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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 276 299
Rank change year-on-year -4 +23 +57
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 136 74 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 0.58% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.07% 3.73% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 46 71
10th Percentile £308 £418 £290
25th Percentile £473 £503 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +0.98% +5.34%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £644 £790 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £523
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.43
25th Percentile £73.75 - £24.80
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £26.94
90th Percentile - - £30.43
England median hourly rate £67.50 - £25.00

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 2,683 1,986 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.03% 15.64% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,861 1,325 1,691
10th Percentile £358 £350 £330
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
England median daily rate £514 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.29% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 36
10th Percentile £25.65 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £34.50 £27.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.72 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% +60.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £76.56 £53.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £69.13
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +72.13% -43.70%

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 June 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 June 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 -8 15 £575 -10.16% 10
South London 0 8 £519 +15.23%
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 (11.03%) Confluence
2 11 (8.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (6.62%) nginx
3 9 (6.62%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.74%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.47%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (55.15%) Azure
2 58 (42.65%) Entra ID
3 45 (33.09%) AWS
4 22 (16.18%) GCP
5 21 (15.44%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (13.24%) Serverless
7 16 (11.76%) SaaS
8 15 (11.03%) Amazon S3
9 11 (8.09%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (6.62%) Google Workspace
11 9 (6.62%) Route 53
12 7 (5.15%) GitHub
12 7 (5.15%) PaaS
13 5 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 47 (34.56%) DNS
2 21 (15.44%) DHCP
2 21 (15.44%) TCP/IP
3 18 (13.24%) Kerberos
4 17 (12.50%) Firewall
5 14 (10.29%) VPN
6 9 (6.62%) OpenVPN
7 6 (4.41%) DKIM
7 6 (4.41%) DMARC
7 6 (4.41%) HTTP
7 6 (4.41%) Network Security
8 5 (3.68%) SSL
8 5 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.94%) HTTPS
10 3 (2.21%) FTP
11 2 (1.47%) IPsec
11 2 (1.47%) VLAN
12 1 (0.74%) Internet
12 1 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.68%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.68%) Metadata
3 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (2.21%) Power BI
3 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.47%) MySQL
5 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.74%) Db2
5 1 (0.74%) GIS
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.74%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (19.12%) JIRA
2 9 (6.62%) SonarQube
3 7 (5.15%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.68%) Git
5 4 (2.94%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.94%) GitLab
5 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.47%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.47%) Snyk
7 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 39 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.12%) Finance
3 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.09%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (7.35%) Banking
5 9 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.21%) Legal
6 3 (2.21%) Retail
7 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.47%) Military
8 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.74%) Front Office
8 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (18.38%) Architect
2 11 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (7.35%) Senior
4 9 (6.62%) Consultant
4 9 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 7 (5.15%) Support Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) Active Directory Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.41%) Technical Architect
8 5 (3.68%) Administrator
8 5 (3.68%) AWS Architect
8 5 (3.68%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Lead
8 5 (3.68%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.94%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Web Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (33.09%) OAuth
2 42 (30.88%) SAML
3 34 (25.00%) LDAP
4 32 (23.53%) OpenID
5 13 (9.56%) OAuth2
6 11 (8.09%) REST
7 6 (4.41%) SailPoint
7 6 (4.41%) SOAP
8 5 (3.68%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.94%) Express.js
9 4 (2.94%) Jest
9 4 (2.94%) Middleware
9 4 (2.94%) Node.js
9 4 (2.94%) Playwright
10 3 (2.21%) Spring
11 2 (1.47%) Entity Framework
11 2 (1.47%) Java EE
11 2 (1.47%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.65%) Onboarding
2 18 (13.24%) Cloud Native
3 16 (11.76%) Replication
4 9 (6.62%) PKI
5 7 (5.15%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.94%) Clustering
8 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.94%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.21%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.74%) IoT
11 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.32%) Windows
2 14 (10.29%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.68%) Linux
4 4 (2.94%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.94%) Unix
5 2 (1.47%) Android
5 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.88%) DevOps
2 38 (27.94%) Identity Access Management
3 25 (18.38%) CI/CD
4 24 (17.65%) RBAC
5 22 (16.18%) Agile
6 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (13.97%) Roadmaps
8 18 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (13.24%) Task Automation
9 17 (12.50%) High Availability
9 17 (12.50%) Migration
10 16 (11.76%) Cloud Security
10 16 (11.76%) Zero Trust
11 13 (9.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (8.82%) Data Protection
12 12 (8.82%) Decision-Making
12 12 (8.82%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.62%) Java
2 9 (6.62%) Python
3 8 (5.88%) SQL
4 6 (4.41%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.68%) Bash
6 3 (2.21%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.74%) Bicep
8 1 (0.74%) Groovy
8 1 (0.74%) Korn
8 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) CISSP
4 3 (2.21%) CISM
4 3 (2.21%) Degree
4 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.47%) GIAC
5 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.47%) PMP
6 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.74%) CCSP
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.32%) GDPR
2 19 (13.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (8.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (7.35%) NIST
5 3 (2.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (2.21%) NIST 800
5 3 (2.21%) QA
6 2 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.47%) GRC
6 2 (1.47%) NCSC
6 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.47%) PMO
6 2 (1.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (42.65%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.62%) Docker
2 9 (6.62%) Squid
3 2 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.74%) Firmware
4 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 18 (13.24%) Terraform
4 9 (6.62%) FortiGate
4 9 (6.62%) Grafana
4 9 (6.62%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.15%) Consul
6 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (3.68%) PingFederate
8 4 (2.94%) CA Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.47%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.74%) Ansible
10 1 (0.74%) CASB
Vendors
1 53 (38.97%) Microsoft
2 31 (22.79%) Okta
3 16 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 12 (8.82%) Google
5 10 (7.35%) Red Hat
6 9 (6.62%) Dynatrace
7 8 (5.88%) CyberArk
7 8 (5.88%) Oracle
8 7 (5.15%) Atlassian
9 6 (4.41%) Zscaler
10 5 (3.68%) Ping Identity
11 4 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (2.94%) Netskope
12 3 (2.21%) Pega
12 3 (2.21%) Salesforce
12 3 (2.21%) SAP
12 3 (2.21%) Workday
13 2 (1.47%) ForgeRock
13 2 (1.47%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.47%) Veracode