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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 337 360
Rank change year-on-year +26 +23 +154
Contract jobs citing OpenID 67 55 68
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.35% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.81% 1.33% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 50
10th Percentile £413 £409 £496
25th Percentile £463 £475 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% -3.75% -7.69%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £681
90th Percentile £660 £765 £788
England median daily rate £499 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -13.45% -3.96% -7.55%

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 3,707 4,150 5,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 26.08% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,515 2,724 3,928
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £669 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 35
10th Percentile £34.19 £35.13 £33.20
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.31 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £63.56 £62.25 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £70.40 £82.94
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.46% +18.18% -15.38%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +13 9 £538 -10.42% 2
West London -12 2 £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 5 (7.46%) CMS
1 5 (7.46%) Headless CMS
2 3 (4.48%) Confluence
3 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.49%) Apache
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.49%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 41 (61.19%) Azure
2 26 (38.81%) AWS
3 24 (35.82%) Entra ID
4 12 (17.91%) GCP
5 11 (16.42%) GitHub
5 11 (16.42%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (16.42%) SaaS
6 7 (10.45%) Serverless
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (7.46%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (4.48%) Apigee
9 3 (4.48%) Datadog
9 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (4.48%) PaaS
9 3 (4.48%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Firewall
2 4 (5.97%) HTTPS
3 3 (4.48%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.99%) Extranet
4 2 (2.99%) HTTP
4 2 (2.99%) Internet
4 2 (2.99%) Network Security
4 2 (2.99%) S/MIME
4 2 (2.99%) SSL
5 1 (1.49%) DNS
5 1 (1.49%) SMTP
5 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.49%) MySQL
3 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Redis
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) GitLab
1 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.97%) JIRA
3 3 (4.48%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.48%) Git
4 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.49%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.49%) Fiddler
5 1 (1.49%) git-flow
5 1 (1.49%) Maven
5 1 (1.49%) Mocha
5 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.49%) Xcode
General
1 36 (53.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Finance
4 5 (7.46%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Legal
6 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.99%) Publishing
7 2 (2.99%) Retail
8 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Law
8 1 (1.49%) Military
8 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.49%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) Architect
2 9 (13.43%) Developer
3 6 (8.96%) Senior
4 5 (7.46%) Designer
4 5 (7.46%) Lead
4 5 (7.46%) Security Architect
4 5 (7.46%) Security Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.46%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (5.97%) Java Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Lead Architect
5 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Administrator
6 3 (4.48%) Consultant
6 3 (4.48%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (4.48%) ForgeRock Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (91.04%) OAuth
2 48 (71.64%) SAML
3 34 (50.75%) OAuth2
4 12 (17.91%) LDAP
5 7 (10.45%) REST
5 7 (10.45%) RESTful
6 6 (8.96%) Kafka
6 6 (8.96%) Spring
7 5 (7.46%) GraphQL
7 5 (7.46%) SOAP
8 4 (5.97%) .NET
8 4 (5.97%) OpenAPI
8 4 (5.97%) React
8 4 (5.97%) SailPoint
8 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.97%) Swagger
8 4 (5.97%) YAML
9 3 (4.48%) J2EE
9 3 (4.48%) JDBC
9 3 (4.48%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Management Information System
1 11 (16.42%) PKI
2 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.97%) BYOD
4 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.97%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.48%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.49%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Android
1 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.49%) CentOS
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) Identity Access Management
2 27 (40.30%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (29.85%) DevOps
5 17 (25.37%) Identity Management
6 16 (23.88%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 14 (20.90%) DevSecOps
7 14 (20.90%) Microservices
8 12 (17.91%) Agile
9 11 (16.42%) RBAC
10 10 (14.93%) B2C
10 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
11 9 (13.43%) B2B
11 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (13.43%) Zero Trust
12 8 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (11.94%) Incident Response
12 8 (11.94%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (10.45%) Privileged Identity Management
13 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.39%) Java
1 15 (22.39%) PowerShell
2 13 (19.40%) Python
3 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.96%) SQL
5 3 (4.48%) Bash
5 3 (4.48%) Groovy
6 2 (2.99%) C#
6 2 (2.99%) Go
6 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.49%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.49%) Swift
7 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Degree
2 8 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) CISSP
3 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.96%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.99%) CCSP
7 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) GDPR
2 5 (7.46%) HIPAA
2 5 (7.46%) SOC 2
3 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.48%) NIST
4 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.48%) QA
4 3 (4.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.99%) PSD2
6 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (37.31%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.42%) Docker
3 2 (2.99%) OpenAM
3 2 (2.99%) OpenDJ
3 2 (2.99%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 31 (46.27%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (25.37%) Terraform
3 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
4 7 (10.45%) Ansible
5 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.48%) Grafana
7 2 (2.99%) Argo
7 2 (2.99%) Puppet
8 1 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.49%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (40.30%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.42%) ForgeRock
2 11 (16.42%) Okta
3 6 (8.96%) CyberArk
3 6 (8.96%) Google
4 4 (5.97%) Splunk
5 2 (2.99%) IBM
5 2 (2.99%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.99%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.99%) Oracle
5 2 (2.99%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.49%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.49%) Databricks
6 1 (1.49%) Intel
6 1 (1.49%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.49%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.49%) Qualys
6 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.49%) Zscaler