OpenID Contract Job Trends in London

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring OpenID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 289 330
Rank change year-on-year -18 +41 +64
Contract jobs citing OpenID 110 53 66
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% 1.67% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 31 43
10th Percentile £421 £525 £505
25th Percentile £506 £544 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £681 £725
90th Percentile £900 £716 £898
England median daily rate £556 £550 £606
% change year-on-year +1.14% -9.28% +6.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

OpenID falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,237 3,169 4,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.04% 26.15% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,813 2,216 3,395
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £441 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £720 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.76 £33.25 £23.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -38.18%
75th Percentile £60.12 £54.06 £64.40
90th Percentile £90.88 £68.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

OpenID job vacancy trend in London

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenID

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in London

OpenID
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 OpenID within the London region over the 6 months to 29 May 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 -18 8 £653 +3.00% 6
South London - 8 £519 -
East London - 3 £540 -
OpenID
England

OpenID
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 13 (11.82%) Confluence
2 9 (8.18%) nginx
3 5 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (45.45%) Azure
2 49 (44.55%) AWS
3 33 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 27 (24.55%) Serverless
5 22 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 17 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (15.45%) OpenShift
7 15 (13.64%) GCP
7 15 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (12.73%) Route 53
9 13 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (10.00%) Azure AKS
10 11 (10.00%) GitHub
10 11 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (8.18%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (7.27%) SaaS
13 6 (5.45%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (5.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.27%) DNS
2 17 (15.45%) Firewall
3 9 (8.18%) OpenVPN
3 9 (8.18%) TCP/IP
3 9 (8.18%) VPN
4 5 (4.55%) Kerberos
4 5 (4.55%) SSL
5 3 (2.73%) DHCP
6 2 (1.82%) Network Security
6 2 (1.82%) NGFW
7 1 (0.91%) HTTP
7 1 (0.91%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.91%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (7.27%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.36%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.45%) Redis
5 5 (4.55%) Data Vault
5 5 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.64%) DocumentDB
6 4 (3.64%) Metadata
6 4 (3.64%) MySQL
7 3 (2.73%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.82%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (17.27%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.82%) JIRA
3 7 (6.36%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.36%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.55%) GitLab
5 3 (2.73%) git-flow
6 2 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.82%) Gatling
6 2 (1.82%) Git
6 2 (1.82%) JMeter
7 1 (0.91%) fastlane
7 1 (0.91%) JUnit
7 1 (0.91%) Postman
General
1 37 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 33 (30.00%) Finance
3 23 (20.91%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (14.55%) Banking
5 13 (11.82%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.36%) Public Sector
8 6 (5.45%) Retail
9 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.91%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (37.27%) Architect
2 17 (15.45%) Senior
3 13 (11.82%) CyberArk Architect
4 11 (10.00%) Developer
5 10 (9.09%) AWS Architect
6 9 (8.18%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Lead
8 6 (5.45%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Java Architect
10 4 (3.64%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (72.73%) OAuth
2 60 (54.55%) SAML
3 55 (50.00%) OAuth2
4 36 (32.73%) LDAP
5 17 (15.45%) Kafka
5 17 (15.45%) REST
6 14 (12.73%) RESTful
7 13 (11.82%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (10.91%) Spring
9 11 (10.00%) Spring Boot
10 10 (9.09%) .NET
11 8 (7.27%) JSON
12 7 (6.36%) JWT
13 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET
13 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (5.45%) Hibernate
13 6 (5.45%) HTML
13 6 (5.45%) Jest
13 6 (5.45%) Playwright
13 6 (5.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (29.09%) Cloud Native
2 21 (19.09%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.55%) IoT
5 5 (4.55%) PKI
6 4 (3.64%) Clustering
6 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.82%) CMDB
8 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.82%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.91%) BYOD
9 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.45%) Linux
1 6 (5.45%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.91%) Android
3 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.00%) DevOps
2 46 (41.82%) CI/CD
3 37 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (23.64%) Observability
4 26 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (22.73%) Secrets Management
6 24 (21.82%) Microservices
7 20 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 20 (18.18%) Event-Driven
7 20 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
8 19 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (16.36%) Agile
9 18 (16.36%) Architectural Design
9 18 (16.36%) Design Patterns
9 18 (16.36%) Threat Modelling
10 17 (15.45%) Architectural Patterns
10 17 (15.45%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (15.45%) Regulatory Compliance
10 17 (15.45%) Zero Trust
11 16 (14.55%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.36%) Java
2 22 (20.00%) SQL
3 19 (17.27%) Python
4 16 (14.55%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.09%) C#
5 10 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.18%) Bicep
7 5 (4.55%) Go
8 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.73%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.82%) Bash
10 1 (0.91%) Groovy
10 1 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.18%) CISSP
4 7 (6.36%) CISM
5 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.82%) MCSE
8 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.91%) Degree
8 1 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (17.27%) NIST
2 13 (11.82%) NCSC
3 11 (10.00%) GDPR
3 11 (10.00%) QA
4 6 (5.45%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.55%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.73%) WCAG
7 2 (1.82%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.82%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.82%) PSD2
7 2 (1.82%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (24.55%) Docker
2 21 (19.09%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.09%) Squid
4 2 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (38.18%) Kubernetes
2 37 (33.64%) Terraform
3 32 (29.09%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (14.55%) Grafana
4 16 (14.55%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.18%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.36%) Consul
7 4 (3.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.64%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.64%) Istio
7 4 (3.64%) Kustomize
7 4 (3.64%) linkerd
7 4 (3.64%) PingFederate
8 3 (2.73%) Ansible
8 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.55%) CyberArk
3 13 (11.82%) Splunk
4 11 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 10 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 9 (8.18%) Red Hat
7 8 (7.27%) Ping Identity
8 7 (6.36%) Atlassian
9 6 (5.45%) Google
10 5 (4.55%) Denodo
10 5 (4.55%) ForgeRock
10 5 (4.55%) SAP
10 5 (4.55%) Workday
11 4 (3.64%) Okta
12 3 (2.73%) Oracle
13 2 (1.82%) Confluent
13 2 (1.82%) MuleSoft
13 2 (1.82%) NetIQ
14 1 (0.91%) Adyen
14 1 (0.91%) SnapLogic