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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 303 337
Rank change year-on-year -50 +34 +39
Contract jobs citing OpenID 93 66 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 1.69% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 48 27
10th Percentile £358 £413 £442
25th Percentile £485 £500 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £629
90th Percentile £706 £705 £700
England median daily rate £564 £496 £585
% change year-on-year +13.66% -15.21% -2.50%

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 5,271 3,910 4,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.21% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,519 2,722 3,484
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £451 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £814 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 9 £625 -1.96% 12
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 6 (6.45%) Confluence
2 5 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 54 (58.06%) Azure
2 44 (47.31%) Entra ID
3 40 (43.01%) AWS
4 18 (19.35%) GCP
5 12 (12.90%) Serverless
6 11 (11.83%) SaaS
7 10 (10.75%) GitHub
8 8 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (7.53%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.53%) Azure Functions
9 7 (7.53%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (7.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (6.45%) Azure AKS
10 6 (6.45%) Azure App Service
10 6 (6.45%) Azure Event Grid
10 6 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (5.38%) Azure API Management
11 5 (5.38%) Dagster
11 5 (5.38%) dbt
11 5 (5.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.90%) DNS
2 10 (10.75%) Firewall
3 9 (9.68%) Kerberos
4 6 (6.45%) SSL
5 4 (4.30%) Network Security
6 3 (3.23%) DHCP
6 3 (3.23%) NGFW
7 1 (1.08%) OpenVPN
7 1 (1.08%) SSH
7 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) Data Vault
1 5 (5.38%) Snowflake Schema
2 4 (4.30%) Metadata
3 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.08%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Git
2 7 (7.53%) JIRA
3 3 (3.23%) GitLab
3 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.15%) git-flow
4 2 (2.15%) JMeter
General
1 19 (20.43%) Finance
2 17 (18.28%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Banking
6 5 (5.38%) Retail
7 4 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (25.81%) Architect
2 16 (17.20%) Senior
3 11 (11.83%) Developer
4 7 (7.53%) Technical Architect
5 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Snowflake Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) AWS Architect
6 4 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.23%) Lead
7 3 (3.23%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.23%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (81.72%) OAuth
2 51 (54.84%) SAML
3 47 (50.54%) OAuth2
4 31 (33.33%) Terraform
5 21 (22.58%) REST
6 16 (17.20%) LDAP
7 14 (15.05%) RESTful
8 11 (11.83%) .NET
8 11 (11.83%) JWT
9 9 (9.68%) JSON
9 9 (9.68%) Kafka
10 7 (7.53%) Jakarta EE
10 7 (7.53%) OpenAPI
10 7 (7.53%) SOAP
10 7 (7.53%) Swagger
11 5 (5.38%) JDBC
11 5 (5.38%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (4.30%) AngularJS
12 4 (4.30%) ASP.NET
12 4 (4.30%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.73%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.83%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (11.83%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.53%) PKI
4 6 (6.45%) IoT
5 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.30%) Clustering
6 4 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.23%) CMDB
7 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (3.23%) NHS
7 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
1 8 (8.60%) Windows
2 1 (1.08%) Android
2 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.08%) CentOS
2 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.33%) DevOps
2 30 (32.26%) CI/CD
3 27 (29.03%) Identity Access Management
4 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (25.81%) Zero Trust
6 18 (19.35%) Event-Driven
6 18 (19.35%) Migration
6 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (17.20%) Agile
7 16 (17.20%) Microservices
7 16 (17.20%) RBAC
8 14 (15.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (13.98%) Observability
9 13 (13.98%) Validation
10 12 (12.90%) Containerisation
11 11 (11.83%) AI
11 11 (11.83%) Mentoring
12 10 (10.75%) Identity Management
12 10 (10.75%) Roadmaps
13 9 (9.68%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.03%) Python
2 25 (26.88%) Java
3 19 (20.43%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.98%) Bicep
4 13 (13.98%) SQL
5 12 (12.90%) C#
6 6 (6.45%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.38%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.23%) Bash
9 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.08%) BeanShell
10 1 (1.08%) C++
10 1 (1.08%) Go
10 1 (1.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.68%) CISSP
4 8 (8.60%) CISM
5 5 (5.38%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.23%) MCSE
7 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.08%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.08%) CRISC
8 1 (1.08%) Degree
8 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.08%) GXPN
8 1 (1.08%) OSCE
8 1 (1.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.20%) GDPR
2 6 (6.45%) QA
3 5 (5.38%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (4.30%) NIST
5 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.15%) HL7
5 2 (2.15%) IEC 62304
5 2 (2.15%) ISO 13485
5 2 (2.15%) SNOMED CT
5 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (30.11%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.75%) Docker
3 3 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.08%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (24.73%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.30%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (4.30%) PingFederate
6 2 (2.15%) Ansible
6 2 (2.15%) Grafana
6 2 (2.15%) Istio
6 2 (2.15%) Kustomize
6 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.08%) Argo
7 1 (1.08%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.08%) linkerd
7 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (36.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.90%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.53%) Okta
3 7 (7.53%) Ping Identity
4 6 (6.45%) Google
5 5 (5.38%) Denodo
5 5 (5.38%) SAP
5 5 (5.38%) Workday
6 3 (3.23%) Oracle
6 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.15%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.15%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.15%) IBM
8 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.08%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.08%) Splunk
8 1 (1.08%) Temenos
8 1 (1.08%) Zscaler