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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 292 289
Rank change year-on-year +25 -3 +104
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 111 66 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.88% 3.21% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 48 83
10th Percentile £413 £407 £370
25th Percentile £463 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £579
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.71% -3.57%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £694
90th Percentile £625 £790 £837
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
England median hourly rate £56.50 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +55.04%

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 2,276 2,058 2,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.61% 14.79% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 1,353 1,826
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £790 £750
England median daily rate £505 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -4.63% -0.09% -9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 32
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.04 £13.62
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £24.97
Median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £35.42
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% -18.13% +37.77%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.50 £60.00
90th Percentile - £105.20 £69.50
England median hourly rate £48.36 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.49% -42.62% +19.95%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 - 10 £530 - 4
Central London -11 9 £550 -8.33% 4
East London - 1 £675 - 2
West London - 1 £425 -
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 (6.31%) Confluence
2 5 (4.50%) nginx
3 2 (1.80%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.80%) CMS
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (58.56%) Azure
2 57 (51.35%) Entra ID
3 33 (29.73%) AWS
4 13 (11.71%) SaaS
5 11 (9.91%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (9.01%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (9.01%) GCP
6 10 (9.01%) Serverless
7 9 (8.11%) PaaS
8 8 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Service Fabric
10 5 (4.50%) Route 53
11 4 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (3.60%) GitHub
12 3 (2.70%) CloudFront
12 3 (2.70%) Google Workspace
12 3 (2.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.42%) DNS
2 16 (14.41%) DHCP
2 16 (14.41%) VPN
3 15 (13.51%) Kerberos
4 11 (9.91%) Firewall
5 9 (8.11%) TCP/IP
6 6 (5.41%) Network Security
6 6 (5.41%) SSL
7 5 (4.50%) OpenVPN
8 4 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.70%) BGP
9 3 (2.70%) HTTPS
9 3 (2.70%) LAN
9 3 (2.70%) OSPF
9 3 (2.70%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.80%) Internet
10 2 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (1.80%) RFID
10 2 (1.80%) S/MIME
10 2 (1.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.70%) CockroachDB
2 3 (2.70%) Pinecone
2 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.80%) GIS
3 2 (1.80%) SQLite
4 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) JIRA
2 7 (6.31%) Git
3 6 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.50%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.70%) GitLab
6 2 (1.80%) CocoaPods
6 2 (1.80%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.80%) fastlane
6 2 (1.80%) Xcode
7 1 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.90%) Gatling
7 1 (0.90%) gulp
7 1 (0.90%) JMeter
7 1 (0.90%) JUnit
7 1 (0.90%) Maven
7 1 (0.90%) Postman
7 1 (0.90%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 31 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.51%) Finance
3 6 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.41%) Banking
3 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.80%) Electronics
6 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.80%) Marketing
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (17.12%) Architect
2 16 (14.41%) Senior
3 14 (12.61%) Developer
4 8 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (7.21%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.31%) Analyst
5 7 (6.31%) Technical Architect
6 5 (4.50%) Security Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (3.60%) Pega Developer
8 3 (2.70%) Administrator
8 3 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (2.70%) AWS Architect
8 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (2.70%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (2.70%) Network Engineer
8 3 (2.70%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (1.80%) Security Architect
9 2 (1.80%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (44.14%) OAuth
2 45 (40.54%) SAML
3 30 (27.03%) OpenID
4 29 (26.13%) LDAP
5 15 (13.51%) SailPoint
6 13 (11.71%) OAuth2
7 7 (6.31%) REST
8 6 (5.41%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.41%) React
9 5 (4.50%) ARM Templates
9 5 (4.50%) CSS
9 5 (4.50%) Entity Framework
9 5 (4.50%) YAML
10 4 (3.60%) HTML
10 4 (3.60%) SOAP
10 4 (3.60%) Vue
11 3 (2.70%) boto
11 3 (2.70%) JDBC
11 3 (2.70%) RESTful
11 3 (2.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.32%) Onboarding
2 15 (13.51%) Replication
3 6 (5.41%) PKI
4 5 (4.50%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.70%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.80%) Animation
7 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.32%) Windows
2 15 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.50%) Linux
4 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (39.64%) Identity Access Management
2 35 (31.53%) RBAC
3 26 (23.42%) CI/CD
4 25 (22.52%) Zero Trust
5 23 (20.72%) DevOps
6 19 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.22%) Identity Management
8 16 (14.41%) Agile
9 15 (13.51%) High Availability
9 15 (13.51%) Task Automation
10 14 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (12.61%) Microservices
11 13 (11.71%) API Integration
11 13 (11.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 12 (10.81%) DevSecOps
13 11 (9.91%) Architectural Design
14 10 (9.01%) Analytics
15 9 (8.11%) Kalman Filter
16 8 (7.21%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.93%) PowerShell
2 18 (16.22%) Python
3 12 (10.81%) Java
4 11 (9.91%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.21%) SQL
6 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.70%) Bash
8 2 (1.80%) BeanShell
8 2 (1.80%) Groovy
8 2 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.80%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.80%) Swift
9 1 (0.90%) Bicep
9 1 (0.90%) C#
Qualifications
1 43 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 40 (36.04%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) CISSP
4 7 (6.31%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.31%) CISM
5 3 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.70%) Degree
5 3 (2.70%) MCP
6 2 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.80%) CCSP
6 2 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.90%) CCNA
7 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (27.03%) GDPR
2 18 (16.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 13 (11.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.41%) Accessibility
5 5 (4.50%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.50%) NCSC
5 5 (4.50%) NIST
5 5 (4.50%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.80%) PSD2
7 2 (1.80%) WCAG
8 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 48 (43.24%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.81%) Docker
3 6 (5.41%) Squid
4 2 (1.80%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.80%) OpenDJ
4 2 (1.80%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (15.32%) Terraform
3 16 (14.41%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.41%) FortiGate
4 6 (5.41%) Grafana
4 6 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.50%) Consul
6 2 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.90%) Ansible
7 1 (0.90%) Kibana
7 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 30 (27.03%) Okta
3 12 (10.81%) CyberArk
4 8 (7.21%) Google
5 7 (6.31%) ForgeRock
5 7 (6.31%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.41%) Atlassian
6 6 (5.41%) Zscaler
7 5 (4.50%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.50%) Splunk
8 4 (3.60%) Pega
8 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.60%) SAP
8 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.70%) Apple
9 3 (2.70%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.80%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.80%) Confluent
10 2 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.80%) Optimizely