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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 336 369
Rank change year-on-year +41 +33 +148
Contract jobs citing OpenID 67 52 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 1.16% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 56
10th Percentile £413 £446 £458
25th Percentile £472 £526 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £683
90th Percentile £700 £700 £794
England median daily rate £475 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -20.83% - -5.14%

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 3,503 4,485 5,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.08% 27.77% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,401 3,076 4,240
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -7.27% -0.45% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 41
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £36.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -34.62% +12.07%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.43 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £75.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £54.85 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.84% +2.74% -2.26%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +1 6 £500 -10.67% 2
West London - 2 £425 -
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 (7.46%) CMS
1 5 (7.46%) Headless CMS
2 3 (4.48%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.76%) Azure
2 26 (38.81%) AWS
3 21 (31.34%) Entra ID
4 13 (19.40%) GitHub
5 11 (16.42%) GCP
6 8 (11.94%) SaaS
7 7 (10.45%) Serverless
8 6 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (8.96%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (8.96%) OCI
9 5 (7.46%) Amazon Cognito
9 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.97%) Azure AKS
10 4 (5.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (4.48%) Stackdriver
12 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) HTTPS
2 3 (4.48%) Firewall
2 3 (4.48%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.49%) DNS
3 1 (1.49%) HTTP
3 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) DynamoDB
2 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.49%) MySQL
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) GitLab
1 4 (5.97%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
2 3 (4.48%) Git
2 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.49%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.49%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.49%) Maven
4 1 (1.49%) Mocha
4 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.49%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.49%) Xcode
General
1 25 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Finance
3 9 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.97%) Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) French Language
6 2 (2.99%) Publishing
6 2 (2.99%) Retail
6 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Architect
2 8 (11.94%) Developer
3 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Designer
4 5 (7.46%) Java Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (5.97%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Administrator
6 3 (4.48%) Consultant
6 3 (4.48%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Senior
7 2 (2.99%) Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Lead Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Python Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (97.01%) OAuth
2 39 (58.21%) OAuth2
3 37 (55.22%) SAML
4 11 (16.42%) LDAP
4 11 (16.42%) REST
5 8 (11.94%) Kafka
5 8 (11.94%) SOAP
6 6 (8.96%) JDBC
6 6 (8.96%) SailPoint
6 6 (8.96%) Spring
7 5 (7.46%) React
8 4 (5.97%) FIDO
8 4 (5.97%) NumPy
8 4 (5.97%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (5.97%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (5.97%) Pandas
8 4 (5.97%) RESTful
8 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.97%) Swagger
8 4 (5.97%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) PKI
2 7 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.45%) Taxonomies
3 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.48%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.49%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Android
1 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.49%) CentOS
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (55.22%) Identity Access Management
2 21 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (29.85%) CI/CD
4 19 (28.36%) DevOps
5 18 (26.87%) Agile
5 18 (26.87%) Identity Management
6 15 (22.39%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 12 (17.91%) API Integration
7 12 (17.91%) Mentoring
8 11 (16.42%) DevSecOps
9 9 (13.43%) Microservices
9 9 (13.43%) RBAC
9 9 (13.43%) Scrum
9 9 (13.43%) Zero Trust
10 8 (11.94%) API Development
10 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
10 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (11.94%) Open Source
11 7 (10.45%) Event-Driven
11 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.84%) Python
2 18 (26.87%) Java
3 14 (20.90%) JavaScript
4 11 (16.42%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.96%) SQL
6 5 (7.46%) C#
7 4 (5.97%) Bash
8 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.49%) Go
9 1 (1.49%) Groovy
9 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.49%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.49%) Swift
9 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 6 (8.96%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.48%) OCP
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.99%) CISSP
6 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.49%) CISM
7 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 9 (13.43%) NIST
3 8 (11.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.97%) SOC 2
5 3 (4.48%) GDPR
5 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (4.48%) QA
6 2 (2.99%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.49%) PMO
7 1 (1.49%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (34.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (14.93%) Docker
3 3 (4.48%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 34 (50.75%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (26.87%) Terraform
3 11 (16.42%) Ansible
4 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (2.99%) Grafana
6 2 (2.99%) Puppet
7 1 (1.49%) Argo
7 1 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 13 (19.40%) ForgeRock
2 13 (19.40%) Okta
3 6 (8.96%) CyberArk
3 6 (8.96%) Oracle
4 5 (7.46%) Ping Identity
5 4 (5.97%) Google
6 3 (4.48%) IBM
6 3 (4.48%) Splunk
7 2 (2.99%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.49%) Databricks
8 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.49%) VMware
8 1 (1.49%) Xamarin