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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 308 346
Rank change year-on-year -14 +38 +58
Contract jobs citing OpenID 109 55 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 1.54% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 34 30
10th Percentile £425 £508 £425
25th Percentile £505 £537 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £614 £606
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +1.28% +1.04%
75th Percentile £668 £677 £684
90th Percentile £900 £711 £905
England median daily rate £563 £550 £603
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.71% +0.42%

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 4,486 3,560 4,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.65% 26.09% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,966 2,474 3,339
10th Percentile £393 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -38.46%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -13 8 £625 -2.50% 4
South London - 7 £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 (11.93%) Confluence
2 9 (8.26%) nginx
3 5 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (48.62%) Azure
2 46 (42.20%) AWS
3 36 (33.03%) Entra ID
4 26 (23.85%) Serverless
5 18 (16.51%) Amazon S3
6 17 (15.60%) GCP
7 11 (10.09%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (10.09%) Azure AKS
7 11 (10.09%) OpenShift
7 11 (10.09%) Route 53
7 11 (10.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (9.17%) SaaS
9 9 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (8.26%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (7.34%) Azure Functions
11 7 (6.42%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (5.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.51%) DNS
2 17 (15.60%) Firewall
3 9 (8.26%) OpenVPN
3 9 (8.26%) TCP/IP
3 9 (8.26%) VPN
4 7 (6.42%) Kerberos
5 4 (3.67%) Network Security
5 4 (3.67%) SSL
6 3 (2.75%) DHCP
7 2 (1.83%) NGFW
8 1 (0.92%) HTTP
8 1 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.59%) Data Vault
2 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (3.67%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.67%) Metadata
4 3 (2.75%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (12.84%) JIRA
2 10 (9.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.42%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.42%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.50%) Git
5 3 (2.75%) git-flow
6 2 (1.83%) JMeter
7 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.92%) Postman
General
1 36 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 29 (26.61%) Finance
3 20 (18.35%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (11.93%) Banking
5 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.26%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (6.42%) Retail
7 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.92%) Legal
9 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (32.11%) Architect
2 16 (14.68%) Senior
3 10 (9.17%) Developer
4 9 (8.26%) CyberArk Architect
5 8 (7.34%) Technical Architect
6 7 (6.42%) AWS Architect
6 7 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Lead
7 6 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (69.72%) OAuth
2 62 (56.88%) SAML
3 50 (45.87%) OAuth2
4 33 (30.28%) LDAP
5 19 (17.43%) REST
6 11 (10.09%) .NET
7 10 (9.17%) Kafka
7 10 (9.17%) RESTful
8 8 (7.34%) JSON
8 8 (7.34%) SOAP
9 7 (6.42%) Jakarta EE
9 7 (6.42%) Node.js
9 7 (6.42%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (4.59%) ASP.NET
10 5 (4.59%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (4.59%) JDBC
10 5 (4.59%) Jest
10 5 (4.59%) JWT
10 5 (4.59%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (4.59%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (29.36%) Cloud Native
2 21 (19.27%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.26%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.50%) IoT
4 6 (5.50%) PKI
5 4 (3.67%) Clustering
5 4 (3.67%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.75%) NHS
6 3 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.83%) CMDB
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) BYOD
8 1 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Windows
2 7 (6.42%) Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Android
4 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.92%) CentOS
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (45.87%) DevOps
2 39 (35.78%) CI/CD
3 32 (29.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (22.94%) Identity Access Management
6 23 (21.10%) Zero Trust
7 19 (17.43%) Agile
7 19 (17.43%) Containerisation
7 19 (17.43%) Microservices
7 19 (17.43%) Migration
8 17 (15.60%) Event-Driven
8 17 (15.60%) Observability
9 16 (14.68%) RBAC
9 16 (14.68%) Threat Modelling
10 15 (13.76%) Architectural Design
10 15 (13.76%) Secrets Management
11 14 (12.84%) AI
11 14 (12.84%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.84%) Regulatory Compliance
11 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.02%) Java
2 23 (21.10%) Python
3 17 (15.60%) PowerShell
4 15 (13.76%) SQL
5 11 (10.09%) Bicep
5 11 (10.09%) C#
5 11 (10.09%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.67%) Go
7 4 (3.67%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.83%) Bash
9 1 (0.92%) Groovy
9 1 (0.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.69%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.09%) CISSP
4 8 (7.34%) CISM
5 6 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.83%) Degree
8 2 (1.83%) MCSE
9 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.92%) CRISC
9 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.93%) GDPR
2 12 (11.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (11.01%) NIST
3 9 (8.26%) NCSC
4 7 (6.42%) QA
5 5 (4.59%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.83%) HL7
6 2 (1.83%) IEC 62304
6 2 (1.83%) ISO 13485
6 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.83%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (21.10%) Active Directory
2 20 (18.35%) Docker
3 9 (8.26%) Squid
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (33.03%) Terraform
2 34 (31.19%) Single Sign-On
3 32 (29.36%) Kubernetes
4 13 (11.93%) Grafana
4 13 (11.93%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.26%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.42%) Consul
7 6 (5.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.67%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.67%) Istio
8 4 (3.67%) Kustomize
8 4 (3.67%) linkerd
8 4 (3.67%) PingFederate
9 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (26.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.01%) ServiceNow
3 11 (10.09%) CyberArk
3 11 (10.09%) Dynatrace
4 10 (9.17%) Splunk
5 9 (8.26%) Ping Identity
5 9 (8.26%) Red Hat
6 7 (6.42%) Atlassian
7 6 (5.50%) Google
7 6 (5.50%) Okta
8 5 (4.59%) Denodo
8 5 (4.59%) ForgeRock
8 5 (4.59%) SAP
8 5 (4.59%) Workday
9 2 (1.83%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle
9 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.92%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.92%) Temenos