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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 316 333
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 +108
Contract jobs citing OpenID 93 46 64
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.28% 1.35% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 30 43
10th Percentile £446 £409 £450
25th Percentile £500 £508 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £606 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -10.19% +8.00%
75th Percentile £701 £708 £788
90th Percentile £900 £800 £930
England median daily rate £539 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -7.36% -3.08% -

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 4,075 3,397 4,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.29% 26.19% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,782 2,325 3,364
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 31
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £27.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.40%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £65.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -15 8 £643 +11.74% 2
South London - 8 £519 - 1
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 9 (9.68%) Confluence
2 8 (8.60%) nginx
3 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (48.39%) Azure
2 37 (39.78%) AWS
3 23 (24.73%) Entra ID
4 22 (23.66%) Serverless
5 17 (18.28%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (17.20%) Amazon S3
7 15 (16.13%) OpenShift
8 13 (13.98%) GCP
8 13 (13.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (12.90%) GitHub
9 12 (12.90%) Route 53
10 11 (11.83%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (10.75%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (8.60%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (7.53%) Azure AKS
13 7 (7.53%) SaaS
14 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (5.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.98%) DNS
1 13 (13.98%) Firewall
2 9 (9.68%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.60%) OpenVPN
3 8 (8.60%) VPN
4 3 (3.23%) HTTPS
4 3 (3.23%) SSL
5 2 (2.15%) Extranet
5 2 (2.15%) HTTP
5 2 (2.15%) Internet
5 2 (2.15%) Network Security
5 2 (2.15%) S/MIME
6 1 (1.08%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.08%) SMS
6 1 (1.08%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.60%) DynamoDB
3 7 (7.53%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.45%) Redis
5 4 (4.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.30%) DocumentDB
5 4 (4.30%) MySQL
6 3 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.15%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (23.66%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.68%) JIRA
3 8 (8.60%) SonarQube
4 7 (7.53%) Bitbucket
5 6 (6.45%) GitLab
6 3 (3.23%) Gatling
7 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.15%) git-flow
7 2 (2.15%) Postman
8 1 (1.08%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.08%) fastlane
8 1 (1.08%) Git
8 1 (1.08%) JMeter
8 1 (1.08%) JUnit
8 1 (1.08%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.08%) Selenium
8 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.08%) Xcode
General
1 47 (50.54%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.88%) Finance
3 22 (23.66%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (16.13%) Banking
5 14 (15.05%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.38%) Legal
9 3 (3.23%) Retail
10 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.08%) Law
11 1 (1.08%) Military
11 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 44 (47.31%) Architect
2 13 (13.98%) CyberArk Architect
3 12 (12.90%) Developer
4 10 (10.75%) Senior
5 9 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (9.68%) Lead
5 9 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (8.60%) AWS Architect
7 6 (6.45%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Security Architect
8 5 (5.38%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Java Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 3 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (70.97%) OAuth
2 58 (62.37%) SAML
3 45 (48.39%) OAuth2
4 27 (29.03%) LDAP
5 13 (13.98%) Kafka
5 13 (13.98%) RESTful
6 11 (11.83%) REST
7 10 (10.75%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (10.75%) Spring
7 10 (10.75%) Spring Boot
8 8 (8.60%) .NET
9 6 (6.45%) GraphQL
9 6 (6.45%) Jest
9 6 (6.45%) Playwright
9 6 (6.45%) React
10 5 (5.38%) Hibernate
10 5 (5.38%) HTML
10 5 (5.38%) JPA
10 5 (5.38%) JSON
10 5 (5.38%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.96%) Cloud Native
2 17 (18.28%) Onboarding
3 10 (10.75%) Management Information System
4 9 (9.68%) PKI
5 7 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (5.38%) BYOD
6 5 (5.38%) Security Posture
7 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (4.30%) Mobile App
7 4 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.23%) Private Cloud
9 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.15%) Legacy Code
10 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.08%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.15%) Windows
2 1 (1.08%) Android
2 1 (1.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.61%) DevOps
2 45 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 28 (30.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.96%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (25.81%) Secrets Management
6 23 (24.73%) Microservices
7 22 (23.66%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (22.58%) Design Patterns
8 21 (22.58%) Identity Access Management
9 19 (20.43%) Observability
9 19 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (19.35%) Architectural Patterns
11 17 (18.28%) Containerisation
11 17 (18.28%) SIEM
12 16 (17.20%) Agile
12 16 (17.20%) Architectural Design
12 16 (17.20%) Event-Driven
12 16 (17.20%) Regulatory Compliance
13 15 (16.13%) Roadmaps
13 15 (16.13%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.43%) Java
2 14 (15.05%) Python
3 11 (11.83%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.75%) SQL
5 9 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.38%) C#
6 5 (5.38%) Go
6 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.23%) Groovy
7 3 (3.23%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.15%) Swift
9 1 (1.08%) Bash
9 1 (1.08%) Bicep
9 1 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.08%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 35 (37.63%) Security Cleared
2 30 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.75%) Degree
4 8 (8.60%) CISSP
5 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.15%) CCSP
7 2 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (19.35%) NIST
3 14 (15.05%) NCSC
4 8 (8.60%) PCI DSS
4 8 (8.60%) QA
5 6 (6.45%) GDPR
6 4 (4.30%) Accessibility
6 4 (4.30%) HIPAA
6 4 (4.30%) PSD2
7 3 (3.23%) WCAG
8 2 (2.15%) ISO 20022
8 2 (2.15%) ISO 8583
8 2 (2.15%) SEPA
8 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (24.73%) Docker
2 12 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.68%) Squid
4 2 (2.15%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.15%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.15%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 43 (46.24%) Kubernetes
2 29 (31.18%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (29.03%) Terraform
4 15 (16.13%) Grafana
5 14 (15.05%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.60%) FortiGate
7 7 (7.53%) Consul
8 3 (3.23%) Ansible
8 3 (3.23%) Argo
8 3 (3.23%) Istio
8 3 (3.23%) Kustomize
8 3 (3.23%) linkerd
9 1 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.08%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 24 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.35%) CyberArk
3 14 (15.05%) Splunk
4 9 (9.68%) Dynatrace
4 9 (9.68%) ForgeRock
5 8 (8.60%) Red Hat
6 7 (7.53%) Atlassian
6 7 (7.53%) Google
7 5 (5.38%) Okta
7 5 (5.38%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.15%) Confluent
8 2 (2.15%) NetIQ
8 2 (2.15%) Optimizely
8 2 (2.15%) Oracle
9 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.08%) IBM
9 1 (1.08%) Intel
9 1 (1.08%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.08%) Qualys
9 1 (1.08%) Xamarin