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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 370 433
Rank change year-on-year -16 +63 +84
Contract jobs citing OpenID 223 103 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.75% 1.87% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 71 72
10th Percentile £401 £405 £425
25th Percentile £481 £447 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £709 £634 £645
90th Percentile £868 £684 £784
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £616
% change year-on-year - -10.75% +7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £56.56 - -
Median hourly rate £77.46 - -
75th Percentile £84.34 - -
90th Percentile £86.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.91 - -

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 8,121 5,497 7,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.56% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,353 3,802 5,482
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £633 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 108 247
10th Percentile £31.62 £31.69 £22.65
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.11 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 8 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OpenID in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Hourly 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 8 June 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 -10 110 £550 -12.70% 31
North of England -26 64 £563 +10.62% 10
Yorkshire -18 43 £565 +20.52% 2
South East -40 28 £743 +29.13% 16
North West -31 19 £600 +14.29% 8
Midlands -54 10 £438 +4.17% 1
South West -30 8 £550 +23.04% 2
East Midlands -30 5 £438 +6.71% 1
West Midlands -55 4 £350 -41.96%
North East - 3 £469 -
East of England - 1 - - 3
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 16 (7.17%) Confluence
2 9 (4.04%) nginx
3 5 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 122 (54.71%) Azure
2 108 (48.43%) AWS
3 82 (36.77%) Entra ID
4 55 (24.66%) GCP
5 42 (18.83%) Serverless
6 27 (12.11%) SaaS
7 24 (10.76%) Amazon S3
8 18 (8.07%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (8.07%) OpenShift
9 17 (7.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (7.17%) GitHub
10 16 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (6.73%) Route 53
12 13 (5.83%) Azure AKS
13 10 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.04%) Azure API Management
14 9 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.76%) DNS
2 20 (8.97%) Firewall
3 16 (7.17%) Kerberos
4 12 (5.38%) SSL
5 11 (4.93%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.04%) OpenVPN
6 9 (4.04%) VPN
7 6 (2.69%) Network Security
8 5 (2.24%) IPsec
8 5 (2.24%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.79%) DHCP
10 2 (0.90%) HTTP
10 2 (0.90%) NGFW
11 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.45%) SMS
11 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.93%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.04%) MySQL
3 9 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.59%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.14%) Redis
6 5 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.24%) Data Vault
6 5 (2.24%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.24%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.79%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.79%) Metadata
7 4 (1.79%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.90%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 37 (16.59%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.90%) JIRA
3 23 (10.31%) GitLab
4 12 (5.38%) Selenium
5 11 (4.93%) Cucumber
5 11 (4.93%) Postman
5 11 (4.93%) REST Assured
6 8 (3.59%) Git
7 7 (3.14%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.14%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.69%) Gatling
8 6 (2.69%) JMeter
9 5 (2.24%) TestRail
10 4 (1.79%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.79%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (1.35%) Fiddler
11 3 (1.35%) git-flow
12 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.90%) Maven
General
1 64 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.66%) Finance
3 29 (13.00%) Documentation Skills
4 28 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 22 (9.87%) Banking
6 14 (6.28%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.14%) Retail
9 5 (2.24%) Military
10 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.90%) Legal
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (37.67%) Architect
2 25 (11.21%) Developer
2 25 (11.21%) Lead
2 25 (11.21%) Senior
3 24 (10.76%) Technical Architect
4 13 (5.83%) AWS Architect
4 13 (5.83%) CyberArk Architect
5 11 (4.93%) Cloud Architect
6 10 (4.48%) IAM Specialist
7 9 (4.04%) Security Architect
7 9 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (4.04%) Test Engineer
