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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 415 419
Rank change year-on-year +49 +4 +160
Contract jobs citing OpenID 196 74 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.69% 1.25% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 51 102
10th Percentile £406 £409 £426
25th Percentile £450 £491 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% -4.17% -3.23%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £686
90th Percentile £717 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
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 7,296 5,937 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.09% 22.34% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,887 3,773 5,640
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 77 183
10th Percentile £34.60 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.80 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 30 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 30 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 +8 87 £533 -9.17% 60
North of England -23 44 £468 -10.86% 23
South West +15 35 £545 +21.11% 17
Yorkshire - 25 £513 - 9
North West -7 19 £448 -14.67% 13
Midlands -41 11 £525 -8.70% 6
South East -34 9 £546 -5.00% 39
East of England - 8 £425 - 12
West Midlands - 7 £538 - 1
East Midlands -25 3 £438 -23.91% 5
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 (6.12%) Apache
2 11 (5.61%) IIS
2 11 (5.61%) JBoss
2 11 (5.61%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.10%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.10%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (3.57%) Confluence
5 5 (2.55%) nginx
5 5 (2.55%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (46.94%) Azure
2 91 (46.43%) AWS
3 53 (27.04%) Entra ID
4 43 (21.94%) GCP
5 26 (13.27%) OpenShift
6 23 (11.73%) SaaS
7 19 (9.69%) GitHub
7 19 (9.69%) Serverless
8 18 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (7.14%) PaaS
11 12 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (5.61%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (5.10%) Route 53
14 9 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 6 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.27%) DNS
2 25 (12.76%) Firewall
3 22 (11.22%) Kerberos
4 7 (3.57%) SSL
4 7 (3.57%) VPN
5 6 (3.06%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.55%) HTTPS
6 5 (2.55%) Network Security
6 5 (2.55%) OpenVPN
6 5 (2.55%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.53%) Internet
8 2 (1.02%) Extranet
8 2 (1.02%) IPsec
8 2 (1.02%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.51%) DHCP
9 1 (0.51%) HTTP
9 1 (0.51%) SMS
9 1 (0.51%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.12%) Oracle Database
2 10 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.59%) MySQL
3 9 (4.59%) Redis
3 9 (4.59%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.04%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.04%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.53%) Metadata
8 3 (1.53%) Power BI
8 3 (1.53%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.02%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (27.55%) Jenkins
2 28 (14.29%) GitLab
3 24 (12.24%) JIRA
4 20 (10.20%) Git
5 17 (8.67%) Selenium
6 15 (7.65%) Cucumber
7 11 (5.61%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (5.61%) CA Release Automation
7 11 (5.61%) Postman
7 11 (5.61%) REST Assured
8 9 (4.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (4.08%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.57%) Gatling
10 7 (3.57%) JUnit
10 7 (3.57%) Maven
11 6 (3.06%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.55%) JMeter
12 5 (2.55%) Mockito
12 5 (2.55%) TestRail
13 4 (2.04%) LoadRunner
General
1 86 (43.88%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.47%) Finance
3 34 (17.35%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.18%) Banking
6 14 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (5.61%) Aviation
7 11 (5.61%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.04%) Legal
9 3 (1.53%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.53%) Games
10 2 (1.02%) Billing
10 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Military
10 2 (1.02%) Retail
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 64 (32.65%) Architect
2 27 (13.78%) Developer
3 22 (11.22%) Senior
4 17 (8.67%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (7.65%) Lead
6 13 (6.63%) CyberArk Architect
7 11 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.10%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Technical Architect
9 9 (4.59%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Security Architect
10 8 (4.08%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Analyst
11 7 (3.57%) AWS Architect
11 7 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) ForgeRock Developer
