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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 415 442
Rank change year-on-year +56 +27 +149
Contract jobs citing OpenID 198 71 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.71% 1.21% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 50 92
10th Percentile £413 £409 £425
25th Percentile £455 £508 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -2.44%
75th Percentile £638 £651 £700
90th Percentile £740 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £640
% change year-on-year -8.70% -10.16% +6.67%
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 7,311 5,867 7,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.33% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,751 5,599
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £657
90th Percentile £738 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 76 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.38 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.31 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +6 88 £533 -10.88% 17
North of England -15 44 £473 -9.90% 8
South West +18 35 £545 +21.11% 3
Yorkshire - 29 £525 - 4
North West -17 15 £453 -13.71% 3
Midlands -44 11 £525 -8.70% 6
South East -39 10 £546 -5.00% 10
East of England - 8 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £538 - 6
East Midlands -24 3 £438 -23.91%
North East -13 1 - - 1
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 8 (4.04%) Apache
2 7 (3.54%) Confluence
2 7 (3.54%) IIS
2 7 (3.54%) iPlanet
2 7 (3.54%) JBoss
2 7 (3.54%) WebSphere
2 7 (3.54%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (2.53%) nginx
3 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (48.48%) Azure
2 92 (46.46%) AWS
3 53 (26.77%) Entra ID
4 45 (22.73%) GCP
5 26 (13.13%) SaaS
6 23 (11.62%) OpenShift
6 23 (11.62%) Serverless
7 19 (9.60%) GitHub
8 18 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (8.59%) PaaS
10 15 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (6.06%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (5.05%) Route 53
14 9 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (4.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.13%) DNS
2 25 (12.63%) Firewall
3 22 (11.11%) Kerberos
4 10 (5.05%) SSL
5 7 (3.54%) VPN
6 6 (3.03%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.53%) HTTPS
7 5 (2.53%) IPsec
7 5 (2.53%) Network Security
7 5 (2.53%) OpenVPN
7 5 (2.53%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.52%) Internet
9 2 (1.01%) Extranet
9 2 (1.01%) S/MIME
10 1 (0.51%) DHCP
10 1 (0.51%) HTTP
10 1 (0.51%) SMS
10 1 (0.51%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.05%) Redis
3 9 (4.55%) MySQL
3 9 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.02%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.02%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.02%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.52%) Metadata
8 3 (1.52%) Power BI
9 2 (1.01%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 51 (25.76%) Jenkins
2 29 (14.65%) GitLab
3 25 (12.63%) JIRA
4 18 (9.09%) Selenium
5 16 (8.08%) Cucumber
5 16 (8.08%) Git
6 12 (6.06%) REST Assured
7 11 (5.56%) Postman
8 8 (4.04%) SonarQube
9 7 (3.54%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (3.54%) CA Release Automation
9 7 (3.54%) Gatling
9 7 (3.54%) JUnit
9 7 (3.54%) Maven
9 7 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (3.03%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.53%) JMeter
11 5 (2.53%) Mockito
11 5 (2.53%) TestRail
12 4 (2.02%) LoadRunner
General
1 86 (43.43%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.21%) Finance
3 34 (17.17%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.59%) Banking
6 14 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (6.06%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.56%) Aviation
9 4 (2.02%) Legal
10 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.52%) Games
10 3 (1.52%) Military
11 2 (1.01%) Billing
11 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.01%) Retail
12 1 (0.51%) Law
12 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 68 (34.34%) Architect
2 27 (13.64%) Developer
3 26 (13.13%) Senior
4 17 (8.59%) Lead
4 17 (8.59%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (6.57%) CyberArk Architect
6 12 (6.06%) Technical Architect
7 11 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.55%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Security Architect
10 8 (4.04%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.54%) Analyst
11 7 (3.54%) AWS Architect
11 7 (3.54%) ForgeRock Developer
11 7 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.54%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (70.71%) OAuth
2 139 (70.20%) SAML
3 92 (46.46%) OAuth2
4 67 (33.84%) LDAP
5 38 (19.19%) REST
