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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 304 279
Rank change year-on-year +45 -25 +122
Contract jobs citing Single Sign-On 109 83 151
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 0.53% 0.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.12% 3.65% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 61 114
10th Percentile £401 £290 £374
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -2.61% -2.54%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £638
90th Percentile £675 £770 £713
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -2.13%
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 £50.75 - -

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 2,127 2,271 3,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.71% 14.51% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,392 1,500 2,385
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
90th Percentile £720 £763 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 34
10th Percentile £21.64 - £22.75
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.80 £25.71
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.48% -46.25% +140.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £63.00 £69.25
90th Percentile £63.71 £106.00 £87.22
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.75 £48.70
% change year-on-year -9.93% -22.48% +94.80%

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 2025. 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 15 £575 +4.55% 23
West London - 2 £425 - 1
East London - 1 £675 - 5
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 (12.84%) Confluence
2 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (7.34%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.92%) Apache
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.92%) JBoss
5 1 (0.92%) Moodle
5 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.92%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 61 (55.96%) Azure
2 46 (42.20%) Entra ID
3 36 (33.03%) AWS
4 22 (20.18%) GCP
5 20 (18.35%) SaaS
6 14 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (10.09%) GitHub
8 6 (5.50%) Serverless
9 5 (4.59%) PaaS
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.67%) IaaS
10 4 (3.67%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.75%) Firebase
11 3 (2.75%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.83%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 21 (19.27%) SSL
2 13 (11.93%) Firewall
3 11 (10.09%) VPN
4 9 (8.26%) DNS
5 6 (5.50%) Network Security
6 5 (4.59%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (3.67%) HTTPS
7 4 (3.67%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.75%) BGP
8 3 (2.75%) Kerberos
8 3 (2.75%) LAN
8 3 (2.75%) OSPF
8 3 (2.75%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.83%) DHCP
9 2 (1.83%) S/MIME
9 2 (1.83%) VLAN
10 1 (0.92%) DKIM
10 1 (0.92%) Internet
10 1 (0.92%) WAN
10 1 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.83%) Power BI
2 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.83%) SQLite
3 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (14.68%) JIRA
2 9 (8.26%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.50%) Git
4 3 (2.75%) GitLab
5 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.83%) CocoaPods
5 2 (1.83%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.83%) fastlane
5 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.83%) Xcode
6 1 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.92%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.92%) gulp
6 1 (0.92%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.92%) Log4j
6 1 (0.92%) Maven
6 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 31 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.93%) Finance
4 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.67%) Banking
5 4 (3.67%) Marketing
5 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Electronics
7 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.92%) Police
8 1 (0.92%) Publishing
8 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (26.61%) Architect
2 21 (19.27%) Senior
3 12 (11.01%) Developer
4 10 (9.17%) ServiceNow Architect
5 9 (8.26%) Senior Architect
6 8 (7.34%) Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Administrator
8 5 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Consultant
9 4 (3.67%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.75%) Azure Architect
10 3 (2.75%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Identity Management Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Network Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (40.37%) SAML
2 37 (33.94%) OAuth
3 31 (28.44%) OpenID
4 26 (23.85%) LDAP
5 22 (20.18%) REST
6 18 (16.51%) OAuth2
7 17 (15.60%) SOAP
8 16 (14.68%) JDBC
9 15 (13.76%) HTML
10 14 (12.84%) jQuery
10 14 (12.84%) JSON
10 14 (12.84%) SailPoint
11 13 (11.93%) AngularJS
11 13 (11.93%) HTML5
11 13 (11.93%) Web Services
12 12 (11.01%) Apache Camel
12 12 (11.01%) ODBC
12 12 (11.01%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (4.59%) Kafka
13 5 (4.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.43%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.34%) PKI
3 5 (4.59%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.75%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.83%) Animation
6 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.92%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Life Science
7 1 (0.92%) Replication
7 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Linux
2 5 (4.59%) Windows
2 5 (4.59%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.03%) Identity Access Management
2 35 (32.11%) DevOps
3 34 (31.19%) Agile
4 33 (30.28%) Zero Trust
5 30 (27.52%) RBAC
6 26 (23.85%) CI/CD
7 23 (21.10%) Identity Management
8 20 (18.35%) Microservices
9 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (15.60%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 16 (14.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (13.76%) ITSM
13 13 (11.93%) Scrum
14 12 (11.01%) API Integration
14 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (11.01%) Integration Patterns
15 11 (10.09%) Analytics
15 11 (10.09%) Cloud Security
15 11 (10.09%) DevSecOps
15 11 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.94%) PowerShell
2 23 (21.10%) JavaScript
3 17 (15.60%) Python
4 9 (8.26%) Java
5 5 (4.59%) Bash
6 3 (2.75%) Bicep
6 3 (2.75%) C#
6 3 (2.75%) SQL
7 2 (1.83%) BeanShell
7 2 (1.83%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.83%) Swift
8 1 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.92%) PHP
8 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (27.52%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.85%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.84%) CISSP
4 11 (10.09%) Azure Certification
5 8 (7.34%) CISM
6 4 (3.67%) Degree
7 3 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.83%) CCSP
8 2 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.92%) CCNA
9 1 (0.92%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.68%) GDPR
2 14 (12.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.42%) NIST
3 7 (6.42%) SOC 2
4 6 (5.50%) Accessibility
4 6 (5.50%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (3.67%) NCSC
7 3 (2.75%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.83%) PSD2
8 2 (1.83%) WCAG
9 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 47 (43.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.01%) Docker
3 2 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (14.68%) Terraform
2 14 (12.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.75%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.75%) SCCM
6 2 (1.83%) Kibana
6 2 (1.83%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.92%) Ansible
7 1 (0.92%) Argo
7 1 (0.92%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.92%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (33.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.10%) Okta
3 19 (17.43%) ServiceNow
4 16 (14.68%) CyberArk
5 12 (11.01%) BMC
5 12 (11.01%) HP
5 12 (11.01%) Ivanti
5 12 (11.01%) Remedy
6 10 (9.17%) ForgeRock
6 10 (9.17%) Google
7 6 (5.50%) Splunk
7 6 (5.50%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.67%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.75%) Apple
9 3 (2.75%) Cisco
9 3 (2.75%) Ping Identity
9 3 (2.75%) VMware
10 2 (1.83%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.83%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.83%) Thycotic