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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 438 450
Rank change year-on-year +64 +12 +161
Contract jobs citing OpenID 157 76 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 1.13% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 54 96
10th Percentile £405 £410 £431
25th Percentile £425 £508 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% -4.17% -6.90%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £665 £720 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -13.42% -3.75% -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 6,903 6,730 8,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.66% 21.78% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,648 4,274 6,251
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £675
90th Percentile £731 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 106 180
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.59
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +18.66% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £73.88 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.70%

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 25 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 25 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 +22 67 £500 -13.04% 17
South West +22 31 £533 -3.36% 8
North of England -23 24 £433 -33.38% 6
Midlands -21 14 £430 +1.06% 1
North West - 13 £446 - 4
Yorkshire -22 11 £409 -
South East -9 9 £481 -16.30% 13
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 (7.64%) Apache
1 12 (7.64%) JBoss
2 11 (7.01%) IIS
2 11 (7.01%) WebSphere
3 10 (6.37%) iPlanet
3 10 (6.37%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (3.18%) CMS
4 5 (3.18%) Headless CMS
4 5 (3.18%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.91%) Confluence
5 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (51.59%) AWS
2 80 (50.96%) Azure
3 50 (31.85%) Entra ID
4 33 (21.02%) GCP
5 24 (15.29%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (15.29%) SaaS
6 17 (10.83%) GitHub
7 13 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (7.64%) OpenShift
9 11 (7.01%) Serverless
10 10 (6.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (6.37%) PaaS
11 8 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.10%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.46%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.10%) Kerberos
2 18 (11.46%) Firewall
3 14 (8.92%) DNS
4 5 (3.18%) SSL
5 4 (2.55%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.91%) Internet
7 2 (1.27%) Extranet
7 2 (1.27%) HTTP
7 2 (1.27%) Network Security
7 2 (1.27%) S/MIME
7 2 (1.27%) VPN
8 1 (0.64%) DHCP
8 1 (0.64%) SMTP
8 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) Oracle Database
2 6 (3.82%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.91%) Metadata
3 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.91%) Power BI
4 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.27%) Redis
5 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.64%) MySQL
5 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.38%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.74%) Git
3 11 (7.01%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (7.01%) CA Release Automation
3 11 (7.01%) GitLab
4 9 (5.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.82%) Maven
6 5 (3.18%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.18%) JIRA
6 5 (3.18%) JUnit
6 5 (3.18%) Mockito
6 5 (3.18%) Selenium
7 4 (2.55%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.91%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.91%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.64%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.64%) Mocha
9 1 (0.64%) NUnit
9 1 (0.64%) Xcode
General
1 81 (51.59%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.92%) Finance
4 16 (10.19%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (7.01%) Aviation
6 9 (5.73%) Banking
7 8 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.55%) Legal
9 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Billing
10 2 (1.27%) Publishing
11 1 (0.64%) Games
11 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Law
11 1 (0.64%) Military
11 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (17.83%) Architect
2 19 (12.10%) Developer
2 19 (12.10%) Senior
3 10 (6.37%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (5.73%) Business Analyst
4 9 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (5.73%) Lead
5 8 (5.10%) Analyst
5 8 (5.10%) Consultant
6 7 (4.46%) ForgeRock Developer
6 7 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (3.82%) IAM Specialist
7 6 (3.82%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 6 (3.82%) Identity Management Engineer
7 6 (3.82%) Security Engineer
8 5 (3.18%) Designer
8 5 (3.18%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.18%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (85.99%) OAuth
2 127 (80.89%) SAML
3 75 (47.77%) OAuth2
4 44 (28.03%) LDAP
5 19 (12.10%) Spring
6 14 (8.92%) JSON
6 14 (8.92%) REST
6 14 (8.92%) RESTful
7 9 (5.73%) .NET
7 9 (5.73%) React
7 9 (5.73%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.10%) GraphQL
8 8 (5.10%) Hibernate
8 8 (5.10%) JDBC
8 8 (5.10%) SailPoint
9 6 (3.82%) HTML
9 6 (3.82%) Kafka
10 5 (3.18%) Gherkin
10 5 (3.18%) SOAP
10 5 (3.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.10%) Onboarding
2 17 (10.83%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.92%) PKI
4 11 (7.01%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (7.01%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.73%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.82%) Replication
7 4 (2.55%) BYOD
7 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.55%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.91%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.64%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 28 (17.83%) Windows
2 22 (14.01%) Windows Server
3 18 (11.46%) Linux
4 8 (5.10%) Unix
5 2 (1.27%) Android
6 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.64%) CentOS
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.94%) Identity Access Management
2 54 (34.39%) RBAC
3 47 (29.94%) DevOps
4 46 (29.30%) CI/CD
5 44 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (23.57%) Identity Management
7 27 (17.20%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 25 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (15.29%) DevSecOps
10 22 (14.01%) Migration
11 21 (13.38%) Containerisation
11 21 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (13.38%) Microservices
12 19 (12.10%) Agile
12 19 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (10.83%) Mentoring
14 16 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (9.55%) Privileged Identity Management
16 14 (8.92%) Observability
17 13 (8.28%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 42 (26.75%) PowerShell
2 31 (19.75%) Java
3 24 (15.29%) Python
4 18 (11.46%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.55%) Groovy
6 9 (5.73%) Shell Script
7 8 (5.10%) SQL
8 7 (4.46%) Bash
9 6 (3.82%) C#
10 3 (1.91%) PHP
10 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.27%) C
11 2 (1.27%) Go
12 1 (0.64%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.64%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.64%) Swift
12 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (12.74%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.19%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.64%) AWS Certification
5 12 (7.64%) Degree
6 10 (6.37%) CISSP
7 4 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.91%) CISM
8 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.27%) CCSP
9 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.64%) HND
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.02%) GDPR
2 17 (10.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (8.92%) HIPAA
4 11 (7.01%) NIST
5 9 (5.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (4.46%) SOC 2
7 6 (3.82%) PSD2
7 6 (3.82%) QA
8 5 (3.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (3.18%) WCAG
9 4 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (2.55%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.91%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.27%) SLA
12 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 75 (47.77%) Active Directory
2 29 (18.47%) Docker
3 8 (5.10%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.27%) OpenAM
5 2 (1.27%) OpenDJ
5 2 (1.27%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 74 (47.13%) Single Sign-On
2 32 (20.38%) Terraform
3 29 (18.47%) Kubernetes
4 19 (12.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (7.01%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (6.37%) CA Wily
6 10 (6.37%) Grafana
7 9 (5.73%) Ansible
7 9 (5.73%) PingFederate
7 9 (5.73%) Progress Chef
8 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (5.10%) Tivoli
8 8 (5.10%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 5 (3.18%) Kibana
10 3 (1.91%) Argo
10 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.91%) SCCM
11 2 (1.27%) Puppet
12 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.64%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 80 (50.96%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.92%) Ping Identity
3 20 (12.74%) IBM
4 16 (10.19%) ForgeRock
5 15 (9.55%) Oracle
5 15 (9.55%) Splunk
6 13 (8.28%) Okta
7 11 (7.01%) AppDynamics
7 11 (7.01%) Broadcom
8 10 (6.37%) CyberArk
9 9 (5.73%) VMware
10 8 (5.10%) Alibaba
11 6 (3.82%) Google
12 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
14 2 (1.27%) Intel
14 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
14 2 (1.27%) Optimizely
14 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
14 2 (1.27%) Xamarin