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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 311 323
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +151
Contract jobs citing OpenID 68 53 70
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 1.45% 1.52%
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% +0.15%
75th Percentile £628 £708 £725
90th Percentile £691 £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 3,768 3,659 4,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.33% 25.57% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 2,390 3,468
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 31
10th Percentile £35.05 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.60 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -3.20% +19.74% -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 4 January 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 4 January 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 0 10 £538 -2.27% 28
West London -17 1 £425 +3.91% 47
South London - 1 £513 - 36
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 (4.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 41 (60.29%) Azure
2 25 (36.76%) AWS
3 24 (35.29%) Entra ID
4 14 (20.59%) GCP
4 14 (20.59%) GitHub
5 10 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (13.24%) SaaS
7 6 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.88%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.88%) Route 53
9 4 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (4.41%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) Firewall
1 5 (7.35%) HTTPS
2 4 (5.88%) DNS
3 3 (4.41%) SSL
4 2 (2.94%) Extranet
4 2 (2.94%) HTTP
4 2 (2.94%) Internet
4 2 (2.94%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.94%) Network Security
4 2 (2.94%) S/MIME
5 1 (1.47%) SMS
5 1 (1.47%) SMTP
5 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.24%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.82%) Redis
3 4 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.88%) MySQL
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.41%) DocumentDB
4 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.94%) Hazelcast
5 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.24%) GitLab
3 5 (7.35%) JIRA
4 3 (4.41%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.41%) Gatling
4 3 (4.41%) Git
5 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.47%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.47%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.47%) Fiddler
6 1 (1.47%) git-flow
6 1 (1.47%) JMeter
6 1 (1.47%) Maven
6 1 (1.47%) Mocha
6 1 (1.47%) Postman
6 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.47%) Selenium
6 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.47%) Xcode
General
1 28 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.59%) Finance
3 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.24%) Banking
5 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.88%) Legal
7 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.47%) Law
9 1 (1.47%) Military
9 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Retail
9 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.47%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Architect
2 13 (19.12%) Developer
3 6 (8.82%) Security Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Senior
3 6 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Security Architect
5 4 (5.88%) Lead
5 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Administrator
6 3 (4.41%) AWS Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (4.41%) ForgeRock Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Java Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Java Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (88.24%) OAuth
2 44 (64.71%) SAML
3 37 (54.41%) OAuth2
4 12 (17.65%) Kafka
4 12 (17.65%) RESTful
5 11 (16.18%) Spring
6 10 (14.71%) LDAP
6 10 (14.71%) Spring Boot
7 8 (11.76%) REST
8 5 (7.35%) .NET
8 5 (7.35%) GraphQL
8 5 (7.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (7.35%) React
9 4 (5.88%) Hibernate
9 4 (5.88%) JPA
9 4 (5.88%) JSON
9 4 (5.88%) OpenAPI
9 4 (5.88%) SOAP
9 4 (5.88%) Swagger
9 4 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Management Information System
1 11 (16.18%) PKI
2 10 (14.71%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (7.35%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.88%) BYOD
5 4 (5.88%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.41%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Android
2 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.47%) CentOS
2 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (33.82%) DevOps
3 21 (30.88%) Microservices
4 20 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
5 18 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (20.59%) DevSecOps
6 14 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (19.12%) Agile
7 13 (19.12%) Containerisation
8 12 (17.65%) Event-Driven
8 12 (17.65%) Identity Management
9 11 (16.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 11 (16.18%) Observability
9 11 (16.18%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (14.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (14.71%) Secrets Management
11 9 (13.24%) Design Patterns
11 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (11.76%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.35%) Java
2 16 (23.53%) Python
3 13 (19.12%) PowerShell
4 12 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 10 (14.71%) SQL
6 3 (4.41%) Bash
6 3 (4.41%) C#
6 3 (4.41%) Go
6 3 (4.41%) Groovy
7 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.47%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.47%) Swift
8 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.71%) Degree
3 7 (10.29%) CISSP
3 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.94%) CCSP
6 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.47%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) QA
2 8 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (10.29%) GDPR
3 7 (10.29%) NIST
3 7 (10.29%) PCI DSS
4 5 (7.35%) HIPAA
5 4 (5.88%) PSD2
5 4 (5.88%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.94%) ISO 20022
6 2 (2.94%) ISO 8583
6 2 (2.94%) NCSC
6 2 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.94%) SEPA
7 1 (1.47%) PMO
7 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (26.47%) Active Directory
1 18 (26.47%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) OpenAM
2 2 (2.94%) OpenDJ
2 2 (2.94%) OpenIDM
3 1 (1.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (36.76%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (32.35%) Terraform
3 17 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 9 (13.24%) Ansible
5 6 (8.82%) Grafana
6 4 (5.88%) Argo
6 4 (5.88%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.94%) Puppet
8 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.47%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 26 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.71%) Okta
3 8 (11.76%) ForgeRock
3 8 (11.76%) Google
4 7 (10.29%) CyberArk
5 5 (7.35%) Splunk
6 3 (4.41%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.94%) Confluent
7 2 (2.94%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.94%) NetIQ
7 2 (2.94%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.47%) IBM
8 1 (1.47%) Intel
8 1 (1.47%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.47%) Qualys
8 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.47%) VMware