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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 309 329
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +127
Contract jobs citing OpenID 95 44 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.33% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.34% 1.24% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 28 43
10th Percentile £413 £409 £460
25th Percentile £476 £495 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £599 £675
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -11.30% +6.93%
75th Percentile £697 £712 £788
90th Percentile £900 £805 £930
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -2.44%

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 4,062 3,539 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.70% 26.47% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,753 2,363 3,368
10th Percentile £363 £382 £385
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -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 36
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.93
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.42
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 £66.81
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.33
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 25 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 25 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 -8 7 £610 +6.09% 8
East London - 3 £540 -
West London -24 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 (9.47%) Confluence
2 8 (8.42%) nginx
3 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (47.37%) Azure
2 38 (40.00%) AWS
3 24 (25.26%) Entra ID
4 18 (18.95%) Serverless
5 16 (16.84%) Amazon S3
5 16 (16.84%) OpenShift
6 15 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (14.74%) GCP
7 14 (14.74%) GitHub
8 13 (13.68%) Route 53
8 13 (13.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (12.63%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (10.53%) SaaS
11 8 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.42%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.68%) DNS
1 13 (13.68%) Firewall
2 9 (9.47%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.42%) OpenVPN
3 8 (8.42%) VPN
4 5 (5.26%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.16%) SSL
6 2 (2.11%) Extranet
6 2 (2.11%) HTTP
6 2 (2.11%) Internet
6 2 (2.11%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.11%) Network Security
6 2 (2.11%) S/MIME
7 1 (1.05%) SMS
7 1 (1.05%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.47%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.37%) DynamoDB
2 7 (7.37%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.32%) Redis
4 5 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.21%) DocumentDB
5 4 (4.21%) MySQL
5 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.16%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.11%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (25.26%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.53%) JIRA
3 9 (9.47%) SonarQube
4 7 (7.37%) Bitbucket
4 7 (7.37%) GitLab
5 3 (3.16%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.16%) Gatling
6 2 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.11%) Git
6 2 (2.11%) git-flow
6 2 (2.11%) Postman
7 1 (1.05%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.05%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.05%) Fiddler
7 1 (1.05%) JMeter
7 1 (1.05%) JUnit
7 1 (1.05%) Maven
7 1 (1.05%) Selenium
7 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.05%) Xcode
General
1 46 (48.42%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.26%) Finance
3 22 (23.16%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (14.74%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (13.68%) Banking
6 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.26%) Legal
9 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Law
10 1 (1.05%) Military
10 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Retail
10 1 (1.05%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 45 (47.37%) Architect
2 14 (14.74%) Developer
3 13 (13.68%) CyberArk Architect
4 10 (10.53%) Senior
5 9 (9.47%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (9.47%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (8.42%) AWS Architect
6 8 (8.42%) Lead
7 7 (7.37%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Security Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Java Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.16%) Administrator
10 3 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (3.16%) ForgeRock Developer
10 3 (3.16%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (70.53%) OAuth
2 60 (63.16%) SAML
3 42 (44.21%) OAuth2
4 29 (30.53%) LDAP
5 13 (13.68%) Kafka
5 13 (13.68%) RESTful
6 12 (12.63%) REST
7 11 (11.58%) Spring
8 10 (10.53%) Spring Boot
9 9 (9.47%) React
10 8 (8.42%) .NET
11 7 (7.37%) GraphQL
11 7 (7.37%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (5.26%) Hibernate
12 5 (5.26%) HTML
12 5 (5.26%) Jest
12 5 (5.26%) JPA
12 5 (5.26%) JSON
12 5 (5.26%) Playwright
12 5 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.21%) Cloud Native
2 18 (18.95%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.58%) Management Information System
3 11 (11.58%) PKI
4 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.26%) BYOD
5 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.26%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.16%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.16%) Taxonomies
8 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.11%) Linux
1 2 (2.11%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Android
2 1 (1.05%) CentOS
2 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.53%) CI/CD
2 44 (46.32%) DevOps
3 28 (29.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (25.26%) Secrets Management
6 23 (24.21%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (24.21%) Identity Access Management
7 22 (23.16%) Microservices
8 21 (22.11%) Design Patterns
9 20 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (17.89%) Architectural Patterns
10 17 (17.89%) SIEM
11 16 (16.84%) Agile
11 16 (16.84%) Architectural Design
11 16 (16.84%) Event-Driven
11 16 (16.84%) Identity Management
11 16 (16.84%) Observability
11 16 (16.84%) Regulatory Compliance
11 16 (16.84%) Roadmaps
12 15 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.21%) Java
2 18 (18.95%) Python
3 12 (12.63%) PowerShell
4 11 (11.58%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.58%) SQL
5 9 (9.47%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.32%) C#
6 6 (6.32%) Go
7 4 (4.21%) Groovy
8 3 (3.16%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.11%) Bash
9 2 (2.11%) Swift
10 1 (1.05%) Bicep
10 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.05%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (34.74%) Security Cleared
2 27 (28.42%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.53%) Degree
4 9 (9.47%) CISSP
5 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.11%) CCSP
8 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 20 (21.05%) NIST
2 14 (14.74%) NCSC
3 8 (8.42%) PCI DSS
3 8 (8.42%) QA
4 6 (6.32%) GDPR
5 4 (4.21%) Accessibility
5 4 (4.21%) HIPAA
5 4 (4.21%) PSD2
5 4 (4.21%) SOC 2
6 3 (3.16%) WCAG
7 2 (2.11%) ISO 20022
7 2 (2.11%) ISO 8583
7 2 (2.11%) SEPA
8 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (22.11%) Docker
2 17 (17.89%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.47%) Squid
4 2 (2.11%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.11%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.11%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 40 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 35 (36.84%) Single Sign-On
3 30 (31.58%) Terraform
4 12 (12.63%) Grafana
4 12 (12.63%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.42%) FortiGate
6 7 (7.37%) Consul
7 4 (4.21%) Ansible
7 4 (4.21%) Argo
8 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.05%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 19 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 14 (14.74%) Splunk
4 10 (10.53%) ForgeRock
5 9 (9.47%) Dynatrace
5 9 (9.47%) Red Hat
6 8 (8.42%) Google
6 8 (8.42%) Okta
7 7 (7.37%) Atlassian
8 3 (3.16%) Ping Identity
9 2 (2.11%) Confluent
9 2 (2.11%) NetIQ
9 2 (2.11%) Optimizely
9 2 (2.11%) Oracle
10 1 (1.05%) Black Duck
10 1 (1.05%) IBM
10 1 (1.05%) Intel
10 1 (1.05%) Qualys
10 1 (1.05%) Veracode
10 1 (1.05%) VMware