OpenID Contracts in England

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenID over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 426 535
Rank change year-on-year +33 +109 +59
Contract jobs citing OpenID 92 116 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.69% 1.54% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 81 82
10th Percentile £431 £432 £441
25th Percentile £492 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +9.09% -8.52%
75th Percentile £656 £645 £649
90th Percentile £700 £750 £735
UK median daily rate £560 £620 £560
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -6.67%

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 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in England

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenID in England.

Daily rate trend for OpenID in England

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily 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 1 May 2025. 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 +36 55 £630 -1.18% 40
North of England +9 14 £509 +13.00% 21
South West +53 11 £447 - 14
North West +13 9 £525 +16.67% 10
Yorkshire +2 5 £469 -10.67% 9
South East +40 4 £575 +15.00% 24
Midlands +9 3 £575 -7.26% 25
East Midlands -4 2 £467 -24.76% 13
West Midlands - 1 £603 - 11
OpenID
UK

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.43%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.17%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (51.09%) Azure
2 39 (42.39%) Entra ID
3 23 (25.00%) AWS
4 16 (17.39%) Azure AKS
4 16 (17.39%) GitHub
4 16 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (16.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 15 (16.30%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (8.70%) OCI
7 6 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.43%) IaaS
8 5 (5.43%) PaaS
8 5 (5.43%) Serverless
9 4 (4.35%) Lucidchart
9 4 (4.35%) SaaS
10 3 (3.26%) Azure API Management
10 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.26%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.17%) AWS KMS
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) DNS
2 7 (7.61%) Kerberos
3 6 (6.52%) HTTPS
4 5 (5.43%) Firewall
5 4 (4.35%) SSL
6 2 (2.17%) HTTP
6 2 (2.17%) IPsec
7 1 (1.09%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.17%) Redis
5 1 (1.09%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Git
2 5 (5.43%) JIRA
3 3 (3.26%) GitLab
4 2 (2.17%) Maven
5 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.09%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (19.57%) Finance
1 18 (19.57%) Public Sector
2 15 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.52%) Banking
5 2 (2.17%) French Language
5 2 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (1.09%) Advertising
6 1 (1.09%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 30 (32.61%) Architect
2 17 (18.48%) Developer
3 14 (15.22%) Software Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Python Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Security Architect
5 8 (8.70%) Python Software Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) AWS Specialist
6 7 (7.61%) IAM Specialist
7 6 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.43%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) .NET Developer
10 3 (3.26%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Senior
11 2 (2.17%) ForgeRock Developer
11 2 (2.17%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (85.87%) OAuth
2 51 (55.43%) SAML
3 32 (34.78%) OAuth2
4 18 (19.57%) Kafka
5 15 (16.30%) REST
6 11 (11.96%) SailPoint
7 9 (9.78%) LDAP
7 9 (9.78%) NumPy
7 9 (9.78%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (9.78%) Pandas
7 9 (9.78%) RESTful
8 7 (7.61%) FastAPI
8 7 (7.61%) Node.js
8 7 (7.61%) React
8 7 (7.61%) SOAP
9 6 (6.52%) JDBC
9 6 (6.52%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (6.52%) XACML
10 4 (4.35%) .NET
10 4 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) PKI
2 9 (9.78%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.61%) Security Posture
4 7 (7.61%) Taxonomies
5 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.17%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.09%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.09%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (51.09%) Identity Access Management
2 28 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (27.17%) Identity Management
4 24 (26.09%) DevOps
5 20 (21.74%) Agile
6 19 (20.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 18 (19.57%) RBAC
8 14 (15.22%) Mentoring
8 14 (15.22%) Software Engineering
8 14 (15.22%) Test Automation
9 13 (14.13%) Migration
9 13 (14.13%) Scrum
10 11 (11.96%) CI/CD
10 11 (11.96%) Quantitative Finance
11 10 (10.87%) Open Source
12 9 (9.78%) API Integration
12 9 (9.78%) Cloud Security
12 9 (9.78%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (9.78%) Performance Testing
12 9 (9.78%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (52.17%) Python
2 26 (28.26%) C#
3 25 (27.17%) Java
4 19 (20.65%) PowerShell
5 16 (17.39%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.78%) SQL
7 2 (2.17%) Bash
7 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.09%) Bicep
8 1 (1.09%) Ruby
8 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (35.87%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) Degree
4 7 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.61%) OCP
4 7 (7.61%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.26%) CISSP
5 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (29.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 13 (14.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (11.96%) NIST
4 10 (10.87%) GDPR
5 9 (9.78%) HIPAA
6 7 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.17%) NCSC
8 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (20.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.43%) Docker
3 3 (3.26%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.17%) RACF
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (44.57%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (23.91%) Terraform
3 20 (21.74%) Kubernetes
4 9 (9.78%) Ansible
5 7 (7.61%) MIIS
6 3 (3.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (2.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.48%) Okta
3 15 (16.30%) Ping Identity
4 10 (10.87%) ForgeRock
5 8 (8.70%) Oracle
6 4 (4.35%) IBM
7 3 (3.26%) Google
8 2 (2.17%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.09%) Confluent
9 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.09%) NetIQ
9 1 (1.09%) Splunk