OpenID Contracts in England

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenID over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 453 531
Rank change year-on-year +68 +78 +109
Contract jobs citing OpenID 113 99 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 1.25% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 62 80
10th Percentile £402 £425 -
25th Percentile £430 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.41%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £682
90th Percentile £678 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £551 £613 £593
% change year-on-year -10.04% +3.38% -1.25%

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 5,960 7,946 10,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.44% 21.35% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 5,536 8,047
10th Percentile £355 £350 £384
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £780 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 266 143
10th Percentile £30.60 £23.80 £31.60
25th Percentile £45.31 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.63 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -10.31% +19.82%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £74.47 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in England

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenID in England.

Daily rate trend for OpenID in England

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in England

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 6 July 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
London +30 55 £628 +2.45% 33
North of England +12 19 £475 +5.56% 5
Midlands +15 15 £415 -33.17% 6
East Midlands +1 14 £415 -33.17% 4
Yorkshire +11 13 £409 -5.76% 1
South West +47 10 £447 - 3
North West +11 6 £509 -17.98% 4
South East +37 5 £575 +27.78% 4
West Midlands - 1 £603 - 2
OpenID
UK

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (5.31%) Confluence
2 5 (4.42%) CMS
2 5 (4.42%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.77%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.88%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (3.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 59 (52.21%) Azure
2 57 (50.44%) AWS
3 45 (39.82%) Entra ID
4 24 (21.24%) GCP
5 20 (17.70%) Azure AKS
6 16 (14.16%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (13.27%) GitHub
8 14 (12.39%) SaaS
9 12 (10.62%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (9.73%) OCI
11 10 (8.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (8.85%) Serverless
12 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (6.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (5.31%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (4.42%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) DNS
1 7 (6.19%) Kerberos
2 6 (5.31%) HTTPS
3 5 (4.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.85%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.31%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Git
2 5 (4.42%) JIRA
3 2 (1.77%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 34 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (17.70%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.50%) Finance
4 5 (4.42%) Banking
5 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.77%) French Language
5 2 (1.77%) Publishing
5 2 (1.77%) Retail
6 1 (0.88%) Advertising
6 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (24.78%) Architect
2 13 (11.50%) Developer
3 12 (10.62%) Software Engineer
4 11 (9.73%) Security Architect
5 10 (8.85%) IAM Specialist
6 9 (7.96%) AWS Specialist
7 8 (7.08%) Analyst
7 8 (7.08%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.08%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Identity Management Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Designer
9 5 (4.42%) Solutions Designer
10 4 (3.54%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Lead
10 4 (3.54%) Systems Analyst
11 3 (2.65%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (89.38%) OAuth
2 77 (68.14%) SAML
3 42 (37.17%) OAuth2
4 23 (20.35%) LDAP
5 16 (14.16%) REST
6 15 (13.27%) Spring
7 14 (12.39%) SailPoint
8 13 (11.50%) Kafka
9 12 (10.62%) Hibernate
10 9 (7.96%) JSON
11 8 (7.08%) NumPy
11 8 (7.08%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (7.08%) Pandas
11 8 (7.08%) SOAP
12 7 (6.19%) FastAPI
12 7 (6.19%) Oracle Fusion
13 6 (5.31%) JDBC
13 6 (5.31%) XACML
14 5 (4.42%) RESTful
15 4 (3.54%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.04%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (11.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.50%) Onboarding
3 12 (10.62%) PKI
4 7 (6.19%) Security Posture
4 7 (6.19%) Taxonomies
5 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.88%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (57.52%) Identity Access Management
2 40 (35.40%) Identity Management
3 39 (34.51%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (32.74%) RBAC
5 34 (30.09%) DevOps
6 23 (20.35%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 19 (16.81%) CI/CD
7 19 (16.81%) Mentoring
8 16 (14.16%) Agile
8 16 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (13.27%) DevSecOps
10 13 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (10.62%) API Integration
11 12 (10.62%) Regulatory Compliance
11 12 (10.62%) Scrum
11 12 (10.62%) Software Engineering
12 11 (9.73%) Cloud Security
12 11 (9.73%) Containerisation
12 11 (9.73%) Open Source
12 11 (9.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (38.94%) Python
2 34 (30.09%) Java
3 21 (18.58%) C#
4 20 (17.70%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.73%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.42%) SQL
7 4 (3.54%) Bash
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) Groovy
8 1 (0.88%) Ruby
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (30.09%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.85%) Degree
4 8 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.19%) OCP
5 7 (6.19%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.77%) CISSP
7 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.88%) CISM
8 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (23.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 20 (17.70%) GDPR
3 19 (16.81%) HIPAA
4 15 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (12.39%) NIST
6 7 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.77%) NCSC
7 2 (1.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (28.32%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.62%) Docker
3 3 (2.65%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (49.56%) Single Sign-On
2 30 (26.55%) Kubernetes
3 26 (23.01%) Terraform
4 12 (10.62%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 7 (6.19%) MIIS
6 6 (5.31%) Ansible
7 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 29 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 28 (24.78%) Ping Identity
3 15 (13.27%) IBM
3 15 (13.27%) Okta
4 12 (10.62%) ForgeRock
5 10 (8.85%) Oracle
6 8 (7.08%) Alibaba
7 6 (5.31%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.88%) Confluent
9 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.88%) Splunk