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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 282 306
Rank change year-on-year -36 +24 +67
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 105 74 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.58% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.21% 3.65% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 52 60
10th Percentile £413 £429 £311
25th Percentile £480 £525 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% -1.25% +8.35%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £700
90th Percentile - £790 £888
England median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.43
25th Percentile - - £24.80
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £26.94
90th Percentile - - £30.43
England median hourly rate £57.25 - £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 2,494 2,029 2,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.24% 15.93% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,704 1,406 1,572
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £430 £449 £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 £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.48% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 44
10th Percentile £22.39 £23.59 £18.45
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.38 £29.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +94.42% +12.80% -63.92%
75th Percentile £63.32 £53.75 £59.06
90th Percentile £70.30 £63.25 £69.10
England median hourly rate £55.75 £27.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +104.59% -4.39% -48.18%

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 24 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 24 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 +1 13 £519 +15.23%
Central London -16 2 £375 -37.50% 14
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 (13.33%) Confluence
2 9 (8.57%) nginx
3 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (5.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.90%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.95%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 63 (60.00%) Azure
2 55 (52.38%) Entra ID
3 36 (34.29%) AWS
4 19 (18.10%) Serverless
5 17 (16.19%) Amazon S3
6 13 (12.38%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (10.48%) PaaS
8 11 (10.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (9.52%) GCP
9 10 (9.52%) SaaS
10 9 (8.57%) Route 53
11 8 (7.62%) Google Workspace
12 6 (5.71%) Azure Service Fabric
13 5 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.81%) GitHub
14 4 (3.81%) OneDrive
14 4 (3.81%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 36 (34.29%) DNS
2 19 (18.10%) DHCP
3 17 (16.19%) Kerberos
4 15 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 14 (13.33%) Firewall
5 14 (13.33%) VPN
6 9 (8.57%) OpenVPN
7 5 (4.76%) HTTP
7 5 (4.76%) SSL
8 4 (3.81%) DKIM
8 4 (3.81%) DMARC
9 3 (2.86%) FTP
9 3 (2.86%) Network Security
10 2 (1.90%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.90%) Internet
10 2 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (1.90%) RFID
10 2 (1.90%) VLAN
10 2 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.81%) Metadata
4 3 (2.86%) CockroachDB
4 3 (2.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (2.86%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.90%) GIS
5 2 (1.90%) Power BI
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.95%) MySQL
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (19.05%) JIRA
2 7 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.81%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (3.81%) Git
3 4 (3.81%) GitLab
4 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.90%) Postman
5 1 (0.95%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.95%) Gatling
5 1 (0.95%) JMeter
5 1 (0.95%) JUnit
5 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.05%) Finance
3 10 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.67%) Banking
6 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.86%) Legal
8 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.95%) Front Office
9 1 (0.95%) Military
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (20.95%) Architect
2 11 (10.48%) Senior
3 8 (7.62%) Developer
3 8 (7.62%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (5.71%) Lead
5 6 (5.71%) Support Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) AWS Architect
6 5 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.76%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.81%) Administrator
7 4 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Consultant
7 4 (3.81%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Pega Developer
7 4 (3.81%) Web Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Web Support Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (45.71%) OAuth
2 38 (36.19%) SAML
3 37 (35.24%) LDAP
4 28 (26.67%) OpenID
5 12 (11.43%) SailPoint
6 11 (10.48%) OAuth2
7 7 (6.67%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (6.67%) REST
8 6 (5.71%) ARM Templates
8 6 (5.71%) Entity Framework
8 6 (5.71%) YAML
9 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.81%) Express.js
10 4 (3.81%) Jest
10 4 (3.81%) Node.js
10 4 (3.81%) Playwright
10 4 (3.81%) React
10 4 (3.81%) SOAP
11 3 (2.86%) boto
11 3 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Replication
2 14 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.81%) Clustering
4 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.81%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.86%) PKI
5 3 (2.86%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.90%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.90%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.95%) CMDB
7 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.95%) Windows
2 15 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.76%) Linux
4 4 (3.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.05%) DevOps
2 33 (31.43%) Identity Access Management
3 25 (23.81%) RBAC
4 22 (20.95%) CI/CD
4 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (17.14%) High Availability
5 18 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (17.14%) Task Automation
6 16 (15.24%) Agile
7 15 (14.29%) Migration
7 15 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 14 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (13.33%) Zero Trust
9 12 (11.43%) Decision-Making
9 12 (11.43%) Microservices
10 11 (10.48%) AI
10 11 (10.48%) Validation
11 10 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.52%) Data Modelling
12 9 (8.57%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.52%) Java
2 10 (9.52%) Python
3 8 (7.62%) SQL
4 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.76%) Bash
7 3 (2.86%) Groovy
8 2 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.95%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (41.90%) Security Cleared
2 42 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.62%) CISSP
4 3 (2.86%) CISM
5 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.90%) PMP
6 1 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.95%) CCSP
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (26.67%) GDPR
2 19 (18.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 9 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (7.62%) NIST
5 3 (2.86%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.90%) NCSC
6 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.90%) QA
7 1 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.95%) GRC
7 1 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (47.62%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.48%) Docker
3 10 (9.52%) Squid
4 2 (1.90%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.90%) OpenDJ
4 2 (1.90%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.95%) Firmware
5 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (22.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (15.24%) Kubernetes
3 15 (14.29%) Terraform
4 10 (9.52%) Grafana
4 10 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.57%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.67%) Consul
7 4 (3.81%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.81%) PingFederate
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.95%) Ansible
9 1 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.95%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (39.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.90%) Okta
3 11 (10.48%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.52%) Google
4 10 (9.52%) ServiceNow
5 9 (8.57%) CyberArk
5 9 (8.57%) Dynatrace
6 7 (6.67%) Atlassian
7 6 (5.71%) Oracle
7 6 (5.71%) Ping Identity
7 6 (5.71%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.81%) Netskope
8 4 (3.81%) Pega
9 3 (2.86%) ForgeRock
9 3 (2.86%) SAP
9 3 (2.86%) Workday
10 2 (1.90%) Adobe
10 2 (1.90%) ESRI
10 2 (1.90%) NetIQ
10 2 (1.90%) OpenAI