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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 260 292
Rank change year-on-year -72 +32 -17
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 124 109 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.81% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.39% 5.95% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 64 67
10th Percentile £245 £402 £290
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £633 £600 £691
90th Percentile £708 £675 £720
England median daily rate £525 £512 £595
% change year-on-year +2.64% -14.03% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £44.48 -
25th Percentile £73.75 £45.56 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £50.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +52.71% +109.88% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.56 -
90th Percentile - £56.43 -
England median hourly rate £76.25 £50.75 £24.18
% change year-on-year +50.25% +109.88% -

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 2,301 1,833 2,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.37% 13.68% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,191 1,356
10th Percentile £326 £330 £325
25th Percentile £439 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £730 £723 £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 20
10th Percentile £24.02 £21.09 -
25th Percentile £29.53 £26.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £49.00 £38.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.45% +43.52% -55.00%
75th Percentile £77.13 £59.81 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.41 £101.20
England median hourly rate £65.45 £34.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +92.50% -10.53% -27.62%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -16 23 £613 +8.89% 20
West London -18 1 £375 -11.76% 3
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 17 (13.71%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.45%) Confluence
2 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.23%) nginx
4 2 (1.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.81%) Actimize
2 1 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 50 (40.32%) Entra ID
2 49 (39.52%) Azure
3 26 (20.97%) AWS
4 25 (20.16%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (16.94%) GCP
6 15 (12.10%) SaaS
7 10 (8.06%) GitHub
8 8 (6.45%) Google Workspace
9 5 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (3.23%) Google Drive
10 4 (3.23%) OCI
10 4 (3.23%) Serverless
10 4 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.42%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.42%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.42%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (25.81%) DNS
2 13 (10.48%) TCP/IP
3 8 (6.45%) Firewall
4 7 (5.65%) DHCP
4 7 (5.65%) VPN
4 7 (5.65%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.84%) DKIM
5 6 (4.84%) DMARC
5 6 (4.84%) SSH
6 5 (4.03%) Network Security
6 5 (4.03%) SSL
7 4 (3.23%) Kerberos
7 4 (3.23%) OpenVPN
8 3 (2.42%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (2.42%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.42%) WAN
9 2 (1.61%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.61%) IPsec
10 1 (0.81%) BGP
10 1 (0.81%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.42%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.42%) Metadata
2 3 (2.42%) Power BI
2 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.42%) Tableau
3 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.81%) Db2
4 1 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.81%) MySQL
4 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.81%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (13.71%) JIRA
2 10 (8.06%) Git
3 4 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.42%) Postman
5 2 (1.61%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.61%) GitLab
5 2 (1.61%) JUnit
5 2 (1.61%) Maven
5 2 (1.61%) Mockito
5 2 (1.61%) Snyk
5 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.81%) Serenity BDD
General
1 29 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.94%) Finance
3 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.06%) Banking
5 6 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.03%) Retail
7 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.42%) Marketing
9 2 (1.61%) Legal
9 2 (1.61%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) French Language
10 1 (0.81%) Front Office
10 1 (0.81%) German Language
10 1 (0.81%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.81%) Local Government
10 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (13.71%) Architect
2 10 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
3 8 (6.45%) Analyst
3 8 (6.45%) Application Integration Engineer
3 8 (6.45%) Consultant
3 8 (6.45%) Integration Engineer
3 8 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.65%) Active Directory Engineer
4 7 (5.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (5.65%) Security Engineer
5 5 (4.03%) Administrator
5 5 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (4.03%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 5 (4.03%) Senior
6 4 (3.23%) Developer
6 4 (3.23%) IAM Consultant
6 4 (3.23%) Salesforce Architect
6 4 (3.23%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.00%) SAML
2 27 (21.77%) OAuth
3 24 (19.35%) OpenID
4 16 (12.90%) Terraform
5 15 (12.10%) REST
6 10 (8.06%) OAuth2
7 7 (5.65%) LDAP
8 6 (4.84%) SOAP
9 5 (4.03%) Middleware
10 4 (3.23%) boto
10 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (3.23%) OpenTofu
11 3 (2.42%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.42%) JWT
11 3 (2.42%) Kafka
11 3 (2.42%) SailPoint
11 3 (2.42%) Spring
12 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.61%) Jakarta EE
12 2 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.74%) Onboarding
2 16 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 15 (12.10%) PKI
4 12 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.65%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.84%) Security Posture
7 5 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (4.03%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.42%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.42%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (2.42%) Replication
10 2 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.61%) Life Science
10 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.71%) Windows
2 13 (10.48%) Mac OS
3 9 (7.26%) Linux
4 5 (4.03%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.61%) Android
7 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.84%) Identity Access Management
2 28 (22.58%) Migration
3 24 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (17.74%) CI/CD
5 20 (16.13%) Cloud Security
5 20 (16.13%) DevOps
6 18 (14.52%) Agile
6 18 (14.52%) RBAC
7 16 (12.90%) Roadmaps
8 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (11.29%) Integration Patterns
8 14 (11.29%) ITSM
8 14 (11.29%) Validation
9 13 (10.48%) Change Management
9 13 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (10.48%) Identity Management
10 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (9.68%) Service Management
10 12 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (9.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.10%) PowerShell
1 15 (12.10%) Python
2 10 (8.06%) SQL
3 9 (7.26%) Java
4 4 (3.23%) Bash
5 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.61%) Bicep
6 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) Go
7 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.81%) R
7 1 (0.81%) Swift
7 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.65%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.03%) Degree
6 3 (2.42%) CISSP
6 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.61%) GIAC
7 2 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.61%) PMP
7 2 (1.61%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.65%) GDPR
2 7 (5.65%) NIST
3 5 (4.03%) QA
4 4 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (3.23%) SLA
5 3 (2.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.61%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.61%) GRC
6 2 (1.61%) ITGC
6 2 (1.61%) NCSC
6 2 (1.61%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.81%) PMO
7 1 (0.81%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (38.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.23%) Docker
3 2 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.81%) zsh
Systems Management
1 14 (11.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.65%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (4.03%) Ansible
5 3 (2.42%) Grafana
5 3 (2.42%) SELinux
6 2 (1.61%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.61%) SCCM
7 1 (0.81%) CASB
7 1 (0.81%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 62 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.94%) Okta
3 15 (12.10%) ServiceNow
4 13 (10.48%) Google
5 10 (8.06%) Oracle
6 6 (4.84%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (4.84%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.84%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.03%) CyberArk
7 5 (4.03%) ForgeRock
8 4 (3.23%) Apple
8 4 (3.23%) Ping Identity
9 3 (2.42%) IBM
9 3 (2.42%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.42%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.61%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.61%) Databricks
10 2 (1.61%) SAP
10 2 (1.61%) Splunk
10 2 (1.61%) Veracode