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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 312 333
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 +107
Contract jobs citing OpenID 99 45 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.34% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 1.27% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 29 43
10th Percentile £413 £409 £460
25th Percentile £480 £506 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £694 £708 £788
90th Percentile £900 £803 £930
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 4,071 3,551 4,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.62% 26.46% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,752 2,382 3,401
10th Percentile £363 £383 £388
25th Percentile £425 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 35
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.12
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.12
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.46
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -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 28 February 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 28 February 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 - 1
Central London 0 7 £610 +6.09% 8
East London - 3 £540 -
West London -22 1 £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 9 (9.09%) Confluence
2 8 (8.08%) nginx
3 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.01%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.45%) Azure
2 38 (38.38%) AWS
3 24 (24.24%) Entra ID
4 19 (19.19%) Serverless
5 17 (17.17%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (16.16%) Amazon S3
6 16 (16.16%) OpenShift
7 14 (14.14%) GCP
8 13 (13.13%) GitHub
8 13 (13.13%) Route 53
8 13 (13.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (10.10%) SaaS
11 9 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (8.08%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (5.05%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.13%) DNS
1 13 (13.13%) Firewall
2 9 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.08%) OpenVPN
3 8 (8.08%) VPN
4 5 (5.05%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.03%) SSL
6 2 (2.02%) Extranet
6 2 (2.02%) HTTP
6 2 (2.02%) Internet
6 2 (2.02%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.02%) Network Security
6 2 (2.02%) S/MIME
7 1 (1.01%) SMS
7 1 (1.01%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.08%) DynamoDB
3 7 (7.07%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.06%) Redis
5 5 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (4.04%) DocumentDB
6 4 (4.04%) MySQL
7 3 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.02%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.09%) JIRA
2 9 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 7 (7.07%) Bitbucket
3 7 (7.07%) GitLab
4 3 (3.03%) Gatling
5 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.02%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.02%) Git
5 2 (2.02%) git-flow
5 2 (2.02%) Postman
6 1 (1.01%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.01%) Fiddler
6 1 (1.01%) JMeter
6 1 (1.01%) JUnit
6 1 (1.01%) Maven
6 1 (1.01%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.01%) Selenium
6 1 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 49 (49.49%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.25%) Finance
3 22 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (15.15%) Banking
5 14 (14.14%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.05%) Legal
9 3 (3.03%) Retail
10 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.01%) Law
11 1 (1.01%) Military
11 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.01%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 45 (45.45%) Architect
2 13 (13.13%) CyberArk Architect
2 13 (13.13%) Developer
3 10 (10.10%) Senior
4 9 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (9.09%) Lead
4 9 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (8.08%) AWS Architect
6 7 (7.07%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.05%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Java Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.03%) Administrator
9 3 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.03%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (71.72%) OAuth
2 64 (64.65%) SAML
3 47 (47.47%) OAuth2
4 29 (29.29%) LDAP
5 13 (13.13%) Kafka
5 13 (13.13%) RESTful
6 11 (11.11%) REST
6 11 (11.11%) Spring
7 10 (10.10%) Spring Boot
8 8 (8.08%) .NET
8 8 (8.08%) React
9 7 (7.07%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (6.06%) GraphQL
10 6 (6.06%) Jest
10 6 (6.06%) Playwright
11 5 (5.05%) Hibernate
11 5 (5.05%) HTML
11 5 (5.05%) JSON
11 5 (5.05%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (5.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 20 (20.20%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 11 (11.11%) PKI
4 6 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.05%) BYOD
5 5 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.05%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.03%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.03%) Taxonomies
8 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.02%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.01%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.02%) Linux
1 2 (2.02%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Android
2 1 (1.01%) CentOS
2 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.48%) CI/CD
2 47 (47.47%) DevOps
3 29 (29.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (24.24%) Secrets Management
6 23 (23.23%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (23.23%) Identity Access Management
7 22 (22.22%) Microservices
8 21 (21.21%) Design Patterns
9 20 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
11 17 (17.17%) SIEM
12 16 (16.16%) Agile
12 16 (16.16%) Architectural Design
12 16 (16.16%) Event-Driven
12 16 (16.16%) Identity Management
12 16 (16.16%) Observability
12 16 (16.16%) Regulatory Compliance
12 16 (16.16%) Roadmaps
13 15 (15.15%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.23%) Java
2 17 (17.17%) Python
3 12 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.10%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.10%) SQL
5 9 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.06%) C#
6 6 (6.06%) Go
7 4 (4.04%) Groovy
8 3 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.02%) Bash
9 2 (2.02%) Swift
10 1 (1.01%) Bicep
10 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.01%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 33 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.10%) Degree
4 9 (9.09%) CISSP
5 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.02%) CCSP
8 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 20 (20.20%) NIST
2 14 (14.14%) NCSC
3 8 (8.08%) PCI DSS
3 8 (8.08%) QA
4 6 (6.06%) GDPR
5 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
5 4 (4.04%) HIPAA
5 4 (4.04%) PSD2
5 4 (4.04%) SOC 2
6 3 (3.03%) WCAG
7 2 (2.02%) ISO 20022
7 2 (2.02%) ISO 8583
7 2 (2.02%) SEPA
8 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (21.21%) Docker
2 17 (17.17%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.09%) Squid
4 2 (2.02%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.02%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.02%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 42 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 36 (36.36%) Single Sign-On
3 30 (30.30%) Terraform
4 12 (12.12%) Grafana
4 12 (12.12%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.08%) FortiGate
6 7 (7.07%) Consul
7 4 (4.04%) Ansible
7 4 (4.04%) Argo
8 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.01%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 27 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.19%) CyberArk
3 14 (14.14%) Splunk
4 12 (12.12%) ForgeRock
5 9 (9.09%) Dynatrace
5 9 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 8 (8.08%) Google
7 7 (7.07%) Atlassian
7 7 (7.07%) Okta
8 5 (5.05%) Ping Identity
9 2 (2.02%) Confluent
9 2 (2.02%) NetIQ
9 2 (2.02%) Optimizely
9 2 (2.02%) Oracle
10 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.01%) IBM
10 1 (1.01%) Intel
10 1 (1.01%) Qualys
10 1 (1.01%) VMware
10 1 (1.01%) Xamarin