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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 413 416
Rank change year-on-year +29 +3 +159
Contract jobs citing OpenID 172 82 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 1.38% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 57 101
10th Percentile £406 £411 £438
25th Percentile £447 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -5.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £511 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -11.17% -11.54% +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 £76.50 - -

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 7,072 5,937 7,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.13% 22.06% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,728 3,792 5,644
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £752
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 77 173
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.75
25th Percentile £45.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.95 £74.61 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 17 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 17 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 +4 72 £500 -13.04% 63
North of England -26 39 £469 -10.67% 29
South West +12 35 £545 -1.09% 23
Yorkshire - 23 £525 - 13
North West -13 16 £450 -14.29% 15
South East -22 9 £481 -19.79% 47
Midlands -32 8 £525 +23.53% 14
East of England - 8 £425 - 17
West Midlands -32 6 £538 +26.47% 2
East Midlands - 2 £411 - 11
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 (6.98%) Apache
2 11 (6.40%) IIS
2 11 (6.40%) JBoss
2 11 (6.40%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.81%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.81%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (2.91%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.16%) Confluence
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (51.74%) Azure
2 81 (47.09%) AWS
3 49 (28.49%) Entra ID
4 40 (23.26%) GCP
5 22 (12.79%) SaaS
6 21 (12.21%) GitHub
7 18 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (8.72%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (8.72%) OpenShift
9 13 (7.56%) PaaS
10 10 (5.81%) Serverless
11 8 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.49%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.91%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.21%) DNS
1 21 (12.21%) Kerberos
2 20 (11.63%) Firewall
3 6 (3.49%) SSL
4 5 (2.91%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.74%) Internet
5 3 (1.74%) Network Security
6 2 (1.16%) Extranet
6 2 (1.16%) HTTP
6 2 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.16%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.16%) VPN
7 1 (0.58%) DHCP
7 1 (0.58%) IPsec
7 1 (0.58%) SMS
7 1 (0.58%) SMTP
7 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.98%) Oracle Database
2 11 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.81%) MySQL
3 10 (5.81%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.81%) Redis
4 8 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.33%) DocumentDB
6 4 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.33%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.74%) Metadata
7 3 (1.74%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.74%) Power BI
8 2 (1.16%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 43 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 30 (17.44%) GitLab
3 20 (11.63%) Git
3 20 (11.63%) JIRA
4 17 (9.88%) Selenium
5 15 (8.72%) Cucumber
6 11 (6.40%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (6.40%) CA Release Automation
6 11 (6.40%) Postman
6 11 (6.40%) REST Assured
7 9 (5.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (4.07%) Gatling
8 7 (4.07%) JUnit
8 7 (4.07%) Maven
9 5 (2.91%) JMeter
9 5 (2.91%) Mockito
9 5 (2.91%) TestRail
10 4 (2.33%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.33%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 68 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.19%) Finance
3 19 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.47%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (8.14%) Banking
6 11 (6.40%) Aviation
7 10 (5.81%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.33%) Legal
9 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.74%) Games
9 3 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Billing
10 2 (1.16%) Military
10 2 (1.16%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 39 (22.67%) Architect
2 26 (15.12%) Developer
3 21 (12.21%) Senior
4 15 (8.72%) Lead
5 12 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) ForgeRock Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Consultant
11 6 (3.49%) Security Architect
11 6 (3.49%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (2.91%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (76.74%) OAuth
2 118 (68.60%) SAML
3 85 (49.42%) OAuth2
4 53 (30.81%) LDAP
5 34 (19.77%) REST
6 22 (12.79%) RESTful
7 20 (11.63%) SailPoint
8 18 (10.47%) Spring
9 16 (9.30%) .NET
9 16 (9.30%) Spring Boot
10 13 (7.56%) Kafka
11 12 (6.98%) React
12 10 (5.81%) HTML
12 10 (5.81%) JPA
12 10 (5.81%) Playwright
13 9 (5.23%) GraphQL
13 9 (5.23%) JSON
14 8 (4.65%) JDBC
14 8 (4.65%) Node.js
15 6 (3.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.88%) Onboarding
3 14 (8.14%) PKI
4 13 (7.56%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.81%) Private Cloud
6 9 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.07%) Replication
8 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.33%) BYOD
9 4 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.33%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.74%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.16%) Legacy Code
11 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.60%) Windows
2 25 (14.53%) Windows Server
3 19 (11.05%) Linux
4 8 (4.65%) Unix
5 2 (1.16%) Android
5 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.58%) CentOS
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (40.70%) CI/CD
2 60 (34.88%) DevOps
3 58 (33.72%) Identity Access Management
4 45 (26.16%) RBAC
5 38 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (19.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (18.60%) Microservices
8 31 (18.02%) Agile
9 27 (15.70%) Identity Management
9 27 (15.70%) Test Automation
10 26 (15.12%) Observability
11 25 (14.53%) Migration
12 24 (13.95%) Containerisation
13 22 (12.79%) Event-Driven
13 22 (12.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (11.63%) DevSecOps
14 20 (11.63%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 18 (10.47%) Secrets Management
16 17 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (28.49%) Java
2 40 (23.26%) PowerShell
3 37 (21.51%) Python
4 25 (14.53%) SQL
5 24 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.72%) Groovy
7 11 (6.40%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.23%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.65%) C#
9 8 (4.65%) PHP
10 6 (3.49%) Bash
11 5 (2.91%) Go
12 4 (2.33%) Cypher
12 4 (2.33%) Scala
13 2 (1.16%) C
13 2 (1.16%) Swift
14 1 (0.58%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (12.79%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.63%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.98%) Degree
6 9 (5.23%) CISSP
7 7 (4.07%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.16%) CCSP
10 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.16%) CISM
10 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.58%) HND
11 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.58%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.12%) GDPR
2 24 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (12.21%) QA
4 17 (9.88%) NIST
5 9 (5.23%) PCI DSS
6 8 (4.65%) PSD2
6 8 (4.65%) SOC 2
7 7 (4.07%) HIPAA
7 7 (4.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (4.07%) WCAG
8 4 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.74%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.74%) NCSC
10 2 (1.16%) ISO 20022
10 2 (1.16%) ISO 8583
10 2 (1.16%) SEPA
10 2 (1.16%) SLA
11 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 66 (38.37%) Active Directory
2 31 (18.02%) Docker
3 8 (4.65%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 5 (2.91%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.16%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.16%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.16%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.58%) RACF
7 1 (0.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 62 (36.05%) Single Sign-On
2 33 (19.19%) Terraform
3 28 (16.28%) Kubernetes
4 26 (15.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (7.56%) Grafana
6 11 (6.40%) Ansible
6 11 (6.40%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.81%) CA Wily
8 9 (5.23%) PingFederate
8 9 (5.23%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.65%) Tivoli
10 6 (3.49%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.91%) Argo
11 5 (2.91%) Kibana
12 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.74%) SCCM
14 2 (1.16%) Puppet
15 1 (0.58%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.58%) Oracle Identity Manager
15 1 (0.58%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 79 (45.93%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.05%) Ping Identity
3 18 (10.47%) ServiceNow
3 18 (10.47%) Splunk
4 14 (8.14%) Google
4 14 (8.14%) Oracle
5 13 (7.56%) ForgeRock
6 12 (6.98%) CyberArk
6 12 (6.98%) IBM
6 12 (6.98%) Okta
7 11 (6.40%) AppDynamics
7 11 (6.40%) Broadcom
7 11 (6.40%) VMware
8 3 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.16%) NetIQ
9 2 (1.16%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.16%) Xamarin