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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 295 294
Rank change year-on-year +36 -1 +111
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 103 93 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 0.58% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.99% 4.02% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 63 114
10th Percentile £400 £290 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £600 £691 £642
90th Percentile £680 £700 £683
England median daily rate £509 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -15.13% +4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.44% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.09 -
% change year-on-year -20.95% - -

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 2,063 2,315 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.36% 14.34% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 1,572 2,624
10th Percentile £344 £332 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -1.23%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.60% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 39
10th Percentile £25.20 £21.16 £25.12
25th Percentile £26.45 £23.80 £26.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £60.63 £63.50 £76.13
90th Percentile £63.71 £71.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% -20.00% +109.12%

Single Sign-On
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Single Sign-On as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Single Sign-On 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -4 11 £563 +8.70% 5
West London - 2 £425 - 1
South London - 1 £450 -
Single Sign-On
England

Single Sign-On
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (15.53%) Confluence
2 11 (10.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (7.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.97%) JBoss
4 1 (0.97%) Moodle
4 1 (0.97%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.97%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 50 (48.54%) Azure
2 38 (36.89%) Entra ID
3 31 (30.10%) AWS
4 20 (19.42%) GCP
5 18 (17.48%) SaaS
6 16 (15.53%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (9.71%) GitHub
8 9 (8.74%) Serverless
9 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (7.77%) PaaS
10 7 (6.80%) IaaS
11 5 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (3.88%) Power Automate
12 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 2 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (1.94%) Datadog
14 2 (1.94%) Fastly
14 2 (1.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.45%) SSL
2 17 (16.50%) Firewall
3 11 (10.68%) VPN
4 9 (8.74%) DNS
5 8 (7.77%) HTTPS
6 4 (3.88%) Network Security
7 3 (2.91%) BGP
7 3 (2.91%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.91%) OSPF
7 3 (2.91%) POP3
7 3 (2.91%) SMTP
7 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.91%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.97%) DHCP
9 1 (0.97%) FTP
9 1 (0.97%) HTTP
9 1 (0.97%) Internet
9 1 (0.97%) LAN
9 1 (0.97%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.94%) Power BI
3 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.97%) Metadata
4 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (16.50%) JIRA
2 8 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.91%) GitLab
4 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.94%) Git
4 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.97%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.97%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.97%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.97%) Log4j
General
1 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.77%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.80%) Finance
5 6 (5.83%) Marketing
6 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.94%) French Language
7 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.97%) Electronics
8 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.97%) Local Government
8 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.97%) Police
8 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (24.27%) Architect
2 16 (15.53%) Senior
3 14 (13.59%) Developer
4 10 (9.71%) ServiceNow Architect
5 9 (8.74%) Senior Architect
6 7 (6.80%) Administrator
7 6 (5.83%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) ServiceNow Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Analyst
10 3 (2.91%) Lead
10 3 (2.91%) Network Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (40.78%) SAML
2 38 (36.89%) OAuth
3 34 (33.01%) OpenID
4 29 (28.16%) LDAP
5 22 (21.36%) REST
5 22 (21.36%) SOAP
6 20 (19.42%) JDBC
7 18 (17.48%) OAuth2
8 16 (15.53%) AngularJS
8 16 (15.53%) HTML
8 16 (15.53%) Web Services
9 14 (13.59%) jQuery
10 13 (12.62%) HTML5
10 13 (12.62%) JSON
11 12 (11.65%) Apache Camel
11 12 (11.65%) ODBC
11 12 (11.65%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (9.71%) SailPoint
13 7 (6.80%) CSS
14 5 (4.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) PKI
2 7 (6.80%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.80%) Taxonomies
3 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.85%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.97%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.97%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.85%) Linux
1 5 (4.85%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.91%) Unix
2 3 (2.91%) Windows
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.89%) DevOps
2 36 (34.95%) Agile
3 31 (30.10%) Identity Access Management
4 27 (26.21%) Identity Management
5 25 (24.27%) Zero Trust
6 22 (21.36%) CI/CD
6 22 (21.36%) RBAC
7 21 (20.39%) Scrum
8 18 (17.48%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 17 (16.50%) Migration
9 17 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (15.53%) Microservices
11 14 (13.59%) API Integration
11 14 (13.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (13.59%) User Experience
12 13 (12.62%) ITSM
12 13 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (11.65%) Integration Patterns
13 12 (11.65%) Kalman Filter
14 9 (8.74%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.13%) JavaScript
2 22 (21.36%) PowerShell
3 14 (13.59%) Python
4 11 (10.68%) Java
5 6 (5.83%) Bicep
6 5 (4.85%) Bash
7 3 (2.91%) C#
8 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.97%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.97%) PHP
9 1 (0.97%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.71%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.83%) Degree
5 3 (2.91%) CISSP
5 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.97%) CISM
7 1 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.97%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.71%) GDPR
2 8 (7.77%) NIST
3 7 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.85%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.94%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.97%) PSD2
7 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (49.51%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.65%) Docker
3 3 (2.91%) OpenAM
3 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.97%) NFS
Systems Management
1 17 (16.50%) Terraform
2 13 (12.62%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (1.94%) Kibana
5 2 (1.94%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (1.94%) SCCM
6 1 (0.97%) Ansible
6 1 (0.97%) Argo
6 1 (0.97%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (32.04%) Microsoft
2 22 (21.36%) ServiceNow
3 18 (17.48%) Okta
4 14 (13.59%) ForgeRock
5 12 (11.65%) BMC
5 12 (11.65%) HP
5 12 (11.65%) Ivanti
5 12 (11.65%) Remedy
6 9 (8.74%) CyberArk
7 8 (7.77%) Google
8 6 (5.83%) Ping Identity
8 6 (5.83%) Splunk
8 6 (5.83%) Zscaler
9 4 (3.88%) Salesforce
9 4 (3.88%) VMware
10 3 (2.91%) Cisco
11 2 (1.94%) Confluent
11 2 (1.94%) IBM
11 2 (1.94%) McAfee
11 2 (1.94%) Oracle