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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 290 295
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +63
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 131 67 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.04% 3.52% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 41 72
10th Percentile £313 £425 £290
25th Percentile £470 £500 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £578
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% -1.65% +8.15%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £653
90th Percentile £613 £790 £724
England median daily rate £525 £560 £523
% change year-on-year -6.25% +7.18% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 2,597 1,906 2,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.79% 15.56% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,781 1,277 1,667
10th Percentile £356 £357 £325
25th Percentile £430 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £749
England median daily rate £511 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -0.83% -1.44% -9.13%
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 £58.50 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.97% +60.26% -61.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £58.50 £42.25 £30.75
% change year-on-year +38.46% +37.40% -41.01%

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 12 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 12 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 +5 13 £519 +15.23%
Central London -11 10 £544 -13.69% 14
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 (11.45%) Confluence
2 10 (7.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (6.87%) nginx
4 8 (6.11%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.53%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.53%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (53.44%) Azure
2 58 (44.27%) Entra ID
3 43 (32.82%) AWS
4 20 (15.27%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (14.50%) GCP
5 19 (14.50%) Serverless
6 17 (12.98%) Amazon S3
7 15 (11.45%) SaaS
8 12 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (8.40%) PaaS
9 11 (8.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (6.87%) Google Workspace
11 9 (6.87%) Route 53
12 6 (4.58%) Azure Service Fabric
12 6 (4.58%) GitHub
13 5 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
14 4 (3.05%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 44 (33.59%) DNS
2 20 (15.27%) DHCP
2 20 (15.27%) TCP/IP
3 18 (13.74%) Kerberos
4 15 (11.45%) Firewall
5 14 (10.69%) VPN
6 9 (6.87%) OpenVPN
7 6 (4.58%) HTTP
7 6 (4.58%) SSL
8 5 (3.82%) DKIM
8 5 (3.82%) DMARC
8 5 (3.82%) Network Security
8 5 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.05%) HTTPS
10 3 (2.29%) FTP
11 2 (1.53%) IPsec
11 2 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (1.53%) RFID
11 2 (1.53%) VLAN
12 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.87%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.82%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.82%) Metadata
3 3 (2.29%) CockroachDB
3 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (2.29%) Pinecone
3 3 (2.29%) Power BI
3 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.53%) GIS
4 2 (1.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.76%) Db2
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (16.79%) JIRA
2 8 (6.11%) SonarQube
3 7 (5.34%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.82%) Git
4 5 (3.82%) GitLab
5 4 (3.05%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.76%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.76%) JUnit
8 1 (0.76%) Postman
8 1 (0.76%) Snyk
General
1 37 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.79%) Finance
3 11 (8.40%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.34%) Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Military
8 2 (1.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Front Office
9 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (16.79%) Architect
2 12 (9.16%) Senior
3 9 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (6.11%) Developer
5 7 (5.34%) Consultant
5 7 (5.34%) Senior Developer
5 7 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.34%) Support Engineer
6 6 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.58%) Project Manager
6 6 (4.58%) Security Engineer
7 5 (3.82%) Active Directory Engineer
7 5 (3.82%) Administrator
7 5 (3.82%) AWS Architect
7 5 (3.82%) Lead
7 5 (3.82%) Technical Architect
8 4 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.05%) Pega Developer
8 4 (3.05%) Web Engineer
8 4 (3.05%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (36.64%) OAuth
2 44 (33.59%) SAML
3 34 (25.95%) LDAP
4 31 (23.66%) OpenID
5 13 (9.92%) OAuth2
6 10 (7.63%) SailPoint
7 8 (6.11%) REST
8 7 (5.34%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.34%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (4.58%) ARM Templates
9 6 (4.58%) Entity Framework
9 6 (4.58%) YAML
10 4 (3.05%) Express.js
10 4 (3.05%) Jest
10 4 (3.05%) Node.js
10 4 (3.05%) Playwright
10 4 (3.05%) React
10 4 (3.05%) SOAP
10 4 (3.05%) Spring
11 3 (2.29%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.56%) Onboarding
2 16 (12.21%) Replication
3 15 (11.45%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.11%) PKI
5 5 (3.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.82%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.05%) Clustering
6 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.05%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.29%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.29%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.61%) Windows
2 14 (10.69%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.58%) Linux
4 4 (3.05%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.05%) Unix
5 2 (1.53%) Android
5 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.35%) DevOps
2 34 (25.95%) Identity Access Management
3 28 (21.37%) CI/CD
4 23 (17.56%) RBAC
5 20 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (14.50%) Agile
7 18 (13.74%) Migration
8 17 (12.98%) High Availability
8 17 (12.98%) Task Automation
9 16 (12.21%) Roadmaps
9 16 (12.21%) Zero Trust
10 14 (10.69%) Microservices
11 13 (9.92%) Cloud Security
11 13 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (9.16%) AI
12 12 (9.16%) Decision-Making
13 11 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (8.40%) Data Loss Prevention
13 11 (8.40%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.32%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.40%) Python
2 11 (8.40%) SQL
3 9 (6.87%) Java
4 8 (6.11%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.58%) Bash
6 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.76%) Bicep
8 1 (0.76%) Groovy
8 1 (0.76%) Korn
8 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (34.35%) Security Cleared
2 43 (32.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.87%) CISSP
4 3 (2.29%) CISM
5 2 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.53%) Degree
5 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.53%) PMP
6 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) CCSP
6 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) GIAC
6 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (20.61%) GDPR
2 19 (14.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (7.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (6.87%) NIST
5 3 (2.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (2.29%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.53%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.53%) GRC
6 2 (1.53%) NCSC
6 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.53%) PMO
6 2 (1.53%) QA
6 2 (1.53%) SLA
7 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (45.80%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.92%) Docker
3 10 (7.63%) Squid
4 1 (0.76%) Firmware
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (17.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 22 (16.79%) Kubernetes
3 18 (13.74%) Terraform
4 10 (7.63%) Grafana
4 10 (7.63%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.87%) FortiGate
6 7 (5.34%) Consul
7 5 (3.82%) PingFederate
8 4 (3.05%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.76%) Ansible
9 1 (0.76%) CASB
9 1 (0.76%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 50 (38.17%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.37%) Okta
3 13 (9.92%) ServiceNow
4 11 (8.40%) Google
4 11 (8.40%) Red Hat
5 9 (6.87%) Dynatrace
6 8 (6.11%) Oracle
7 7 (5.34%) Atlassian
7 7 (5.34%) CyberArk
8 6 (4.58%) Ping Identity
8 6 (4.58%) Zscaler
9 4 (3.05%) Netskope
9 4 (3.05%) Pega
9 4 (3.05%) SAP
10 3 (2.29%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (2.29%) Workday
11 2 (1.53%) ESRI
11 2 (1.53%) ForgeRock
11 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.53%) Salesforce