OpenID Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring OpenID skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 58 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenID 12 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.79% 0.18% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.45% 1.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £620 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
North West median daily rate £452 £620 £475
% change year-on-year -27.18% +30.53% +11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 186 93 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.72% 17.10% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 68 31
10th Percentile £313 £320 £375
25th Percentile £358 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £445 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -8.82% -7.14%
75th Percentile £492 £512 £557
90th Percentile £686 £613 £583
North West median daily rate £446 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -6.21% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £36.58 - -
25th Percentile £46.44 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £64.25 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% - -
75th Percentile £81.44 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £90.93 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £56.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +23.70% +22.54% -34.26%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in Cheshire

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OpenID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OpenID

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in Cheshire

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Knutsford -7 12 £452 -27.18% 1
OpenID
North West

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) Apache
1 9 (75.00%) IIS
1 9 (75.00%) JBoss
1 9 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (66.67%) iPlanet
2 8 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Kerberos
2 3 (25.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 9 (75.00%) CA Release Automation
1 9 (75.00%) Git
1 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (58.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) OAuth
2 9 (75.00%) SAML
3 8 (66.67%) LDAP
4 3 (25.00%) JDBC
4 3 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) PKI
1 3 (25.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 7 (58.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) API Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Coaching
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Open Source
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Groovy
2 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
2 7 (58.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) CA Single Sign-On
2 8 (66.67%) CA Wily
2 8 (66.67%) Progress Chef
3 7 (58.33%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (58.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Broadcom
2 8 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 8 (66.67%) IBM
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Oracle
2 8 (66.67%) Splunk
3 3 (25.00%) ForgeRock
3 3 (25.00%) Ping Identity