OpenID Contract Job Trends in England

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring OpenID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 414 410
Rank change year-on-year +27 -4 +170
Contract jobs citing OpenID 156 80 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.29% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.22% 1.34% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 55 107
10th Percentile £406 £410 £445
25th Percentile £447 £491 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £681
90th Percentile £693 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,029 5,976 7,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.21% 21.85% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,696 3,820 5,563
10th Percentile £356 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £636 £663 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 68 161
10th Percentile £32.86 £26.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

OpenID job vacancy trend in England

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenID

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in England over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in England

OpenID
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenID.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenID

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the England region over the 6 months to 7 January 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
London -5 68 £500 -13.04% 58
South West +23 33 £545 -1.09% 16
North of England -24 29 £453 -13.71% 33
North West -13 15 £450 -14.29% 15
Yorkshire - 14 £469 - 17
South East -27 9 £481 -16.30% 32
East of England - 8 £425 - 13
Midlands -35 7 £531 +25.00% 8
West Midlands -32 6 £538 +26.47% 2
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 6
OpenID
UK

OpenID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (7.69%) Apache
2 11 (7.05%) IIS
2 11 (7.05%) JBoss
2 11 (7.05%) WebSphere
3 10 (6.41%) iPlanet
3 10 (6.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (3.21%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.92%) Confluence
5 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (52.56%) Azure
2 73 (46.79%) AWS
3 43 (27.56%) Entra ID
4 30 (19.23%) GCP
5 21 (13.46%) SaaS
6 19 (12.18%) GitHub
7 18 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (8.97%) OpenShift
9 13 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (7.69%) PaaS
11 8 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (5.13%) Serverless
12 6 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.21%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.46%) Kerberos
2 18 (11.54%) DNS
2 18 (11.54%) Firewall
3 7 (4.49%) SSL
4 5 (3.21%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.92%) Internet
6 2 (1.28%) Extranet
6 2 (1.28%) HTTP
6 2 (1.28%) Network Security
6 2 (1.28%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.28%) VPN
7 1 (0.64%) DHCP
7 1 (0.64%) IPsec
7 1 (0.64%) SMS
7 1 (0.64%) SMTP
7 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 10 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.77%) MySQL
3 9 (5.77%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.77%) Redis
4 7 (4.49%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.92%) DocumentDB
6 3 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.92%) Metadata
6 3 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.92%) Power BI
7 2 (1.28%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (22.44%) Jenkins
2 22 (14.10%) GitLab
3 20 (12.82%) Git
4 14 (8.97%) JIRA
4 14 (8.97%) Selenium
5 12 (7.69%) Cucumber
6 11 (7.05%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (7.05%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (5.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (5.13%) REST Assured
9 7 (4.49%) JUnit
9 7 (4.49%) Maven
9 7 (4.49%) Postman
10 5 (3.21%) Mockito
10 5 (3.21%) TestRail
11 4 (2.56%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.92%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.92%) Gatling
12 3 (1.92%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 64 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.23%) Finance
3 19 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (7.05%) Aviation
5 11 (7.05%) Banking
6 10 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.56%) Legal
8 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.92%) Games
9 2 (1.28%) Billing
9 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Military
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 30 (19.23%) Architect
2 23 (14.74%) Developer
3 20 (12.82%) Senior
4 13 (8.33%) Lead
5 11 (7.05%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (4.49%) ForgeRock Developer
7 7 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.85%) Consultant
8 6 (3.85%) Security Engineer
8 6 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 6 (3.85%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.85%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.21%) Analyst
