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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 305 339
Rank change year-on-year -47 +34 +38
Contract jobs citing OpenID 91 64 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.48% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.73% 1.63% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 45 26
10th Percentile £390 £460 £439
25th Percentile £493 £525 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.91% -1.88%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £633
90th Percentile £706 £710 £700
England median daily rate £575 £519 £585
% change year-on-year +10.90% -11.37% -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 5,272 3,917 4,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 29.16% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,731 3,508
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £690 £716
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £30.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +37.17% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £75.10 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -12 9 £625 -1.96% 5
South London - 1 £513 -
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 7 (7.69%) Confluence
2 5 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.20%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 52 (57.14%) Azure
2 41 (45.05%) Entra ID
3 34 (37.36%) AWS
4 17 (18.68%) GCP
5 13 (14.29%) Serverless
6 11 (12.09%) Azure AKS
7 10 (10.99%) SaaS
8 8 (8.79%) Amazon S3
8 8 (8.79%) Azure API Management
8 8 (8.79%) Azure Functions
8 8 (8.79%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (8.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
9 7 (7.69%) GitHub
9 7 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.49%) Dagster
11 5 (5.49%) dbt
11 5 (5.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) DNS
2 11 (12.09%) Firewall
3 9 (9.89%) Kerberos
4 6 (6.59%) SSL
5 4 (4.40%) Network Security
6 3 (3.30%) DHCP
6 3 (3.30%) NGFW
7 2 (2.20%) OpenVPN
7 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.20%) VPN
8 1 (1.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Data Vault
1 5 (5.49%) Snowflake Schema
2 4 (4.40%) Metadata
3 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.10%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.10%) MySQL
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Git
1 8 (8.79%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) GitLab
3 2 (2.20%) git-flow
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) JMeter
4 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (20.88%) Finance
2 16 (17.58%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Banking
3 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.69%) Retail
5 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (23.08%) Architect
2 14 (15.38%) Senior
3 9 (9.89%) Developer
4 6 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Snowflake Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.49%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Technical Architect
7 3 (3.30%) AWS Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Consultant
7 3 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.30%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (80.22%) OAuth
2 52 (57.14%) SAML
3 49 (53.85%) OAuth2
4 28 (30.77%) Terraform
5 20 (21.98%) REST
6 17 (18.68%) LDAP
7 11 (12.09%) RESTful
8 9 (9.89%) .NET
8 9 (9.89%) Kafka
9 8 (8.79%) JWT
10 7 (7.69%) Jakarta EE
10 7 (7.69%) JSON
10 7 (7.69%) SOAP
11 6 (6.59%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (5.49%) JDBC
13 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
13 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
13 4 (4.40%) Node.js
13 4 (4.40%) OpenAPI
13 4 (4.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.47%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 11 (12.09%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.69%) PKI
5 6 (6.59%) IoT
6 5 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.40%) Clustering
7 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
8 3 (3.30%) CMDB
8 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (3.30%) NHS
9 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
10 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.79%) Linux
1 8 (8.79%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Android
2 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.10%) CentOS
2 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.10%) Unix
2 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.16%) DevOps
2 28 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 24 (26.37%) Zero Trust
4 23 (25.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (24.18%) Identity Access Management
6 20 (21.98%) Migration
7 17 (18.68%) Microservices
7 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (16.48%) Containerisation
8 15 (16.48%) RBAC
9 14 (15.38%) Event-Driven
9 14 (15.38%) Observability
10 12 (13.19%) Agile
10 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (13.19%) Validation
11 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
11 11 (12.09%) Runbook
12 10 (10.99%) Identity Management
13 9 (9.89%) AI
13 9 (9.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.27%) Python
2 22 (24.18%) Java
3 19 (20.88%) PowerShell
4 13 (14.29%) SQL
5 11 (12.09%) Bicep
6 10 (10.99%) C#
7 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.30%) Bash
9 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.10%) C++
10 1 (1.10%) Go
10 1 (1.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.89%) CISSP
4 8 (8.79%) CISM
5 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.30%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.30%) MCSE
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.10%) CRISC
8 1 (1.10%) Degree
8 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.48%) GDPR
2 6 (6.59%) QA
3 5 (5.49%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.30%) NIST
5 2 (2.20%) HL7
5 2 (2.20%) IEC 62304
5 2 (2.20%) ISO 13485
5 2 (2.20%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (29.67%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.29%) Docker
3 3 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (27.47%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (16.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (6.59%) Grafana
3 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.49%) Istio
4 5 (5.49%) Kustomize
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.40%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (4.40%) linkerd
5 4 (4.40%) PingFederate
6 2 (2.20%) Ansible
6 2 (2.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.10%) Argo
7 1 (1.10%) Consul
7 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (35.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.89%) Ping Identity
4 6 (6.59%) Google
4 6 (6.59%) Okta
5 5 (5.49%) Denodo
5 5 (5.49%) SAP
5 5 (5.49%) Workday
6 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.30%) ForgeRock
6 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.20%) IBM
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle
7 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.10%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.10%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.10%) Temenos
8 1 (1.10%) VMware