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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 282 287
Rank change year-on-year -34 +5 +53
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 130 83 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.61% 0.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.78% 3.96% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 49 75
10th Percentile £310 £396 £290
25th Percentile £470 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -0.88% +5.81%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £649 £758 £711
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.43
25th Percentile £73.75 - £24.80
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £26.94
90th Percentile - - £30.43
England median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00

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 2,720 2,095 2,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.74% 15.45% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,890 1,381 1,698
10th Percentile £358 £350 £335
25th Percentile £440 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -2.60% -10.17%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 34
10th Percentile £24.35 £26.23 £20.15
25th Percentile £32.00 £26.68 £20.89
Median hourly rate £58.13 £42.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.59% +69.00% -60.63%
75th Percentile £79.69 £59.88 £47.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £69.98
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -44.55%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +3 17 £575 -6.12% 6
South London -7 7 £519 +15.23%
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 18 (13.85%) Confluence
2 12 (9.23%) nginx
2 12 (9.23%) SharePoint
3 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (53.85%) Azure
2 54 (41.54%) Entra ID
3 46 (35.38%) AWS
4 22 (16.92%) GCP
5 21 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (13.08%) Serverless
7 16 (12.31%) SaaS
8 14 (10.77%) Amazon S3
9 13 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.92%) GitHub
11 9 (6.92%) Google Workspace
11 9 (6.92%) Route 53
12 6 (4.62%) PaaS
13 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.08%) Google Drive
14 4 (3.08%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 42 (32.31%) DNS
2 24 (18.46%) TCP/IP
3 17 (13.08%) Firewall
4 15 (11.54%) DHCP
5 13 (10.00%) VPN
6 12 (9.23%) Kerberos
6 12 (9.23%) OpenVPN
7 6 (4.62%) DKIM
7 6 (4.62%) DMARC
7 6 (4.62%) HTTP
7 6 (4.62%) Network Security
8 5 (3.85%) SSL
8 5 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.08%) HTTPS
10 3 (2.31%) FTP
10 3 (2.31%) SSH
11 2 (1.54%) IPsec
11 2 (1.54%) VLAN
12 1 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.92%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.85%) Metadata
3 4 (3.08%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (2.31%) Power BI
4 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.54%) MySQL
6 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.77%) Db2
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.77%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (20.00%) JIRA
2 9 (6.92%) SonarQube
3 7 (5.38%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.38%) Git
4 4 (3.08%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (3.08%) GitLab
4 4 (3.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.54%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.54%) Snyk
6 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 40 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.77%) Finance
3 12 (9.23%) Banking
4 11 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.46%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.31%) Legal
6 3 (2.31%) Retail
7 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.54%) Military
8 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.77%) Front Office
8 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (18.46%) Architect
2 10 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (6.92%) Consultant
3 9 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (6.15%) Security Engineer
4 8 (6.15%) Senior
5 7 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (5.38%) Project Manager
5 7 (5.38%) Support Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) Active Directory Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) Technical Architect
7 5 (3.85%) Administrator
7 5 (3.85%) AWS Architect
7 5 (3.85%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 5 (3.85%) Lead
8 4 (3.08%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Developer
8 4 (3.08%) Web Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (29.23%) OAuth
2 37 (28.46%) SAML
3 34 (26.15%) OpenID
4 28 (21.54%) LDAP
5 13 (10.00%) OAuth2
6 11 (8.46%) REST
7 6 (4.62%) SailPoint
7 6 (4.62%) SOAP
8 4 (3.08%) Express.js
8 4 (3.08%) Jest
8 4 (3.08%) Middleware
8 4 (3.08%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (3.08%) Node.js
8 4 (3.08%) Playwright
9 3 (2.31%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.31%) boto
9 3 (2.31%) Spring
10 2 (1.54%) Java EE
10 2 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.69%) Onboarding
2 18 (13.85%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.46%) PKI
4 10 (7.69%) Replication
5 7 (5.38%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.62%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.08%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (3.08%) Clustering
8 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.31%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.31%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.31%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.69%) Windows
2 8 (6.15%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.08%) Mac OS
3 4 (3.08%) Unix
4 2 (1.54%) Android
4 2 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.85%) DevOps
2 35 (26.92%) Identity Access Management
3 24 (18.46%) Agile
4 22 (16.92%) CI/CD
4 22 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (15.38%) RBAC
6 19 (14.62%) Migration
6 19 (14.62%) Roadmaps
7 18 (13.85%) Zero Trust
8 16 (12.31%) Cloud Security
8 16 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (9.23%) Data Protection
11 12 (9.23%) Decision-Making
11 12 (9.23%) Runbook
11 12 (9.23%) Task Automation
12 11 (8.46%) High Availability
12 11 (8.46%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.85%) PowerShell
2 12 (9.23%) Java
3 8 (6.15%) Python
4 7 (5.38%) SQL
5 5 (3.85%) Bash
5 5 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.77%) Bicep
7 1 (0.77%) Groovy
7 1 (0.77%) Korn
7 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.69%) CISSP
4 4 (3.08%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.08%) PMP
5 3 (2.31%) CISM
5 3 (2.31%) Degree
5 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.54%) GIAC
6 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.54%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.69%) GDPR
2 15 (11.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 13 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (9.23%) NIST
5 3 (2.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (2.31%) NIST 800
5 3 (2.31%) QA
6 2 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.54%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.54%) GRC
6 2 (1.54%) ITGC
6 2 (1.54%) NCSC
6 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.54%) PMO
6 2 (1.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.77%) PSD2
System Software
1 54 (41.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.92%) Squid
3 8 (6.15%) Docker
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.77%) Firmware
5 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.62%) Terraform
3 12 (9.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (6.92%) FortiGate
4 9 (6.92%) Grafana
4 9 (6.92%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.38%) Consul
6 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (3.85%) PingFederate
8 4 (3.08%) Ansible
8 4 (3.08%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.31%) SELinux
10 2 (1.54%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.77%) CASB
Vendors
1 50 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.23%) Okta
3 19 (14.62%) ServiceNow
4 13 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 12 (9.23%) Google
6 10 (7.69%) CyberArk
7 9 (6.92%) Dynatrace
8 8 (6.15%) Oracle
9 7 (5.38%) Atlassian
10 6 (4.62%) Ping Identity
10 6 (4.62%) Zscaler
11 4 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (3.08%) Netskope
12 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
12 3 (2.31%) Workday
13 2 (1.54%) ForgeRock
13 2 (1.54%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
13 2 (1.54%) SAP
13 2 (1.54%) Veracode