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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 283 284
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +98
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 111 64 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.46% 3.35% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 42 74
10th Percentile £363 £428 £290
25th Percentile £479 £516 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £572 £564
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% +1.37% +2.50%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £650
90th Percentile £613 £790 £815
England median daily rate £525 £556 £510
% change year-on-year -5.58% +9.02% -7.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.43
25th Percentile - - £24.80
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £26.94
90th Percentile - - £30.43
England median hourly rate £58.00 - £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 2,488 1,913 2,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.75% 15.63% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 1,303 1,597
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £437 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.09% -10.42%
75th Percentile £626 £654 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
England median daily rate £507 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.19 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.09 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% +55.00% -61.24%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £67.19 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £25.77
% change year-on-year +94.83% +12.56% -50.58%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -6 13 £519 +15.23%
Central London -12 3 £463 -14.03% 13
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 14 (12.61%) Confluence
2 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (8.11%) nginx
3 8 (7.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.80%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.80%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (56.76%) Azure
2 56 (50.45%) Entra ID
3 38 (34.23%) AWS
4 19 (17.12%) Serverless
5 17 (15.32%) Amazon S3
6 14 (12.61%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (11.71%) GCP
8 12 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (10.81%) SaaS
9 11 (9.91%) PaaS
9 11 (9.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (9.01%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (8.11%) Google Workspace
11 9 (8.11%) Route 53
12 6 (5.41%) Azure Service Fabric
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.50%) GitHub
14 4 (3.60%) Google Drive
14 4 (3.60%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 40 (36.04%) DNS
2 19 (17.12%) DHCP
2 19 (17.12%) Kerberos
3 16 (14.41%) TCP/IP
4 14 (12.61%) Firewall
4 14 (12.61%) VPN
5 9 (8.11%) OpenVPN
6 6 (5.41%) HTTP
7 5 (4.50%) DKIM
7 5 (4.50%) DMARC
7 5 (4.50%) SSL
8 4 (3.60%) Network Security
9 3 (2.70%) FTP
9 3 (2.70%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (1.80%) RFID
10 2 (1.80%) VLAN
11 1 (0.90%) Internet
11 1 (0.90%) NGFW
11 1 (0.90%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.50%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.50%) Metadata
3 3 (2.70%) CockroachDB
3 3 (2.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (2.70%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.80%) GIS
4 2 (1.80%) MySQL
4 2 (1.80%) Power BI
4 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.90%) DB2
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.90%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (18.92%) JIRA
2 7 (6.31%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.31%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.60%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (3.60%) Git
3 4 (3.60%) GitLab
4 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.80%) Postman
5 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.90%) Gatling
5 1 (0.90%) JMeter
5 1 (0.90%) JUnit
5 1 (0.90%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 31 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.02%) Finance
3 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Banking
5 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.70%) Legal
7 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.80%) Military
7 2 (1.80%) Retail
8 1 (0.90%) Front Office
8 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (19.82%) Architect
2 10 (9.01%) Senior
3 7 (6.31%) Developer
3 7 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (5.41%) Lead
4 6 (5.41%) Senior Developer
4 6 (5.41%) Support Engineer
5 5 (4.50%) Administrator
5 5 (4.50%) AWS Architect
5 5 (4.50%) Consultant
5 5 (4.50%) Project Manager
5 5 (4.50%) Technical Architect
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (3.60%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 4 (3.60%) Pega Developer
6 4 (3.60%) Web Engineer
6 4 (3.60%) Web Support Engineer
7 3 (2.70%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (44.14%) OAuth
2 39 (35.14%) SAML
3 36 (32.43%) LDAP
4 28 (25.23%) OpenID
5 12 (10.81%) OAuth2
5 12 (10.81%) SailPoint
6 8 (7.21%) REST
7 7 (6.31%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (5.41%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.41%) ARM Templates
8 6 (5.41%) Entity Framework
8 6 (5.41%) YAML
9 4 (3.60%) Express.js
9 4 (3.60%) Jest
9 4 (3.60%) Node.js
9 4 (3.60%) Playwright
9 4 (3.60%) React
9 4 (3.60%) SOAP
10 3 (2.70%) CSS
10 3 (2.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.22%) Onboarding
2 17 (15.32%) Replication
3 8 (7.21%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.60%) Clustering
4 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.60%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.70%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (2.70%) PKI
5 3 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.82%) Windows
2 15 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.41%) Linux
4 4 (3.60%) Unix
5 2 (1.80%) Android
5 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.84%) DevOps
2 31 (27.93%) Identity Access Management
3 25 (22.52%) CI/CD
4 23 (20.72%) RBAC
5 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.22%) High Availability
6 18 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (16.22%) Task Automation
7 16 (14.41%) Agile
7 16 (14.41%) Migration
8 15 (13.51%) Roadmaps
9 14 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (11.71%) Microservices
10 13 (11.71%) Zero Trust
11 12 (10.81%) Decision-Making
12 11 (9.91%) AI
12 11 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (9.91%) Data Loss Prevention
12 11 (9.91%) Validation
13 10 (9.01%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.52%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.91%) Python
3 9 (8.11%) Java
3 9 (8.11%) SQL
4 7 (6.31%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.41%) Bash
5 6 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.90%) Bicep
7 1 (0.90%) Groovy
7 1 (0.90%) Korn
Qualifications
1 47 (42.34%) Security Cleared
2 44 (39.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) CISSP
4 3 (2.70%) CISM
5 2 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.80%) Degree
5 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.80%) PMP
6 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.90%) CCSP
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (26.13%) GDPR
2 19 (17.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (9.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (8.11%) NIST
5 3 (2.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (2.70%) NCSC
5 3 (2.70%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.80%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.80%) GRC
6 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.80%) QA
7 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.90%) PMO
7 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (46.85%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.81%) Docker
3 10 (9.01%) Squid
4 1 (0.90%) Firmware
4 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (21.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (15.32%) Kubernetes
3 16 (14.41%) Terraform
4 10 (9.01%) Grafana
4 10 (9.01%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.11%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.31%) Consul
7 5 (4.50%) PingFederate
8 4 (3.60%) CA Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.90%) Ansible
10 1 (0.90%) CASB
Vendors
1 42 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.82%) Okta
3 12 (10.81%) Google
4 11 (9.91%) Red Hat
5 9 (8.11%) CyberArk
5 9 (8.11%) Dynatrace
5 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.31%) Atlassian
6 7 (6.31%) Oracle
7 6 (5.41%) Ping Identity
8 5 (4.50%) Zscaler
9 4 (3.60%) Netskope
9 4 (3.60%) Pega
9 4 (3.60%) SAP
10 3 (2.70%) Workday
11 2 (1.80%) ESRI
11 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.80%) NetIQ
11 2 (1.80%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.80%) Salesforce