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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 282 296
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 +108
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 113 69 93
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.75% 3.39% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 50 64
10th Percentile £418 £409 £300
25th Percentile £483 £516 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.85% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £750 £763
90th Percentile £633 £800 £889
England median daily rate £525 £600 £520
% change year-on-year -12.50% +15.38% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £57.00 - £28.88
90th Percentile - - £31.20
England median hourly rate £56.50 - £28.25
% change year-on-year - - -56.20%

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 2,381 2,034 2,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.11% 15.35% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 1,364 1,677
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -9.84%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £650
90th Percentile £725 £809 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 35
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.61 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.04
Median hourly rate £54.00 £36.75 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +42.94% -
75th Percentile £63.32 £71.19 £58.38
90th Percentile £64.65 £110.30 £61.50
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +107.69% -35.00% -23.27%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 - 13 £519 - 3
Central London -12 6 £575 -4.17% 14
East London - 1 £675 - 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 10 (8.85%) Confluence
2 8 (7.08%) nginx
3 2 (1.77%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.77%) CMS
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (59.29%) Azure
2 56 (49.56%) Entra ID
3 36 (31.86%) AWS
4 17 (15.04%) Amazon S3
5 15 (13.27%) Serverless
6 13 (11.50%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (9.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (7.96%) GCP
8 9 (7.96%) PaaS
8 9 (7.96%) SaaS
9 8 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.08%) Route 53
10 6 (5.31%) Azure Service Fabric
10 6 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (3.54%) AWS Control Tower
12 4 (3.54%) GitHub
12 4 (3.54%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 27 (23.89%) DNS
2 18 (15.93%) VPN
3 16 (14.16%) DHCP
4 15 (13.27%) Firewall
4 15 (13.27%) Kerberos
5 12 (10.62%) TCP/IP
6 8 (7.08%) OpenVPN
7 7 (6.19%) Network Security
8 6 (5.31%) SSL
9 4 (3.54%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.65%) BGP
10 3 (2.65%) HTTPS
10 3 (2.65%) LAN
10 3 (2.65%) OSPF
10 3 (2.65%) Wireshark
11 2 (1.77%) Internet
11 2 (1.77%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (1.77%) RFID
11 2 (1.77%) S/MIME
11 2 (1.77%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.08%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.42%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.65%) CockroachDB
3 3 (2.65%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.77%) GIS
4 2 (1.77%) SQLite
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.88%) MySQL
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Power BI
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (11.50%) JIRA
2 7 (6.19%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.19%) Git
2 7 (6.19%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.65%) GitLab
5 2 (1.77%) CocoaPods
5 2 (1.77%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.77%) fastlane
5 2 (1.77%) Postman
5 2 (1.77%) Xcode
6 1 (0.88%) Gatling
6 1 (0.88%) gulp
6 1 (0.88%) JMeter
6 1 (0.88%) JUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Maven
6 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.88%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 38 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.93%) Finance
3 8 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.08%) Banking
4 7 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Electronics
7 1 (0.88%) Front Office
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Publishing
7 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (18.58%) Architect
2 17 (15.04%) Senior
3 12 (10.62%) Developer
4 9 (7.96%) Senior Developer
5 8 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Analyst
6 7 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.19%) Technical Architect
7 6 (5.31%) Lead
7 6 (5.31%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.54%) AWS Architect
9 4 (3.54%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Network Security Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Pega Developer
10 3 (2.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 3 (2.65%) ForgeRock Developer
10 3 (2.65%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (43.36%) OAuth
2 40 (35.40%) SAML
3 33 (29.20%) OpenID
4 32 (28.32%) LDAP
5 17 (15.04%) SailPoint
6 16 (14.16%) OAuth2
7 7 (6.19%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (5.31%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.31%) ARM Templates
8 6 (5.31%) Entity Framework
8 6 (5.31%) React
8 6 (5.31%) REST
8 6 (5.31%) YAML
9 5 (4.42%) Node.js
10 4 (3.54%) CSS
10 4 (3.54%) HTML
10 4 (3.54%) Jest
10 4 (3.54%) Playwright
10 4 (3.54%) RESTful
10 4 (3.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.81%) Onboarding
2 15 (13.27%) Replication
3 6 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.31%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.31%) PKI
4 4 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.65%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.77%) Animation
6 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.77%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.93%) Windows
2 14 (12.39%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.31%) Linux
4 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.82%) Identity Access Management
2 36 (31.86%) RBAC
3 28 (24.78%) DevOps
4 25 (22.12%) CI/CD
5 24 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (19.47%) Zero Trust
7 18 (15.93%) Agile
7 18 (15.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (15.04%) Microservices
9 15 (13.27%) Task Automation
10 14 (12.39%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (12.39%) High Availability
10 14 (12.39%) Identity Management
11 13 (11.50%) DevSecOps
12 12 (10.62%) API Integration
12 12 (10.62%) Roadmaps
13 11 (9.73%) AI
13 11 (9.73%) Containerisation
14 10 (8.85%) Architectural Design
14 10 (8.85%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.89%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.39%) Python
3 12 (10.62%) Java
4 11 (9.73%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.96%) SQL
6 8 (7.08%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.65%) Groovy
7 3 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.77%) Bash
8 2 (1.77%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.77%) Swift
9 1 (0.88%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.88%) C#
9 1 (0.88%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (39.82%) Security Cleared
2 42 (37.17%) SC Cleared
3 17 (15.04%) CISSP
4 8 (7.08%) CISM
5 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.77%) CCSP
7 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.77%) Degree
7 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.77%) PMP
7 2 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.88%) CCNA
8 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (23.01%) GDPR
2 17 (15.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 12 (10.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.42%) NCSC
5 4 (3.54%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.65%) NIST
6 3 (2.65%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.65%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.77%) PSD2
8 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.88%) PMO
8 1 (0.88%) QA
8 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (40.71%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.39%) Docker
3 9 (7.96%) Squid
4 2 (1.77%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.77%) OpenDJ
4 2 (1.77%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 24 (21.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 18 (15.93%) Kubernetes
2 18 (15.93%) Terraform
3 9 (7.96%) FortiGate
3 9 (7.96%) Grafana
3 9 (7.96%) Prometheus
4 7 (6.19%) Consul
5 2 (1.77%) Ansible
5 2 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 29 (25.66%) Okta
3 13 (11.50%) CyberArk
4 10 (8.85%) Red Hat
5 9 (7.96%) Google
6 8 (7.08%) Atlassian
6 8 (7.08%) Dynatrace
6 8 (7.08%) ForgeRock
7 7 (6.19%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.54%) Pega
8 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.65%) Apple
9 3 (2.65%) Oracle
9 3 (2.65%) Ping Identity
9 3 (2.65%) SAP
9 3 (2.65%) Splunk
10 2 (1.77%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.77%) NetIQ
10 2 (1.77%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.77%) Palo Alto