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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 282 287
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +65
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 126 69 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.97% 3.61% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 42 72
10th Percentile £320 £425 £290
25th Percentile £473 £503 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% -4.14% +10.96%
75th Percentile £604 £700 £688
90th Percentile £613 £790 £837
England median daily rate £525 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 - £28.25

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 2,533 1,909 2,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.73% 15.78% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,282 1,632
10th Percentile £355 £363 £325
25th Percentile £432 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £718 £750 £750
England median daily rate £510 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% +60.26% -61.92%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £38.75 £28.75
% change year-on-year +45.81% +34.78% -45.68%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 0 13 £519 +15.23%
Central London -2 9 £544 -6.89% 15
North London - 1 £225 - 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 15 (11.90%) Confluence
2 9 (7.14%) nginx
3 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (5.56%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.59%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.59%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (54.76%) Azure
2 57 (45.24%) Entra ID
3 42 (33.33%) AWS
4 19 (15.08%) Serverless
5 17 (13.49%) Amazon S3
5 17 (13.49%) GCP
6 16 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (11.11%) SaaS
8 12 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (8.73%) PaaS
9 11 (8.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (7.14%) Route 53
12 8 (6.35%) Google Workspace
13 6 (4.76%) Azure Service Fabric
13 6 (4.76%) GitHub
14 5 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
15 4 (3.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 43 (34.13%) DNS
2 20 (15.87%) DHCP
3 19 (15.08%) Kerberos
3 19 (15.08%) TCP/IP
4 15 (11.90%) Firewall
5 14 (11.11%) VPN
6 9 (7.14%) OpenVPN
7 6 (4.76%) HTTP
7 6 (4.76%) SSL
8 5 (3.97%) DKIM
8 5 (3.97%) DMARC
8 5 (3.97%) Network Security
9 4 (3.17%) HTTPS
9 4 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.38%) FTP
11 2 (1.59%) IPsec
11 2 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (1.59%) RFID
11 2 (1.59%) VLAN
12 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.97%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.97%) Metadata
3 3 (2.38%) CockroachDB
3 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (2.38%) Pinecone
3 3 (2.38%) Power BI
3 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.59%) GIS
4 2 (1.59%) MySQL
5 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.79%) Db2
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (17.46%) JIRA
2 8 (6.35%) SonarQube
3 7 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.97%) Git
4 5 (3.97%) GitLab
5 4 (3.17%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.79%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.79%) JUnit
8 1 (0.79%) Postman
8 1 (0.79%) Snyk
General
1 35 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.67%) Finance
3 11 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.73%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Banking
6 3 (2.38%) Legal
7 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.59%) Military
7 2 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.79%) Front Office
8 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (18.25%) Architect
2 12 (9.52%) Senior
3 8 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (6.35%) Developer
3 8 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 7 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 6 (4.76%) Consultant
5 6 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 5 (3.97%) Administrator
6 5 (3.97%) AWS Architect
6 5 (3.97%) Lead
6 5 (3.97%) Security Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.17%) Active Directory Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Pega Developer
7 4 (3.17%) Web Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (40.48%) OAuth
2 45 (35.71%) SAML
3 37 (29.37%) LDAP
4 32 (25.40%) OpenID
5 13 (10.32%) OAuth2
6 12 (9.52%) SailPoint
7 8 (6.35%) REST
8 7 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (4.76%) ARM Templates
9 6 (4.76%) Entity Framework
9 6 (4.76%) YAML
10 4 (3.17%) Express.js
10 4 (3.17%) Jest
10 4 (3.17%) Node.js
10 4 (3.17%) Playwright
10 4 (3.17%) React
10 4 (3.17%) SOAP
10 4 (3.17%) Spring
11 3 (2.38%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.46%) Onboarding
2 17 (13.49%) Replication
3 13 (10.32%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.76%) PKI
5 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.17%) Clustering
6 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.38%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.63%) Windows
2 15 (11.90%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.76%) Linux
4 4 (3.17%) Unix
5 3 (2.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.59%) Android
6 2 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (35.71%) DevOps
2 35 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
3 28 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 24 (19.05%) RBAC
5 21 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (15.08%) Agile
8 18 (14.29%) High Availability
8 18 (14.29%) Task Automation
9 17 (13.49%) Migration
10 16 (12.70%) Roadmaps
10 16 (12.70%) Zero Trust
11 14 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (11.11%) Microservices
12 12 (9.52%) Cloud Security
12 12 (9.52%) Decision-Making
13 11 (8.73%) AI
13 11 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (8.73%) Validation
14 10 (7.94%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.84%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.73%) Python
2 11 (8.73%) SQL
3 9 (7.14%) Java
4 8 (6.35%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.76%) Bash
6 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.79%) Bicep
8 1 (0.79%) Groovy
8 1 (0.79%) Korn
8 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (37.30%) Security Cleared
2 44 (34.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.14%) CISSP
4 3 (2.38%) CISM
5 2 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.59%) Degree
5 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.59%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.59%) PMP
6 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) CCSP
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) GIAC
6 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.22%) GDPR
2 20 (15.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (7.14%) NIST
5 3 (2.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (2.38%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.59%) GRC
6 2 (1.59%) NCSC
6 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.59%) PMO
6 2 (1.59%) QA
6 2 (1.59%) SLA
7 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 57 (45.24%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.32%) Docker
3 10 (7.94%) Squid
4 1 (0.79%) Firmware
4 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (19.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.29%) Terraform
4 10 (7.94%) Grafana
4 10 (7.94%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.14%) FortiGate
6 7 (5.56%) Consul
7 5 (3.97%) PingFederate
8 4 (3.17%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.79%) Ansible
10 1 (0.79%) CASB
10 1 (0.79%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 47 (37.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (21.43%) Okta
3 12 (9.52%) Google
3 12 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 11 (8.73%) Red Hat
5 9 (7.14%) CyberArk
5 9 (7.14%) Dynatrace
6 8 (6.35%) Oracle
7 7 (5.56%) Atlassian
8 6 (4.76%) Ping Identity
8 6 (4.76%) Zscaler
9 4 (3.17%) Netskope
9 4 (3.17%) Pega
9 4 (3.17%) SAP
10 3 (2.38%) Workday
11 2 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.59%) ForgeRock
11 2 (1.59%) NetIQ
11 2 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.59%) Salesforce