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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 308 287
Rank change year-on-year +34 -21 +109
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 104 80 138
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.50% 0.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.59% 3.45% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 57 104
10th Percentile £406 £358 £374
25th Percentile £425 £513 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £602 £700 £645
90th Percentile £675 £772 £750
England median daily rate £525 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.73% +3.18%
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 £50.75 - -

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 2,268 2,316 2,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.97% 14.56% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,513 2,182
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -4.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £680
90th Percentile £724 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 34
10th Percentile £21.82 £23.07 £21.48
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £28.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.31 £63.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £66.02 £102.40 £82.38
England median hourly rate £37.00 £35.08 £47.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% -26.14% +78.10%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +1 15 £575 -4.17% 3
West London - 2 £425 - 2
East London - 1 £675 - 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 14 (13.46%) Confluence
2 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (6.73%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.92%) CMS
5 1 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.96%) Apache
5 1 (0.96%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.96%) JBoss
5 1 (0.96%) Moodle
5 1 (0.96%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.96%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.96%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 54 (51.92%) Azure
2 41 (39.42%) Entra ID
3 29 (27.88%) AWS
4 16 (15.38%) GCP
4 16 (15.38%) SaaS
5 12 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (8.65%) GitHub
7 4 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.85%) Serverless
8 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.88%) Firebase
8 3 (2.88%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.88%) PaaS
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.92%) Fastly
9 2 (1.92%) Heroku
9 2 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.19%) SSL
2 10 (9.62%) Firewall
3 9 (8.65%) DNS
3 9 (8.65%) VPN
4 6 (5.77%) Network Security
5 5 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (3.85%) HTTPS
6 4 (3.85%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.88%) BGP
7 3 (2.88%) LAN
7 3 (2.88%) OSPF
7 3 (2.88%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.92%) DHCP
8 2 (1.92%) Internet
8 2 (1.92%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.92%) S/MIME
8 2 (1.92%) VLAN
9 1 (0.96%) DKIM
9 1 (0.96%) DMARC
9 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.92%) Power BI
2 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.92%) SQLite
3 1 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (15.38%) JIRA
2 7 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.77%) Git
4 3 (2.88%) GitLab
5 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.92%) CocoaPods
5 2 (1.92%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.92%) fastlane
5 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.92%) Xcode
6 1 (0.96%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.96%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.96%) gulp
6 1 (0.96%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.96%) Log4j
6 1 (0.96%) Maven
6 1 (0.96%) webpack
General
1 33 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (11.54%) Finance
3 9 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.85%) Banking
5 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.92%) Electronics
6 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.92%) Marketing
7 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.96%) Police
7 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) Architect
2 22 (21.15%) Senior
3 14 (13.46%) Developer
4 10 (9.62%) ServiceNow Architect
5 9 (8.65%) Senior Architect
6 7 (6.73%) Analyst
7 6 (5.77%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Administrator
8 5 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Consultant
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.85%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (2.88%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Network Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (41.35%) SAML
2 36 (34.62%) OAuth
3 30 (28.85%) OpenID
4 26 (25.00%) LDAP
5 21 (20.19%) REST
6 17 (16.35%) SOAP
7 16 (15.38%) JDBC
7 16 (15.38%) OAuth2
8 15 (14.42%) HTML
9 14 (13.46%) jQuery
9 14 (13.46%) JSON
10 13 (12.50%) AngularJS
10 13 (12.50%) HTML5
10 13 (12.50%) Web Services
11 12 (11.54%) Apache Camel
11 12 (11.54%) ODBC
11 12 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (11.54%) SailPoint
12 5 (4.81%) CSS
12 5 (4.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.69%) PKI
3 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.92%) Animation
6 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.96%) Life Science
7 1 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Windows
2 5 (4.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.96%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.69%) Identity Access Management
2 32 (30.77%) Agile
2 32 (30.77%) DevOps
3 29 (27.88%) Zero Trust
4 26 (25.00%) RBAC
5 23 (22.12%) CI/CD
6 21 (20.19%) Identity Management
7 20 (19.23%) Microservices
8 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (17.31%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (14.42%) ITSM
10 15 (14.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (12.50%) Scrum
12 12 (11.54%) Integration Patterns
13 11 (10.58%) API Integration
13 11 (10.58%) DevSecOps
14 10 (9.62%) Architectural Design
15 9 (8.65%) Analytics
15 9 (8.65%) Cloud Security
15 9 (8.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.12%) PowerShell
2 22 (21.15%) JavaScript
3 15 (14.42%) Python
4 11 (10.58%) Java
5 4 (3.85%) Bash
6 3 (2.88%) C#
6 3 (2.88%) SQL
7 2 (1.92%) BeanShell
7 2 (1.92%) Groovy
7 2 (1.92%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.92%) Swift
8 1 (0.96%) Bicep
8 1 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.96%) PHP
8 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (29.81%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.96%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.50%) CISSP
4 8 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.73%) CISM
6 3 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.88%) Degree
6 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.92%) CCSP
7 2 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.96%) CCNA
8 1 (0.96%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.38%) GDPR
2 13 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.77%) NIST
3 6 (5.77%) SOC 2
4 5 (4.81%) HIPAA
5 4 (3.85%) NCSC
5 4 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.88%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.92%) PSD2
7 2 (1.92%) WCAG
8 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 42 (40.38%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.62%) Docker
3 2 (1.92%) OpenAM
3 2 (1.92%) OpenDJ
3 2 (1.92%) OpenIDM
3 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (11.54%) Terraform
2 11 (10.58%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.88%) SCCM
6 2 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.92%) Kibana
6 2 (1.92%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.96%) Ansible
7 1 (0.96%) Argo
7 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.96%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.19%) Okta
3 19 (18.27%) ServiceNow
4 14 (13.46%) CyberArk
5 12 (11.54%) BMC
5 12 (11.54%) HP
5 12 (11.54%) Ivanti
5 12 (11.54%) Remedy
6 11 (10.58%) ForgeRock
7 9 (8.65%) Google
8 7 (6.73%) Zscaler
9 6 (5.77%) Splunk
10 4 (3.85%) Salesforce
11 3 (2.88%) Apple
11 3 (2.88%) Cisco
11 3 (2.88%) Ping Identity
11 3 (2.88%) VMware
12 2 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (1.92%) Confluent
12 2 (1.92%) Thycotic