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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 304 336
Rank change year-on-year -10 +32 +54
Contract jobs citing OpenID 109 53 64
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.51% 1.63% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 33 39
10th Percentile £421 £525 £446
25th Percentile £506 £550 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +2.86% +3.38%
75th Percentile £744 £678 £700
90th Percentile £900 £713 £892
England median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +4.35%

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 4,335 3,252 4,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.02% 26.55% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 2,278 3,461
10th Percentile £375 £384 £375
25th Percentile £447 £435 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -3.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £843
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 29
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +2.72% -35.61%
75th Percentile £68.38 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -20 8 £625 -2.23% 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 14 (12.84%) Confluence
2 9 (8.26%) nginx
3 5 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (46.79%) AWS
2 49 (44.95%) Azure
3 33 (30.28%) Entra ID
4 28 (25.69%) Serverless
5 22 (20.18%) Amazon S3
6 17 (15.60%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (15.60%) GCP
6 17 (15.60%) OpenShift
7 16 (14.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (13.76%) Route 53
9 13 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (11.01%) GitHub
10 12 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (10.09%) Azure AKS
12 9 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (8.26%) SaaS
13 8 (7.34%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (7.34%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (5.50%) Azure Event Grid
14 6 (5.50%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.43%) 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 5 (4.59%) SSL
6 3 (2.75%) DHCP
6 3 (2.75%) Network Security
7 2 (1.83%) NGFW
8 1 (0.92%) HTTP
8 1 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (7.34%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.42%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.50%) Redis
5 5 (4.59%) Data Vault
5 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (4.59%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.67%) DocumentDB
6 4 (3.67%) Metadata
6 4 (3.67%) MySQL
7 3 (2.75%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.83%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (17.43%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.84%) JIRA
3 7 (6.42%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.42%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.59%) GitLab
5 4 (3.67%) Git
6 3 (2.75%) git-flow
7 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.83%) Gatling
7 2 (1.83%) JMeter
8 1 (0.92%) fastlane
8 1 (0.92%) JUnit
8 1 (0.92%) Postman
General
1 38 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (30.28%) Finance
3 24 (22.02%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (13.76%) Banking
5 13 (11.93%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.50%) Retail
8 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (36.70%) Architect
2 17 (15.60%) Senior
3 13 (11.93%) CyberArk Architect
4 11 (10.09%) AWS Architect
5 10 (9.17%) Developer
6 9 (8.26%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Lead
7 7 (6.42%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Java Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (71.56%) OAuth
2 59 (54.13%) SAML
3 54 (49.54%) OAuth2
4 37 (33.94%) LDAP
5 18 (16.51%) REST
6 17 (15.60%) Kafka
7 13 (11.93%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (11.93%) RESTful
8 12 (11.01%) Spring
9 11 (10.09%) Spring Boot
10 10 (9.17%) .NET
11 9 (8.26%) JSON
12 6 (5.50%) ASP.NET
12 6 (5.50%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (5.50%) Hibernate
12 6 (5.50%) Jest
12 6 (5.50%) JPA
12 6 (5.50%) Playwright
12 6 (5.50%) React
12 6 (5.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (31.19%) Cloud Native
2 24 (22.02%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.50%) PKI
6 5 (4.59%) IoT
7 4 (3.67%) Clustering
7 4 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.67%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.75%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.83%) CMDB
9 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.83%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Linux
1 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.92%) Android
3 1 (0.92%) CentOS
3 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.46%) DevOps
2 48 (44.04%) CI/CD
3 39 (35.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (23.85%) Observability
4 26 (23.85%) Secrets Management
5 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (22.02%) Microservices
7 22 (20.18%) Containerisation
8 20 (18.35%) Event-Driven
8 20 (18.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (18.35%) Zero Trust
9 19 (17.43%) Identity Access Management
10 18 (16.51%) Agile
10 18 (16.51%) Architectural Design
10 18 (16.51%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (16.51%) Design Patterns
10 18 (16.51%) Regulatory Compliance
10 18 (16.51%) Threat Modelling
11 17 (15.60%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (14.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.69%) Java
2 22 (20.18%) SQL
3 21 (19.27%) Python
4 16 (14.68%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.17%) C#
5 10 (9.17%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.26%) Bicep
7 4 (3.67%) Go
8 3 (2.75%) Bash
8 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.75%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.92%) Groovy
9 1 (0.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (33.03%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.17%) CISSP
4 8 (7.34%) CISM
5 5 (4.59%) 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 19 (17.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (17.43%) NIST
2 13 (11.93%) NCSC
3 11 (10.09%) QA
4 10 (9.17%) GDPR
5 6 (5.50%) PCI DSS
6 5 (4.59%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.75%) WCAG
8 2 (1.83%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.83%) ISO 8583
8 2 (1.83%) PSD2
8 2 (1.83%) SEPA
9 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (25.69%) Docker
2 23 (21.10%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.17%) Squid
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (39.45%) Kubernetes
2 39 (35.78%) Terraform
3 31 (28.44%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (14.68%) Grafana
4 16 (14.68%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.26%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.42%) Consul
7 6 (5.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.67%) Ansible
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%) Argo
Vendors
1 27 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.84%) CyberArk
2 14 (12.84%) Splunk
3 12 (11.01%) ServiceNow
4 11 (10.09%) Dynatrace
5 9 (8.26%) Ping Identity
5 9 (8.26%) Red Hat
6 7 (6.42%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.59%) Denodo
7 5 (4.59%) ForgeRock
7 5 (4.59%) Google
7 5 (4.59%) Okta
7 5 (4.59%) SAP
7 5 (4.59%) Workday
8 3 (2.75%) Oracle
9 2 (1.83%) Confluent
9 2 (1.83%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.92%) Adyen
10 1 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.92%) SnapLogic