6 22 (11.11%) RESTful
7 21 (10.61%) SailPoint
8 17 (8.59%) .NET
9 15 (7.58%) Spring
10 14 (7.07%) React
10 14 (7.07%) Spring Boot
11 12 (6.06%) Kafka
12 11 (5.56%) Playwright
13 10 (5.05%) HTML
13 10 (5.05%) JPA
14 9 (4.55%) JSON
15 8 (4.04%) GraphQL
15 8 (4.04%) JDBC
15 8 (4.04%) Node.js
16 7 (3.54%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 31 (15.66%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.07%) PKI
4 13 (6.57%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.05%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.54%) Replication
7 5 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.02%) BYOD
8 4 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.02%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.52%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.65%) Windows
2 22 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.58%) Linux
4 6 (3.03%) Unix
5 2 (1.01%) Android
5 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) CentOS
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (42.93%) CI/CD
2 79 (39.90%) DevOps
3 58 (29.29%) Identity Access Management
4 45 (22.73%) RBAC
5 42 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.69%) Agile
7 35 (17.68%) Microservices
7 35 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (17.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (16.67%) Secrets Management
10 32 (16.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 30 (15.15%) Design Patterns
11 30 (15.15%) Identity Management
12 29 (14.65%) Test Automation
13 27 (13.64%) Event-Driven
14 25 (12.63%) Migration
14 25 (12.63%) Observability
15 23 (11.62%) Containerisation
16 22 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.24%) Java
2 41 (20.71%) Python
3 40 (20.20%) PowerShell
4 31 (15.66%) SQL
5 22 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.07%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.56%) Groovy
8 9 (4.55%) C#
8 9 (4.55%) Go
9 8 (4.04%) PHP
10 7 (3.54%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.03%) Bash
12 4 (2.02%) Cypher
12 4 (2.02%) Scala
13 3 (1.52%) Bicep
14 2 (1.01%) C
14 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.01%) Swift
15 1 (0.51%) C++
15 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (33.84%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (10.61%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.57%) Degree
6 10 (5.05%) CISSP
7 5 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.01%) CCSP
9 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.01%) CISM
9 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.51%) HND
10 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (19.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (15.66%) NIST
3 27 (13.64%) GDPR
4 18 (9.09%) QA
5 15 (7.58%) NCSC
6 12 (6.06%) PCI DSS
7 11 (5.56%) SOC 2
8 8 (4.04%) PSD2
9 7 (3.54%) HIPAA
9 7 (3.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (3.54%) WCAG
10 4 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
11 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.52%) GRC
11 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (1.01%) ISO 20022
12 2 (1.01%) ISO 8583
12 2 (1.01%) SEPA
System Software
1 63 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 29 (14.65%) Docker
3 6 (3.03%) Squid
3 6 (3.03%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 5 (2.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.53%) RACF
5 4 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.01%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.01%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.01%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 77 (38.89%) Single Sign-On
2 50 (25.25%) Kubernetes
3 40 (20.20%) Terraform
4 26 (13.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (9.09%) Grafana
6 12 (6.06%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.55%) PingFederate
8 7 (3.54%) CA Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.54%) CA Wily
9 6 (3.03%) Ansible
9 6 (3.03%) Argo
9 6 (3.03%) Progress Chef
9 6 (3.03%) Tivoli
10 5 (2.53%) Consul
10 5 (2.53%) FortiGate
10 5 (2.53%) Kibana
11 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.52%) SCCM
13 1 (0.51%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.51%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 82 (41.41%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.64%) Splunk
3 24 (12.12%) CyberArk
4 20 (10.10%) ServiceNow
5 19 (9.60%) Ping Identity
6 17 (8.59%) Google
7 14 (7.07%) ForgeRock
7 14 (7.07%) Okta
8 12 (6.06%) Oracle
9 11 (5.56%) VMware
10 8 (4.04%) AppDynamics
10 8 (4.04%) IBM
11 7 (3.54%) Broadcom
11 7 (3.54%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.53%) Atlassian
12 5 (2.53%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.52%) Salesforce
14 2 (1.01%) BeyondTrust
14 2 (1.01%) NetIQ
14 2 (1.01%) Optimizely