Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in Central London

Single Sign-On (SSO)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 121 113
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +32
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 15 5 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.58% 0.26% 0.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.79% 1.57% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 15
10th Percentile £523 £573 £260
25th Percentile £538 £606 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £640 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +42.22% -23.40%
75th Percentile £644 £710 £544
90th Percentile £691 £773 £688
London median daily rate £550 £568 £563
% change year-on-year -3.17% +0.98% +5.34%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

Single Sign-On falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 313 318 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.01% 16.36% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 218 229
10th Percentile £350 £275 £350
25th Percentile £450 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £681 £750 £769
London median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £56.73 £26.51 -
25th Percentile £58.11 £26.60 £12.75
Median hourly rate £63.88 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.15% +5.56% -59.73%
75th Percentile £71.18 £47.91 -
90th Percentile £73.47 £58.51 £40.95
London median hourly rate £58.72 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +46.79% +60.00% -60.94%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Single Sign-On relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in Central London

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in Central London over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in Central London

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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
City of London -8 15 £575 -11.54% 10
Single Sign-On
London

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) OCI
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Architect
1 2 (13.33%) Automation Specialist
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) GCP Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) OpenID
1 5 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) PKI
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (20.00%) ITSM
2 3 (20.00%) Service Management
2 3 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Cutover Planning
3 2 (13.33%) Dependency Management
3 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (13.33%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Validation
4 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (6.67%) Observability
4 1 (6.67%) Operational Stability
4 1 (6.67%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (20.00%) Okta
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle