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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 388 431
Rank change year-on-year +10 +43 +119
Contract jobs citing OpenID 208 94 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.58% 1.71% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 68 83
10th Percentile £406 £409 £436
25th Percentile £481 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £658 £700
90th Percentile £850 £702 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +8.70%

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 8,053 5,484 7,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.53% 22.52% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 3,807 5,369
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 87 163
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.34 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £35.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.36
90th Percentile £78.88 £83.38 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -22 99 £563 -10.71% 18
North of England -35 55 £550 +4.76% 7
Yorkshire -23 36 £540 +15.14% 5
South West -16 22 £575 +28.64% 2
North West -21 18 £550 +4.76% 2
South East -48 14 £615 +6.96% 10
Midlands -52 14 £475 -19.35% 1
West Midlands -54 10 £513 -15.01% 1
East of England - 4 £425 - 2
East Midlands -31 3 £438 -23.91%
North East - 2 £525 -
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 (6.73%) Confluence
2 9 (4.33%) nginx
3 4 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 100 (48.08%) Azure
2 95 (45.67%) AWS
3 61 (29.33%) Entra ID
4 50 (24.04%) GCP
5 35 (16.83%) Serverless
6 26 (12.50%) SaaS
7 22 (10.58%) Amazon S3
8 18 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (7.69%) OpenShift
10 15 (7.21%) GitHub
10 15 (7.21%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (6.73%) PaaS
11 14 (6.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (6.25%) Route 53
13 11 (5.29%) Azure API Management
14 10 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.81%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.87%) Firewall
2 32 (15.38%) DNS
3 13 (6.25%) SSL
4 12 (5.77%) Kerberos
5 9 (4.33%) OpenVPN
5 9 (4.33%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.33%) VPN
6 5 (2.40%) IPsec
6 5 (2.40%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.92%) Network Security
8 3 (1.44%) DHCP
9 1 (0.48%) Extranet
9 1 (0.48%) HTTP
9 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.48%) Internet
9 1 (0.48%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (4.81%) Redis
2 9 (4.33%) MySQL
2 9 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 8 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.92%) Data Vault
4 4 (1.92%) DocumentDB
4 4 (1.92%) Metadata
4 4 (1.92%) Neo4j
4 4 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.96%) Hazelcast
6 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.94%) JIRA
3 26 (12.50%) GitLab
4 18 (8.65%) Selenium
5 16 (7.69%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.77%) Postman
6 12 (5.77%) REST Assured
7 8 (3.85%) Git
8 7 (3.37%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.37%) Gatling
8 7 (3.37%) JUnit
8 7 (3.37%) Maven
8 7 (3.37%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.40%) JMeter
9 5 (2.40%) Mockito
9 5 (2.40%) TestRail
10 4 (1.92%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.92%) NeoLoad
11 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.96%) git-flow
General
1 77 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.04%) Finance
3 34 (16.35%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (10.10%) Banking
5 16 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.21%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.77%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.40%) Retail
9 3 (1.44%) Games
9 3 (1.44%) Legal
10 2 (0.96%) Aviation
10 2 (0.96%) Billing
10 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (37.50%) Architect
2 28 (13.46%) Senior
3 22 (10.58%) Developer
4 18 (8.65%) Lead
5 17 (8.17%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.73%) Technical Architect
7 13 (6.25%) CyberArk Architect
8 11 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.81%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.33%) AWS Architect
10 9 (4.33%) Security Architect
10 9 (4.33%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Java Developer
13 6 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 6 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) Senior Architect
13 6 (2.88%) Senior Developer
14 5 (2.40%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (73.08%) OAuth
2 134 (64.42%) SAML
3 105 (50.48%) OAuth2
4 63 (30.29%) LDAP
5 42 (20.19%) REST
6 31 (14.90%) SailPoint
7 19 (9.13%) Kafka
7 19 (9.13%) RESTful
8 17 (8.17%) .NET
8 17 (8.17%) Spring
8 17 (8.17%) Spring Boot
9 15 (7.21%) Playwright
10 14 (6.73%) JWT
10 14 (6.73%) React
11 12 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
12 11 (5.29%) HTML
12 11 (5.29%) JSON
13 10 (4.81%) JPA
13 10 (4.81%) Node.js
14 8 (3.85%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.98%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.25%) PKI
4 10 (4.81%) Private Cloud
5 9 (4.33%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.37%) Replication
7 6 (2.88%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.40%) IoT
8 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.92%) Clustering
9 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.96%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.02%) Windows
2 17 (8.17%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.85%) Linux
4 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (40.87%) DevOps
2 83 (39.90%) CI/CD
3 58 (27.88%) Identity Access Management
4 54 (25.96%) RBAC
5 44 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (19.71%) Microservices
7 39 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (18.27%) Agile
8 38 (18.27%) Secrets Management
9 35 (16.83%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (16.35%) Observability
10 34 (16.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 34 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (15.38%) Test Automation
12 31 (14.90%) Roadmaps
13 30 (14.42%) Event-Driven
14 29 (13.94%) Design Patterns
15 25 (12.02%) Architectural Patterns
15 25 (12.02%) Containerisation
15 25 (12.02%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 58 (27.88%) Java
2 36 (17.31%) SQL
3 33 (15.87%) Python
4 30 (14.42%) PowerShell
5 16 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.73%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.77%) C#
8 10 (4.81%) PHP
9 8 (3.85%) Go
10 5 (2.40%) Bicep
10 5 (2.40%) Scala
11 4 (1.92%) Bash
11 4 (1.92%) Cypher
11 4 (1.92%) Groovy
11 4 (1.92%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.96%) Swift
13 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 43 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (9.13%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.77%) CISSP
6 9 (4.33%) Degree
7 5 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.92%) CISM
9 3 (1.44%) GIAC
10 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.48%) CEH
11 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (14.42%) NIST
3 17 (8.17%) GDPR
4 16 (7.69%) QA
5 15 (7.21%) NCSC
6 10 (4.81%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.85%) WCAG
8 6 (2.88%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.40%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
11 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.44%) GRC
11 3 (1.44%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.44%) SEPA
12 2 (0.96%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.96%) PSD2
13 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 55 (26.44%) Active Directory
2 25 (12.02%) Docker
3 10 (4.81%) Squid
4 5 (2.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.40%) RACF
5 4 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.96%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.96%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.96%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (31.25%) Single Sign-On
2 57 (27.40%) Kubernetes
3 46 (22.12%) Terraform
4 31 (14.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 24 (11.54%) Grafana
6 18 (8.65%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.33%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.37%) Consul
9 5 (2.40%) Ansible
9 5 (2.40%) Argo
9 5 (2.40%) Kibana
9 5 (2.40%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.92%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.92%) Istio
10 4 (1.92%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.92%) linkerd
11 1 (0.48%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Identity Manager
11 1 (0.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 70 (33.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.94%) CyberArk
3 27 (12.98%) ServiceNow
4 19 (9.13%) Splunk
5 14 (6.73%) Google
6 12 (5.77%) Okta
7 11 (5.29%) Dynatrace
7 11 (5.29%) Ping Identity
8 10 (4.81%) VMware
9 9 (4.33%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.37%) Atlassian
10 7 (3.37%) ForgeRock
11 5 (2.40%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (2.40%) Oracle
12 4 (1.92%) Denodo
12 4 (1.92%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.96%) Confluent
13 2 (0.96%) NetIQ
13 2 (0.96%) SAP
13 2 (0.96%) Thycotic