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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 331 361
Rank change year-on-year +11 +30 +136
Contract jobs citing OpenID 62 50 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.32% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.66% 1.23% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 32 47
10th Percentile £413 £409 £500
25th Percentile £463 £450 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £702 £684
90th Percentile £684 £750 £765
England median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.25%

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 3,746 4,066 5,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.87% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,538 2,657 3,810
10th Percentile £358 £375 £400
25th Percentile £420 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £36.13 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.44 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.13 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.90 £86.56
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +1 8 £538 -6.52% 2
West London -16 1 £425 +3.91%
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 2 (3.23%) Confluence
1 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 39 (62.90%) Azure
2 22 (35.48%) AWS
2 22 (35.48%) Entra ID
3 11 (17.74%) GCP
3 11 (17.74%) GitHub
3 11 (17.74%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (14.52%) SaaS
5 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.84%) Apigee
7 3 (4.84%) Datadog
7 3 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (4.84%) PaaS
7 3 (4.84%) Stackdriver
8 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.23%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.61%) Figma
9 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Firewall
2 4 (6.45%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.23%) Extranet
3 2 (3.23%) HTTP
3 2 (3.23%) Internet
3 2 (3.23%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.23%) Network Security
3 2 (3.23%) S/MIME
3 2 (3.23%) SSL
4 1 (1.61%) DNS
4 1 (1.61%) SMTP
4 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.61%) Redis
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) GitLab
1 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.45%) JIRA
3 3 (4.84%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.84%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.84%) Git
4 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.61%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.61%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.61%) Fiddler
5 1 (1.61%) Gatling
5 1 (1.61%) git-flow
5 1 (1.61%) JMeter
5 1 (1.61%) Maven
5 1 (1.61%) Mocha
5 1 (1.61%) Postman
5 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.61%) Selenium
5 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.61%) Xcode
General
1 31 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Banking
5 4 (6.45%) Legal
6 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Law
8 1 (1.61%) Military
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Architect
2 10 (16.13%) Developer
3 6 (9.68%) Lead
3 6 (9.68%) Security Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Security Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Senior
4 5 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Lead Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Administrator
6 3 (4.84%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (4.84%) ForgeRock Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 2 (3.23%) ForgeRock Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (88.71%) OAuth
2 44 (70.97%) SAML
3 29 (46.77%) OAuth2
4 11 (17.74%) LDAP
5 8 (12.90%) REST
6 6 (9.68%) RESTful
7 5 (8.06%) Kafka
7 5 (8.06%) Spring
8 4 (6.45%) .NET
8 4 (6.45%) GraphQL
8 4 (6.45%) OpenAPI
8 4 (6.45%) React
8 4 (6.45%) SOAP
8 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
8 4 (6.45%) Swagger
8 4 (6.45%) YAML
9 3 (4.84%) JDBC
9 3 (4.84%) Node.js
9 3 (4.84%) SailPoint
10 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Management Information System
2 10 (16.13%) PKI
3 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.45%) BYOD
4 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.61%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Android
1 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.61%) CentOS
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) CI/CD
2 24 (38.71%) Identity Access Management
3 19 (30.65%) DevOps
3 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (25.81%) Identity Management
4 16 (25.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 14 (22.58%) DevSecOps
5 14 (22.58%) Microservices
6 11 (17.74%) Agile
7 10 (16.13%) B2C
8 9 (14.52%) B2B
8 9 (14.52%) Containerisation
8 9 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (12.90%) Incident Response
9 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (12.90%) RBAC
9 8 (12.90%) Zero Trust
10 7 (11.29%) API Integration
10 7 (11.29%) Roadmaps
10 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Java
2 14 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 14 (22.58%) Python
3 12 (19.35%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.68%) SQL
5 3 (4.84%) Go
5 3 (4.84%) Groovy
6 2 (3.23%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) C#
6 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.61%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.61%) Swift
7 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Degree
2 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) CISSP
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.23%) CCSP
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.61%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) GDPR
2 5 (8.06%) HIPAA
3 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.45%) QA
3 4 (6.45%) SOC 2
4 3 (4.84%) NIST
4 3 (4.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.23%) PSD2
6 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.61%) NCSC
6 1 (1.61%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (37.10%) Active Directory
2 11 (17.74%) Docker
3 2 (3.23%) OpenAM
3 2 (3.23%) OpenDJ
3 2 (3.23%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 28 (45.16%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (27.42%) Terraform
3 10 (16.13%) Kubernetes
4 7 (11.29%) Ansible
5 3 (4.84%) Grafana
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.23%) Argo
6 2 (3.23%) Puppet
7 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.61%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.74%) ForgeRock
3 10 (16.13%) Okta
4 6 (9.68%) CyberArk
4 6 (9.68%) Google
5 4 (6.45%) Splunk
6 2 (3.23%) IBM
6 2 (3.23%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.23%) Optimizely
6 2 (3.23%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.61%) Databricks
7 1 (1.61%) Intel
7 1 (1.61%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.61%) Qualys
7 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) VMware
7 1 (1.61%) Zscaler