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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 299 340
Rank change year-on-year -15 +41 +67
Contract jobs citing OpenID 111 55 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.43% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 1.62% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 34 35
10th Percentile £421 £525 £427
25th Percentile £503 £541 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £628 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +2.45% +2.08%
75th Percentile £691 £677 £694
90th Percentile £900 £711 £855
England median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -

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 4,402 3,392 4,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.84% 26.31% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,914 2,364 3,451
10th Percentile £381 £376 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £711
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 28
10th Percentile £24.30 - £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%

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 July 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 July 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 -13 8 £625 -2.50% 7
South London - 7 £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 13 (11.71%) Confluence
2 9 (8.11%) nginx
3 5 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.85%) Azure
2 49 (44.14%) AWS
3 34 (30.63%) Entra ID
4 26 (23.42%) Serverless
5 19 (17.12%) Amazon S3
5 19 (17.12%) GCP
6 15 (13.51%) OpenShift
7 13 (11.71%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (10.81%) Route 53
8 12 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (9.91%) Azure AKS
10 10 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (9.01%) SaaS
11 9 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (8.11%) GitHub
11 9 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (6.31%) Azure Event Grid
12 7 (6.31%) Azure Functions
13 6 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.22%) DNS
2 17 (15.32%) Firewall
3 9 (8.11%) OpenVPN
3 9 (8.11%) TCP/IP
3 9 (8.11%) VPN
4 7 (6.31%) Kerberos
5 4 (3.60%) Network Security
5 4 (3.60%) SSL
6 3 (2.70%) DHCP
7 2 (1.80%) NGFW
8 1 (0.90%) HTTP
8 1 (0.90%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.50%) Data Vault
2 5 (4.50%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.50%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.60%) Metadata
3 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.70%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.80%) Redis
5 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.90%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.90%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.90%) MySQL
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (13.51%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.61%) JIRA
3 7 (6.31%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.31%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.41%) Git
5 3 (2.70%) git-flow
6 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.80%) JMeter
7 1 (0.90%) fastlane
7 1 (0.90%) Gatling
7 1 (0.90%) GitLab
7 1 (0.90%) Postman
General
1 38 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 33 (29.73%) Finance
3 23 (20.72%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (15.32%) Banking
5 12 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.31%) Retail
8 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.90%) Legal
10 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (33.33%) Architect
2 16 (14.41%) Senior
3 12 (10.81%) CyberArk Architect
4 10 (9.01%) Developer
5 8 (7.21%) AWS Architect
6 7 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Lead
6 7 (6.31%) Technical Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.70%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (68.47%) OAuth
2 60 (54.05%) SAML
3 52 (46.85%) OAuth2
4 36 (32.43%) LDAP
5 19 (17.12%) REST
6 14 (12.61%) Kafka
7 12 (10.81%) RESTful
8 11 (9.91%) .NET
9 9 (8.11%) JSON
9 9 (8.11%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (7.21%) SOAP
10 8 (7.21%) Spring
11 7 (6.31%) Node.js
11 7 (6.31%) Spring Boot
12 6 (5.41%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (5.41%) GraphQL
12 6 (5.41%) Jest
12 6 (5.41%) JWT
12 6 (5.41%) Playwright
12 6 (5.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 33 (29.73%) Cloud Native
2 24 (21.62%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.21%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.41%) IoT
4 6 (5.41%) PKI
5 4 (3.60%) Clustering
5 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.60%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.80%) CMDB
7 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) NHS
8 1 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Windows
2 7 (6.31%) Linux
3 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.90%) CentOS
4 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (49.55%) DevOps
2 47 (42.34%) CI/CD
3 38 (34.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (20.72%) Microservices
6 22 (19.82%) Observability
7 21 (18.92%) Containerisation
7 21 (18.92%) Secrets Management
7 21 (18.92%) Zero Trust
8 20 (18.02%) Agile
8 20 (18.02%) Event-Driven
8 20 (18.02%) Identity Access Management
9 18 (16.22%) Migration
10 17 (15.32%) Architectural Design
10 17 (15.32%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (15.32%) Regulatory Compliance
10 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (15.32%) Threat Modelling
11 16 (14.41%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (13.51%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.32%) Java
2 24 (21.62%) Python
3 18 (16.22%) SQL
4 16 (14.41%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.91%) Bicep
5 11 (9.91%) C#
5 11 (9.91%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.60%) Go
6 4 (3.60%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.80%) Bash
9 1 (0.90%) Groovy
9 1 (0.90%) Perl
9 1 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (31.53%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.01%) CISSP
4 8 (7.21%) CISM
5 6 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.80%) Degree
8 2 (1.80%) MCSE
9 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.90%) CRISC
9 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (13.51%) NIST
2 12 (10.81%) NCSC
3 11 (9.91%) GDPR
4 9 (8.11%) QA
5 5 (4.50%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.70%) WCAG
7 1 (0.90%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.90%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.90%) PSD2
7 1 (0.90%) SEPA
7 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (20.72%) Docker
2 22 (19.82%) Active Directory
3 9 (8.11%) Squid
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (35.14%) Terraform
2 37 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 32 (28.83%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (12.61%) Grafana
4 14 (12.61%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.11%) FortiGate
6 7 (6.31%) Consul
7 6 (5.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.60%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.60%) Istio
8 4 (3.60%) Kustomize
8 4 (3.60%) linkerd
8 4 (3.60%) PingFederate
9 3 (2.70%) Ansible
9 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.90%) Argo
Vendors
1 28 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) CyberArk
2 13 (11.71%) Splunk
3 12 (10.81%) ServiceNow
4 11 (9.91%) Dynatrace
5 9 (8.11%) Red Hat
6 8 (7.21%) Ping Identity
7 7 (6.31%) Atlassian
8 6 (5.41%) Google
9 5 (4.50%) Denodo
9 5 (4.50%) ForgeRock
9 5 (4.50%) Okta
9 5 (4.50%) SAP
9 5 (4.50%) Workday
10 3 (2.70%) Oracle
11 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.90%) Adyen
12 1 (0.90%) Confluent
12 1 (0.90%) SnapLogic