11 7 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.06%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (70.92%) OAuth
1 139 (70.92%) SAML
2 87 (44.39%) OAuth2
3 69 (35.20%) LDAP
4 36 (18.37%) REST
5 22 (11.22%) RESTful
6 20 (10.20%) SailPoint
7 17 (8.67%) .NET
8 15 (7.65%) Spring
9 14 (7.14%) Spring Boot
10 13 (6.63%) React
11 11 (5.61%) Kafka
12 10 (5.10%) HTML
12 10 (5.10%) JPA
12 10 (5.10%) Playwright
13 9 (4.59%) JSON
14 8 (4.08%) GraphQL
14 8 (4.08%) JDBC
15 7 (3.57%) Node.js
16 6 (3.06%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 31 (15.82%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.14%) PKI
4 13 (6.63%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.10%) Private Cloud
6 8 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.57%) Replication
8 5 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.04%) BYOD
9 4 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.04%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.53%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.02%) Legacy Code
11 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.84%) Windows
2 26 (13.27%) Windows Server
3 19 (9.69%) Linux
4 8 (4.08%) Unix
5 2 (1.02%) Android
5 2 (1.02%) 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 82 (41.84%) CI/CD
2 78 (39.80%) DevOps
3 59 (30.10%) Identity Access Management
4 45 (22.96%) RBAC
5 42 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (16.84%) Secrets Management
9 32 (16.33%) Agile
9 32 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 31 (15.82%) Microservices
11 30 (15.31%) Cybersecurity
11 30 (15.31%) Identity Management
12 28 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 27 (13.78%) Design Patterns
14 26 (13.27%) Observability
15 25 (12.76%) Containerisation
15 25 (12.76%) Event-Driven
15 25 (12.76%) Migration
16 22 (11.22%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.98%) Java
2 40 (20.41%) PowerShell
2 40 (20.41%) Python
3 27 (13.78%) SQL
4 22 (11.22%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.65%) Groovy
6 12 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.59%) C#
7 9 (4.59%) Go
7 9 (4.59%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.08%) PHP
9 6 (3.06%) Bash
10 4 (2.04%) Cypher
10 4 (2.04%) Scala
11 3 (1.53%) Bicep
12 2 (1.02%) C
12 2 (1.02%) Swift
13 1 (0.51%) C++
13 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 39 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (10.20%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.63%) Degree
6 10 (5.10%) CISSP
7 8 (4.08%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.04%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.02%) CCSP
10 2 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.02%) CISM
10 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.51%) HND
11 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (19.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (15.82%) NIST
3 27 (13.78%) GDPR
4 19 (9.69%) QA
5 15 (7.65%) NCSC
6 11 (5.61%) PCI DSS
6 11 (5.61%) SOC 2
7 8 (4.08%) PSD2
8 7 (3.57%) HIPAA
8 7 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (3.57%) WCAG
9 4 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.53%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.53%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.53%) GRC
10 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (1.02%) ISO 20022
11 2 (1.02%) ISO 8583
11 2 (1.02%) SEPA
System Software
1 66 (33.67%) Active Directory
2 31 (15.82%) Docker
3 8 (4.08%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 6 (3.06%) Squid
5 5 (2.55%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (1.02%) OpenAM
7 2 (1.02%) OpenDJ
7 2 (1.02%) OpenIDM
7 2 (1.02%) RACF
Systems Management
1 73 (37.24%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 40 (20.41%) Terraform
4 26 (13.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (8.67%) Grafana
6 11 (5.61%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (5.61%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.10%) CA Wily
8 9 (4.59%) PingFederate
8 9 (4.59%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.08%) Tivoli
10 7 (3.57%) Ansible
11 5 (2.55%) Argo
11 5 (2.55%) Consul
11 5 (2.55%) FortiGate
11 5 (2.55%) Kibana
12 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.53%) SCCM
14 1 (0.51%) Oracle Identity Manager
14 1 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 82 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.31%) Splunk
3 24 (12.24%) CyberArk
4 19 (9.69%) Ping Identity
4 19 (9.69%) ServiceNow
5 16 (8.16%) Google
6 15 (7.65%) Oracle
7 13 (6.63%) ForgeRock
7 13 (6.63%) Okta
8 11 (5.61%) AppDynamics
8 11 (5.61%) Broadcom
8 11 (5.61%) IBM
8 11 (5.61%) VMware
9 7 (3.57%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.55%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.55%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.02%) NetIQ
12 2 (1.02%) Optimizely
12 2 (1.02%) Xamarin