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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 312 337
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 +123
Contract jobs citing OpenID 94 47 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.35% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.34% 1.33% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 30 46
10th Percentile £413 £409 £475
25th Percentile £472 £483 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £599 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% -7.88% +2.04%
75th Percentile £701 £708 £778
90th Percentile £900 £800 £919
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 4,021 3,538 4,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.89% 26.24% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 2,345 3,400
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.95% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 31
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.51
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.94
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +8.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £68.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year +0.80% +14.55% -16.06%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 7 £610 +6.09% 4
South London - 7 £519 - 2
East London - 3 £540 -
West London -22 1 £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 8 (8.51%) Confluence
2 7 (7.45%) nginx
3 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (47.87%) Azure
2 36 (38.30%) AWS
3 24 (25.53%) Entra ID
4 16 (17.02%) GCP
4 16 (17.02%) OpenShift
4 16 (17.02%) Serverless
5 14 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (14.89%) Amazon S3
5 14 (14.89%) GitHub
6 12 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (12.77%) Route 53
6 12 (12.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (11.70%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (11.70%) SaaS
8 10 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (7.45%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) DNS
1 12 (12.77%) Firewall
2 8 (8.51%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.45%) OpenVPN
3 7 (7.45%) VPN
4 5 (5.32%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.19%) SSL
6 2 (2.13%) Extranet
6 2 (2.13%) HTTP
6 2 (2.13%) Internet
6 2 (2.13%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.13%) Network Security
6 2 (2.13%) S/MIME
7 1 (1.06%) SMS
7 1 (1.06%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.38%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.38%) Redis
4 5 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.26%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.26%) DocumentDB
5 4 (4.26%) MySQL
5 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.13%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (25.53%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.57%) JIRA
3 8 (8.51%) SonarQube
4 7 (7.45%) GitLab
5 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.19%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.19%) Gatling
6 3 (3.19%) Git
7 2 (2.13%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.13%) git-flow
7 2 (2.13%) Postman
8 1 (1.06%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.06%) Fiddler
8 1 (1.06%) JMeter
8 1 (1.06%) JUnit
8 1 (1.06%) Maven
8 1 (1.06%) Selenium
8 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.06%) Xcode
General
1 46 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.53%) Finance
3 21 (22.34%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (14.89%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (13.83%) Banking
6 10 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.26%) Legal
9 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.06%) Law
10 1 (1.06%) Military
10 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Retail
10 1 (1.06%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 45 (47.87%) Architect
2 14 (14.89%) Developer
3 13 (13.83%) CyberArk Architect
4 9 (9.57%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (9.57%) Senior
5 8 (8.51%) AWS Architect
5 8 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.45%) Lead
7 6 (6.38%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Security Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.26%) Java Architect
9 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.19%) Administrator
10 3 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (3.19%) ForgeRock Developer
10 3 (3.19%) GCP Architect
11 2 (2.13%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (71.28%) OAuth
2 60 (63.83%) SAML
3 41 (43.62%) OAuth2
4 29 (30.85%) LDAP
5 13 (13.83%) Kafka
5 13 (13.83%) RESTful
6 12 (12.77%) REST
7 10 (10.64%) Spring
8 9 (9.57%) React
8 9 (9.57%) Spring Boot
9 8 (8.51%) .NET
10 7 (7.45%) GraphQL
10 7 (7.45%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (5.32%) Hibernate
11 5 (5.32%) HTML
11 5 (5.32%) JPA
11 5 (5.32%) JSON
11 5 (5.32%) SOAP
12 4 (4.26%) gRPC
12 4 (4.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.15%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.70%) PKI
4 10 (10.64%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.26%) BYOD
6 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.26%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.19%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.19%) Taxonomies
8 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.13%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.06%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.13%) Linux
1 2 (2.13%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Android
2 1 (1.06%) CentOS
2 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (52.13%) CI/CD
2 43 (45.74%) DevOps
3 27 (28.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (25.53%) Secrets Management
6 23 (24.47%) Identity Access Management
7 22 (23.40%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (22.34%) Design Patterns
8 21 (22.34%) Microservices
9 20 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (18.09%) Architectural Design
10 17 (18.09%) SIEM
11 16 (17.02%) Agile
11 16 (17.02%) Architectural Patterns
11 16 (17.02%) Event-Driven
11 16 (17.02%) Regulatory Compliance
12 15 (15.96%) Identity Management
12 15 (15.96%) Observability
12 15 (15.96%) Roadmaps
12 15 (15.96%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.40%) Java
2 19 (20.21%) Python
3 13 (13.83%) PowerShell
4 12 (12.77%) SQL
5 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.51%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.38%) C#
7 6 (6.38%) Go
8 4 (4.26%) Groovy
9 3 (3.19%) Bash
10 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.13%) Swift
11 1 (1.06%) Bicep
11 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.06%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.64%) Degree
4 8 (8.51%) CISSP
5 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.32%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.13%) CCSP
8 2 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (22.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (21.28%) NIST
3 14 (14.89%) NCSC
4 9 (9.57%) PCI DSS
5 8 (8.51%) QA
6 7 (7.45%) GDPR
7 5 (5.32%) HIPAA
8 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
8 4 (4.26%) PSD2
8 4 (4.26%) SOC 2
9 3 (3.19%) WCAG
10 2 (2.13%) ISO 20022
10 2 (2.13%) ISO 8583
10 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (2.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (21.28%) Docker
2 18 (19.15%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.51%) Squid
4 2 (2.13%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.13%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.13%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 39 (41.49%) Kubernetes
2 35 (37.23%) Single Sign-On
3 29 (30.85%) Terraform
4 12 (12.77%) Grafana
5 11 (11.70%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.45%) FortiGate
7 6 (6.38%) Consul
8 4 (4.26%) Ansible
8 4 (4.26%) Argo
9 1 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.06%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 26 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 19 (20.21%) CyberArk
3 14 (14.89%) Splunk
4 10 (10.64%) ForgeRock
4 10 (10.64%) Okta
5 8 (8.51%) Google
5 8 (8.51%) Red Hat
6 7 (7.45%) Dynatrace
7 6 (6.38%) Atlassian
8 3 (3.19%) Ping Identity
9 2 (2.13%) Confluent
9 2 (2.13%) NetIQ
9 2 (2.13%) Optimizely
9 2 (2.13%) Oracle
10 1 (1.06%) IBM
10 1 (1.06%) Intel
10 1 (1.06%) Qualys
10 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.06%) VMware
10 1 (1.06%) Xamarin