System
2 34 (12.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 34 (12.27%) PKI
3 22 (7.94%) Clustering
3 22 (7.94%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (7.58%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.58%) Video Conferencing
5 20 (7.22%) Onboarding
6 17 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (5.78%) CMDB
8 11 (3.97%) Cloud Native
8 11 (3.97%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.61%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.89%) Client/Server
11 7 (2.53%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
13 5 (1.81%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
15 3 (1.08%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 102 (36.82%) Windows
2 66 (23.83%) Windows Server
3 36 (13.00%) Unix
4 22 (7.94%) Linux
5 16 (5.78%) Mac OS
6 15 (5.42%) Windows 10
7 10 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (2.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.53%) Android
9 7 (2.53%) Apple iOS
9 7 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.08%) AIX
10 3 (1.08%) Solaris
10 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.36%) HPUX
11 1 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (30.69%) Identity Management
2 82 (29.60%) Information Security
3 71 (25.63%) ITIL
4 55 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (19.13%) Identity Access Management
6 46 (16.61%) Application Security
7 43 (15.52%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (15.16%) CI/CD
9 39 (14.08%) Security Architecture
10 37 (13.36%) Service Management
11 35 (12.64%) DevOps
11 35 (12.64%) Enterprise Architecture
11 35 (12.64%) Mentoring
12 34 (12.27%) Incident Management
13 33 (11.91%) OWASP
13 33 (11.91%) Secure Coding
14 32 (11.55%) Containerisation
15 29 (10.47%) Actionable Insight
15 29 (10.47%) Enterprise Search
15 29 (10.47%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.16%) Java
1 42 (15.16%) PowerShell
2 29 (10.47%) Shell Script
3 28 (10.11%) JavaScript
4 25 (9.03%) Bash
5 23 (8.30%) SQL
6 19 (6.86%) Python
7 10 (3.61%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.17%) Perl
9 5 (1.81%) C#
10 4 (1.44%) Go
10 4 (1.44%) Lua
10 4 (1.44%) Ruby
10 4 (1.44%) Rust
11 2 (0.72%) Dart
11 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.72%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.72%) PHP
11 2 (0.72%) Swift
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (18.41%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.25%) CISSP
3 44 (15.88%) Cisco Certification
4 41 (14.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 41 (14.80%) CCSP
4 41 (14.80%) SC Cleared
5 38 (13.72%) Azure Certification
5 38 (13.72%) CCSK
6 36 (13.00%) CISM
7 34 (12.27%) AWS Certification
8 20 (7.22%) Degree
9 10 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.08%) CEH
11 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.72%) CCNA
12 2 (0.72%) CISA
12 2 (0.72%) MCSE
13 1 (0.36%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (18.05%) NIST
2 41 (14.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (11.19%) SLA
4 29 (10.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.97%) SOC 2
6 6 (2.17%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.44%) GDPR
8 3 (1.08%) PMO
9 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.72%) GRC
9 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 132 (47.65%) Active Directory
2 57 (20.58%) Docker
3 28 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (9.75%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (6.14%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.44%) vSphere
8 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.72%) Firmware
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
10 1 (0.36%) XenApp
10 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (19.86%) Kubernetes
2 47 (16.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (10.47%) OpenSSO
4 27 (9.75%) vCenter Server
5 21 (7.58%) Microsoft Clustering
6 19 (6.86%) Terraform
7 15 (5.42%) Ansible
8 12 (4.33%) CA Single Sign-On
8 12 (4.33%) Puppet
9 9 (3.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (3.25%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (2.17%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.17%) SCCM
11 5 (1.81%) SCOM
12 4 (1.44%) PowerCLI
12 4 (1.44%) vRealize
12 4 (1.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (1.08%) Nagios
13 3 (1.08%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 98 (35.38%) Microsoft
2 56 (20.22%) ServiceNow
3 55 (19.86%) VMware
4 45 (16.25%) Remedy
5 43 (15.52%) Oracle
6 24 (8.66%) Commvault
7 23 (8.30%) HP
8 20 (7.22%) Sun
9 19 (6.86%) CA
9 19 (6.86%) Cisco
10 16 (5.78%) Apple
10 16 (5.78%) BMC
10 16 (5.78%) Red Hat
11 14 (5.05%) Salesforce
12 13 (4.69%) CyberArk
12 13 (4.69%) Google
13 11 (3.97%) Fortinet
14 9 (3.25%) ForgeRock
14 9 (3.25%) SolarWinds
15 8 (2.89%) Ribbon