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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 294 271
Rank change year-on-year +16 -23 +119
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 99 81 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.54% 0.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.41% 3.64% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 58 99
10th Percentile £403 £393 £393
25th Percentile £425 £525 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £578
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.81% -3.67%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £672
90th Percentile £633 £779 £813
England median daily rate £522 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.08% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.64%

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 2,243 2,226 2,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.51% 14.94% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,511 1,459 1,941
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £763
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 30
10th Percentile £21.18 £22.30 £21.12
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £28.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.65 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -31.10% +136.00%
75th Percentile £62.69 £72.13 £66.50
90th Percentile £63.32 £106.00 £77.13
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.88 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.28% -41.80% +31.94%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 +3 12 £550 -8.33% 7
South London - 5 £541 - 4
West London - 1 £425 -
East London - 1 £675 - 1
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 10 (10.10%) Confluence
2 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.05%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.02%) CMS
5 1 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.01%) Apache
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.01%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.01%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (53.54%) Azure
2 45 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 25 (25.25%) AWS
4 14 (14.14%) SaaS
5 12 (12.12%) GCP
6 11 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (7.07%) PaaS
8 5 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.04%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.04%) Azure Service Fabric
9 4 (4.04%) GitHub
9 4 (4.04%) Google Workspace
9 4 (4.04%) Serverless
10 3 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.03%) Firebase
10 3 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.02%) Fastly
11 2 (2.02%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.16%) SSL
2 10 (10.10%) DNS
2 10 (10.10%) VPN
3 7 (7.07%) Firewall
4 6 (6.06%) Network Security
5 5 (5.05%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (4.04%) HTTPS
6 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.03%) BGP
7 3 (3.03%) DHCP
7 3 (3.03%) LAN
7 3 (3.03%) OSPF
7 3 (3.03%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.02%) Internet
8 2 (2.02%) Kerberos
8 2 (2.02%) S/MIME
8 2 (2.02%) VLAN
9 1 (1.01%) RFID
9 1 (1.01%) WAN
9 1 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.02%) CockroachDB
2 2 (2.02%) Pinecone
2 2 (2.02%) SQLite
3 1 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.01%) GIS
Development Applications
1 13 (13.13%) JIRA
2 6 (6.06%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.02%) CocoaPods
3 2 (2.02%) Crashlytics
3 2 (2.02%) fastlane
3 2 (2.02%) GitLab
3 2 (2.02%) Xcode
4 1 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.01%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.01%) Gatling
4 1 (1.01%) gulp
4 1 (1.01%) JMeter
4 1 (1.01%) JUnit
4 1 (1.01%) Maven
4 1 (1.01%) Postman
4 1 (1.01%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.01%) Selenium
4 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 27 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.13%) Finance
3 11 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.06%) Banking
5 3 (3.03%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.02%) Electronics
6 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.02%) Marketing
7 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Police
7 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (19.19%) Architect
1 19 (19.19%) Senior
2 13 (13.13%) Developer
3 9 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (7.07%) Analyst
5 6 (6.06%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.06%) Senior Developer
5 6 (6.06%) ServiceNow Architect
6 5 (5.05%) Administrator
6 5 (5.05%) Senior Architect
7 4 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.03%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (3.03%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Identity Management Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (39.39%) SAML
2 35 (35.35%) OAuth
3 26 (26.26%) OpenID
4 19 (19.19%) LDAP
5 14 (14.14%) REST
5 14 (14.14%) SailPoint
6 13 (13.13%) OAuth2
7 12 (12.12%) AngularJS
7 12 (12.12%) SOAP
8 11 (11.11%) HTML
8 11 (11.11%) JDBC
9 10 (10.10%) JSON
10 9 (9.09%) HTML5
11 8 (8.08%) Apache Camel
11 8 (8.08%) jQuery
11 8 (8.08%) ODBC
11 8 (8.08%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (8.08%) Web Services
12 5 (5.05%) React
13 4 (4.04%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.17%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.07%) PKI
3 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.03%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.02%) Animation
5 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.02%) Replication
6 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Linux
1 5 (5.05%) Windows
2 3 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.02%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 26 (26.26%) DevOps
2 26 (26.26%) Zero Trust
3 25 (25.25%) Agile
3 25 (25.25%) RBAC
4 24 (24.24%) CI/CD
5 20 (20.20%) Microservices
6 19 (19.19%) Identity Management
7 14 (14.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 14 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (11.11%) API Integration
8 11 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (11.11%) ITSM
9 10 (10.10%) Analytics
9 10 (10.10%) Architectural Design
9 10 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
11 8 (8.08%) Privileged Access Management
11 8 (8.08%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 18 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 17 (17.17%) Python
4 12 (12.12%) Java
5 7 (7.07%) SQL
6 3 (3.03%) Bash
6 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.02%) BeanShell
7 2 (2.02%) Groovy
7 2 (2.02%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.02%) Swift
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) C#
8 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 34 (34.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.31%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.13%) CISSP
4 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.07%) CISM
5 3 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.03%) Degree
6 2 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.02%) CCSP
6 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.02%) MCP
6 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.01%) CCNA
7 1 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.17%) GDPR
2 12 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.06%) Accessibility
4 5 (5.05%) HIPAA
4 5 (5.05%) NCSC
4 5 (5.05%) NIST
4 5 (5.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (5.05%) SOC 2
5 3 (3.03%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.02%) PSD2
6 2 (2.02%) WCAG
7 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 39 (39.39%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.13%) Docker
3 2 (2.02%) OpenAM
3 2 (2.02%) OpenDJ
3 2 (2.02%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.01%) Squid
4 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.10%) Terraform
3 9 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.02%) Kibana
5 2 (2.02%) SCCM
6 1 (1.01%) Ansible
6 1 (1.01%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.01%) Grafana
6 1 (1.01%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (1.01%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.19%) Okta
3 14 (14.14%) ServiceNow
4 12 (12.12%) CyberArk
5 10 (10.10%) Google
6 8 (8.08%) BMC
6 8 (8.08%) HP
6 8 (8.08%) Ivanti
6 8 (8.08%) Remedy
7 7 (7.07%) ForgeRock
7 7 (7.07%) Zscaler
8 5 (5.05%) Splunk
9 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
10 3 (3.03%) Apple
10 3 (3.03%) Ping Identity
10 3 (3.03%) SAP
11 2 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (2.02%) Confluent
11 2 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (2.02%) Thycotic