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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 387 432
Rank change year-on-year 0 +45 +73
Contract jobs citing OpenID 219 108 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% 1.94% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 75 69
10th Percentile £403 £404 £425
25th Percentile £500 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £736 £608 £638
90th Percentile £850 £674 £718
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +2.27% -10.20% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £61.88 - -
Median hourly rate £79.91 - -
75th Percentile £86.08 - -
90th Percentile £87.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £82.46 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +49.92% - -

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 8,187 5,568 7,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.11% 22.55% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,405 3,861 5,474
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.14% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 110 257
10th Percentile £30.40 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -14 107 £550 -12.35% 25
North of England -40 56 £588 +19.41% 6
Yorkshire -28 35 £620 +41.23% 3
South East -30 34 £750 +30.43% 12
North West -31 19 £600 +14.29% 3
Midlands -56 10 £438 +4.17%
South West -30 8 £550 +23.04% 3
East Midlands -27 5 £438 +6.71%
West Midlands -58 4 £350 -41.96%
North East - 3 £469 -
East of England - 2 £555 - 2
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 (7.31%) Confluence
2 9 (4.11%) nginx
3 5 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 118 (53.88%) Azure
2 106 (48.40%) AWS
3 81 (36.99%) Entra ID
4 50 (22.83%) GCP
5 42 (19.18%) Serverless
6 24 (10.96%) Amazon S3
7 22 (10.05%) SaaS
8 19 (8.68%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (7.76%) GitHub
9 17 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (7.76%) OpenShift
9 17 (7.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (7.31%) Route 53
11 15 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (5.94%) Azure AKS
13 11 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.11%) Azure API Management
15 9 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.96%) DNS
2 20 (9.13%) Firewall
3 16 (7.31%) Kerberos
4 12 (5.48%) SSL
5 11 (5.02%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.11%) OpenVPN
6 9 (4.11%) VPN
7 6 (2.74%) Network Security
8 5 (2.28%) IPsec
8 5 (2.28%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.83%) DHCP
10 2 (0.91%) HTTP
10 2 (0.91%) NGFW
11 1 (0.46%) SSH
11 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.02%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.65%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.20%) Redis
4 7 (3.20%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.28%) Data Vault
5 5 (2.28%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.28%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.28%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.83%) DocumentDB
6 4 (1.83%) Metadata
6 4 (1.83%) MySQL
6 4 (1.83%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.37%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.91%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 30 (13.70%) Jenkins
2 25 (11.42%) JIRA
3 18 (8.22%) GitLab
4 9 (4.11%) Git
5 7 (3.20%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.20%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.74%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.74%) Gatling
6 6 (2.74%) JMeter
6 6 (2.74%) REST Assured
6 6 (2.74%) Selenium
7 5 (2.28%) Postman
8 4 (1.83%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.83%) NeoLoad
9 3 (1.37%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.37%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.37%) git-flow
10 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.46%) JUnit
11 1 (0.46%) Maven
General
1 63 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 56 (25.57%) Finance
3 31 (14.16%) Documentation Skills
4 30 (13.70%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.59%) Banking
6 13 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.94%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.20%) Retail
8 5 (2.28%) Military
9 4 (1.83%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (38.36%) Architect
2 27 (12.33%) Technical Architect
3 25 (11.42%) Developer
4 24 (10.96%) Senior
5 22 (10.05%) Lead
6 14 (6.39%) AWS Architect
7 12 (5.48%) CyberArk Architect
8 11 (5.02%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (5.02%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (4.11%) Java Developer
9 9 (4.11%) Security Architect
10 8 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.20%) Lead Architect
12 6 (2.74%) Analyst
12 6 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.74%) IAM Developer
12 6 (2.74%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.28%) Consultant
13 5 (2.28%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (79.91%) OAuth
2 136 (62.10%) SAML
3 115 (52.51%) OAuth2
4 76 (34.70%) LDAP
5 41 (18.72%) REST
6 37 (16.89%) SailPoint
7 26 (11.87%) RESTful
8 21 (9.59%) Kafka
9 18 (8.22%) JWT
9 18 (8.22%) Web Services
10 17 (7.76%) .NET
11 15 (6.85%) Node.js
11 15 (6.85%) Spring
11 15 (6.85%) Spring Boot
12 14 (6.39%) OpenTelemetry
13 13 (5.94%) JSON
14 10 (4.57%) Playwright
14 10 (4.57%) React
15 9 (4.11%) SOAP
16 7 (3.20%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 60 (27.40%) Cloud Native
2 37 (16.89%) Onboarding
3 19 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.39%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.94%) PKI
6 9 (4.11%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.20%) IoT
7 7 (3.20%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.28%) Clustering
8 5 (2.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.28%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.37%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.37%) Replication
11 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.91%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.02%) Linux
2 10 (4.57%) Windows
3 5 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.37%) Android
6 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.91%) Unix
7 1 (0.46%) CentOS
7 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (44.29%) CI/CD
2 91 (41.55%) DevOps
3 56 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (25.57%) RBAC
4 54 (24.66%) Identity Access Management
5 52 (23.74%) Microservices
6 46 (21.00%) Agile
7 39 (17.81%) Containerisation
7 39 (17.81%) Cybersecurity
7 39 (17.81%) Event-Driven
7 39 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (17.35%) Roadmaps
9 36 (16.44%) Secrets Management
10 34 (15.53%) Zero Trust
11 33 (15.07%) Observability
11 33 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (14.16%) Architectural Patterns
12 31 (14.16%) Design Patterns
13 28 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (12.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.57%) Java
2 43 (19.63%) Python
3 37 (16.89%) SQL
4 31 (14.16%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.59%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.39%) Bicep
6 14 (6.39%) C#
7 11 (5.02%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.65%) Go
9 5 (2.28%) Bash
9 5 (2.28%) Scala
10 4 (1.83%) Cypher
10 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.91%) Groovy
11 2 (0.91%) PHP
11 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 71 (32.42%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.40%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.13%) CISSP
4 16 (7.31%) Degree
5 12 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.02%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.11%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.11%) CISM
8 5 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.83%) CSPO
10 3 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.37%) GIAC
11 2 (0.91%) CEH
11 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.91%) MCSE
12 1 (0.46%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (16.44%) NIST
3 21 (9.59%) GDPR
4 19 (8.68%) NCSC
5 15 (6.85%) QA
6 10 (4.57%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.20%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (2.74%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.83%) GRC
10 3 (1.37%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.37%) ISO 20022
10 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.37%) SEPA
10 3 (1.37%) WCAG
11 2 (0.91%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.91%) PSD2
12 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 61 (27.85%) Active Directory
2 37 (16.89%) Docker
3 10 (4.57%) Squid
4 5 (2.28%) RACF
5 4 (1.83%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (28.77%) Kubernetes
2 61 (27.85%) Single Sign-On
3 58 (26.48%) Terraform
4 19 (8.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (8.68%) Grafana
4 19 (8.68%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.11%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.65%) Consul
7 6 (2.74%) Ansible
8 5 (2.28%) Argo
8 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.83%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.83%) Istio
9 4 (1.83%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.83%) linkerd
9 4 (1.83%) PingFederate
10 3 (1.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.46%) Packer
11 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 73 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.87%) CyberArk
2 26 (11.87%) ServiceNow
3 21 (9.59%) Okta
4 18 (8.22%) Splunk
5 15 (6.85%) Ping Identity
6 14 (6.39%) Google
7 12 (5.48%) Dynatrace
8 9 (4.11%) ForgeRock
8 9 (4.11%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.20%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.74%) MuleSoft
10 6 (2.74%) SAP
11 5 (2.28%) Denodo
11 5 (2.28%) Workday
12 3 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (1.37%) Oracle
13 2 (0.91%) Sparx
13 2 (0.91%) Thycotic
13 2 (0.91%) VMware