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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 311 323
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +132
Contract jobs citing OpenID 90 47 62
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.35% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 1.31% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 30 44
10th Percentile £413 £409 £465
25th Percentile £476 £483 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £599 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% -7.88% +0.15%
75th Percentile £697 £708 £750
90th Percentile £900 £800 £849
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -2.44%

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 3,961 3,583 4,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.11% 26.36% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,669 2,359 3,400
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 29
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £73.92
England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.60% +13.64% -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 12 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 12 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 -5 7 £610 +6.09% 4
South London - 6 £519 - 1
East London - 3 £540 -
West London -18 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 (8.89%) Confluence
2 7 (7.78%) nginx
3 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.78%) Azure
2 34 (37.78%) AWS
3 24 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 16 (17.78%) OpenShift
5 15 (16.67%) GCP
5 15 (16.67%) Serverless
6 14 (15.56%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (15.56%) GitHub
7 13 (14.44%) Amazon S3
8 12 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (13.33%) Route 53
8 12 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (10.00%) SaaS
12 7 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.33%) DNS
1 12 (13.33%) Firewall
2 8 (8.89%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.78%) OpenVPN
3 7 (7.78%) VPN
4 5 (5.56%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.33%) SSL
6 2 (2.22%) Extranet
6 2 (2.22%) Internet
6 2 (2.22%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.22%) Network Security
6 2 (2.22%) S/MIME
7 1 (1.11%) HTTP
7 1 (1.11%) SMS
7 1 (1.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.67%) Redis
4 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.44%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.44%) DocumentDB
5 4 (4.44%) MySQL
5 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.22%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.00%) JIRA
3 8 (8.89%) SonarQube
4 7 (7.78%) GitLab
5 6 (6.67%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.33%) Gatling
6 3 (3.33%) Git
7 2 (2.22%) git-flow
8 1 (1.11%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.11%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.11%) fastlane
8 1 (1.11%) Fiddler
8 1 (1.11%) Maven
8 1 (1.11%) Postman
8 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.11%) Selenium
8 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.11%) Xcode
General
1 45 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Finance
3 21 (23.33%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (15.56%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (13.33%) Banking
6 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.44%) Legal
9 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Law
10 1 (1.11%) Military
10 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Retail
10 1 (1.11%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 44 (48.89%) Architect
2 13 (14.44%) CyberArk Architect
2 13 (14.44%) Developer
3 9 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 8 (8.89%) AWS Architect
4 8 (8.89%) Senior
4 8 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.67%) Lead
5 6 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.56%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.44%) Java Architect
7 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Administrator
8 3 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.33%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (3.33%) GCP Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (70.00%) OAuth
2 59 (65.56%) SAML
3 37 (41.11%) OAuth2
4 28 (31.11%) LDAP
5 12 (13.33%) Kafka
5 12 (13.33%) RESTful
6 10 (11.11%) REST
6 10 (11.11%) Spring
7 9 (10.00%) Spring Boot
8 8 (8.89%) .NET
8 8 (8.89%) React
9 7 (7.78%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (5.56%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.56%) Hibernate
10 5 (5.56%) JPA
11 4 (4.44%) gRPC
11 4 (4.44%) HTML
11 4 (4.44%) JSON
11 4 (4.44%) SOAP
11 4 (4.44%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 18 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 11 (12.22%) PKI
4 10 (11.11%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.44%) BYOD
6 4 (4.44%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.33%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.33%) Taxonomies
8 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.11%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.22%) Linux
1 2 (2.22%) Windows
2 1 (1.11%) Android
2 1 (1.11%) CentOS
2 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (51.11%) CI/CD
2 41 (45.56%) DevOps
3 26 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (26.67%) Secrets Management
6 22 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (24.44%) Identity Access Management
7 21 (23.33%) Design Patterns
8 19 (21.11%) Microservices
8 19 (21.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (18.89%) Architectural Design
9 17 (18.89%) SIEM
10 16 (17.78%) Regulatory Compliance
11 15 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
11 15 (16.67%) Event-Driven
11 15 (16.67%) Identity Management
11 15 (16.67%) Roadmaps
11 15 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
12 14 (15.56%) Agile
12 14 (15.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.33%) Java
2 19 (21.11%) Python
3 13 (14.44%) PowerShell
4 12 (13.33%) SQL
5 10 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.67%) C#
6 6 (6.67%) Go
6 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.33%) Bash
7 3 (3.33%) Groovy
8 2 (2.22%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.22%) Swift
9 1 (1.11%) Bicep
9 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.11%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (34.44%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) Degree
4 8 (8.89%) CISSP
5 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.22%) CCSP
8 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (22.22%) NIST
3 14 (15.56%) NCSC
4 9 (10.00%) PCI DSS
5 8 (8.89%) QA
6 7 (7.78%) GDPR
7 5 (5.56%) HIPAA
8 4 (4.44%) PSD2
8 4 (4.44%) SOC 2
9 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
10 2 (2.22%) ISO 20022
10 2 (2.22%) ISO 8583
10 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (2.22%) SEPA
10 2 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (21.11%) Docker
2 17 (18.89%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.89%) Squid
4 2 (2.22%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.22%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.22%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 39 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 33 (36.67%) Single Sign-On
3 28 (31.11%) Terraform
4 12 (13.33%) Grafana
5 11 (12.22%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.78%) FortiGate
7 6 (6.67%) Consul
8 4 (4.44%) Argo
9 3 (3.33%) Ansible
10 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.11%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 26 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 19 (21.11%) CyberArk
3 14 (15.56%) Splunk
4 10 (11.11%) Okta
5 9 (10.00%) ForgeRock
6 8 (8.89%) Google
6 8 (8.89%) Red Hat
7 7 (7.78%) Dynatrace
8 6 (6.67%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.33%) Ping Identity
10 2 (2.22%) Confluent
10 2 (2.22%) NetIQ
10 2 (2.22%) Optimizely
10 2 (2.22%) Oracle
11 1 (1.11%) IBM
11 1 (1.11%) Intel
11 1 (1.11%) Qualys
11 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.11%) VMware