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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 287 339
Rank change year-on-year -26 +52 +87
Contract jobs citing OpenID 99 60 56
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.34% 1.82% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 40 37
10th Percentile £406 £409 £480
25th Percentile £500 £534 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £630 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -10.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £713 £691 £788
90th Percentile £900 £719 £915
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.67%

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 4,232 3,303 4,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.43% 26.11% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 2,314 3,343
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.73% -2.86% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 22
10th Percentile £22.79 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £54.00 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +45.28% -43.68%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.25 £69.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 April 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 April 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 -18 7 £675 +5.88% 7
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 12 (12.12%) Confluence
2 9 (9.09%) nginx
3 4 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (44.44%) AWS
1 44 (44.44%) Azure
2 25 (25.25%) Serverless
3 23 (23.23%) Entra ID
4 21 (21.21%) Amazon S3
5 18 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (15.15%) OpenShift
7 14 (14.14%) GCP
7 14 (14.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (13.13%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (13.13%) Route 53
9 11 (11.11%) GitHub
9 11 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (11.11%) SaaS
10 9 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.08%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (8.08%) Azure AKS
12 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (5.05%) Azure API Management
13 5 (5.05%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.18%) Firewall
2 16 (16.16%) DNS
3 9 (9.09%) OpenVPN
3 9 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 9 (9.09%) VPN
4 5 (5.05%) SSL
5 3 (3.03%) DHCP
6 1 (1.01%) Extranet
6 1 (1.01%) HTTP
6 1 (1.01%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.01%) Internet
6 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.01%) Network Security
6 1 (1.01%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.10%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.08%) DynamoDB
3 7 (7.07%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.06%) Redis
5 4 (4.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.04%) Data Vault
5 4 (4.04%) DocumentDB
5 4 (4.04%) Metadata
5 4 (4.04%) MySQL
5 4 (4.04%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.02%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.12%) JIRA
3 7 (7.07%) Bitbucket
3 7 (7.07%) SonarQube
4 6 (6.06%) GitLab
5 3 (3.03%) Gatling
6 2 (2.02%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.02%) git-flow
6 2 (2.02%) Postman
7 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.01%) fastlane
7 1 (1.01%) Git
7 1 (1.01%) JMeter
7 1 (1.01%) JUnit
7 1 (1.01%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.01%) Selenium
General
1 38 (38.38%) Social Skills
2 32 (32.32%) Finance
3 24 (24.24%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (15.15%) Banking
5 14 (14.14%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.04%) Retail
8 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.02%) Legal
10 1 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (42.42%) Architect
2 15 (15.15%) Senior
3 13 (13.13%) CyberArk Architect
4 10 (10.10%) Developer
5 9 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 9 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (8.08%) Lead
7 7 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (66.67%) OAuth
2 60 (60.61%) SAML
3 43 (43.43%) OAuth2
4 34 (34.34%) LDAP
5 17 (17.17%) Kafka
6 12 (12.12%) REST
7 11 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (11.11%) RESTful
7 11 (11.11%) Spring
7 11 (11.11%) Spring Boot
8 7 (7.07%) React
9 6 (6.06%) .NET
9 6 (6.06%) HTML
9 6 (6.06%) Jest
9 6 (6.06%) Playwright
10 5 (5.05%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.05%) JPA
10 5 (5.05%) JSON
10 5 (5.05%) Micronaut
10 5 (5.05%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.28%) Cloud Native
2 17 (17.17%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.07%) PKI
5 6 (6.06%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.05%) IoT
7 4 (4.04%) Clustering
7 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
7 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (3.03%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.03%) Security Posture
9 2 (2.02%) BYOD
9 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.02%) Legacy Code
10 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.06%) Linux
1 6 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (53.54%) DevOps
2 43 (43.43%) CI/CD
3 28 (28.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (24.24%) Secrets Management
6 22 (22.22%) Observability
7 21 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (21.21%) Microservices
8 18 (18.18%) Design Patterns
8 18 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (17.17%) Architectural Patterns
10 16 (16.16%) Architectural Design
10 16 (16.16%) Containerisation
10 16 (16.16%) Identity Access Management
10 16 (16.16%) Roadmaps
11 15 (15.15%) Agile
11 15 (15.15%) Event-Driven
11 15 (15.15%) SIEM
11 15 (15.15%) Threat Modelling
12 14 (14.14%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.26%) Java
2 17 (17.17%) SQL
3 16 (16.16%) Python
4 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.08%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.06%) C#
7 5 (5.05%) Go
8 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.03%) Groovy
9 3 (3.03%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.01%) Bash
10 1 (1.01%) Bicep
10 1 (1.01%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 30 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.07%) CISSP
4 5 (5.05%) Degree
5 4 (4.04%) CISM
6 3 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (19.19%) NIST
2 14 (14.14%) NCSC
3 9 (9.09%) GDPR
4 8 (8.08%) QA
5 6 (6.06%) PCI DSS
6 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
6 3 (3.03%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.03%) WCAG
7 2 (2.02%) ISO 20022
7 2 (2.02%) ISO 8583
7 2 (2.02%) PSD2
7 2 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (2.02%) SEPA
8 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (22.22%) Docker
2 14 (14.14%) Active Directory
3 10 (10.10%) Squid
4 2 (2.02%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.02%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.02%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 42 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 31 (31.31%) Terraform
3 29 (29.29%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (17.17%) Grafana
5 16 (16.16%) Prometheus
6 9 (9.09%) FortiGate
7 7 (7.07%) Consul
8 4 (4.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (4.04%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (4.04%) Istio
8 4 (4.04%) Kustomize
8 4 (4.04%) linkerd
8 4 (4.04%) PingFederate
9 3 (3.03%) Ansible
9 3 (3.03%) Argo
10 1 (1.01%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 23 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.17%) CyberArk
3 14 (14.14%) Splunk
4 11 (11.11%) Dynatrace
5 9 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 7 (7.07%) Atlassian
6 7 (7.07%) Ping Identity
7 6 (6.06%) ForgeRock
7 6 (6.06%) Google
7 6 (6.06%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.04%) Denodo
8 4 (4.04%) Okta
9 2 (2.02%) Confluent
9 2 (2.02%) NetIQ
9 2 (2.02%) Oracle
9 2 (2.02%) SAP
9 2 (2.02%) Workday
10 1 (1.01%) IBM
10 1 (1.01%) Intel
10 1 (1.01%) Qualys