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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 310 336
Rank change year-on-year -36 +26 +47
Contract jobs citing OpenID 97 62 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.11% 1.75% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 42 29
10th Percentile £360 £475 £446
25th Percentile £485 £525 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £597 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -0.58% -
75th Percentile £638 £667 £700
90th Percentile £738 £700 £910
England median daily rate £563 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +8.49% -13.58% -

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 4,607 3,535 4,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.72% 26.04% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,467 3,179
10th Percentile £390 £368 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £26.48 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.41 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +31.25% -40.30%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.13 £53.42
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -7.29%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -23 9 £625 -1.96% 6
South London - 3 £519 - 1
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 (8.25%) Confluence
2 5 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 56 (57.73%) Azure
2 40 (41.24%) Entra ID
3 38 (39.18%) AWS
4 17 (17.53%) GCP
5 16 (16.49%) Serverless
6 12 (12.37%) Azure AKS
7 11 (11.34%) Amazon S3
7 11 (11.34%) SaaS
8 9 (9.28%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (8.25%) Azure API Management
9 8 (8.25%) Azure Functions
9 8 (8.25%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (7.22%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (7.22%) GitHub
10 7 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (6.19%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (5.15%) Azure App Service
12 5 (5.15%) dbt
12 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.40%) DNS
2 12 (12.37%) Firewall
3 8 (8.25%) Kerberos
4 5 (5.15%) SSL
5 4 (4.12%) Network Security
6 3 (3.09%) DHCP
6 3 (3.09%) NGFW
6 3 (3.09%) OpenVPN
6 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.09%) VPN
7 1 (1.03%) HTTP
7 1 (1.03%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Data Vault
1 5 (5.15%) Snowflake Schema
2 4 (4.12%) Metadata
3 3 (3.09%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.03%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) JIRA
2 8 (8.25%) Git
3 3 (3.09%) git-flow
4 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.06%) GitLab
4 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.06%) JMeter
4 2 (2.06%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.03%) Postman
General
1 20 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.59%) Finance
3 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.28%) Banking
4 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.22%) Retail
6 6 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (21.65%) Architect
2 17 (17.53%) Senior
3 9 (9.28%) Developer
4 7 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Lead
6 5 (5.15%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.15%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.09%) AWS Architect
8 3 (3.09%) Consultant
8 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (80.41%) OAuth
2 54 (55.67%) OAuth2
3 53 (54.64%) SAML
4 22 (22.68%) REST
5 18 (18.56%) LDAP
6 12 (12.37%) RESTful
7 11 (11.34%) Kafka
8 10 (10.31%) .NET
9 8 (8.25%) JSON
9 8 (8.25%) SOAP
10 7 (7.22%) Jakarta EE
10 7 (7.22%) JWT
10 7 (7.22%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (6.19%) Node.js
12 5 (5.15%) ASP.NET
12 5 (5.15%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (5.15%) JDBC
12 5 (5.15%) OpenAPI
12 5 (5.15%) Swagger
13 4 (4.12%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.80%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.43%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.34%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.22%) PKI
5 6 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.19%) IoT
6 4 (4.12%) Clustering
6 4 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.12%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.09%) CMDB
7 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.09%) NHS
7 3 (3.09%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Linux
1 8 (8.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Android
2 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.03%) CentOS
2 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.03%) Unix
2 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) DevOps
2 31 (31.96%) CI/CD
3 25 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (25.77%) Zero Trust
4 23 (23.71%) Identity Access Management
5 21 (21.65%) Microservices
5 21 (21.65%) Migration
6 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (17.53%) Observability
7 17 (17.53%) RBAC
8 16 (16.49%) Agile
8 16 (16.49%) Containerisation
8 16 (16.49%) Event-Driven
9 15 (15.46%) Mentoring
10 13 (13.40%) AI
10 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (11.34%) Identity Management
11 11 (11.34%) Runbook
11 11 (11.34%) Validation
12 10 (10.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.74%) Java
2 22 (22.68%) Python
3 20 (20.62%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.40%) SQL
5 12 (12.37%) Bicep
6 11 (11.34%) C#
7 9 (9.28%) TypeScript
8 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.09%) Bash
9 3 (3.09%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.03%) C++
10 1 (1.03%) Go
10 1 (1.03%) Groovy
10 1 (1.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.31%) CISSP
4 8 (8.25%) CISM
5 6 (6.19%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.09%) MCSE
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.06%) Degree
8 1 (1.03%) CRISC
8 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) GDPR
2 7 (7.22%) QA
3 5 (5.15%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.09%) NIST
5 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.06%) HL7
5 2 (2.06%) IEC 62304
5 2 (2.06%) ISO 13485
5 2 (2.06%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (27.84%) Active Directory
2 15 (15.46%) Docker
3 3 (3.09%) Squid
3 3 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (30.93%) Terraform
2 28 (28.87%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (16.49%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.22%) Grafana
4 7 (7.22%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (5.15%) Istio
6 5 (5.15%) Kustomize
6 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (4.12%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.12%) linkerd
7 4 (4.12%) PingFederate
8 3 (3.09%) Ansible
8 3 (3.09%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.06%) Consul
10 1 (1.03%) Argo
10 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.28%) Ping Identity
4 6 (6.19%) Okta
5 5 (5.15%) Denodo
5 5 (5.15%) Dynatrace
5 5 (5.15%) Google
5 5 (5.15%) SAP
5 5 (5.15%) Workday
6 4 (4.12%) ForgeRock
7 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.06%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.06%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.06%) IBM
8 2 (2.06%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.03%) SnapLogic
9 1 (1.03%) Splunk
9 1 (1.03%) Temenos