9 5 (3.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.21%) Java Developer
9 5 (3.21%) Security Architect
9 5 (3.21%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (79.49%) OAuth
2 112 (71.79%) SAML
3 77 (49.36%) OAuth2
4 45 (28.85%) LDAP
5 25 (16.03%) REST
6 19 (12.18%) RESTful
7 17 (10.90%) Spring
8 15 (9.62%) .NET
8 15 (9.62%) Spring Boot
9 13 (8.33%) SailPoint
10 12 (7.69%) Kafka
11 10 (6.41%) React
12 9 (5.77%) JPA
12 9 (5.77%) JSON
13 8 (5.13%) GraphQL
13 8 (5.13%) HTML
13 8 (5.13%) JDBC
14 6 (3.85%) Node.js
15 5 (3.21%) Hibernate
15 5 (3.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.26%) Onboarding
2 15 (9.62%) PKI
3 11 (7.05%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.05%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.77%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.85%) Replication
7 5 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.56%) BYOD
8 4 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.92%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.64%) Contactless
11 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.64%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.23%) Windows
2 23 (14.74%) Windows Server
3 19 (12.18%) Linux
4 8 (5.13%) Unix
5 2 (1.28%) Android
6 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.64%) CentOS
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.90%) CI/CD
2 50 (32.05%) Identity Access Management
3 48 (30.77%) DevOps
4 38 (24.36%) RBAC
5 36 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (18.59%) Microservices
7 28 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (16.67%) Identity Management
9 25 (16.03%) Agile
10 24 (15.38%) Migration
11 23 (14.74%) Observability
12 20 (12.82%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 20 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (12.18%) Containerisation
13 19 (12.18%) DevSecOps
14 18 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (11.54%) Test Automation
15 15 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (8.97%) Secrets Management
16 14 (8.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.00%) Java
1 39 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 31 (19.87%) Python
3 24 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 20 (12.82%) SQL
5 15 (9.62%) Groovy
6 9 (5.77%) Shell Script
7 8 (5.13%) PHP
8 7 (4.49%) Bash
8 7 (4.49%) C#
9 5 (3.21%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.92%) Go
11 2 (1.28%) C
12 1 (0.64%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.64%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.64%) Swift
12 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (13.46%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.54%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.69%) Degree
6 10 (6.41%) CISSP
7 7 (4.49%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.92%) CISM
8 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.28%) CCSP
9 2 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.64%) HND
10 1 (0.64%) ISSAP
10 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.03%) GDPR
2 20 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (10.90%) QA
4 15 (9.62%) NIST
5 8 (5.13%) PCI DSS
5 8 (5.13%) PSD2
6 7 (4.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (3.85%) HIPAA
7 6 (3.85%) SOC 2
7 6 (3.85%) WCAG
8 4 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.92%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
10 2 (1.28%) ISO 20022
10 2 (1.28%) ISO 8583
10 2 (1.28%) NCSC
10 2 (1.28%) SEPA
10 2 (1.28%) SLA
11 1 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (41.03%) Active Directory
2 30 (19.23%) Docker
3 8 (5.13%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.28%) OpenAM
5 2 (1.28%) OpenDJ
5 2 (1.28%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.64%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.64%) Firmware
6 1 (0.64%) RACF
6 1 (0.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 59 (37.82%) Single Sign-On
2 29 (18.59%) Terraform
3 24 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 23 (14.74%) Kubernetes
5 13 (8.33%) Grafana
6 11 (7.05%) Ansible
6 11 (7.05%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (6.41%) CA Wily
8 9 (5.77%) PingFederate
8 9 (5.77%) Progress Chef
9 8 (5.13%) Tivoli
10 6 (3.85%) Prometheus
11 5 (3.21%) Argo
11 5 (3.21%) Kibana
12 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.92%) SCCM
14 2 (1.28%) Puppet
15 1 (0.64%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.64%) Oracle Identity Manager
15 1 (0.64%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 76 (48.72%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.54%) Ping Identity
3 16 (10.26%) Splunk
4 13 (8.33%) ForgeRock
4 13 (8.33%) Oracle
5 12 (7.69%) IBM
6 11 (7.05%) AppDynamics
6 11 (7.05%) Broadcom
6 11 (7.05%) CyberArk
7 10 (6.41%) Okta
7 10 (6.41%) ServiceNow
7 10 (6.41%) VMware
8 8 (5.13%) Google
9 3 (1.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.28%) Intel
10 2 (1.28%) NetIQ
10 2 (1.28%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.28%) Xamarin