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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 381 445
Rank change year-on-year +3 +64 +80
Contract jobs citing OpenID 211 92 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.38% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% 1.69% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 67 76
10th Percentile £403 £433 £434
25th Percentile £485 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -5.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £704 £656 £656
90th Percentile £850 £700 £796
UK median daily rate £563 £552 £620
% change year-on-year +1.90% -10.97% +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 7,916 5,429 7,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.42% 22.34% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,250 3,761 5,335
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 103 228
10th Percentile £34.75 £33.25 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £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 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.95 £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 9 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 9 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 -15 105 £563 -11.24% 22
North of England -12 64 £565 +11.16% 18
Yorkshire -16 41 £563 +19.94% 8
North West -23 21 £600 +14.29% 8
South East -50 19 £700 +21.74% 11
South West -35 10 £575 +28.64% 9
Midlands -56 8 £438 -0.46% 6
West Midlands -53 4 £350 -41.96% 1
East of England - 4 £425 - 10
East Midlands -33 3 £438 -0.46% 5
North East - 3 £469 - 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 14 (6.64%) Confluence
2 9 (4.27%) nginx
3 5 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 109 (51.66%) Azure
2 104 (49.29%) AWS
3 73 (34.60%) Entra ID
4 53 (25.12%) GCP
5 39 (18.48%) Serverless
6 25 (11.85%) SaaS
7 24 (11.37%) Amazon S3
8 19 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (8.06%) OpenShift
10 15 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (6.16%) GitHub
11 13 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (6.16%) Route 53
12 11 (5.21%) PaaS
13 10 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.74%) Azure AKS
14 9 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.85%) DNS
2 23 (10.90%) Firewall
3 16 (7.58%) Kerberos
4 12 (5.69%) SSL
5 11 (5.21%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.27%) OpenVPN
6 9 (4.27%) VPN
7 5 (2.37%) IPsec
7 5 (2.37%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.90%) DHCP
8 4 (1.90%) Network Security
9 2 (0.95%) HTTP
9 2 (0.95%) NGFW
10 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.47%) SMS
10 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (4.74%) Redis
1 10 (4.74%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.27%) MySQL
3 8 (3.79%) DynamoDB
3 8 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.37%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.90%) DocumentDB
5 4 (1.90%) Metadata
5 4 (1.90%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.42%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.95%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 38 (18.01%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.74%) JIRA
3 23 (10.90%) GitLab
4 13 (6.16%) Selenium
5 12 (5.69%) Postman
5 12 (5.69%) REST Assured
6 11 (5.21%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.32%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.32%) Gatling
7 7 (3.32%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.37%) JMeter
8 5 (2.37%) TestRail
9 4 (1.90%) Git
9 4 (1.90%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.90%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.42%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (1.42%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.95%) JUnit
11 2 (0.95%) Maven
General
1 66 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 54 (25.59%) Finance
3 32 (15.17%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.95%) Banking
6 14 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.64%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.37%) Retail
8 3 (1.42%) Games
8 3 (1.42%) Military
9 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.95%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (37.44%) Architect
2 24 (11.37%) Developer
2 24 (11.37%) Senior
3 21 (9.95%) Lead
4 19 (9.00%) Technical Architect
5 13 (6.16%) CyberArk Architect
6 10 (4.74%) AWS Architect
6 10 (4.74%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (4.27%) IAM Specialist
7 9 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (4.27%) Test Engineer
8 8 (3.79%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (3.32%) Security Architect
10 6 (2.84%) Analyst
10 6 (2.84%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.84%) Lead Architect
10 6 (2.84%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.37%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (74.88%) OAuth
2 129 (61.14%) SAML
3 104 (49.29%) OAuth2
4 71 (33.65%) LDAP
5 45 (21.33%) REST
6 37 (17.54%) SailPoint
7 20 (9.48%) Kafka
7 20 (9.48%) RESTful
8 19 (9.00%) JWT
9 15 (7.11%) Node.js
10 14 (6.64%) .NET
11 13 (6.16%) Spring
11 13 (6.16%) Spring Boot
12 12 (5.69%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (5.69%) Web Services
13 10 (4.74%) JSON
13 10 (4.74%) Playwright
14 9 (4.27%) React
15 7 (3.32%) J2EE
15 7 (3.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.17%) Cloud Native
2 34 (16.11%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.69%) PKI
5 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.84%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.37%) IoT
7 5 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.90%) Clustering
8 4 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.16%) Windows
2 9 (4.27%) Linux
3 6 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.42%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Unix
6 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (40.76%) CI/CD
1 86 (40.76%) DevOps
2 52 (24.64%) Identity Access Management
2 52 (24.64%) RBAC
3 46 (21.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (19.43%) Microservices
5 39 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (18.01%) Secrets Management
7 35 (16.59%) Agile
8 34 (16.11%) Observability
9 33 (15.64%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (15.64%) Event-Driven
10 32 (15.17%) Test Automation
11 31 (14.69%) Design Patterns
11 31 (14.69%) Roadmaps
12 30 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 30 (14.22%) Zero Trust
13 29 (13.74%) Containerisation
14 28 (13.27%) Architectural Patterns
15 27 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (27.49%) Java
2 42 (19.91%) Python
3 40 (18.96%) SQL
4 26 (12.32%) PowerShell
5 22 (10.43%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.74%) Bicep
8 9 (4.27%) C#
8 9 (4.27%) Go
9 7 (3.32%) PHP
10 5 (2.37%) Scala
11 4 (1.90%) Cypher
11 4 (1.90%) Groovy
11 4 (1.90%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.95%) Bash
12 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 62 (29.38%) Security Cleared
2 47 (22.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.64%) CISSP
4 13 (6.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.74%) Degree
6 7 (3.32%) CISM
6 7 (3.32%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.42%) GIAC
11 2 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.95%) MCSE
12 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.47%) OCP
12 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (16.11%) NIST
3 17 (8.06%) GDPR
4 16 (7.58%) NCSC
4 16 (7.58%) QA
5 10 (4.74%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.32%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (2.37%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.42%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.42%) GRC
9 3 (1.42%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.42%) SEPA
9 3 (1.42%) WCAG
10 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.95%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.95%) PSD2
11 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 54 (25.59%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.27%) Docker
3 10 (4.74%) Squid
4 5 (2.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.37%) RACF
5 2 (0.95%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.95%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.95%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (27.49%) Kubernetes
1 58 (27.49%) Single Sign-On
2 50 (23.70%) Terraform
3 20 (9.48%) Grafana
4 19 (9.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (9.00%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.27%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.79%) Consul
7 5 (2.37%) Ansible
7 5 (2.37%) Argo
7 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.90%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.90%) Istio
8 4 (1.90%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.90%) linkerd
8 4 (1.90%) PingFederate
9 3 (1.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.47%) Packer
10 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (31.75%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.74%) CyberArk
2 29 (13.74%) ServiceNow
3 19 (9.00%) Splunk
4 15 (7.11%) Google
5 14 (6.64%) Okta
6 12 (5.69%) Dynatrace
7 9 (4.27%) Ping Identity
7 9 (4.27%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.32%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.84%) ForgeRock
10 5 (2.37%) Denodo
10 5 (2.37%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.37%) SAP
10 5 (2.37%) Workday
11 4 (1.90%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.90%) VMware
12 2 (0.95%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.95%) Oracle
12 2 (0.95%) Thycotic