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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 269 284
Rank change year-on-year -58 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 126 104 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.77% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.50% 5.85% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 63 64
10th Percentile £291 £400 £290
25th Percentile £453 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £537 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -6.61% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £689
90th Percentile £702 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.75 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £47.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +63.16% +96.44% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £60.09
% change year-on-year +57.89% -20.95% -

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 2,290 1,777 2,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.25% 13.19% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,531 1,154 1,377
10th Percentile £322 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -3.14% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 23
10th Percentile £24.02 £24.00 £21.16
25th Percentile £32.88 £26.34 £23.80
Median hourly rate £49.00 £33.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.19% +25.00% -55.00%
75th Percentile £78.13 £59.81 £63.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.41 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.47 £34.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +98.44% -13.38% -21.50%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -15 21 £613 +8.89% 23
West London -23 1 £375 -11.76% 2
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 16 (12.70%) SharePoint
2 12 (9.52%) Confluence
3 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.97%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Actimize
2 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 58 (46.03%) Azure
2 53 (42.06%) Entra ID
3 35 (27.78%) AWS
4 25 (19.84%) GCP
5 23 (18.25%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (11.90%) SaaS
7 10 (7.94%) GitHub
8 8 (6.35%) Google Workspace
9 7 (5.56%) Serverless
10 6 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.97%) OCI
12 4 (3.17%) Google Drive
12 4 (3.17%) PaaS
13 3 (2.38%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (2.38%) Asana
13 3 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.38%) OneDrive
13 3 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (25.40%) DNS
2 14 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 10 (7.94%) DHCP
4 9 (7.14%) Firewall
4 9 (7.14%) VPN
5 7 (5.56%) SSL
5 7 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (4.76%) DKIM
6 6 (4.76%) DMARC
6 6 (4.76%) Kerberos
6 6 (4.76%) SSH
7 5 (3.97%) Network Security
7 5 (3.97%) OpenVPN
8 3 (2.38%) FTP
8 3 (2.38%) HTTPS
8 3 (2.38%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.38%) WAN
9 2 (1.59%) HTTP
9 2 (1.59%) IPsec
10 1 (0.79%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.56%) Metadata
2 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (2.38%) Power BI
2 3 (2.38%) Tableau
3 2 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.79%) Db2
4 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.79%) MySQL
4 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (17.46%) JIRA
2 11 (8.73%) Git
3 4 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.38%) GitLab
4 3 (2.38%) Postman
5 2 (1.59%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.59%) JUnit
5 2 (1.59%) Maven
5 2 (1.59%) Mockito
5 2 (1.59%) Snyk
5 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.79%) Serenity BDD
General
1 27 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.05%) Finance
3 13 (10.32%) Banking
4 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.76%) Retail
7 3 (2.38%) Legal
7 3 (2.38%) Marketing
8 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.59%) Military
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) French Language
9 1 (0.79%) Front Office
9 1 (0.79%) German Language
9 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (17.46%) Architect
2 9 (7.14%) Consultant
2 9 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (6.35%) Active Directory Engineer
3 8 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (5.56%) Analyst
4 7 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (5.56%) Security Engineer
5 6 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Administrator
6 5 (3.97%) Application Integration Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) IAM Consultant
7 4 (3.17%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Salesforce Architect
7 4 (3.17%) Security Architect
7 4 (3.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (25.40%) SAML
2 28 (22.22%) OAuth
3 26 (20.63%) OpenID
4 17 (13.49%) REST
5 16 (12.70%) Terraform
6 12 (9.52%) LDAP
6 12 (9.52%) OAuth2
7 8 (6.35%) SOAP
8 5 (3.97%) Middleware
9 4 (3.17%) boto
9 4 (3.17%) OpenTofu
10 3 (2.38%) GraphQL
10 3 (2.38%) Kafka
10 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.38%) SailPoint
10 3 (2.38%) Spring
11 2 (1.59%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.59%) JWT
11 2 (1.59%) Keycloak
11 2 (1.59%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 16 (12.70%) Cloud Native
3 14 (11.11%) PKI
4 8 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.76%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.97%) Clustering
7 4 (3.17%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.17%) Replication
8 3 (2.38%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.38%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.59%) Life Science
9 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.29%) Windows
2 11 (8.73%) Linux
3 9 (7.14%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.17%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.38%) Unix
6 2 (1.59%) Android
7 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.98%) Identity Access Management
2 31 (24.60%) DevOps
3 27 (21.43%) Migration
4 23 (18.25%) CI/CD
5 22 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (15.87%) Agile
7 19 (15.08%) Zero Trust
8 18 (14.29%) Change Management
8 18 (14.29%) Cloud Security
9 17 (13.49%) Roadmaps
10 16 (12.70%) RBAC
10 16 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (11.90%) Integration Patterns
12 14 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (11.11%) Validation
13 13 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.32%) Runbook
13 13 (10.32%) User Experience
14 11 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.49%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.90%) Python
3 13 (10.32%) Java
4 8 (6.35%) SQL
5 4 (3.17%) Bash
6 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.79%) Bicep
8 1 (0.79%) C#
8 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.79%) R
8 1 (0.79%) Swift
8 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.76%) CISSP
3 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.97%) Degree
5 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.59%) CISM
6 2 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.59%) GIAC
6 2 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.59%) PMP
6 2 (1.59%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.90%) GDPR
2 12 (9.52%) NIST
3 11 (8.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (4.76%) QA
6 3 (2.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (2.38%) NIST 800
6 3 (2.38%) SLA
7 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (1.59%) GRC
7 2 (1.59%) ITGC
7 2 (1.59%) NCSC
7 2 (1.59%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.79%) PMO
8 1 (0.79%) PSD2
System Software
1 49 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.38%) Docker
3 2 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.79%) Squid
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.97%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (3.97%) PingFederate
4 4 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (3.17%) Ansible
4 4 (3.17%) CA Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.38%) SELinux
6 2 (1.59%) Grafana
6 2 (1.59%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.79%) CASB
7 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (45.24%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.67%) Okta
3 20 (15.87%) ServiceNow
4 13 (10.32%) Google
5 11 (8.73%) Oracle
6 8 (6.35%) Ping Identity
7 7 (5.56%) CyberArk
7 7 (5.56%) Red Hat
8 6 (4.76%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.97%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (3.17%) ForgeRock
11 3 (2.38%) IBM
11 3 (2.38%) MuleSoft
11 3 (2.38%) Workday
12 2 (1.59%) Apple
12 2 (1.59%) Databricks
12 2 (1.59%) SAP
12 2 (1.59%) Splunk
12 2 (1.59%) Veracode
12 2 (1.59%) Zscaler