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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 284 309
Rank change year-on-year -20 +25 +67
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 103 71 87
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.56% 0.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.16% 3.52% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 51 61
10th Percentile £413 £425 £313
25th Percentile £483 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - +7.62%
75th Percentile £613 £708 £700
90th Percentile - £790 £888
England median daily rate £525 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -1.82%
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 - £31.50

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 2,478 2,019 2,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.31% 15.94% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 1,389 1,575
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 43
10th Percentile £22.72 £23.59 £14.08
25th Percentile £26.32 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £26.45 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +103.21% +2.88% -61.05%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £69.33 £63.25 £69.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.34% +5.76% -55.19%

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 16 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 16 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%
Central London -18 2 £475 -20.83% 18
North London - 1 £225 -
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 (14.56%) Confluence
2 9 (8.74%) nginx
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.83%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.94%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.97%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (59.22%) Azure
2 53 (51.46%) Entra ID
3 36 (34.95%) AWS
4 18 (17.48%) Serverless
5 17 (16.50%) Amazon S3
6 12 (11.65%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (11.65%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (11.65%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (10.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (9.71%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (9.71%) GCP
8 10 (9.71%) PaaS
8 10 (9.71%) SaaS
9 9 (8.74%) Google Workspace
9 9 (8.74%) Route 53
10 6 (5.83%) Azure Service Fabric
11 5 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.88%) GitHub
12 4 (3.88%) OneDrive
12 4 (3.88%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 35 (33.98%) DNS
2 18 (17.48%) DHCP
3 16 (15.53%) Kerberos
4 15 (14.56%) TCP/IP
5 14 (13.59%) Firewall
5 14 (13.59%) VPN
6 9 (8.74%) OpenVPN
7 5 (4.85%) HTTP
7 5 (4.85%) SSL
8 3 (2.91%) DKIM
8 3 (2.91%) DMARC
8 3 (2.91%) Network Security
9 2 (1.94%) FTP
9 2 (1.94%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.94%) Internet
9 2 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.94%) RFID
9 2 (1.94%) VLAN
9 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.74%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.85%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.88%) Metadata
4 3 (2.91%) CockroachDB
4 3 (2.91%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.94%) GIS
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.94%) Power BI
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.97%) MySQL
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.97%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (21.36%) JIRA
2 7 (6.80%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.80%) SonarQube
3 5 (4.85%) Git
4 4 (3.88%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (3.88%) GitLab
5 3 (2.91%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.94%) Postman
7 1 (0.97%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.97%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.97%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.97%) fastlane
7 1 (0.97%) Gatling
7 1 (0.97%) JMeter
7 1 (0.97%) JUnit
7 1 (0.97%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.97%) Selenium
7 1 (0.97%) Xcode
General
1 31 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.45%) Finance
3 10 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.94%) Legal
8 2 (1.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.97%) Front Office
9 1 (0.97%) Military
9 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (20.39%) Architect
2 12 (11.65%) Senior
3 9 (8.74%) Developer
4 8 (7.77%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Lead
6 6 (5.83%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) AWS Architect
7 5 (4.85%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.85%) Technical Architect
8 4 (3.88%) Administrator
8 4 (3.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Pega Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Web Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Web Support Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) CyberArk Architect
9 3 (2.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (46.60%) OAuth
2 38 (36.89%) SAML
3 36 (34.95%) LDAP
4 28 (27.18%) OpenID
5 12 (11.65%) SailPoint
6 11 (10.68%) OAuth2
7 7 (6.80%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (5.83%) ARM Templates
8 6 (5.83%) Entity Framework
8 6 (5.83%) REST
8 6 (5.83%) YAML
9 5 (4.85%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.88%) Express.js
10 4 (3.88%) Jest
10 4 (3.88%) Node.js
10 4 (3.88%) Playwright
10 4 (3.88%) React
11 3 (2.91%) boto
11 3 (2.91%) LangGraph
11 3 (2.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.53%) Replication
2 15 (14.56%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.83%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.85%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.88%) Clustering
5 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.91%) PKI
6 3 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.94%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.36%) Windows
2 15 (14.56%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.85%) Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.83%) DevOps
2 33 (32.04%) Identity Access Management
3 25 (24.27%) RBAC
4 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (21.36%) CI/CD
6 18 (17.48%) High Availability
6 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (17.48%) Task Automation
7 17 (16.50%) Agile
8 14 (13.59%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (13.59%) Migration
8 14 (13.59%) Roadmaps
8 14 (13.59%) Zero Trust
9 12 (11.65%) Decision-Making
9 12 (11.65%) Microservices
10 11 (10.68%) AI
11 10 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.71%) Validation
12 9 (8.74%) Data Modelling
12 9 (8.74%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.30%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.71%) Java
2 10 (9.71%) Python
3 8 (7.77%) SQL
4 7 (6.80%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.85%) Bash
7 3 (2.91%) Groovy
8 2 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.97%) Korn
9 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.97%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (41.75%) Security Cleared
2 41 (39.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) CISSP
4 3 (2.91%) CISM
5 2 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.94%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.94%) PMP
6 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.97%) CCSP
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.97%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (26.21%) GDPR
2 19 (18.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (6.80%) NIST
5 3 (2.91%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.94%) QA
7 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.97%) NCSC
7 1 (0.97%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (47.57%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.68%) Docker
3 10 (9.71%) Squid
4 2 (1.94%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.94%) OpenDJ
4 2 (1.94%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.97%) Firmware
5 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (23.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (15.53%) Kubernetes
3 15 (14.56%) Terraform
4 10 (9.71%) Grafana
4 10 (9.71%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.74%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.80%) Consul
7 4 (3.88%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.88%) PingFederate
8 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.97%) Ansible
9 1 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.97%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (39.81%) Microsoft
2 24 (23.30%) Okta
3 12 (11.65%) Google
4 11 (10.68%) Red Hat
5 10 (9.71%) CyberArk
5 10 (9.71%) ServiceNow
6 9 (8.74%) Dynatrace
7 8 (7.77%) Atlassian
8 6 (5.83%) Ping Identity
8 6 (5.83%) Zscaler
9 5 (4.85%) Oracle
10 4 (3.88%) Netskope
10 4 (3.88%) Pega
11 3 (2.91%) ForgeRock
11 3 (2.91%) Workday
12 2 (1.94%) Adobe
12 2 (1.94%) Apple
12 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
12 2 (1.94%) SAP