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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 373 422
Rank change year-on-year -5 +49 +109
Contract jobs citing OpenID 214 95 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.73% 1.76% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 69 76
10th Percentile £403 £423 £430
25th Percentile £480 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -5.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £703 £655 £650
90th Percentile £850 £700 £796
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £620
% change year-on-year - -11.29% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 7,843 5,398 7,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.26% 22.31% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,194 3,735 5,309
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 100 227
10th Percentile £32.06 £33.25 £22.19
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.20 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -14 105 £550 -13.21% 18
North of England -11 66 £565 +11.16% 7
Yorkshire -20 42 £563 +19.94% 1
North West -20 22 £600 +14.29% 6
South East -42 19 £700 +21.74% 11
South West -30 11 £575 +28.64% 3
Midlands -65 8 £438 -0.46%
West Midlands -58 4 £350 -41.96%
East Midlands -31 3 £438 +7.43%
North East - 3 £469 -
East of England - 3 £425 - 3
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 14 (6.54%) Confluence
2 9 (4.21%) nginx
3 5 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.87%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 108 (50.47%) Azure
2 104 (48.60%) AWS
3 75 (35.05%) Entra ID
4 53 (24.77%) GCP
5 40 (18.69%) Serverless
6 25 (11.68%) SaaS
7 24 (11.21%) Amazon S3
8 18 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (7.94%) OpenShift
10 15 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (6.07%) Route 53
12 12 (5.61%) GitHub
12 12 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (5.14%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (4.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.68%) DNS
2 22 (10.28%) Firewall
3 17 (7.94%) Kerberos
4 12 (5.61%) SSL
5 11 (5.14%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.21%) OpenVPN
6 9 (4.21%) VPN
7 5 (2.34%) IPsec
7 5 (2.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.87%) DHCP
8 4 (1.87%) Network Security
9 2 (0.93%) HTTP
9 2 (0.93%) NGFW
10 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.47%) SMS
10 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.14%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.67%) Redis
3 9 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.21%) MySQL
3 9 (4.21%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.74%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.34%) Data Vault
5 5 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.87%) DocumentDB
6 4 (1.87%) Metadata
6 4 (1.87%) Neo4j
6 4 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.40%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.93%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 36 (16.82%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.55%) JIRA
3 22 (10.28%) GitLab
4 13 (6.07%) Selenium
5 12 (5.61%) Postman
5 12 (5.61%) REST Assured
6 11 (5.14%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.27%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.27%) Gatling
7 7 (3.27%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.80%) JMeter
9 5 (2.34%) Git
9 5 (2.34%) TestRail
10 4 (1.87%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.87%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.40%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (1.40%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.93%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.93%) JUnit
12 2 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 66 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 53 (24.77%) Finance
3 30 (14.02%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.81%) Banking
6 14 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.54%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.80%) Retail
8 3 (1.40%) Games
8 3 (1.40%) Military
9 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (36.92%) Architect
2 25 (11.68%) Developer
3 23 (10.75%) Senior
4 22 (10.28%) Lead
5 20 (9.35%) Technical Architect
6 13 (6.07%) CyberArk Architect
7 11 (5.14%) AWS Architect
7 11 (5.14%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (4.21%) IAM Specialist
8 9 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.21%) Test Engineer
9 8 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (3.74%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (2.80%) Analyst
10 6 (2.80%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.80%) Lead Architect
10 6 (2.80%) Security Architect
11 5 (2.34%) Consultant
11 5 (2.34%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (76.64%) OAuth
2 128 (59.81%) SAML
3 106 (49.53%) OAuth2
4 72 (33.64%) LDAP
5 45 (21.03%) REST
6 38 (17.76%) SailPoint
7 23 (10.75%) RESTful
8 19 (8.88%) JWT
8 19 (8.88%) Kafka
9 17 (7.94%) .NET
10 16 (7.48%) Node.js
11 13 (6.07%) OpenTelemetry
11 13 (6.07%) Web Services
12 12 (5.61%) Spring
12 12 (5.61%) Spring Boot
13 11 (5.14%) JSON
14 10 (4.67%) Playwright
15 9 (4.21%) React
16 8 (3.74%) SOAP
17 7 (3.27%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.30%) Cloud Native
2 36 (16.82%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (6.07%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.67%) PKI
6 7 (3.27%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.80%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.34%) IoT
8 5 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.87%) Clustering
9 4 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.87%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.93%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.07%) Windows
2 9 (4.21%) Linux
3 6 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.40%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Unix
6 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (40.19%) CI/CD
1 86 (40.19%) DevOps
2 54 (25.23%) RBAC
3 52 (24.30%) Identity Access Management
4 47 (21.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (19.16%) Microservices
6 39 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (17.76%) Secrets Management
8 36 (16.82%) Agile
9 35 (16.36%) Observability
10 34 (15.89%) Event-Driven
11 33 (15.42%) Test Automation
12 32 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (14.95%) Roadmaps
12 32 (14.95%) Zero Trust
13 31 (14.49%) Design Patterns
13 31 (14.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (14.02%) Containerisation
15 28 (13.08%) Architectural Patterns
16 27 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (26.64%) Java
2 41 (19.16%) Python
2 41 (19.16%) SQL
3 27 (12.62%) PowerShell
4 23 (10.75%) TypeScript
5 16 (7.48%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.61%) Bicep
6 12 (5.61%) C#
7 8 (3.74%) Go
8 7 (3.27%) PHP
9 5 (2.34%) Scala
10 4 (1.87%) Cypher
10 4 (1.87%) Groovy
10 4 (1.87%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.93%) Bash
11 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 64 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.54%) CISSP
3 14 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.21%) Degree
5 7 (3.27%) CISM
5 7 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.40%) GIAC
10 2 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.93%) MCSE
11 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.47%) OCP
11 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (15.89%) NIST
3 18 (8.41%) QA
4 17 (7.94%) GDPR
5 16 (7.48%) NCSC
6 10 (4.67%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.27%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (2.34%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.40%) GRC
10 3 (1.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.40%) SEPA
10 3 (1.40%) WCAG
11 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.93%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.93%) PSD2
12 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (25.70%) Active Directory
2 30 (14.02%) Docker
3 10 (4.67%) Squid
4 5 (2.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.34%) RACF
5 2 (0.93%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.93%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.93%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (27.57%) Single Sign-On
2 56 (26.17%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.90%) Terraform
4 20 (9.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (8.88%) Grafana
5 19 (8.88%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.21%) FortiGate
7 8 (3.74%) Consul
8 5 (2.34%) Ansible
8 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.87%) Argo
9 4 (1.87%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.87%) Istio
9 4 (1.87%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.87%) linkerd
9 4 (1.87%) PingFederate
10 3 (1.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.47%) Packer
11 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (31.78%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.55%) CyberArk
2 29 (13.55%) ServiceNow
3 18 (8.41%) Splunk
4 15 (7.01%) Okta
5 14 (6.54%) Google
6 12 (5.61%) Dynatrace
7 9 (4.21%) Ping Identity
7 9 (4.21%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.27%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.80%) ForgeRock
9 6 (2.80%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.80%) SAP
10 5 (2.34%) Denodo
10 5 (2.34%) Workday
11 4 (1.87%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.87%) VMware
12 2 (0.93%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.93%) Oracle
12 2 (0.93%) Thycotic