OpenID Contracts in London

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenID over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 340 407
Rank change year-on-year +41 +67 +108
Contract jobs citing OpenID 55 60 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.34% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.62% 1.28% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 58
10th Percentile £525 £427 -
25th Percentile £541 £554 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% +2.08% -4.57%
75th Percentile £677 £694 £686
90th Percentile £711 £855 £783
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.21%

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 3,392 4,689 6,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 26.83% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,366 3,451 5,061
10th Percentile £376 £375 £413
25th Percentile £429 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £711 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 42
10th Percentile - £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -36.80% +41.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in London

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenID in London.

Daily rate trend for OpenID in London

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in London over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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 +3 10 £641 +7.73% 12
West London - 1 £425 - 2
OpenID
England

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.09%) CMS
1 5 (9.09%) Headless CMS
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 29 (52.73%) Azure
2 23 (41.82%) Entra ID
3 20 (36.36%) AWS
4 12 (21.82%) GitHub
5 10 (18.18%) Azure AKS
5 10 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 10 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (16.36%) OCI
7 8 (14.55%) Serverless
8 7 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (10.91%) Amazon Cognito
9 6 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (9.09%) Amazon S3
11 4 (7.27%) GCP
12 3 (5.45%) SaaS
13 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (1.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) DNS
2 4 (7.27%) Firewall
3 3 (5.45%) HTTPS
4 2 (3.64%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.91%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Git
1 1 (1.82%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.82%) Finance
3 11 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) French Language
5 2 (3.64%) Publishing
5 2 (3.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.82%) Advertising
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Architect
2 9 (16.36%) Software Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Python Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Security Architect
4 6 (10.91%) Python Software Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Designer
5 5 (9.09%) Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Solutions Designer
6 4 (7.27%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) Senior
8 2 (3.64%) ForgeRock Architect
8 2 (3.64%) ForgeRock Developer
8 2 (3.64%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Lead
8 2 (3.64%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Python Developer
9 1 (1.82%) Senior Architect
9 1 (1.82%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (98.18%) OAuth
2 33 (60.00%) SAML
3 29 (52.73%) OAuth2
4 14 (25.45%) REST
5 10 (18.18%) Kafka
6 8 (14.55%) LDAP
6 8 (14.55%) NumPy
6 8 (14.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (14.55%) Pandas
7 6 (10.91%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (9.09%) SailPoint
8 5 (9.09%) SOAP
8 5 (9.09%) XACML
9 4 (7.27%) FIDO
10 3 (5.45%) JDBC
10 3 (5.45%) RESTful
11 2 (3.64%) Spring
11 2 (3.64%) WebAuthn
11 2 (3.64%) WebSockets
11 2 (3.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) PKI
2 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 4 (7.27%) Taxonomies
4 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.82%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (63.64%) Identity Access Management
2 19 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 14 (25.45%) DevOps
4 14 (25.45%) Identity Management
5 12 (21.82%) Agile
5 12 (21.82%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 10 (18.18%) Quantitative Finance
6 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 9 (16.36%) Cloud Security
7 9 (16.36%) Scrum
7 9 (16.36%) Software Engineering
8 8 (14.55%) API Integration
8 8 (14.55%) CI/CD
8 8 (14.55%) RBAC
9 7 (12.73%) Computer Science
9 7 (12.73%) Open Source
10 6 (10.91%) B2B
10 6 (10.91%) B2C
10 6 (10.91%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (45.45%) Python
2 13 (23.64%) Java
3 10 (18.18%) C#
4 8 (14.55%) PowerShell
5 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.64%) Bash
6 2 (3.64%) SQL
7 1 (1.82%) Ruby
7 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) Degree
3 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (10.91%) OCP
5 6 (10.91%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.82%) CISM
8 1 (1.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 11 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (20.00%) NIST
3 6 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (3.64%) GDPR
4 2 (3.64%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.82%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (32.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.45%) OpenAM
3 2 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (45.45%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (25.45%) Terraform
3 11 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.09%) Ansible
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.36%) Oracle
3 8 (14.55%) ForgeRock
4 6 (10.91%) Okta
5 5 (9.09%) CyberArk
6 4 (7.27%) Ping Identity
7 3 (5.45%) IBM
8 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.82%) Confluent
8 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow