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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 387 437
Rank change year-on-year +7 +50 +106
Contract jobs citing OpenID 209 95 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.64% 1.73% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 68 81
10th Percentile £402 £422 £432
25th Percentile £479 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -4.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £706 £658 £650
90th Percentile £850 £700 £788
UK median daily rate £563 £568 £620
% change year-on-year -0.97% -8.39% +7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 7,918 5,504 7,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.93% 22.38% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,289 3,811 5,349
10th Percentile £358 £368 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -3.08%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 97 197
10th Percentile £33.75 £29.78 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.13 £52.50 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £82.44 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 24 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 24 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 -24 102 £563 -10.71% 14
North of England -19 62 £563 +10.62% 4
Yorkshire -18 38 £551 +17.54% 3
North West -24 22 £600 +14.29% 1
South East -39 21 £556 -3.26% 7
South West -30 12 £641 +43.46% 3
Midlands -52 8 £438 -23.91% 1
West Midlands -54 4 £350 -41.96%
East of England - 4 £425 - 1
East Midlands -33 3 £438 -6.22% 1
North East - 3 £469 -
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 (6.70%) Confluence
2 9 (4.31%) nginx
3 5 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (53.11%) Azure
2 99 (47.37%) AWS
3 74 (35.41%) Entra ID
4 51 (24.40%) GCP
5 41 (19.62%) Serverless
6 26 (12.44%) SaaS
7 24 (11.48%) Amazon S3
8 18 (8.61%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (7.66%) GitHub
9 16 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (7.66%) OpenShift
10 15 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (6.22%) PaaS
11 13 (6.22%) Route 53
12 12 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (5.26%) Azure API Management
14 10 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.78%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.44%) Firewall
2 25 (11.96%) DNS
3 14 (6.70%) SSL
4 13 (6.22%) Kerberos
5 11 (5.26%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.31%) OpenVPN
6 9 (4.31%) VPN
7 5 (2.39%) IPsec
7 5 (2.39%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.91%) DHCP
8 4 (1.91%) Network Security
9 2 (0.96%) HTTP
10 1 (0.48%) Extranet
10 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.48%) Internet
10 1 (0.48%) NGFW
10 1 (0.48%) SMS
10 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (4.78%) Redis
1 10 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.31%) MySQL
3 8 (3.83%) DynamoDB
3 8 (3.83%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.39%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.91%) DocumentDB
5 4 (1.91%) Metadata
5 4 (1.91%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.96%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.48%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 41 (19.62%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.88%) JIRA
3 23 (11.00%) GitLab
4 13 (6.22%) Selenium
5 12 (5.74%) Postman
5 12 (5.74%) REST Assured
6 11 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.35%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.35%) Gatling
7 7 (3.35%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.39%) JMeter
8 5 (2.39%) TestRail
9 4 (1.91%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.91%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.44%) Git
11 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.96%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.96%) git-flow
11 2 (0.96%) JUnit
11 2 (0.96%) Maven
General
1 71 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 52 (24.88%) Finance
3 34 (16.27%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (10.05%) Banking
4 21 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.18%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.87%) Retail
8 3 (1.44%) Games
8 3 (1.44%) Legal
8 3 (1.44%) Military
9 2 (0.96%) Billing
9 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (38.76%) Architect
2 25 (11.96%) Senior
3 21 (10.05%) Lead
4 20 (9.57%) Developer
5 19 (9.09%) Technical Architect
6 13 (6.22%) CyberArk Architect
7 11 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.78%) AWS Architect
8 10 (4.78%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.78%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (4.31%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.31%) Test Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Lead Architect
12 6 (2.87%) Analyst
12 6 (2.87%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 6 (2.87%) Senior Architect
13 5 (2.39%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (73.68%) OAuth
2 133 (63.64%) SAML
3 102 (48.80%) OAuth2
4 71 (33.97%) LDAP
5 45 (21.53%) REST
6 37 (17.70%) SailPoint
7 20 (9.57%) Kafka
8 18 (8.61%) RESTful
9 15 (7.18%) .NET
9 15 (7.18%) JWT
9 15 (7.18%) Node.js
10 12 (5.74%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (5.74%) Spring
10 12 (5.74%) Spring Boot
11 11 (5.26%) Web Services
12 10 (4.78%) Playwright
13 9 (4.31%) JSON
14 8 (3.83%) .NET Core
14 8 (3.83%) React
15 7 (3.35%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 48 (22.97%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.88%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.70%) PKI
4 11 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (2.39%) IoT
6 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.39%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.91%) Clustering
7 4 (1.91%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.91%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.18%) Windows
2 9 (4.31%) Linux
3 8 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (41.15%) CI/CD
1 86 (41.15%) DevOps
2 58 (27.75%) Identity Access Management
3 55 (26.32%) RBAC
4 45 (21.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (18.18%) Secrets Management
7 36 (17.22%) Cybersecurity
8 35 (16.75%) Microservices
9 34 (16.27%) Observability
10 33 (15.79%) Agile
10 33 (15.79%) Test Automation
11 31 (14.83%) Design Patterns
11 31 (14.83%) Roadmaps
11 31 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (14.83%) Zero Trust
12 30 (14.35%) Event-Driven
13 28 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (12.92%) Containerisation
15 26 (12.44%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 57 (27.27%) Java
2 44 (21.05%) Python
3 40 (19.14%) SQL
4 30 (14.35%) PowerShell
5 21 (10.05%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.66%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.26%) C#
8 10 (4.78%) PHP
9 9 (4.31%) Go
10 6 (2.87%) Bicep
11 5 (2.39%) Bash
11 5 (2.39%) Scala
12 4 (1.91%) Cypher
12 4 (1.91%) Groovy
12 4 (1.91%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (31.10%) Security Cleared
2 47 (22.49%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.18%) CISSP
3 15 (7.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (6.70%) Degree
5 9 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.35%) CISM
7 5 (2.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.44%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.44%) GIAC
10 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) MCSE
11 1 (0.48%) OCP
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (16.75%) NIST
3 18 (8.61%) GDPR
4 16 (7.66%) QA
5 15 (7.18%) NCSC
6 10 (4.78%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.35%) HIPAA
7 7 (3.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (2.39%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.39%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.44%) GRC
9 3 (1.44%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.44%) SEPA
9 3 (1.44%) WCAG
10 2 (0.96%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.96%) PSD2
11 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 26 (12.44%) Docker
3 10 (4.78%) Squid
4 5 (2.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.39%) RACF
5 2 (0.96%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.96%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.96%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (26.32%) Single Sign-On
2 54 (25.84%) Kubernetes
3 50 (23.92%) Terraform
4 20 (9.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (9.57%) Grafana
5 19 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.31%) FortiGate
7 8 (3.83%) Consul
8 5 (2.39%) Ansible
8 5 (2.39%) Argo
9 4 (1.91%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.91%) Istio
9 4 (1.91%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.91%) linkerd
9 4 (1.91%) PingFederate
10 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.48%) Oracle Identity Manager
12 1 (0.48%) Packer
12 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (33.49%) Microsoft
2 30 (14.35%) CyberArk
2 30 (14.35%) ServiceNow
3 20 (9.57%) Splunk
4 15 (7.18%) Google
5 12 (5.74%) Dynatrace
5 12 (5.74%) Okta
6 9 (4.31%) Ping Identity
6 9 (4.31%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.35%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.87%) ForgeRock
9 5 (2.39%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (2.39%) Denodo
9 5 (2.39%) SAP
9 5 (2.39%) Workday
10 4 (1.91%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.91%) VMware
11 3 (1.44%) Oracle
12 2 (0.96%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.96%) Thycotic