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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 289 324
Rank change year-on-year -28 +35 +100
Contract jobs citing OpenID 89 51 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.15% 1.54% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 34 40
10th Percentile £465 £409 £495
25th Percentile £513 £519 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £634 £663
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -4.34% +6.00%
75th Percentile £750 £697 £759
90th Percentile £900 £783 £904
England median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.70% -1.75% -

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 4,142 3,305 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.77% 26.16% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,800 2,310 3,336
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.92% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 25
10th Percentile £26.55 £34.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +31.55% -35.09%
75th Percentile £57.00 £66.25 £66.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.55 £77.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -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 27 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 27 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
South London - 8 £519 -
Central London -17 7 £675 +5.59% 4
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 (10.11%) nginx
2 8 (8.99%) Confluence
3 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (46.07%) Azure
2 39 (43.82%) AWS
3 24 (26.97%) Serverless
4 19 (21.35%) Amazon S3
5 18 (20.22%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (20.22%) Entra ID
6 15 (16.85%) OpenShift
7 14 (15.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (14.61%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (14.61%) Route 53
9 11 (12.36%) GitHub
9 11 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (11.24%) GCP
11 9 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (7.87%) Azure AKS
14 6 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (6.74%) SaaS
15 5 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (5.62%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.61%) DNS
1 13 (14.61%) Firewall
2 9 (10.11%) OpenVPN
2 9 (10.11%) TCP/IP
2 9 (10.11%) VPN
3 1 (1.12%) Extranet
3 1 (1.12%) HTTP
3 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.12%) Internet
3 1 (1.12%) SMS
3 1 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.99%) DynamoDB
3 7 (7.87%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.74%) Redis
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.49%) DocumentDB
5 4 (4.49%) MySQL
5 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.37%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.25%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.25%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (23.60%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.99%) JIRA
3 7 (7.87%) Bitbucket
3 7 (7.87%) SonarQube
4 6 (6.74%) GitLab
5 3 (3.37%) Gatling
6 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.25%) git-flow
6 2 (2.25%) Postman
7 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.12%) fastlane
7 1 (1.12%) Git
7 1 (1.12%) JMeter
7 1 (1.12%) JUnit
7 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.12%) Selenium
General
1 37 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.84%) Finance
3 22 (24.72%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (15.73%) Banking
4 14 (15.73%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Legal
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (48.31%) Architect
2 13 (14.61%) CyberArk Architect
2 13 (14.61%) Senior
3 11 (12.36%) Developer
4 9 (10.11%) AWS Architect
4 9 (10.11%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (10.11%) Lead
5 8 (8.99%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.62%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Java Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 3 (3.37%) GCP Architect
8 3 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (68.54%) OAuth
2 52 (58.43%) SAML
3 39 (43.82%) OAuth2
4 29 (32.58%) LDAP
5 15 (16.85%) Kafka
6 13 (14.61%) REST
7 12 (13.48%) RESTful
8 11 (12.36%) Spring
8 11 (12.36%) Spring Boot
9 10 (11.24%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (7.87%) React
11 6 (6.74%) .NET
11 6 (6.74%) GraphQL
11 6 (6.74%) HTML
11 6 (6.74%) Jest
11 6 (6.74%) JSON
11 6 (6.74%) Playwright
12 5 (5.62%) Hibernate
12 5 (5.62%) Micronaut
12 5 (5.62%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (19.10%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.74%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.62%) PKI
6 4 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.37%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.25%) BYOD
8 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.25%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
1 1 (1.12%) Windows
1 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.93%) DevOps
2 43 (48.31%) CI/CD
3 28 (31.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (26.97%) Secrets Management
5 22 (24.72%) Microservices
5 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (23.60%) Observability
7 19 (21.35%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (20.22%) Design Patterns
9 17 (19.10%) Architectural Patterns
9 17 (19.10%) Identity Access Management
10 16 (17.98%) Agile
10 16 (17.98%) Event-Driven
11 15 (16.85%) Architectural Design
11 15 (16.85%) Containerisation
11 15 (16.85%) Roadmaps
11 15 (16.85%) SIEM
11 15 (16.85%) Threat Modelling
12 14 (15.73%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.47%) Java
2 15 (16.85%) SQL
3 14 (15.73%) Python
4 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.99%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.74%) C#
6 5 (5.62%) Go
7 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.37%) Groovy
8 3 (3.37%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.12%) Bash
9 1 (1.12%) Bicep
9 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (39.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (33.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) CISSP
3 5 (5.62%) Degree
4 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 18 (20.22%) NIST
2 14 (15.73%) NCSC
3 8 (8.99%) QA
4 6 (6.74%) PCI DSS
5 5 (5.62%) GDPR
6 4 (4.49%) HIPAA
7 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
7 3 (3.37%) WCAG
8 2 (2.25%) ISO 20022
8 2 (2.25%) ISO 8583
8 2 (2.25%) PSD2
8 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (2.25%) SEPA
8 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (23.60%) Docker
2 10 (11.24%) Squid
3 9 (10.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.25%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.25%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.25%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 42 (47.19%) Kubernetes
2 29 (32.58%) Terraform
3 26 (29.21%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (17.98%) Grafana
5 15 (16.85%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.11%) FortiGate
7 7 (7.87%) Consul
8 3 (3.37%) Ansible
8 3 (3.37%) Argo
8 3 (3.37%) Istio
8 3 (3.37%) Kustomize
8 3 (3.37%) linkerd
9 1 (1.12%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.10%) CyberArk
3 14 (15.73%) Splunk
4 11 (12.36%) Dynatrace
5 9 (10.11%) Red Hat
6 7 (7.87%) Atlassian
7 6 (6.74%) ForgeRock
7 6 (6.74%) Google
8 4 (4.49%) Okta
9 3 (3.37%) Ping Identity
10 2 (2.25%) Confluent
10 2 (2.25%) Denodo
10 2 (2.25%) NetIQ
10 2 (2.25%) Optimizely
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle
10 2 (2.25%) SAP
10 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.25%) Workday
11 1 (1.12%) IBM
11 1 (1.12%) Intel