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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 398 427
Rank change year-on-year +34 +29 +147
Contract jobs citing OpenID 204 74 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 1.32% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 55 84
10th Percentile £421 £409 £425
25th Percentile £463 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £688 £651 £700
90th Percentile £770 £740 £826
UK median daily rate £542 £599 £650
% change year-on-year -9.56% -7.88% +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 7,763 5,622 7,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.45% 22.71% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,219 3,772 5,438
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £418 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £668
90th Percentile £738 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 85 206
10th Percentile £35.05 £27.26 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.94
90th Percentile £78.70 £81.80 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.62%

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 March 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 March 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 +9 93 £556 -8.25% 11
North of England -25 43 £500 -4.76% 6
South West +2 30 £560 +0.67% 4
Yorkshire -27 30 £525 -12.50% 1
South East -45 14 £605 +5.22% 6
Midlands -53 14 £475 -17.39% 3
North West -26 13 £484 -7.90% 5
West Midlands - 10 £513 - 1
East of England - 8 £425 - 1
East Midlands -29 3 £438 -23.91% 1
North East -13 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 11 (5.39%) Confluence
2 8 (3.92%) nginx
3 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) iPlanet
4 2 (0.98%) JBoss
4 2 (0.98%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 100 (49.02%) Azure
2 93 (45.59%) AWS
3 58 (28.43%) Entra ID
4 42 (20.59%) GCP
5 32 (15.69%) Serverless
6 22 (10.78%) SaaS
7 18 (8.82%) OpenShift
7 18 (8.82%) PaaS
8 17 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 17 (8.33%) GitHub
9 15 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.88%) Route 53
12 9 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.41%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (14.71%) DNS
2 28 (13.73%) Firewall
3 14 (6.86%) Kerberos
4 10 (4.90%) SSL
5 9 (4.41%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.41%) VPN
6 8 (3.92%) OpenVPN
7 5 (2.45%) IPsec
7 5 (2.45%) Network Security
7 5 (2.45%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.47%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.47%) Internet
9 2 (0.98%) Extranet
9 2 (0.98%) HTTP
9 2 (0.98%) S/MIME
10 1 (0.49%) DHCP
10 1 (0.49%) SMS
10 1 (0.49%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.90%) Redis
3 9 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.41%) MySQL
4 8 (3.92%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.96%) DocumentDB
5 4 (1.96%) Neo4j
5 4 (1.96%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.47%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.98%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.49%) Parquet
8 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 43 (21.08%) Jenkins
2 27 (13.24%) JIRA
3 26 (12.75%) GitLab
4 18 (8.82%) Selenium
5 16 (7.84%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.88%) Postman
6 12 (5.88%) REST Assured
7 10 (4.90%) Git
8 9 (4.41%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.92%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.43%) Gatling
10 7 (3.43%) JUnit
11 6 (2.94%) Maven
12 5 (2.45%) JMeter
12 5 (2.45%) Mockito
12 5 (2.45%) TestRail
13 4 (1.96%) LoadRunner
13 4 (1.96%) NeoLoad
14 3 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
15 2 (0.98%) git-flow
General
1 90 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.61%) Finance
3 33 (16.18%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.80%) Banking
6 14 (6.86%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (6.86%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.39%) Aviation
8 5 (2.45%) Legal
9 4 (1.96%) Retail
10 3 (1.47%) Games
10 3 (1.47%) Military
11 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.98%) Billing
11 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 76 (37.25%) Architect
2 26 (12.75%) Developer
2 26 (12.75%) Senior
3 20 (9.80%) Lead
4 19 (9.31%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (6.37%) CyberArk Architect
6 13 (6.37%) Technical Architect
7 11 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.90%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.90%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.41%) Test Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) AWS Architect
10 8 (3.92%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.92%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.43%) ForgeRock Developer
12 6 (2.94%) Analyst
12 6 (2.94%) Consultant
12 6 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 6 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (71.08%) OAuth
