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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 286 284
Rank change year-on-year -35 -2 +30
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 121 87 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.64% 0.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.34% 4.18% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 52 70
10th Percentile £282 £383 £290
25th Percentile £463 £469 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% -3.07% +3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £650
90th Percentile £704 £747 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.26
25th Percentile £73.75 £43.75 £24.39
Median hourly rate £77.50 £47.50 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +63.16% +93.17% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £24.80
90th Percentile - - £24.92
England median hourly rate £71.25 £47.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +90.00% -

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 2,787 2,083 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.80% 15.41% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,924 1,377 1,620
10th Percentile £363 £331 £337
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £758
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 27
10th Percentile £31.18 £24.80 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.45 £22.15
Median hourly rate £62.75 £38.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.94% +55.00% -60.16%
75th Percentile £81.25 £57.69 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.73 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
% change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.62%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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
Central London -6 18 £594 +5.56% 10
South London -6 1 £513 +13.89%
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 15 (12.40%) Confluence
2 13 (10.74%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (4.96%) nginx
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (50.41%) Azure
2 51 (42.15%) Entra ID
3 36 (29.75%) AWS
4 24 (19.83%) GCP
5 22 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (12.40%) SaaS
7 12 (9.92%) GitHub
8 10 (8.26%) Google Workspace
9 8 (6.61%) Serverless
10 7 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.31%) Google Drive
13 4 (3.31%) OCI
14 3 (2.48%) Asana
14 3 (2.48%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.48%) OneDrive
14 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (27.27%) DNS
2 18 (14.88%) TCP/IP
3 14 (11.57%) Firewall
4 10 (8.26%) VPN
5 9 (7.44%) DHCP
6 7 (5.79%) Network Security
6 7 (5.79%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (4.96%) DKIM
7 6 (4.96%) DMARC
7 6 (4.96%) HTTP
7 6 (4.96%) OpenVPN
7 6 (4.96%) SSL
8 5 (4.13%) Kerberos
8 5 (4.13%) SSH
9 4 (3.31%) HTTPS
10 3 (2.48%) FTP
10 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.48%) WAN
11 2 (1.65%) IPsec
11 2 (1.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) Metadata
2 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (2.48%) Power BI
2 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.65%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.83%) Db2
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (19.01%) JIRA
2 8 (6.61%) Git
3 4 (3.31%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (2.48%) GitLab
4 3 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.48%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.65%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.65%) Snyk
6 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.83%) Postman
General
1 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.14%) Finance
3 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.74%) Banking
5 10 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.96%) Retail
7 5 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.48%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.65%) Marketing
9 2 (1.65%) Military
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) Front Office
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Local Government
10 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (16.53%) Architect
2 9 (7.44%) Consultant
2 9 (7.44%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (6.61%) Security Engineer
4 7 (5.79%) Active Directory Engineer
4 7 (5.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (5.79%) Support Engineer
5 6 (4.96%) Administrator
5 6 (4.96%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (4.13%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 5 (4.13%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.13%) Senior
7 4 (3.31%) Analyst
7 4 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) Web Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.62%) SAML
2 28 (23.14%) OAuth
3 26 (21.49%) OpenID
4 13 (10.74%) LDAP
4 13 (10.74%) REST
5 11 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 7 (5.79%) Middleware
7 6 (4.96%) SOAP
8 5 (4.13%) SailPoint
9 4 (3.31%) boto
10 2 (1.65%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.65%) Express.js
10 2 (1.65%) Jakarta EE
10 2 (1.65%) Jest
10 2 (1.65%) Kafka
10 2 (1.65%) Node.js
10 2 (1.65%) Playwright
10 2 (1.65%) RESTful
10 2 (1.65%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (1.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 17 (14.05%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.92%) PKI
4 8 (6.61%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.96%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.13%) Clustering
6 5 (4.13%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.31%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.31%) Replication
8 3 (2.48%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.48%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.65%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.70%) Windows
2 9 (7.44%) Linux
3 7 (5.79%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.31%) Unix
5 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.65%) Android
7 1 (0.83%) VMS
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (29.75%) DevOps
2 32 (26.45%) Identity Access Management
3 24 (19.83%) Agile
4 22 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 19 (15.70%) Migration
5 19 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (14.88%) Zero Trust
7 17 (14.05%) Cloud Security
7 17 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (13.22%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (12.40%) Change Management
9 15 (12.40%) RBAC
10 14 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.57%) Roadmaps
11 13 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (10.74%) Integration Patterns
11 13 (10.74%) Privileged Access Management
11 13 (10.74%) Runbook
11 13 (10.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.40%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.74%) Python
3 12 (9.92%) Java
4 7 (5.79%) Bash
5 6 (4.96%) SQL
6 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.83%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.83%) Bicep
8 1 (0.83%) Groovy
8 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.83%) R
8 1 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.61%) CISSP
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.31%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.31%) PMP
5 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.48%) CISM
5 3 (2.48%) Degree
5 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.65%) GIAC
6 2 (1.65%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.22%) GDPR
2 12 (9.92%) NIST
3 11 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (6.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (4.13%) QA
6 3 (2.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (2.48%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.65%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (1.65%) GRC
7 2 (1.65%) ITGC
7 2 (1.65%) NCSC
7 2 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.65%) PMO
7 2 (1.65%) SLA
8 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.83%) PSD2
System Software
1 49 (40.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.13%) Docker
3 2 (1.65%) Squid
3 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.83%) Firmware
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (12.40%) Terraform
2 12 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.13%) Ansible
4 5 (4.13%) PingFederate
5 4 (3.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.31%) CA Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.48%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.48%) SELinux
7 2 (1.65%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.65%) Grafana
7 2 (1.65%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.83%) CASB
8 1 (0.83%) Consul
Vendors
1 48 (39.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.18%) Okta
3 19 (15.70%) ServiceNow
4 14 (11.57%) Google
5 10 (8.26%) CyberArk
6 8 (6.61%) Oracle
7 7 (5.79%) Ping Identity
8 6 (4.96%) Red Hat
8 6 (4.96%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.96%) Zscaler
9 4 (3.31%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (3.31%) Netskope
10 3 (2.48%) ForgeRock
10 3 (2.48%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.48%) MuleSoft
10 3 (2.48%) Workday
11 2 (1.65%) Adobe
11 2 (1.65%) Apple
11 2 (1.65%) IBM
11 2 (1.65%) SAP