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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 323 362
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 +151
Contract jobs citing OpenID 61 58 74
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.37% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 1.36% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 54
10th Percentile £413 £413 £458
25th Percentile £453 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £681
90th Percentile £645 £750 £796
England median daily rate £475 £575 £639
% change year-on-year -17.39% -9.98% -1.73%

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 3,507 4,266 5,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.19% 26.94% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 2,821 4,100
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 39
10th Percentile £31.77 £24.12 £34.15
25th Percentile £34.17 £37.50 £38.19
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.56 £61.97 £72.83
90th Percentile £85.95 £74.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.99% -14.52%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +9 6 £500 -9.83% 12
West London -5 2 £425 +3.91%
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 5 (8.20%) CMS
1 5 (8.20%) Headless CMS
2 3 (4.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) JBoss
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 37 (60.66%) Azure
2 28 (45.90%) AWS
3 24 (39.34%) Entra ID
4 12 (19.67%) GCP
5 9 (14.75%) GitHub
5 9 (14.75%) SaaS
6 7 (11.48%) Serverless
7 6 (9.84%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (9.84%) Amazon S3
7 6 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (8.20%) Amazon Cognito
8 5 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (4.92%) Stackdriver
10 2 (3.28%) Apigee
10 2 (3.28%) Datadog
10 2 (3.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.28%) OCI
10 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) HTTPS
1 4 (6.56%) Kerberos
2 3 (4.92%) Firewall
3 2 (3.28%) HTTP
3 2 (3.28%) Network Security
3 2 (3.28%) S/MIME
3 2 (3.28%) SSL
4 1 (1.64%) DNS
4 1 (1.64%) Extranet
4 1 (1.64%) Internet
4 1 (1.64%) SMTP
4 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Redis
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) GitLab
1 4 (6.56%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Cypress.io
2 3 (4.92%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.64%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.64%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.64%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) Mocha
4 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.64%) Xcode
General
1 31 (50.82%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.95%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Finance
4 4 (6.56%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Legal
5 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) French Language
6 2 (3.28%) Publishing
6 2 (3.28%) Retail
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.64%) Military
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Architect
2 7 (11.48%) Developer
3 5 (8.20%) Designer
3 5 (8.20%) Solutions Designer
4 4 (6.56%) Consultant
4 4 (6.56%) Java Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Lead
4 4 (6.56%) Security Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Administrator
5 3 (4.92%) Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Lead Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Senior
6 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 2 (3.28%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (96.72%) OAuth
2 43 (70.49%) SAML
3 33 (54.10%) OAuth2
4 12 (19.67%) LDAP
5 8 (13.11%) REST
6 7 (11.48%) RESTful
7 6 (9.84%) SailPoint
8 5 (8.20%) GraphQL
8 5 (8.20%) SOAP
8 5 (8.20%) Spring
9 4 (6.56%) .NET
9 4 (6.56%) Kafka
9 4 (6.56%) OpenAPI
9 4 (6.56%) React
9 4 (6.56%) Swagger
10 3 (4.92%) FIDO
10 3 (4.92%) JDBC
10 3 (4.92%) Node.js
10 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
10 3 (4.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.48%) Management Information System
2 7 (11.48%) PKI
3 4 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.92%) BYOD
4 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.92%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Android
1 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.64%) CentOS
1 1 (1.64%) Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Identity Access Management
2 21 (34.43%) CI/CD
3 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (29.51%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 16 (26.23%) DevOps
5 16 (26.23%) Identity Management
6 12 (19.67%) Agile
6 12 (19.67%) Microservices
6 12 (19.67%) RBAC
7 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
7 10 (16.39%) DevSecOps
7 10 (16.39%) Zero Trust
8 9 (14.75%) B2C
8 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
9 8 (13.11%) API Integration
9 8 (13.11%) B2B
9 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (11.48%) API Development
10 7 (11.48%) Incident Response
10 7 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.95%) PowerShell
2 13 (21.31%) Python
3 12 (19.67%) Java
4 11 (18.03%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.84%) SQL
6 4 (6.56%) Bash
7 2 (3.28%) C#
7 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.64%) Go
8 1 (1.64%) Groovy
8 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.64%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.64%) Swift
8 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 7 (11.48%) CISSP
3 6 (9.84%) AWS Certification
3 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.28%) CCSP
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.64%) CISM
7 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) GDPR
2 6 (9.84%) HIPAA
2 6 (9.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (9.84%) SOC 2
3 5 (8.20%) NIST
4 4 (6.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
5 3 (4.92%) QA
6 2 (3.28%) PSD2
7 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.64%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (44.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (18.03%) Docker
3 3 (4.92%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 34 (55.74%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (22.95%) Terraform
3 7 (11.48%) Ansible
3 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (3.28%) Grafana
6 2 (3.28%) Puppet
7 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.64%) Argo
7 1 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (37.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.67%) Okta
3 10 (16.39%) ForgeRock
4 7 (11.48%) CyberArk
5 5 (8.20%) Google
6 3 (4.92%) Splunk
7 2 (3.28%) MuleSoft
7 2 (3.28%) Optimizely
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle
7 2 (3.28%) Ping Identity
7 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.64%) Databricks
8 1 (1.64%) IBM
8 1 (1.64%) OneLogin
8 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.64%) VMware
8 1 (1.64%) Xamarin