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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 293 289
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 +109
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 114 63 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.46% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.00% 3.06% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 46 82
10th Percentile £413 £405 £366
25th Percentile £463 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £579
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.71% -1.61%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £713
90th Percentile £626 £792 £840
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - £30.25
Median hourly rate £50.75 - £31.50
75th Percentile £55.56 - £32.75
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
England median hourly rate £56.50 - £65.75
% change year-on-year - - +1.94%

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 2,279 2,058 2,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.48% 14.91% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,560 1,350 1,819
10th Percentile £350 £368 £324
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £673
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.59% +1.95% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 36
10th Percentile £20.76 £22.04 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £44.50 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +40.16% +23.49%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.99 £105.20 £66.25
England median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.13% -42.62% -2.78%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 - 11 £541 - 3
Central London -16 8 £550 -8.33% 10
West London - 1 £425 -
East London - 1 £675 - 2
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 7 (6.14%) Confluence
2 5 (4.39%) nginx
3 2 (1.75%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.75%) CMS
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (60.53%) Azure
2 59 (51.75%) Entra ID
3 34 (29.82%) AWS
4 14 (12.28%) SaaS
5 12 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (9.65%) PaaS
7 10 (8.77%) Amazon S3
7 10 (8.77%) GCP
8 9 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.89%) Serverless
9 8 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (5.26%) Azure Service Fabric
10 6 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.39%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (4.39%) Route 53
12 4 (3.51%) AWS Control Tower
12 4 (3.51%) GitHub
12 4 (3.51%) Google Workspace
12 4 (3.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (21.93%) DNS
2 16 (14.04%) DHCP
2 16 (14.04%) VPN
3 15 (13.16%) Kerberos
4 11 (9.65%) Firewall
5 9 (7.89%) TCP/IP
6 6 (5.26%) Network Security
6 6 (5.26%) SSL
7 5 (4.39%) OpenVPN
8 4 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.63%) BGP
9 3 (2.63%) HTTPS
9 3 (2.63%) LAN
9 3 (2.63%) OSPF
9 3 (2.63%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.75%) Internet
10 2 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (1.75%) RFID
10 2 (1.75%) S/MIME
10 2 (1.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.63%) CockroachDB
2 3 (2.63%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.75%) GIS
3 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.75%) SQLite
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (8.77%) JIRA
2 7 (6.14%) Git
3 6 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.39%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.63%) GitLab
6 2 (1.75%) CocoaPods
6 2 (1.75%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.75%) fastlane
6 2 (1.75%) Xcode
7 1 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.88%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.88%) gulp
7 1 (0.88%) JMeter
7 1 (0.88%) JUnit
7 1 (0.88%) Maven
7 1 (0.88%) Postman
7 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 32 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.16%) Finance
3 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Banking
5 5 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.75%) Electronics
7 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.75%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (17.54%) Architect
2 16 (14.04%) Senior
3 14 (12.28%) Developer
4 9 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.02%) Senior Developer
6 7 (6.14%) Analyst
6 7 (6.14%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.39%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Pega Developer
9 3 (2.63%) Administrator
9 3 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) AWS Architect
9 3 (2.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (2.63%) ForgeRock Developer
9 3 (2.63%) Lead
9 3 (2.63%) Network Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (43.86%) OAuth
2 45 (39.47%) SAML
3 30 (26.32%) LDAP
3 30 (26.32%) OpenID
4 16 (14.04%) SailPoint
5 13 (11.40%) OAuth2
6 8 (7.02%) REST
7 6 (5.26%) AngularJS
7 6 (5.26%) ARM Templates
7 6 (5.26%) Entity Framework
7 6 (5.26%) React
7 6 (5.26%) YAML
8 5 (4.39%) CSS
8 5 (4.39%) SOAP
9 4 (3.51%) HTML
9 4 (3.51%) Vue
10 3 (2.63%) boto
10 3 (2.63%) GraphQL
10 3 (2.63%) JDBC
10 3 (2.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.54%) Onboarding
2 15 (13.16%) Replication
3 6 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.26%) PKI
4 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.63%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.75%) Animation
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) CMDB
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.91%) Windows
2 15 (13.16%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.39%) Linux
4 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.75%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.60%) Identity Access Management
2 34 (29.82%) RBAC
3 26 (22.81%) CI/CD
4 25 (21.93%) Zero Trust
5 24 (21.05%) DevOps
6 19 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.79%) Identity Management
8 16 (14.04%) Agile
9 15 (13.16%) High Availability
9 15 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (13.16%) Microservices
9 15 (13.16%) Task Automation
10 14 (12.28%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (11.40%) API Integration
11 13 (11.40%) DevSecOps
11 13 (11.40%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 11 (9.65%) Architectural Design
13 10 (8.77%) Kalman Filter
14 9 (7.89%) Analytics
14 9 (7.89%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.19%) PowerShell
2 17 (14.91%) Python
3 12 (10.53%) Java
4 11 (9.65%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.89%) SQL
6 4 (3.51%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.63%) Bash
7 3 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.75%) BeanShell
8 2 (1.75%) Groovy
8 2 (1.75%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.75%) Swift
9 1 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) C#
9 1 (0.88%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (38.60%) Security Cleared
2 40 (35.09%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.16%) CISSP
4 7 (6.14%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.14%) CISM
5 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.63%) Degree
6 2 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.75%) CCSP
6 2 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) CCNA
7 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (25.44%) GDPR
2 18 (15.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 14 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
5 5 (4.39%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.39%) NCSC
5 5 (4.39%) NIST
5 5 (4.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.63%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.75%) PSD2
7 2 (1.75%) WCAG
8 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 49 (42.98%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.40%) Docker
3 6 (5.26%) Squid
4 2 (1.75%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.75%) OpenDJ
4 2 (1.75%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 24 (21.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.91%) Terraform
3 6 (5.26%) FortiGate
3 6 (5.26%) Grafana
3 6 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.39%) Consul
5 2 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.88%) Ansible
6 1 (0.88%) Kibana
6 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 29 (25.44%) Okta
3 12 (10.53%) CyberArk
4 9 (7.89%) Google
5 7 (6.14%) ForgeRock
5 7 (6.14%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 6 (5.26%) Zscaler
7 5 (4.39%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.39%) Splunk
8 4 (3.51%) Pega
8 4 (3.51%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.51%) SAP
9 3 (2.63%) Apple
9 3 (2.63%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.75%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.75%) Confluent
10 2 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.75%) Thycotic