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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 279 308
Rank change year-on-year -24 +29 +66
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 109 66 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.40% 3.25% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 48 58
10th Percentile £413 £434 £304
25th Percentile £484 £522 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +8.35%
75th Percentile £613 £750 £709
90th Percentile £644 £792 £888
England median daily rate £525 £575 £505
% change year-on-year -8.70% +13.86% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £28.88
90th Percentile - - £31.20
England median hourly rate £62.75 - £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 2,477 2,030 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.66% 16.08% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,400 1,612
10th Percentile £350 £365 £325
25th Percentile £427 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £790 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 41
10th Percentile £22.39 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.73 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +71.33% +7.84% -60.45%
75th Percentile £63.32 £55.00 £58.00
90th Percentile - £62.80 £62.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
% change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -50.43%

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 April 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 April 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 -3 13 £519 +15.23% 1
Central London -19 4 £613 +2.08% 16
East London - 1 £675 - 1
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 15 (13.76%) Confluence
2 9 (8.26%) nginx
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.83%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.92%) Apache
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.92%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (65.14%) Azure
2 60 (55.05%) Entra ID
3 39 (35.78%) AWS
4 17 (15.60%) Amazon S3
5 16 (14.68%) Serverless
6 14 (12.84%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (11.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (8.26%) GCP
9 9 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (8.26%) PaaS
9 9 (8.26%) Route 53
9 9 (8.26%) SaaS
10 6 (5.50%) Azure Service Fabric
10 6 (5.50%) Google Workspace
11 5 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (4.59%) GitHub
12 4 (3.67%) AWS Control Tower
12 4 (3.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (29.36%) DNS
2 18 (16.51%) DHCP
3 16 (14.68%) Kerberos
4 15 (13.76%) TCP/IP
4 15 (13.76%) VPN
5 14 (12.84%) Firewall
6 9 (8.26%) OpenVPN
7 5 (4.59%) HTTP
7 5 (4.59%) SSL
8 3 (2.75%) Network Security
9 2 (1.83%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.83%) Internet
9 2 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.83%) RFID
9 2 (1.83%) VLAN
9 2 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.92%) LAN
10 1 (0.92%) NGFW
10 1 (0.92%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.59%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.67%) Metadata
4 3 (2.75%) CockroachDB
4 3 (2.75%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.83%) GIS
5 2 (1.83%) Power BI
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.92%) MySQL
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.92%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (18.35%) JIRA
2 7 (6.42%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.42%) SonarQube
3 5 (4.59%) Git
4 4 (3.67%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.75%) GitLab
5 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.83%) Postman
7 1 (0.92%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.92%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.92%) fastlane
7 1 (0.92%) Gatling
7 1 (0.92%) JMeter
7 1 (0.92%) JUnit
7 1 (0.92%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.92%) Selenium
7 1 (0.92%) Xcode
General
1 34 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Finance
3 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.26%) Banking
5 8 (7.34%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Retail
9 1 (0.92%) Front Office
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (21.10%) Architect
2 14 (12.84%) Senior
3 9 (8.26%) Developer
4 8 (7.34%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.42%) Technical Architect
6 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Lead
6 6 (5.50%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) AWS Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.67%) Analyst
8 4 (3.67%) Consultant
8 4 (3.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Pega Developer
8 4 (3.67%) Web Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Web Support Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (44.95%) OAuth
2 41 (37.61%) SAML
3 36 (33.03%) LDAP
4 31 (28.44%) OpenID
5 13 (11.93%) OAuth2
5 13 (11.93%) SailPoint
6 7 (6.42%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (5.50%) ARM Templates
7 6 (5.50%) Entity Framework
7 6 (5.50%) YAML
8 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.59%) Node.js
8 5 (4.59%) React
9 4 (3.67%) Express.js
9 4 (3.67%) Jest
9 4 (3.67%) Playwright
9 4 (3.67%) REST
10 3 (2.75%) LangGraph
10 3 (2.75%) RESTful
10 3 (2.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.43%) Onboarding
2 16 (14.68%) Replication
3 6 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.59%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.67%) Clustering
5 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.75%) PKI
6 3 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.92%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.18%) Windows
2 15 (13.76%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.50%) Linux
4 4 (3.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.70%) DevOps
2 37 (33.94%) Identity Access Management
3 29 (26.61%) RBAC
4 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (17.43%) CI/CD
6 18 (16.51%) Agile
6 18 (16.51%) High Availability
6 18 (16.51%) Task Automation
6 18 (16.51%) Zero Trust
7 17 (15.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (13.76%) Microservices
9 14 (12.84%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (11.93%) Roadmaps
11 12 (11.01%) AI
11 12 (11.01%) Decision-Making
12 11 (10.09%) Migration
13 10 (9.17%) Data Protection
13 10 (9.17%) Identity Management
13 10 (9.17%) Privileged Access Management
14 9 (8.26%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.94%) PowerShell
2 11 (10.09%) Python
3 10 (9.17%) Java
3 10 (9.17%) SQL
4 8 (7.34%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.59%) Bash
7 3 (2.75%) Groovy
7 3 (2.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.92%) C#
8 1 (0.92%) Korn
8 1 (0.92%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 41 (37.61%) Security Cleared
2 39 (35.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.01%) CISSP
4 6 (5.50%) CISM
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.83%) PMP
6 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.92%) CCSP
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (24.77%) GDPR
2 19 (17.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (9.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (6.42%) NIST
5 3 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.75%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.83%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.83%) NCSC
6 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.83%) QA
6 2 (1.83%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (44.95%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.01%) Docker
3 10 (9.17%) Squid
4 2 (1.83%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.83%) OpenDJ
4 2 (1.83%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.92%) Firmware
5 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (22.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 18 (16.51%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.84%) Terraform
4 10 (9.17%) Grafana
4 10 (9.17%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.26%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.42%) Consul
7 4 (3.67%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.67%) PingFederate
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.92%) Ansible
9 1 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (42.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (22.94%) Okta
3 12 (11.01%) CyberArk
4 11 (10.09%) Red Hat
5 10 (9.17%) ServiceNow
6 9 (8.26%) Dynatrace
6 9 (8.26%) Google
7 8 (7.34%) Atlassian
8 6 (5.50%) Ping Identity
8 6 (5.50%) Zscaler
9 4 (3.67%) Netskope
9 4 (3.67%) Pega
10 3 (2.75%) ForgeRock
10 3 (2.75%) Oracle
10 3 (2.75%) Workday
11 2 (1.83%) Adobe
11 2 (1.83%) Apple
11 2 (1.83%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.83%) SAP