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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 293 327
Rank change year-on-year -18 +34 +104
Contract jobs citing OpenID 91 52 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.41% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.21% 1.56% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 35 39
10th Percentile £450 £409 £490
25th Percentile £506 £525 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +8.87%
75th Percentile £704 £704 £769
90th Percentile £900 £778 £908
England median daily rate £543 £598 £600
% change year-on-year -9.08% -0.42% -

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 4,113 3,324 4,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.76% 26.23% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,792 2,312 3,322
10th Percentile £363 £385 £376
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £571 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £666 £708 £690
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 27
10th Percentile £27.80 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £45.50 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.04 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £69.88 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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
South London - 8 £519 -
Central London -11 7 £675 +5.59% 3
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 9 (9.89%) nginx
2 8 (8.79%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) Azure
2 41 (45.05%) AWS
3 24 (26.37%) Serverless
4 19 (20.88%) Entra ID
5 18 (19.78%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (19.78%) Amazon S3
6 15 (16.48%) OpenShift
7 14 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (14.29%) Route 53
9 12 (13.19%) GCP
10 11 (12.09%) GitHub
10 11 (12.09%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (8.79%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (7.69%) Azure AKS
14 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (6.59%) SaaS
15 5 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (5.49%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) DNS
1 13 (14.29%) Firewall
2 9 (9.89%) OpenVPN
2 9 (9.89%) TCP/IP
2 9 (9.89%) VPN
3 3 (3.30%) SSL
4 2 (2.20%) Network Security
4 2 (2.20%) S/MIME
5 1 (1.10%) Extranet
5 1 (1.10%) HTTP
5 1 (1.10%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.10%) Internet
5 1 (1.10%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.79%) DynamoDB
3 7 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.59%) Redis
5 4 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.40%) DocumentDB
5 4 (4.40%) MySQL
5 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.30%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.20%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.10%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.79%) JIRA
3 7 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 7 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 6 (6.59%) GitLab
5 3 (3.30%) Gatling
6 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.20%) git-flow
6 2 (2.20%) Postman
7 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.10%) fastlane
7 1 (1.10%) Git
7 1 (1.10%) JMeter
7 1 (1.10%) JUnit
7 1 (1.10%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.10%) Selenium
General
1 40 (43.96%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.27%) Finance
3 22 (24.18%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (15.38%) Banking
4 14 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Legal
7 2 (2.20%) Retail
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (49.45%) Architect
2 13 (14.29%) CyberArk Architect
3 12 (13.19%) Developer
3 12 (13.19%) Senior
4 9 (9.89%) AWS Architect
4 9 (9.89%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (9.89%) Lead
5 8 (8.79%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.49%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.49%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Java Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 3 (3.30%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (3.30%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (69.23%) OAuth
2 55 (60.44%) SAML
3 42 (46.15%) OAuth2
4 29 (31.87%) LDAP
5 14 (15.38%) Kafka
6 13 (14.29%) REST
6 13 (14.29%) RESTful
7 11 (12.09%) Spring
7 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
8 10 (10.99%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (8.79%) .NET
10 7 (7.69%) React
11 6 (6.59%) GraphQL
11 6 (6.59%) HTML
11 6 (6.59%) Jest
11 6 (6.59%) JSON
11 6 (6.59%) Playwright
12 5 (5.49%) Hibernate
12 5 (5.49%) Micronaut
12 5 (5.49%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.67%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.78%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.79%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.69%) PKI
5 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.30%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.20%) BYOD
7 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
1 1 (1.10%) Windows
1 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.75%) DevOps
2 45 (49.45%) CI/CD
3 28 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (26.37%) Microservices
4 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (26.37%) Secrets Management
5 21 (23.08%) Observability
6 20 (21.98%) Design Patterns
7 19 (20.88%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (20.88%) Identity Access Management
7 19 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (18.68%) Architectural Design
8 17 (18.68%) Architectural Patterns
8 17 (18.68%) Containerisation
8 17 (18.68%) SIEM
9 16 (17.58%) Agile
9 16 (17.58%) Event-Driven
9 16 (17.58%) Regulatory Compliance
10 15 (16.48%) Roadmaps
10 15 (16.48%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) Java
2 16 (17.58%) Python
3 14 (15.38%) SQL
4 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.59%) C#
7 5 (5.49%) Go
8 4 (4.40%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.30%) Groovy
9 3 (3.30%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.10%) Bash
10 1 (1.10%) Bicep
10 1 (1.10%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 30 (32.97%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) CISSP
3 7 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.20%) CCSP
5 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.20%) CISM
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (19.78%) NIST
3 14 (15.38%) NCSC
4 8 (8.79%) GDPR
4 8 (8.79%) PCI DSS
4 8 (8.79%) QA
5 6 (6.59%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
6 3 (3.30%) PSD2
6 3 (3.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (3.30%) WCAG
7 2 (2.20%) ISO 20022
7 2 (2.20%) ISO 8583
7 2 (2.20%) SEPA
7 2 (2.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (25.27%) Docker
2 10 (10.99%) Squid
3 9 (9.89%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.20%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.20%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.20%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 44 (48.35%) Kubernetes
2 29 (31.87%) Single Sign-On
3 28 (30.77%) Terraform
4 16 (17.58%) Grafana
5 15 (16.48%) Prometheus
6 9 (9.89%) FortiGate
7 7 (7.69%) Consul
8 3 (3.30%) Ansible
8 3 (3.30%) Argo
8 3 (3.30%) Istio
8 3 (3.30%) Kustomize
8 3 (3.30%) linkerd
9 1 (1.10%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 20 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.78%) CyberArk
3 14 (15.38%) Splunk
4 11 (12.09%) Dynatrace
5 9 (9.89%) Red Hat
6 7 (7.69%) Atlassian
6 7 (7.69%) ForgeRock
7 6 (6.59%) Google
8 4 (4.40%) Okta
8 4 (4.40%) Ping Identity
9 2 (2.20%) Confluent
9 2 (2.20%) NetIQ
9 2 (2.20%) Optimizely
9 2 (2.20%) Oracle
9 2 (2.20%) SAP
9 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.20%) Workday
10 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.10%) IBM
10 1 (1.10%) PagerDuty