Identity federation · UK companies

What is the split between cloud-managed and federated sign-in of UK companies?

89%

89.27% of UK companies are managed, measured across 904 companies on 2026-08-15. This is a composition measure, not a failure rate.

cloud-managed: 89.27%federated: 10.73%
cloud-managed · 89.27%federated · 10.73%
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Measured every Saturday since 2026-08-01 — 6 observations to date. Last measured 2026-08-15.

How this is measured

NameSpaceType from the same cached lookup. Denominator: domains with a tenant.

Passive measurement: a single DNS lookup, TLS handshake, or homepage GET per domain. Aggregate-only; no individual company is named. 95% Wilson confidence intervals. Population: national company registries (Companies House, Brreg, SIRENE), sampled by size band and resolved to email-active domains. Parked domains excluded. Snapshot: uk-companies-house-per600-seed20260728.

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Why it matters

Federation is a design choice, not a defect, but it changes where the real security controls live — and it is the population for the next metric.

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