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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 448 443
Rank change year-on-year +60 -5 +193
Contract jobs citing OpenID 154 79 126
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.22% 1.17% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 55 96
10th Percentile £405 £410 £431
25th Percentile £425 £491 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% -4.17% -7.55%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £677
90th Percentile £673 £740 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -13.23% -3.96% -6.25%
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 £59.00 - -

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 6,945 6,739 8,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.74% 21.70% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,675 4,300 6,289
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £631 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 99 183
10th Percentile £30.80 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £41.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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 +2 66 £500 -13.04% 31
South West +24 31 £533 -3.36% 10
North of England -22 22 £420 -35.38% 10
Midlands -16 14 £430 +1.06% 1
North West - 13 £446 - 7
South East -5 9 £481 -16.30% 11
Yorkshire -31 9 £408 - 1
East Midlands - 8 £415 -
East of England - 7 £425 -
West Midlands -18 6 £538 +26.47% 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 12 (7.79%) Apache
1 12 (7.79%) JBoss
2 11 (7.14%) IIS
2 11 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 10 (6.49%) iPlanet
3 10 (6.49%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (3.25%) CMS
4 5 (3.25%) Headless CMS
4 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.95%) Confluence
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (51.95%) AWS
2 79 (51.30%) Azure
3 48 (31.17%) Entra ID
4 31 (20.13%) GCP
5 24 (15.58%) SaaS
6 23 (14.94%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (11.04%) GitHub
8 13 (8.44%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (7.79%) OpenShift
10 11 (7.14%) Serverless
11 10 (6.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (6.49%) PaaS
12 8 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (5.19%) Azure AKS
13 7 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.55%) Amazon S3
13 7 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.69%) Firewall
2 17 (11.04%) Kerberos
3 14 (9.09%) DNS
4 5 (3.25%) SSL
5 4 (2.60%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.95%) Internet
7 2 (1.30%) Extranet
7 2 (1.30%) HTTP
7 2 (1.30%) Network Security
7 2 (1.30%) S/MIME
7 2 (1.30%) VPN
8 1 (0.65%) DHCP
8 1 (0.65%) SMTP
8 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) Oracle Database
2 6 (3.90%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.95%) Metadata
3 3 (1.95%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.95%) Power BI
4 2 (1.30%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.30%) Redis
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.99%) Git
3 11 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (7.14%) CA Release Automation
3 11 (7.14%) GitLab
4 9 (5.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.90%) Maven
6 5 (3.25%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.25%) JIRA
6 5 (3.25%) JUnit
6 5 (3.25%) Mockito
6 5 (3.25%) Selenium
7 4 (2.60%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.95%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.95%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.65%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.65%) Mocha
9 1 (0.65%) NUnit
9 1 (0.65%) Xcode
General
1 78 (50.65%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (16.23%) Finance
4 16 (10.39%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (7.14%) Aviation
6 9 (5.84%) Banking
7 8 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.60%) Legal
9 3 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.95%) Retail
10 2 (1.30%) Billing
10 2 (1.30%) Publishing
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Law
11 1 (0.65%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (18.18%) Architect
2 18 (11.69%) Senior
3 17 (11.04%) Developer
4 10 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.84%) Analyst
5 9 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (5.84%) Business Analyst
5 9 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.19%) Consultant
6 8 (5.19%) Lead
7 7 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (3.90%) IAM Specialist
8 6 (3.90%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 6 (3.90%) Identity Management Engineer
8 6 (3.90%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.25%) ForgeRock Developer
9 5 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (85.71%) OAuth
2 124 (80.52%) SAML
3 76 (49.35%) OAuth2
4 41 (26.62%) LDAP
5 19 (12.34%) Spring
6 15 (9.74%) REST
7 14 (9.09%) JSON
7 14 (9.09%) RESTful
8 9 (5.84%) .NET
8 9 (5.84%) React
8 9 (5.84%) Spring Boot
9 8 (5.19%) GraphQL
9 8 (5.19%) Hibernate
9 8 (5.19%) JDBC
9 8 (5.19%) SailPoint
10 6 (3.90%) HTML
10 6 (3.90%) Kafka
11 5 (3.25%) Gherkin
11 5 (3.25%) GraalVM
11 5 (3.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.69%) Onboarding
2 17 (11.04%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.09%) PKI
4 11 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.84%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.90%) Replication
7 4 (2.60%) BYOD
7 4 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.95%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.30%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.65%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.18%) Windows
2 22 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 18 (11.69%) Linux
4 8 (5.19%) Unix
5 2 (1.30%) Android
6 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.65%) CentOS
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.01%) Identity Access Management
2 54 (35.06%) RBAC
3 47 (30.52%) CI/CD
4 46 (29.87%) DevOps
5 43 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (24.03%) Identity Management
7 26 (16.88%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 25 (16.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (15.58%) DevSecOps
10 21 (13.64%) Containerisation
10 21 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (13.64%) Microservices
11 20 (12.99%) Migration
12 19 (12.34%) Agile
13 17 (11.04%) Mentoring
13 17 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (9.09%) B2C
15 14 (9.09%) Observability
15 14 (9.09%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 29 (18.83%) Java
3 24 (15.58%) Python
4 18 (11.69%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.44%) Groovy
6 9 (5.84%) Shell Script
7 8 (5.19%) SQL
8 7 (4.55%) Bash
9 6 (3.90%) C#
10 3 (1.95%) PHP
10 3 (1.95%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.30%) C
11 2 (1.30%) Go
12 1 (0.65%) C++
12 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.65%) Swift
12 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (12.34%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.39%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.79%) AWS Certification
5 12 (7.79%) Degree
6 10 (6.49%) CISSP
7 4 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.95%) CISM
8 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.30%) CCSP
9 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.65%) HND
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.43%) GDPR
2 17 (11.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (9.09%) HIPAA
4 11 (7.14%) NIST
5 9 (5.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (4.55%) SOC 2
7 6 (3.90%) PSD2
7 6 (3.90%) QA
8 5 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (3.25%) WCAG
9 4 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (2.60%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.95%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.30%) SLA
12 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 73 (47.40%) Active Directory
2 29 (18.83%) Docker
3 8 (5.19%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (47.40%) Single Sign-On
2 32 (20.78%) Terraform
3 29 (18.83%) Kubernetes
4 17 (11.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (7.14%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (6.49%) CA Wily
6 10 (6.49%) Grafana
7 9 (5.84%) Ansible
7 9 (5.84%) PingFederate
7 9 (5.84%) Progress Chef
8 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (5.19%) Tivoli
8 8 (5.19%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 5 (3.25%) Kibana
10 3 (1.95%) Argo
10 3 (1.95%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.95%) SCCM
11 2 (1.30%) Puppet
12 1 (0.65%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.65%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 77 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.23%) Ping Identity
3 20 (12.99%) IBM
4 15 (9.74%) ForgeRock
4 15 (9.74%) Oracle
4 15 (9.74%) Splunk
5 13 (8.44%) Okta
6 11 (7.14%) AppDynamics
6 11 (7.14%) Broadcom
7 10 (6.49%) CyberArk
8 9 (5.84%) VMware
9 8 (5.19%) Alibaba
10 6 (3.90%) Google
11 4 (2.60%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
13 2 (1.30%) Intel
13 2 (1.30%) MuleSoft
13 2 (1.30%) Optimizely
13 2 (1.30%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.30%) Xamarin