Single Sign-On Contract Job Trends in London

Single Sign-On (SSO)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Single Sign-On skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 292 305
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +73
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 108 66 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.39% 3.22% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 49 56
10th Percentile £413 £422 £300
25th Percentile £470 £513 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £750 £720
90th Percentile £648 £791 £889
England median daily rate £525 £578 £500
% change year-on-year -9.21% +15.65% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £57.00 - £28.88
90th Percentile - - £31.20
England median hourly rate £57.25 - £28.25
% change year-on-year - - -56.20%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,458 2,050 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.83% 15.96% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 1,398 1,610
10th Percentile £350 £367 £319
25th Percentile £429 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% -8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 39
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.59 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% +12.80% -59.83%
75th Percentile £63.32 £56.25 £58.38
90th Percentile - £63.25 £63.40
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -45.45%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Single Sign-On job vacancy trend in London

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Single Sign-On
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Single Sign-On in London over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Single Sign-On in London

Single Sign-On
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Single Sign-On
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 23 March 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
South London -2 13 £519 +15.23% 2
Central London -17 5 £575 -4.17% 12
East London - 1 £675 - 1
North London - 1 £225 -
Single Sign-On
England

Single Sign-On
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (10.19%) Confluence
2 9 (8.33%) nginx
3 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.85%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.85%) CMS
5 1 (0.93%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (62.04%) Azure
2 54 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 36 (33.33%) AWS
4 17 (15.74%) Amazon S3
5 16 (14.81%) Serverless
6 14 (12.96%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (10.19%) SaaS
9 9 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (8.33%) PaaS
9 9 (8.33%) Route 53
10 8 (7.41%) GCP
10 8 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (6.48%) Google Workspace
12 6 (5.56%) Azure Service Fabric
13 5 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.63%) GitHub
14 4 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (3.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (25.93%) DNS
2 15 (13.89%) DHCP
2 15 (13.89%) Firewall
2 15 (13.89%) VPN
3 14 (12.96%) Kerberos
3 14 (12.96%) TCP/IP
4 9 (8.33%) OpenVPN
5 5 (4.63%) Network Security
6 4 (3.70%) HTTP
7 3 (2.78%) SSL
7 3 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.85%) Internet
8 2 (1.85%) LAN
8 2 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.85%) RFID
8 2 (1.85%) S/MIME
8 2 (1.85%) Wireless
9 1 (0.93%) VLAN
9 1 (0.93%) VoIP
9 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.78%) CockroachDB
3 3 (2.78%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.85%) GIS
4 2 (1.85%) Power BI
4 2 (1.85%) SQLite
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (15.74%) JIRA
2 7 (6.48%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.48%) SonarQube
3 6 (5.56%) Git
4 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.78%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.78%) GitLab
6 2 (1.85%) CocoaPods
6 2 (1.85%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.85%) fastlane
6 2 (1.85%) Postman
6 2 (1.85%) Xcode
7 1 (0.93%) Gatling
7 1 (0.93%) JMeter
7 1 (0.93%) JUnit
7 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 36 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.67%) Finance
3 12 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Banking
6 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Electronics
9 1 (0.93%) Front Office
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (20.37%) Architect
2 16 (14.81%) Senior
3 11 (10.19%) Developer
4 9 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.48%) Technical Architect
6 6 (5.56%) Lead
7 5 (4.63%) Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) AWS Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Pega Developer
8 4 (3.70%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Applications Support
9 3 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) ForgeRock Developer
9 3 (2.78%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (42.59%) OAuth
2 38 (35.19%) SAML
3 31 (28.70%) LDAP
4 29 (26.85%) OpenID
5 15 (13.89%) SailPoint
6 12 (11.11%) OAuth2
7 7 (6.48%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (5.56%) ARM Templates
8 6 (5.56%) Entity Framework
8 6 (5.56%) YAML
9 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.63%) Node.js
9 5 (4.63%) React
9 5 (4.63%) REST
10 4 (3.70%) Express.js
10 4 (3.70%) Jest
10 4 (3.70%) Playwright
10 4 (3.70%) RESTful
11 3 (2.78%) HTML
11 3 (2.78%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.44%) Onboarding
2 14 (12.96%) Replication
3 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.78%) PKI
5 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.85%) Animation
6 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.85%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.52%) Windows
2 15 (13.89%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.78%) Linux
4 2 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.11%) Identity Access Management
2 33 (30.56%) RBAC
3 32 (29.63%) DevOps
4 26 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (20.37%) CI/CD
6 19 (17.59%) Agile
7 18 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (15.74%) Microservices
9 16 (14.81%) Task Automation
9 16 (14.81%) Zero Trust
10 14 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (12.96%) High Availability
11 12 (11.11%) AI
11 12 (11.11%) Decision-Making
11 12 (11.11%) Roadmaps
12 11 (10.19%) Identity Management
13 10 (9.26%) Architectural Design
13 10 (9.26%) Containerisation
14 9 (8.33%) Cloud Security
14 9 (8.33%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.15%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.96%) Python
3 10 (9.26%) SQL
4 9 (8.33%) Java
5 8 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.70%) Bash
8 3 (2.78%) Groovy
8 3 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.85%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.85%) Swift
10 1 (0.93%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 42 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.89%) CISSP
4 6 (5.56%) CISM
5 4 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.78%) CCSP
7 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.85%) Degree
7 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.85%) PMP
7 2 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.93%) CCNA
8 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.07%) GDPR
2 18 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (9.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.70%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.70%) NCSC
4 4 (3.70%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.85%) NIST
6 2 (1.85%) QA
6 2 (1.85%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.93%) PMO
7 1 (0.93%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.96%) Docker
3 10 (9.26%) Squid
4 2 (1.85%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.85%) OpenDJ
4 2 (1.85%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.93%) Firmware
5 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (21.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 16 (14.81%) Terraform
4 10 (9.26%) FortiGate
4 10 (9.26%) Grafana
4 10 (9.26%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.48%) Consul
6 2 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.93%) Ansible
7 1 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 26 (24.07%) Okta
3 12 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 11 (10.19%) Google
4 11 (10.19%) Red Hat
5 9 (8.33%) Dynatrace
6 8 (7.41%) Atlassian
7 6 (5.56%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.70%) ForgeRock
8 4 (3.70%) Netskope
8 4 (3.70%) Pega
9 3 (2.78%) Apple
9 3 (2.78%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.78%) Oracle
9 3 (2.78%) Ping Identity
9 3 (2.78%) SAP
9 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.85%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.85%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.85%) Palo Alto