Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Single Sign-On (SSO)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 111 108
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +38
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 15 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.61% 0.22% 0.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.32% 1.39% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 13
10th Percentile £523 £565 £253
25th Percentile £538 £588 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +36.84% -20.83%
75th Percentile £644 £745 £573
90th Percentile £691 £787 £688
Central London median daily rate £575 £640 £463
% change year-on-year -10.16% +38.38% -22.92%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 282 287 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.53% 15.97% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 194 222
10th Percentile £306 £275 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £655
90th Percentile £720 £762 £757
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £56.73 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £58.11 £35.53 £12.75
Median hourly rate £63.88 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.55% +70.77% -67.89%
75th Percentile £71.18 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £73.47 £62.04 £40.95
Central London median hourly rate £63.88 £28.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +124.15% +5.56% -59.73%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in the City of London

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in the City of London

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Single Sign-On.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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