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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 331 333
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 +157
Contract jobs citing OpenID 64 52 70
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 1.34% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 32 53
10th Percentile £413 £409 £505
25th Percentile £463 £472 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £625 £708 £725
90th Percentile £688 £792 £832
England median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.25%

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 3,775 3,872 4,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 25.76% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,550 2,529 3,677
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.65 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -6.15% +24.53% -19.70%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 +5 8 £538 -2.27% 3
West London -18 1 £425 +3.91% 3
South London - 1 £513 -
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 3 (4.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 41 (64.06%) Azure
2 27 (42.19%) Entra ID
3 19 (29.69%) AWS
4 11 (17.19%) GCP
4 11 (17.19%) GitHub
4 11 (17.19%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (14.06%) SaaS
6 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.69%) Apigee
8 3 (4.69%) Datadog
8 3 (4.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (4.69%) PaaS
8 3 (4.69%) Stackdriver
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.13%) OneDrive
9 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.56%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) Firewall
1 5 (7.81%) HTTPS
2 3 (4.69%) SSL
3 2 (3.13%) Extranet
3 2 (3.13%) HTTP
3 2 (3.13%) Internet
3 2 (3.13%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.13%) Network Security
3 2 (3.13%) S/MIME
4 1 (1.56%) DNS
4 1 (1.56%) SMS
4 1 (1.56%) SMTP
4 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.56%) MySQL
2 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.56%) Redis
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) GitLab
1 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.81%) JIRA
3 3 (4.69%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.69%) Git
4 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.56%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.56%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.56%) Fiddler
5 1 (1.56%) Gatling
5 1 (1.56%) git-flow
5 1 (1.56%) JMeter
5 1 (1.56%) JUnit
5 1 (1.56%) Mocha
5 1 (1.56%) Postman
5 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.56%) Selenium
5 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.56%) Xcode
General
1 30 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Banking
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Legal
6 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (1.56%) Military
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Architect
2 11 (17.19%) Developer
3 6 (9.38%) Security Engineer
3 6 (9.38%) Senior
3 6 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.81%) Lead
4 5 (7.81%) Security Architect
5 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Administrator
6 3 (4.69%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Java Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Lead Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Specialist
7 2 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) IAM Specialist
7 2 (3.13%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (3.13%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (87.50%) OAuth
2 47 (73.44%) SAML
3 30 (46.88%) OAuth2
4 10 (15.63%) LDAP
5 7 (10.94%) RESTful
6 5 (7.81%) Kafka
6 5 (7.81%) React
6 5 (7.81%) REST
6 5 (7.81%) SailPoint
6 5 (7.81%) Spring
7 4 (6.25%) .NET
7 4 (6.25%) GraphQL
7 4 (6.25%) OpenAPI
7 4 (6.25%) SOAP
7 4 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.25%) Swagger
7 4 (6.25%) YAML
8 3 (4.69%) JDBC
8 3 (4.69%) Node.js
8 3 (4.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Management Information System
1 11 (17.19%) PKI
2 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.25%) BYOD
4 4 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.69%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Taxonomies
6 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.56%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.56%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Android
2 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.56%) CentOS
2 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) CI/CD
2 21 (32.81%) Identity Access Management
3 19 (29.69%) DevOps
4 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (21.88%) DevSecOps
5 14 (21.88%) Identity Management
5 14 (21.88%) Microservices
5 14 (21.88%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 12 (18.75%) Agile
7 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
7 10 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (14.06%) B2C
8 9 (14.06%) RBAC
9 8 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 8 (12.50%) Information Security
9 8 (12.50%) Zero Trust
10 7 (10.94%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (9.38%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.00%) Java
1 16 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (23.44%) Python
3 12 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) SQL
5 3 (4.69%) Bash
5 3 (4.69%) Go
5 3 (4.69%) Groovy
6 2 (3.13%) C#
6 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.56%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.56%) Swift
7 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.63%) Degree
3 7 (10.94%) CISSP
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.13%) CCSP
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) GDPR
2 5 (7.81%) HIPAA
2 5 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.25%) NIST
3 4 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (6.25%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.13%) NCSC
4 2 (3.13%) PSD2
4 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.56%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (32.81%) Active Directory
2 12 (18.75%) Docker
3 2 (3.13%) OpenAM
3 2 (3.13%) OpenDJ
3 2 (3.13%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 28 (43.75%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (28.13%) Terraform
3 12 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 7 (10.94%) Ansible
5 4 (6.25%) Grafana
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.13%) Argo
7 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.13%) Puppet
8 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 28 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) Okta
3 9 (14.06%) CyberArk
4 8 (12.50%) ForgeRock
4 8 (12.50%) Google
5 5 (7.81%) Splunk
6 3 (4.69%) Ping Identity
7 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
7 2 (3.13%) NetIQ
7 2 (3.13%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.56%) Black Duck
8 1 (1.56%) Databricks
8 1 (1.56%) IBM
8 1 (1.56%) Intel
8 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.56%) Veracode
8 1 (1.56%) VMware
8 1 (1.56%) Xamarin