2 136 (66.67%) SAML
3 106 (51.96%) OAuth2
4 60 (29.41%) LDAP
5 40 (19.61%) REST
6 25 (12.25%) RESTful
6 25 (12.25%) SailPoint
7 20 (9.80%) .NET
8 15 (7.35%) Playwright
8 15 (7.35%) Spring
8 15 (7.35%) Spring Boot
9 14 (6.86%) Kafka
10 13 (6.37%) React
11 11 (5.39%) HTML
11 11 (5.39%) JSON
12 10 (4.90%) JPA
12 10 (4.90%) Node.js
12 10 (4.90%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (4.41%) GraphQL
13 9 (4.41%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.63%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.69%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.86%) PKI
4 13 (6.37%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.90%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.43%) Replication
7 5 (2.45%) BYOD
7 5 (2.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.47%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.76%) Windows
2 19 (9.31%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.41%) Linux
4 2 (0.98%) Android
4 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (42.16%) DevOps
2 84 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 57 (27.94%) Identity Access Management
4 51 (25.00%) RBAC
5 47 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (19.61%) Agile
6 40 (19.61%) Microservices
7 38 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (17.16%) Secrets Management
8 35 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
10 33 (16.18%) Observability
10 33 (16.18%) Test Automation
11 32 (15.69%) Design Patterns
12 31 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (14.22%) Event-Driven
13 29 (14.22%) Identity Management
14 26 (12.75%) Roadmaps
15 25 (12.25%) Architectural Patterns
15 25 (12.25%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (22.55%) Java
2 37 (18.14%) PowerShell
2 37 (18.14%) Python
3 30 (14.71%) SQL
4 17 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 17 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.39%) C#
6 8 (3.92%) Go
6 8 (3.92%) PHP
7 6 (2.94%) Groovy
8 5 (2.45%) Bicep
9 4 (1.96%) Bash
9 4 (1.96%) Cypher
9 4 (1.96%) Scala
10 3 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.98%) Swift
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) C++
12 1 (0.49%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 76 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 26 (12.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (9.80%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.86%) Degree
6 12 (5.88%) CISSP
7 5 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.98%) CCSP
10 2 (0.98%) GIAC
11 1 (0.49%) CISM
11 1 (0.49%) HND
11 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.49%) OCP
11 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (14.71%) NIST
3 24 (11.76%) GDPR
4 18 (8.82%) QA
5 15 (7.35%) NCSC
6 11 (5.39%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.92%) PSD2
7 8 (3.92%) SOC 2
7 8 (3.92%) WCAG
8 6 (2.94%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.96%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.47%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.47%) GRC
10 3 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.98%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.98%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.98%) SEPA
System Software
1 54 (26.47%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.73%) Docker
3 9 (4.41%) Squid
4 5 (2.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.45%) RACF
5 4 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.98%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.98%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.98%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.98%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (35.78%) Single Sign-On
2 55 (26.96%) Kubernetes
3 42 (20.59%) Terraform
4 26 (12.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 23 (11.27%) Grafana
6 17 (8.33%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.92%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.43%) Consul
8 7 (3.43%) PingFederate
9 6 (2.94%) Argo
10 5 (2.45%) Ansible
10 5 (2.45%) Kibana
11 3 (1.47%) Istio
11 3 (1.47%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.47%) linkerd
12 2 (0.98%) CA Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.98%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.98%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 77 (37.75%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.76%) CyberArk
3 21 (10.29%) ServiceNow
3 21 (10.29%) Splunk
4 19 (9.31%) Ping Identity
5 15 (7.35%) Google
6 14 (6.86%) ForgeRock
7 10 (4.90%) VMware
8 9 (4.41%) Dynatrace
8 9 (4.41%) Okta
9 8 (3.92%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.43%) Atlassian
10 7 (3.43%) Oracle
11 3 (1.47%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.47%) IBM
11 3 (1.47%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.98%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.98%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.98%) Xamarin