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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 293 335
Rank change year-on-year -19 +42 +78
Contract jobs citing OpenID 103 57 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.45% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.45% 1.72% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 36 40
10th Percentile £409 £519 £495
25th Percentile £500 £547 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £634 £638
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% -0.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £788 £691 £750
90th Percentile £900 £712 £904
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 4,202 3,317 4,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.96% 26.03% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,834 2,329 3,354
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 23
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +53.37% -48.91%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 April 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 April 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
Central London -19 8 £650 +2.56% 8
South London - 8 £519 -
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 12 (11.65%) Confluence
2 9 (8.74%) nginx
3 5 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (46.60%) AWS
2 47 (45.63%) Azure
3 27 (26.21%) Entra ID
4 25 (24.27%) Serverless
5 22 (21.36%) Amazon S3
6 18 (17.48%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (14.56%) OpenShift
8 14 (13.59%) GCP
8 14 (13.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (12.62%) Route 53
10 11 (10.68%) GitHub
10 11 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (9.71%) SaaS
12 9 (8.74%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (7.77%) Azure AKS
14 6 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.45%) Firewall
2 16 (15.53%) DNS
3 9 (8.74%) OpenVPN
3 9 (8.74%) TCP/IP
3 9 (8.74%) VPN
4 5 (4.85%) SSL
5 3 (2.91%) DHCP
6 2 (1.94%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.97%) Extranet
7 1 (0.97%) HTTP
7 1 (0.97%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.97%) Internet
7 1 (0.97%) Network Security
7 1 (0.97%) NGFW
7 1 (0.97%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.71%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (7.77%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.80%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.83%) Redis
5 5 (4.85%) Data Vault
5 5 (4.85%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.88%) DocumentDB
6 4 (3.88%) Metadata
6 4 (3.88%) MySQL
6 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.94%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (20.39%) Jenkins
2 12 (11.65%) JIRA
3 7 (6.80%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.80%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.83%) GitLab
5 3 (2.91%) Gatling
6 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.94%) git-flow
6 2 (1.94%) Postman
7 1 (0.97%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.97%) fastlane
7 1 (0.97%) Git
7 1 (0.97%) JMeter
7 1 (0.97%) JUnit
7 1 (0.97%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 40 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 33 (32.04%) Finance
3 24 (23.30%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (14.56%) Banking
5 14 (13.59%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.88%) Retail
8 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 44 (42.72%) Architect
2 16 (15.53%) Senior
3 13 (12.62%) CyberArk Architect
4 10 (9.71%) Developer
5 9 (8.74%) AWS Architect
5 9 (8.74%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (6.80%) Lead
7 6 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (67.96%) OAuth
2 61 (59.22%) SAML
3 44 (42.72%) OAuth2
4 37 (35.92%) LDAP
5 18 (17.48%) Kafka
6 14 (13.59%) REST
7 11 (10.68%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (10.68%) Spring
7 11 (10.68%) Spring Boot
8 10 (9.71%) RESTful
9 8 (7.77%) JSON
10 7 (6.80%) J2EE
11 6 (5.83%) HTML
11 6 (5.83%) Jest
11 6 (5.83%) Playwright
11 6 (5.83%) React
11 6 (5.83%) SOAP
12 5 (4.85%) JPA
12 5 (4.85%) Micronaut
12 5 (4.85%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.21%) Cloud Native
2 18 (17.48%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.80%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.80%) PKI
5 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.85%) IoT
6 4 (3.88%) Clustering
6 4 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.88%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.91%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.94%) BYOD
8 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.94%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.83%) Linux
1 6 (5.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (51.46%) DevOps
2 43 (41.75%) CI/CD
3 29 (28.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (23.30%) Secrets Management
6 22 (21.36%) Observability
7 21 (20.39%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (18.45%) Microservices
9 18 (17.48%) Architectural Design
9 18 (17.48%) Identity Access Management
9 18 (17.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (16.50%) Architectural Patterns
10 17 (16.50%) Design Patterns
11 16 (15.53%) AI
11 16 (15.53%) Containerisation
12 15 (14.56%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (14.56%) Roadmaps
12 15 (14.56%) SIEM
12 15 (14.56%) Threat Modelling
13 14 (13.59%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.13%) Java
2 21 (20.39%) SQL
3 20 (19.42%) Python
4 13 (12.62%) PowerShell
5 8 (7.77%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.85%) C#
6 5 (4.85%) Go
7 3 (2.91%) Groovy
7 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.91%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.94%) Bicep
9 1 (0.97%) Bash
9 1 (0.97%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (35.92%) Security Cleared
2 30 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.71%) CISSP
4 7 (6.80%) CISM
5 5 (4.85%) Degree
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.97%) MCSE
8 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (18.45%) NIST
2 14 (13.59%) NCSC
3 11 (10.68%) GDPR
4 8 (7.77%) QA
5 6 (5.83%) PCI DSS
6 5 (4.85%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.91%) WCAG
8 2 (1.94%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.94%) ISO 8583
8 2 (1.94%) PSD2
8 2 (1.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (21.36%) Docker
2 16 (15.53%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.71%) Squid
4 2 (1.94%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.94%) OpenDJ
4 2 (1.94%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 42 (40.78%) Kubernetes
2 33 (32.04%) Terraform
3 28 (27.18%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (16.50%) Grafana
5 16 (15.53%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.74%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.80%) Consul
8 4 (3.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.88%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.88%) Istio
8 4 (3.88%) Kustomize
8 4 (3.88%) linkerd
8 4 (3.88%) PingFederate
9 3 (2.91%) Ansible
9 3 (2.91%) Argo
10 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.97%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 24 (23.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.50%) CyberArk
3 14 (13.59%) Splunk
4 11 (10.68%) Dynatrace
5 9 (8.74%) Red Hat
5 9 (8.74%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.80%) Atlassian
6 7 (6.80%) Ping Identity
7 6 (5.83%) ForgeRock
7 6 (5.83%) Google
8 5 (4.85%) Denodo
8 5 (4.85%) SAP
8 5 (4.85%) Workday
9 3 (2.91%) Okta
10 2 (1.94%) Confluent
10 2 (1.94%) NetIQ
10 2 (1.94%) Oracle
11 1 (0.97%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.97%) IBM
11 1 (0.97%) Intel