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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 378 461
Rank change year-on-year -14 +83 +27
Contract jobs citing OpenID 255 140 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.61% 1.98% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 101 48
10th Percentile £408 £368 £425
25th Percentile £472 £413 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £475 £570
Median % change year-on-year +17.37% -16.67% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £632
90th Percentile £751 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £492 £600
% change year-on-year +11.79% -18.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -
75th Percentile £86.08 £64.50 -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £59.00 -
% change year-on-year +27.12% - -

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 9,771 7,063 8,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.18% 25.46% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,433 4,796 5,307
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 170 178
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.57 £27.53
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%

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 28 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OpenID in England over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Hourly 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 28 September 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 -41 109 £575 +7.08% 102
South East -12 50 £500 +5.26% 15
North of England -43 47 £588 +31.14% 15
Yorkshire -12 36 £573 +40.49% 8
Midlands -37 21 £464 +12.39% 7
West Midlands -28 18 £510 -15.42% 7
East of England -14 11 £544 +26.20% 6
South West -45 11 £575 +28.64% 7
North West -60 9 £725 +60.58% 5
East Midlands -26 3 £402 -1.95%
North East - 3 £463 - 2
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 (4.71%) Confluence
2 7 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.78%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.39%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 147 (57.65%) Azure
2 103 (40.39%) AWS
2 103 (40.39%) Entra ID
3 63 (24.71%) GCP
4 26 (10.20%) Serverless
5 25 (9.80%) SaaS
6 21 (8.24%) GitHub
7 18 (7.06%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (6.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.71%) Azure AKS
11 12 (4.71%) Azure App Service
12 11 (4.31%) Azure API Management
13 10 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.53%) Amazon S3
14 9 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (3.14%) Azure Functions
15 8 (3.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (2.75%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.88%) DNS
1 15 (5.88%) Firewall
1 15 (5.88%) Kerberos
2 7 (2.75%) SSL
3 6 (2.35%) Network Security
3 6 (2.35%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (1.96%) NGFW
5 3 (1.18%) DHCP
5 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.78%) HTTP
7 1 (0.39%) DMZ
7 1 (0.39%) Internet
7 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.39%) SSH
7 1 (0.39%) VPN
7 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.10%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.31%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.53%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.75%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.96%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.57%) MySQL
9 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.78%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.78%) Metadata
10 2 (0.78%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.78%) Redis
11 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (13.33%) Git
2 16 (6.27%) GitLab
3 14 (5.49%) JIRA
4 11 (4.31%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.35%) Maven
6 5 (1.96%) JUnit
6 5 (1.96%) Storybook
7 4 (1.57%) JMeter
7 4 (1.57%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.18%) Fiddler
8 3 (1.18%) Gradle
8 3 (1.18%) Mockito
8 3 (1.18%) Selenium
8 3 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.78%) Gatling
9 2 (0.78%) git-flow
9 2 (0.78%) Postman
9 2 (0.78%) Xcode
General
1 63 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.82%) Finance
3 47 (18.43%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.02%) Banking
5 21 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.53%) Military
9 5 (1.96%) Retail
10 4 (1.57%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Aviation
13 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
13 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (22.35%) Developer
2 54 (21.18%) Architect
3 31 (12.16%) Lead
4 26 (10.20%) Technical Architect
5 22 (8.63%) Senior
6 17 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (5.88%) IAM Specialist
8 14 (5.49%) Technical Leader
9 12 (4.71%) IAM Developer
10 11 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.53%) AWS Architect
12 8 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.14%) Security Architect
12 8 (3.14%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.75%) GCP Developer
13 7 (2.75%) Lead Architect
13 7 (2.75%) Lead Developer
14 6 (2.35%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (2.35%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (88.63%) OAuth
2 140 (54.90%) OAuth2
3 136 (53.33%) SAML
4 66 (25.88%) Terraform
5 52 (20.39%) LDAP
6 47 (18.43%) REST
7 42 (16.47%) RESTful
8 32 (12.55%) React
9 30 (11.76%) JWT
10 29 (11.37%) SailPoint
11 26 (10.20%) .NET
12 24 (9.41%) Swagger
13 23 (9.02%) OpenAPI
14 22 (8.63%) Node.js
15 16 (6.27%) CSS
15 16 (6.27%) HTML
15 16 (6.27%) JSON
15 16 (6.27%) Kafka
16 15 (5.88%) Web Services
17 13 (5.10%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.37%) Enterprise Software
3 28 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (10.98%) Onboarding
4 25 (9.80%) PKI
5 18 (7.06%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.92%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.14%) IoT
8 7 (2.75%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.96%) CMDB
10 5 (1.96%) NHS
10 5 (1.96%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.57%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.10%) Linux
2 12 (4.71%) Windows
3 4 (1.57%) Android
3 4 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) CentOS
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 88 (34.51%) Identity Access Management
3 79 (30.98%) DevOps
4 66 (25.88%) Microservices
5 65 (25.49%) RBAC
6 64 (25.10%) Agile
7 60 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (19.61%) Test Automation
9 45 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 45 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
10 43 (16.86%) Event-Driven
11 42 (16.47%) Zero Trust
12 39 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (14.12%) Analytics
13 36 (14.12%) Mentoring
13 36 (14.12%) Roadmaps
14 30 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (11.76%) Observability
14 30 (11.76%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 73 (28.63%) Python
2 57 (22.35%) Java
3 50 (19.61%) PowerShell
4 34 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.41%) TypeScript
6 23 (9.02%) Bicep
6 23 (9.02%) C#
7 22 (8.63%) SQL
8 10 (3.92%) Go
9 6 (2.35%) Bash
10 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.78%) C++
11 2 (0.78%) Cypher
11 2 (0.78%) Groovy
11 2 (0.78%) Lua
11 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.78%) Swift
12 1 (0.39%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.39%) Perl
12 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 70 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 57 (22.35%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.55%) Degree
4 18 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (6.27%) CISSP
6 14 (5.49%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.71%) AWS Certification
7 12 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.53%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.96%) CISM
9 5 (1.96%) CSPO
9 5 (1.96%) MCSE
10 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (1.18%) CEH
11 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (8.24%) NIST
3 17 (6.67%) GDPR
4 16 (6.27%) Accessibility
4 16 (6.27%) QA
5 12 (4.71%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.75%) HIPAA
6 7 (2.75%) WCAG
7 6 (2.35%) NCSC
7 6 (2.35%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.78%) HL7
9 2 (0.78%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.78%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.78%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 82 (32.16%) Active Directory
2 34 (13.33%) Docker
3 6 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.18%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (24.31%) Kubernetes
2 61 (23.92%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (6.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 13 (5.10%) Grafana
5 11 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (3.14%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.96%) Ansible
8 4 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (1.18%) Argo
9 3 (1.18%) Istio
9 3 (1.18%) Kibana
10 2 (0.78%) Consul
10 2 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.78%) Packer
10 2 (0.78%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.78%) Puppet
10 2 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.39%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 101 (39.61%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.98%) Okta
3 20 (7.84%) Google
4 15 (5.88%) Ping Identity
5 13 (5.10%) CyberArk
5 13 (5.10%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.14%) ForgeRock
7 7 (2.75%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.96%) Denodo
8 5 (1.96%) Splunk
9 4 (1.57%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (1.57%) Oracle
9 4 (1.57%) SAP
10 3 (1.18%) Cisco
10 3 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.18%) Sparx
10 3 (1.18%) Workday
11 2 (0.78%) IBM
11 2 (0.78%) VMware