8 8 (3.59%) Java Developer
8 8 (3.59%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.14%) Lead Architect
10 6 (2.69%) Analyst
10 6 (2.69%) IAM Developer
10 6 (2.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (77.13%) OAuth
2 135 (60.54%) SAML
3 114 (51.12%) OAuth2
4 79 (35.43%) LDAP
5 46 (20.63%) REST
6 41 (18.39%) SailPoint
7 27 (12.11%) RESTful
8 21 (9.42%) .NET
8 21 (9.42%) Kafka
9 20 (8.97%) JWT
10 15 (6.73%) Node.js
10 15 (6.73%) Spring
10 15 (6.73%) Spring Boot
10 15 (6.73%) Web Services
11 14 (6.28%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (5.38%) JSON
13 11 (4.93%) React
14 10 (4.48%) Playwright
15 9 (4.04%) SOAP
16 7 (3.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (26.46%) Cloud Native
2 37 (16.59%) Onboarding
3 18 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.83%) PKI
6 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.14%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.24%) Clustering
8 5 (2.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.24%) IoT
8 5 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.35%) Replication
11 2 (0.90%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.48%) Linux
2 9 (4.04%) Windows
3 4 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.35%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (44.39%) CI/CD
2 95 (42.60%) DevOps
3 57 (25.56%) Identity Access Management
4 55 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (24.22%) RBAC
6 49 (21.97%) Microservices
7 48 (21.52%) Agile
8 39 (17.49%) Event-Driven
8 39 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (17.04%) Containerisation
9 38 (17.04%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (16.59%) Roadmaps
10 37 (16.59%) Secrets Management
11 34 (15.25%) Test Automation
12 33 (14.80%) Observability
12 33 (14.80%) Zero Trust
13 32 (14.35%) Architectural Patterns
13 32 (14.35%) Design Patterns
13 32 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (13.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 60 (26.91%) Java
2 44 (19.73%) Python
3 42 (18.83%) SQL
4 29 (13.00%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.42%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.17%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.28%) Bicep
7 14 (6.28%) C#
8 8 (3.59%) Go
9 7 (3.14%) PHP
10 5 (2.24%) Scala
11 4 (1.79%) Bash
11 4 (1.79%) Cypher
11 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.90%) Groovy
12 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (30.94%) Security Cleared
2 57 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.07%) CISSP
4 13 (5.83%) Degree
5 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.59%) CISM
7 7 (3.14%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.35%) CSPO
10 3 (1.35%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.35%) GIAC
11 2 (0.90%) CEH
11 2 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.90%) MCSE
12 1 (0.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (17.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (15.25%) NIST
3 20 (8.97%) GDPR
3 20 (8.97%) QA
4 18 (8.07%) NCSC
5 9 (4.04%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.14%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (2.24%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.79%) GRC
10 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.35%) ISO 20022
10 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.35%) SEPA
10 3 (1.35%) WCAG
11 2 (0.90%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.90%) PSD2
12 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (26.46%) Active Directory
2 36 (16.14%) Docker
3 10 (4.48%) Squid
4 5 (2.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.24%) RACF
5 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (28.25%) Kubernetes
1 63 (28.25%) Single Sign-On
2 56 (25.11%) Terraform
3 19 (8.52%) Grafana
3 19 (8.52%) Prometheus
4 18 (8.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (4.04%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.59%) Consul
7 5 (2.24%) Ansible
7 5 (2.24%) Argo
7 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.79%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.79%) Istio
8 4 (1.79%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.79%) linkerd
8 4 (1.79%) PingFederate
9 3 (1.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.45%) Packer
10 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 72 (32.29%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.90%) ServiceNow
3 28 (12.56%) CyberArk
4 20 (8.97%) Okta
5 18 (8.07%) Splunk
6 15 (6.73%) Google
7 14 (6.28%) Ping Identity
8 12 (5.38%) Dynatrace
9 9 (4.04%) Red Hat
10 8 (3.59%) ForgeRock
11 7 (3.14%) Atlassian
12 6 (2.69%) MuleSoft
12 6 (2.69%) SAP
13 5 (2.24%) Denodo
13 5 (2.24%) Workday
14 3 (1.35%) BeyondTrust
14 3 (1.35%) Oracle
15 2 (0.90%) NetIQ
15 2 (0.90%) Thycotic
15 2 (0.90%) VMware