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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 263 304
Rank change year-on-year -62 +41 0
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 127 106 93
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.79% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.56% 5.92% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 64 64
10th Percentile £258 £400 £290
25th Percentile £450 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -7.69% -1.09%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £688
90th Percentile £704 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.75 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £47.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +63.16% +96.44% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £60.09
% change year-on-year +57.89% -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 2,283 1,791 2,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.23% 13.28% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,527 1,167 1,375
10th Percentile £320 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% -2.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £661
90th Percentile £725 £725 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 22
10th Percentile £24.03 £23.60 -
25th Percentile £29.08 £26.23 £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £37.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +16.28% -46.25%
75th Percentile £76.56 £60.63 £69.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.64 £97.13
England median hourly rate £67.00 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +97.06% -15.00% -20.00%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -18 21 £613 +8.89% 24
West London -24 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 (13.39%) SharePoint
2 12 (9.45%) Confluence
3 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.15%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Actimize
2 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 55 (43.31%) Azure
2 53 (41.73%) Entra ID
3 30 (23.62%) AWS
4 25 (19.69%) GCP
4 25 (19.69%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (11.02%) SaaS
6 9 (7.09%) GitHub
7 8 (6.30%) Google Workspace
8 6 (4.72%) OCI
8 6 (4.72%) Serverless
9 4 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.15%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (3.15%) Google Drive
9 4 (3.15%) PaaS
9 4 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.36%) Asana
10 3 (2.36%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.36%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (24.41%) DNS
2 14 (11.02%) TCP/IP
3 9 (7.09%) DHCP
4 8 (6.30%) Firewall
5 7 (5.51%) SSL
5 7 (5.51%) VPN
5 7 (5.51%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (4.72%) DKIM
6 6 (4.72%) DMARC
6 6 (4.72%) Kerberos
6 6 (4.72%) SSH
7 5 (3.94%) Network Security
8 4 (3.15%) OpenVPN
9 3 (2.36%) FTP
9 3 (2.36%) HTTPS
9 3 (2.36%) SD-WAN
9 3 (2.36%) WAN
10 2 (1.57%) HTTP
10 2 (1.57%) IPsec
11 1 (0.79%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.51%) Metadata
2 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (2.36%) Power BI
2 3 (2.36%) Tableau
3 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.57%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.57%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.79%) Db2
4 1 (0.79%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.79%) MySQL
4 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (16.54%) JIRA
2 11 (8.66%) Git
3 4 (3.15%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.36%) GitLab
4 3 (2.36%) Postman
5 2 (1.57%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.57%) JUnit
5 2 (1.57%) Maven
5 2 (1.57%) Mockito
5 2 (1.57%) Snyk
5 2 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.79%) Serenity BDD
General
1 28 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.69%) Finance
3 10 (7.87%) Banking
3 10 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.72%) Retail
5 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.15%) Legal
6 3 (2.36%) Marketing
7 2 (1.57%) Military
8 1 (0.79%) Advertising
8 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.79%) French Language
8 1 (0.79%) Front Office
8 1 (0.79%) German Language
8 1 (0.79%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.79%) Local Government
8 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (14.17%) Architect
2 9 (7.09%) Active Directory Engineer
2 9 (7.09%) Consultant
2 9 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (5.51%) Analyst
4 7 (5.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (5.51%) Security Engineer
5 6 (4.72%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (3.94%) Administrator
6 5 (3.94%) Application Integration Engineer
6 5 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (3.94%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 5 (3.94%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (3.94%) Senior
7 4 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (3.15%) Developer
7 4 (3.15%) IAM Consultant
7 4 (3.15%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.77%) SAML
2 30 (23.62%) OAuth
3 26 (20.47%) OpenID
4 17 (13.39%) REST
5 16 (12.60%) Terraform
6 13 (10.24%) OAuth2
7 12 (9.45%) LDAP
8 8 (6.30%) SOAP
9 5 (3.94%) Middleware
10 4 (3.15%) boto
10 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (3.15%) OpenTofu
11 3 (2.36%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.36%) Kafka
11 3 (2.36%) SailPoint
11 3 (2.36%) Spring
12 2 (1.57%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.57%) Jakarta EE
12 2 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (1.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.32%) Onboarding
2 16 (12.60%) Cloud Native
3 14 (11.02%) PKI
4 8 (6.30%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.72%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.72%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.94%) Clustering
6 5 (3.94%) Replication
7 4 (3.15%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.15%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.36%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.36%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.57%) Life Science
9 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.39%) Windows
2 13 (10.24%) Mac OS
3 9 (7.09%) Linux
4 5 (3.94%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.57%) Android
7 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (27.56%) Identity Access Management
2 27 (21.26%) Migration
3 26 (20.47%) DevOps
4 24 (18.90%) CI/CD
5 22 (17.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (14.96%) Agile
6 19 (14.96%) Change Management
6 19 (14.96%) Cloud Security
7 18 (14.17%) RBAC
8 17 (13.39%) Roadmaps
9 15 (11.81%) Integration Patterns
9 15 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (11.81%) Zero Trust
10 14 (11.02%) ITSM
10 14 (11.02%) Runbook
10 14 (11.02%) Validation
11 13 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (10.24%) User Experience
12 12 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.17%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.60%) Python
3 13 (10.24%) Java
4 8 (6.30%) SQL
5 5 (3.94%) Bash
6 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.36%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) Go
7 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.79%) R
7 1 (0.79%) Swift
7 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.72%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.94%) CISSP
4 5 (3.94%) Degree
5 3 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.57%) CISM
6 2 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.57%) GIAC
6 2 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.57%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.57%) PMP
6 2 (1.57%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.02%) GDPR
2 10 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (7.09%) NIST
4 5 (3.94%) QA
5 4 (3.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (3.15%) SLA
6 3 (2.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.57%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (1.57%) GRC
7 2 (1.57%) ITGC
7 2 (1.57%) NCSC
7 2 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.79%) PMO
8 1 (0.79%) PSD2
System Software
1 50 (39.37%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.15%) Docker
3 2 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.79%) zsh
Systems Management
1 14 (11.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (7.87%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.51%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (3.94%) Ansible
4 5 (3.94%) PingFederate
5 4 (3.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.15%) CA Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.36%) SELinux
7 2 (1.57%) Grafana
7 2 (1.57%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.57%) SCCM
8 1 (0.79%) CASB
Vendors
1 61 (48.03%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.32%) Okta
3 19 (14.96%) ServiceNow
4 13 (10.24%) Google
5 12 (9.45%) Oracle
6 8 (6.30%) Ping Identity
7 6 (4.72%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (4.72%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.72%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.94%) CyberArk
9 4 (3.15%) Apple
9 4 (3.15%) ForgeRock
10 3 (2.36%) IBM
10 3 (2.36%) MuleSoft
10 3 (2.36%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.57%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.57%) Databricks
11 2 (1.57%) SAP
11 2 (1.57%) Splunk
11 2 (1.57%) Veracode