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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 299 339
Rank change year-on-year -38 +40 +34
Contract jobs citing OpenID 115 68 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.15% 1.70% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 45 33
10th Percentile £403 £413 £453
25th Percentile £500 £463 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% -10.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £615 £650
90th Percentile £733 £693 £745
England median daily rate £563 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +18.42% -17.39% -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 5,350 3,999 4,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.69% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,607 2,736 3,325
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £710
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 October 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 October 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 -24 14 £625 +19.05% 19
West London -22 1 £550 +29.41% 3
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 6 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.48%) Confluence
3 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.87%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 57 (49.57%) Azure
2 48 (41.74%) AWS
2 48 (41.74%) Entra ID
3 18 (15.65%) GCP
4 15 (13.04%) GitHub
5 12 (10.43%) SaaS
6 11 (9.57%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (9.57%) Serverless
7 8 (6.96%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (6.09%) Azure App Service
8 7 (6.09%) Azure Event Grid
8 7 (6.09%) Azure Functions
8 7 (6.09%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (5.22%) Azure AKS
9 6 (5.22%) Dagster
9 6 (5.22%) dbt
9 6 (5.22%) Kong
9 6 (5.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.04%) DNS
2 13 (11.30%) Firewall
3 11 (9.57%) Kerberos
4 6 (5.22%) SSL
5 5 (4.35%) NGFW
6 4 (3.48%) Network Security
7 2 (1.74%) DHCP
7 2 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.74%) VPN
8 1 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.87%) SSH
8 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) Data Vault
2 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.61%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.61%) MySQL
3 3 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.74%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.74%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.87%) Metadata
5 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (11.30%) Git
2 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.35%) GitLab
4 4 (3.48%) JIRA
5 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.74%) git-flow
5 2 (1.74%) Gradle
5 2 (1.74%) JMeter
5 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.74%) Xcode
6 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.87%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.87%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.87%) fastlane
General
1 22 (19.13%) Finance
2 21 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.70%) Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Aviation
9 1 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Marketing
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (22.61%) Architect
2 16 (13.91%) Senior
3 14 (12.17%) Developer
4 11 (9.57%) Technical Architect
5 8 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.09%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) AWS Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Lead
8 5 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.48%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (82.61%) OAuth
2 60 (52.17%) OAuth2
3 51 (44.35%) SAML
4 44 (38.26%) Terraform
5 21 (18.26%) REST
6 20 (17.39%) JWT
7 18 (15.65%) RESTful
8 13 (11.30%) Kafka
8 13 (11.30%) OpenAPI
8 13 (11.30%) Swagger
9 12 (10.43%) .NET
10 11 (9.57%) JSON
11 9 (7.83%) LDAP
12 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (5.22%) Keycloak
13 6 (5.22%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (4.35%) Jakarta EE
14 5 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
14 5 (4.35%) SailPoint
14 5 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.35%) Cloud Native
2 18 (15.65%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (9.57%) Onboarding
3 11 (9.57%) PKI
4 6 (5.22%) IoT
5 5 (4.35%) CMDB
5 5 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.48%) NHS
7 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.70%) Linux
1 10 (8.70%) Windows
2 3 (2.61%) Android
2 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.87%) CentOS
3 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.52%) CI/CD
2 38 (33.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (29.57%) DevOps
4 31 (26.96%) Identity Access Management
5 22 (19.13%) RBAC
6 21 (18.26%) Agile
6 21 (18.26%) Zero Trust
7 20 (17.39%) Event-Driven
8 19 (16.52%) Validation
9 18 (15.65%) Migration
9 18 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (14.78%) Observability
11 16 (13.91%) Microservices
12 14 (12.17%) Containerisation
12 14 (12.17%) Deployment Automation
12 14 (12.17%) Integration Patterns
13 13 (11.30%) Identity Management
13 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.96%) Python
2 22 (19.13%) Java
2 22 (19.13%) PowerShell
3 18 (15.65%) Bicep
4 15 (13.04%) C#
4 15 (13.04%) SQL
5 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.48%) Go
8 3 (2.61%) Bash
8 3 (2.61%) C++
8 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.61%) Lua
9 2 (1.74%) Swift
10 1 (0.87%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (6.09%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.22%) CISSP
6 5 (4.35%) MCSE
7 4 (3.48%) CISM
7 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (2.61%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.61%) Degree
8 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.87%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.87%) CRISC
9 1 (0.87%) GXPN
9 1 (0.87%) OSCE
9 1 (0.87%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) GDPR
2 7 (6.09%) QA
3 6 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.61%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.61%) NIST
5 3 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.74%) HL7
6 2 (1.74%) IEC 62304
6 2 (1.74%) ISO 13485
6 2 (1.74%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (27.83%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.70%) Docker
3 6 (5.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (19.13%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.48%) Ansible
4 4 (3.48%) Grafana
4 4 (3.48%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.61%) Argo
5 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.61%) Puppet
6 2 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.74%) Istio
6 2 (1.74%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.87%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.87%) linkerd
Vendors
1 43 (37.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.70%) Okta
3 7 (6.09%) Google
3 7 (6.09%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.22%) Denodo
5 3 (2.61%) ForgeRock
5 3 (2.61%) Oracle
5 3 (2.61%) Ping Identity
5 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.61%) SAP
5 3 (2.61%) Workday
6 2 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.74%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.74%) IBM
6 2 (1.74%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.74%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.87%) Sparx
7 1 (0.87%) Zscaler