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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 277 296
Rank change year-on-year -54 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 118 89 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.66% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.32% 5.00% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 55 67
10th Percentile £273 £389 £290
25th Percentile £468 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% -3.48% +3.14%
75th Percentile £600 £671 £655
90th Percentile £706 £736 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.26
25th Percentile £73.75 £43.75 £24.39
Median hourly rate £77.50 £47.50 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +63.16% +93.17% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £51.25 £24.80
90th Percentile - - £24.92
England median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +57.89% +90.00% -

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 2,217 1,780 1,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.04% 13.28% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 1,171 1,378
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £444 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £528 £539
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -2.13% -10.17%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £729 £750
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 27
10th Percentile £30.75 £23.60 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.38 £26.23 £22.15
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% +20.00% -60.32%
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.85 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.47 £51.00 £36.83
% change year-on-year +32.29% +38.46% -25.78%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -2 18 £594 +5.56% 10
South London -7 1 £513 +13.89%
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 14 (11.86%) Confluence
2 13 (11.02%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (5.08%) nginx
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 58 (49.15%) Azure
2 50 (42.37%) Entra ID
3 35 (29.66%) AWS
4 25 (21.19%) GCP
5 21 (17.80%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (11.86%) SaaS
7 11 (9.32%) GitHub
8 10 (8.47%) Google Workspace
9 7 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.93%) Serverless
9 7 (5.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.39%) Google Drive
11 4 (3.39%) OCI
12 3 (2.54%) Asana
12 3 (2.54%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.54%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (29.66%) DNS
2 18 (15.25%) TCP/IP
3 12 (10.17%) Firewall
4 10 (8.47%) VPN
5 9 (7.63%) DHCP
6 7 (5.93%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (5.08%) DKIM
7 6 (5.08%) DMARC
7 6 (5.08%) HTTP
7 6 (5.08%) Kerberos
7 6 (5.08%) OpenVPN
7 6 (5.08%) SSL
8 5 (4.24%) Network Security
8 5 (4.24%) SSH
9 4 (3.39%) HTTPS
10 3 (2.54%) FTP
10 3 (2.54%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.54%) WAN
11 2 (1.69%) IPsec
11 2 (1.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) Metadata
2 3 (2.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.69%) MySQL
3 2 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.85%) Db2
4 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (18.64%) JIRA
2 8 (6.78%) Git
3 4 (3.39%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (2.54%) GitLab
4 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.54%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.69%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.69%) Snyk
6 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
General
1 31 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.03%) Finance
3 12 (10.17%) Banking
4 11 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.08%) Retail
7 5 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Legal
9 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.69%) Marketing
9 2 (1.69%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.85%) Front Office
10 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Local Government
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (17.80%) Architect
2 9 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (6.78%) Applications Engineer
3 8 (6.78%) Consultant
3 8 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (5.93%) Active Directory Engineer
4 7 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (5.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (5.93%) Security Engineer
4 7 (5.93%) Support Engineer
5 6 (5.08%) Administrator
5 6 (5.08%) Application Integration Engineer
5 6 (5.08%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (4.24%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) Salesforce Architect
7 4 (3.39%) Senior
7 4 (3.39%) Web Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.27%) SAML
2 27 (22.88%) OAuth
3 25 (21.19%) OpenID
4 14 (11.86%) Terraform
5 13 (11.02%) LDAP
5 13 (11.02%) REST
6 10 (8.47%) OAuth2
7 6 (5.08%) Middleware
7 6 (5.08%) SOAP
8 4 (3.39%) boto
8 4 (3.39%) OpenTofu
8 4 (3.39%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.69%) Jakarta EE
9 2 (1.69%) JWT
9 2 (1.69%) Kafka
9 2 (1.69%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (1.69%) Spring
10 1 (0.85%) Java SE
10 1 (0.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.64%) Onboarding
2 16 (13.56%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.17%) PKI
4 7 (5.93%) Security Posture
5 6 (5.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.24%) Clustering
6 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.39%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.39%) Replication
8 3 (2.54%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.54%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.10%) Windows
2 9 (7.63%) Linux
3 7 (5.93%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.39%) Unix
5 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.69%) Android
7 1 (0.85%) VMS
7 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.12%) DevOps
2 31 (26.27%) Identity Access Management
3 21 (17.80%) Agile
3 21 (17.80%) CI/CD
3 21 (17.80%) Migration
4 18 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (14.41%) Cloud Security
5 17 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (14.41%) Zero Trust
6 16 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (12.71%) Change Management
7 15 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (12.71%) Roadmaps
8 14 (11.86%) Privileged Access Management
8 14 (11.86%) RBAC
9 13 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (11.02%) Runbook
9 13 (11.02%) Validation
10 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (10.17%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.71%) PowerShell
2 13 (11.02%) Python
3 11 (9.32%) Java
4 7 (5.93%) Bash
5 5 (4.24%) SQL
6 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.85%) Bicep
7 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.85%) R
7 1 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) CISSP
4 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.39%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.39%) PMP
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.54%) CISM
5 3 (2.54%) Degree
5 3 (2.54%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.69%) GIAC
6 2 (1.69%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.86%) GDPR
2 12 (10.17%) NIST
3 11 (9.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (6.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (4.24%) QA
6 3 (2.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (2.54%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (1.69%) GRC
7 2 (1.69%) ITGC
7 2 (1.69%) NCSC
7 2 (1.69%) PMO
7 2 (1.69%) SLA
8 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.85%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (40.68%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.39%) Docker
3 2 (1.69%) Squid
3 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.85%) Firmware
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (9.32%) Kubernetes
1 11 (9.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.24%) PingFederate
3 4 (3.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (3.39%) Ansible
3 4 (3.39%) CA Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.54%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (2.54%) SELinux
5 2 (1.69%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) CASB
6 1 (0.85%) Consul
Vendors
1 48 (40.68%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.80%) Okta
3 19 (16.10%) ServiceNow
4 15 (12.71%) Google
5 10 (8.47%) CyberArk
6 8 (6.78%) Oracle
7 7 (5.93%) Ping Identity
8 6 (5.08%) Red Hat
8 6 (5.08%) Salesforce
9 5 (4.24%) Zscaler
10 4 (3.39%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (3.39%) Netskope
11 3 (2.54%) MuleSoft
11 3 (2.54%) Workday
12 2 (1.69%) Adobe
12 2 (1.69%) Apple
12 2 (1.69%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.69%) ForgeRock
12 2 (1.69%) Veracode