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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 289 288
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +103
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 117 67 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.50% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.94% 3.28% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 48 70
10th Percentile £413 £407 £312
25th Percentile £463 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £713 £750
90th Percentile £625 £805 £888
England median daily rate £522 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -13.08% +11.11% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.53
25th Percentile £51.00 - £26.31
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £28.25
75th Percentile £57.00 - £30.81
90th Percentile - - £31.98
England median hourly rate £56.50 - £31.50
% change year-on-year - - -51.16%

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 2,368 2,041 2,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.24% 15.22% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 1,359 1,722
10th Percentile £350 £365 £319
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -10.20%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 34
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.63 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £44.50 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% +53.45% +12.80%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £58.56
90th Percentile £64.65 £108.60 £61.75
England median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +100.94% -33.75% -16.67%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 - 12 £530 - 4
Central London -12 7 £575 -4.17% 11
East London - 1 £675 - 1
West London - 1 £425 - 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 9 (7.69%) Confluence
2 7 (5.98%) nginx
3 2 (1.71%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.71%) CMS
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (61.54%) Azure
2 59 (50.43%) Entra ID
3 35 (29.91%) AWS
4 15 (12.82%) Amazon S3
4 15 (12.82%) SaaS
5 14 (11.97%) Serverless
6 12 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (9.40%) PaaS
8 10 (8.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (7.69%) GCP
10 7 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.98%) Route 53
11 6 (5.13%) Azure Service Fabric
11 6 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (4.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (4.27%) GitHub
13 4 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.42%) Google Workspace
13 4 (3.42%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (23.08%) DNS
2 18 (15.38%) VPN
3 16 (13.68%) DHCP
4 15 (12.82%) Firewall
4 15 (12.82%) Kerberos
5 11 (9.40%) TCP/IP
6 8 (6.84%) Network Security
7 7 (5.98%) OpenVPN
8 6 (5.13%) SSL
9 4 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.56%) BGP
10 3 (2.56%) HTTPS
10 3 (2.56%) Internet
10 3 (2.56%) LAN
10 3 (2.56%) OSPF
10 3 (2.56%) Wireshark
11 2 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (1.71%) RFID
11 2 (1.71%) S/MIME
11 2 (1.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.56%) CockroachDB
3 3 (2.56%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.71%) GIS
4 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.71%) SQLite
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (10.26%) JIRA
2 7 (5.98%) Git
3 6 (5.13%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.13%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.56%) GitLab
6 2 (1.71%) CocoaPods
6 2 (1.71%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.71%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.71%) fastlane
6 2 (1.71%) Postman
6 2 (1.71%) Xcode
7 1 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.85%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.85%) Gatling
7 1 (0.85%) gulp
7 1 (0.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.85%) Selenium
7 1 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 36 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.68%) Finance
3 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.98%) Banking
4 7 (5.98%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Electronics
6 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.85%) Marketing
6 1 (0.85%) Publishing
6 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (17.95%) Architect
2 17 (14.53%) Senior
3 14 (11.97%) Developer
4 9 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 8 (6.84%) Technical Architect
6 7 (5.98%) Analyst
6 7 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.13%) Lead
7 6 (5.13%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.42%) AWS Architect
8 4 (3.42%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) Pega Developer
8 4 (3.42%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (2.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (2.56%) ForgeRock Developer
9 3 (2.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (44.44%) OAuth
2 43 (36.75%) SAML
3 34 (29.06%) OpenID
4 30 (25.64%) LDAP
5 16 (13.68%) OAuth2
6 15 (12.82%) SailPoint
7 7 (5.98%) REST
8 6 (5.13%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.13%) ARM Templates
8 6 (5.13%) Entity Framework
8 6 (5.13%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (5.13%) React
8 6 (5.13%) YAML
9 5 (4.27%) CSS
9 5 (4.27%) SOAP
10 4 (3.42%) HTML
10 4 (3.42%) Node.js
10 4 (3.42%) RESTful
10 4 (3.42%) Vue
11 3 (2.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.95%) Onboarding
2 15 (12.82%) Replication
3 6 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.13%) PKI
4 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.56%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.71%) Animation
6 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.71%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.53%) Windows
2 15 (12.82%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.27%) Linux
4 2 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (36.75%) Identity Access Management
2 34 (29.06%) RBAC
3 29 (24.79%) DevOps
4 26 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 26 (22.22%) Zero Trust
5 22 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (17.09%) Agile
7 19 (16.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (15.38%) Identity Management
9 16 (13.68%) Microservices
10 15 (12.82%) High Availability
10 15 (12.82%) Task Automation
11 14 (11.97%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (11.11%) DevSecOps
13 12 (10.26%) AI
13 12 (10.26%) API Integration
14 11 (9.40%) Roadmaps
15 10 (8.55%) Architectural Design
15 10 (8.55%) Containerisation
15 10 (8.55%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.93%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.82%) Python
3 12 (10.26%) Java
3 12 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.55%) SQL
5 7 (5.98%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.56%) Groovy
6 3 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.71%) Bash
7 2 (1.71%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.71%) Swift
8 1 (0.85%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.85%) Bicep
8 1 (0.85%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (37.61%) Security Cleared
2 41 (35.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.82%) CISSP
4 7 (5.98%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.98%) CISM
5 3 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.56%) Degree
6 2 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.71%) CCSP
6 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) CCNA
7 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (24.79%) GDPR
2 16 (13.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 12 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.13%) Accessibility
5 5 (4.27%) NCSC
5 5 (4.27%) NIST
5 5 (4.27%) SOC 2
6 4 (3.42%) HIPAA
7 3 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (2.56%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.71%) PSD2
8 2 (1.71%) WCAG
9 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 47 (40.17%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.11%) Docker
3 8 (6.84%) Squid
4 2 (1.71%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.71%) OpenDJ
4 2 (1.71%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 24 (20.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 19 (16.24%) Terraform
3 17 (14.53%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.84%) FortiGate
4 8 (6.84%) Grafana
4 8 (6.84%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.13%) Consul
6 2 (1.71%) Ansible
6 2 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (42.74%) Microsoft
2 27 (23.08%) Okta
3 11 (9.40%) CyberArk
4 9 (7.69%) Google
4 9 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.84%) ForgeRock
6 7 (5.98%) Atlassian
6 7 (5.98%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.98%) Zscaler
7 4 (3.42%) Pega
7 4 (3.42%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.56%) Apple
8 3 (2.56%) Ping Identity
8 3 (2.56%) SAP
8 3 (2.56%) Splunk
9 2 (1.71%) Adobe
9 2 (1.71%) Cisco
9 2 (1.71%) Citrix
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle