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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 407 423
Rank change year-on-year +49 +16 +144
Contract jobs citing OpenID 213 71 120
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 1.25% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 52 86
10th Percentile £413 £409 £425
25th Percentile £463 £522 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £688 £652 £700
90th Percentile £757 £748 £815
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.69% +8.33%
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 £76.50 - -

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 7,707 5,673 7,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.65% 22.67% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,746 5,458
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 78 209
10th Percentile £35.10 £26.92 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £81.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +11 97 £550 -8.33% 23
North of England -22 45 £492 -6.29% 4
South West +16 34 £550 -1.12% 2
Yorkshire -33 29 £525 -12.50%
North West -27 16 £471 -10.29% 4
Midlands -42 14 £475 -17.39% 1
South East -34 13 £605 +5.22% 13
West Midlands - 10 £513 - 1
East of England - 8 £425 -
East Midlands -28 3 £438 -23.91%
North East -12 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 11 (5.16%) Confluence
2 8 (3.76%) nginx
3 6 (2.82%) Apache
4 5 (2.35%) IIS
4 5 (2.35%) iPlanet
4 5 (2.35%) JBoss
4 5 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.35%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.35%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 101 (47.42%) Azure
2 98 (46.01%) AWS
3 58 (27.23%) Entra ID
4 44 (20.66%) GCP
5 30 (14.08%) Serverless
6 24 (11.27%) SaaS
7 21 (9.86%) OpenShift
8 18 (8.45%) GitHub
8 18 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (8.45%) PaaS
9 17 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (7.98%) Amazon S3
10 16 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (6.10%) Route 53
13 12 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (3.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.62%) DNS
2 28 (13.15%) Firewall
3 20 (9.39%) Kerberos
4 10 (4.69%) SSL
4 10 (4.69%) VPN
5 9 (4.23%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.76%) OpenVPN
7 5 (2.35%) HTTPS
7 5 (2.35%) IPsec
7 5 (2.35%) Network Security
7 5 (2.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.41%) Internet
9 2 (0.94%) Extranet
9 2 (0.94%) HTTP
9 2 (0.94%) S/MIME
10 1 (0.47%) DHCP
10 1 (0.47%) SMS
10 1 (0.47%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.69%) Redis
3 9 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.23%) MySQL
4 8 (3.76%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.76%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.76%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.29%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.88%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.88%) Neo4j
7 4 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.41%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.41%) Metadata
8 3 (1.41%) Power BI
9 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.94%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 48 (22.54%) Jenkins
2 27 (12.68%) GitLab
2 27 (12.68%) JIRA
3 18 (8.45%) Selenium
4 16 (7.51%) Cucumber
5 14 (6.57%) Git
6 12 (5.63%) Postman
6 12 (5.63%) REST Assured
7 10 (4.69%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.76%) Bitbucket
9 7 (3.29%) Gatling
9 7 (3.29%) JUnit
9 7 (3.29%) Maven
10 6 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (2.35%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.35%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (2.35%) JMeter
11 5 (2.35%) Mockito
11 5 (2.35%) TestRail
12 4 (1.88%) LoadRunner
General
1 94 (44.13%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.72%) Finance
3 36 (16.90%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.39%) Banking
6 14 (6.57%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (6.10%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.16%) Aviation
9 5 (2.35%) Legal
10 4 (1.88%) Retail
11 3 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.41%) Games
11 3 (1.41%) Military
12 2 (0.94%) Billing
12 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Law
13 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 76 (35.68%) Architect
2 29 (13.62%) Senior
3 27 (12.68%) Developer
4 20 (9.39%) Lead
5 19 (8.92%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (6.10%) CyberArk Architect
6 13 (6.10%) Technical Architect
7 12 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (4.69%) Security Architect
10 9 (4.23%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.76%) Analyst
11 8 (3.76%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.76%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.76%) Test Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Consultant
12 7 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (71.83%) OAuth
2 145 (68.08%) SAML
3 108 (50.70%) OAuth2
4 67 (31.46%) LDAP
5 40 (18.78%) REST
6 25 (11.74%) RESTful
6 25 (11.74%) SailPoint
7 20 (9.39%) .NET
8 16 (7.51%) Spring
9 15 (7.04%) Playwright
9 15 (7.04%) React
9 15 (7.04%) Spring Boot
10 14 (6.57%) Kafka
11 11 (5.16%) HTML
11 11 (5.16%) JSON
12 10 (4.69%) JPA
12 10 (4.69%) Node.js
13 9 (4.23%) GraphQL
13 9 (4.23%) JWT
14 8 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.37%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.02%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.04%) PKI
4 14 (6.57%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.69%) Private Cloud
6 9 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.29%) Replication
8 5 (2.35%) BYOD
8 5 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.35%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.41%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.41%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.68%) Windows
2 20 (9.39%) Windows Server
3 12 (5.63%) Linux
4 5 (2.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.94%) Android
5 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.47%) CentOS
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (42.72%) CI/CD
2 88 (41.31%) DevOps
3 62 (29.11%) Identity Access Management
4 52 (24.41%) RBAC
5 47 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (18.78%) Agile
7 39 (18.31%) Microservices
8 38 (17.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (16.43%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (15.96%) Secrets Management
12 33 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 33 (15.49%) Test Automation
13 32 (15.02%) Design Patterns
14 31 (14.55%) Identity Management
15 30 (14.08%) Observability
16 29 (13.62%) Event-Driven
17 28 (13.15%) Migration
18 27 (12.68%) Roadmaps
19 25 (11.74%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.47%) Java
2 40 (18.78%) PowerShell
2 40 (18.78%) Python
3 30 (14.08%) SQL
4 22 (10.33%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.98%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.63%) C#
7 10 (4.69%) Groovy
8 9 (4.23%) Go
9 8 (3.76%) PHP
10 5 (2.35%) Bash
10 5 (2.35%) Bicep
10 5 (2.35%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.88%) Cypher
11 4 (1.88%) Scala
12 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.94%) Swift
14 1 (0.47%) C
14 1 (0.47%) C++
14 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 74 (34.74%) Security Cleared
2 46 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 26 (12.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (9.86%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.57%) CISSP
6 13 (6.10%) Degree
7 5 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.94%) CCSP
10 2 (0.94%) CISM
10 2 (0.94%) GIAC
10 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.47%) HND
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (18.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (14.08%) NIST
3 27 (12.68%) GDPR
4 19 (8.92%) QA
5 15 (7.04%) NCSC
6 11 (5.16%) PCI DSS
7 9 (4.23%) SOC 2
8 8 (3.76%) PSD2
8 8 (3.76%) WCAG
9 6 (2.82%) HIPAA
9 6 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.41%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.41%) GRC
11 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.94%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.94%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (28.64%) Active Directory
2 30 (14.08%) Docker
3 9 (4.23%) Squid
4 5 (2.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.35%) RACF
4 5 (2.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.94%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.94%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.94%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 81 (38.03%) Single Sign-On
2 53 (24.88%) Kubernetes
3 44 (20.66%) Terraform
4 26 (12.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (9.39%) Grafana
6 15 (7.04%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.23%) PingFederate
8 8 (3.76%) FortiGate
9 7 (3.29%) Consul
10 6 (2.82%) Argo
11 5 (2.35%) Ansible
11 5 (2.35%) CA Single Sign-On
11 5 (2.35%) CA Wily
11 5 (2.35%) Kibana
11 5 (2.35%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.35%) Tivoli
12 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.41%) SCCM
14 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.47%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 82 (38.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.74%) CyberArk
3 24 (11.27%) Splunk
4 21 (9.86%) Ping Identity
5 20 (9.39%) ServiceNow
6 17 (7.98%) ForgeRock
7 16 (7.51%) Google
8 11 (5.16%) Okta
8 11 (5.16%) VMware
9 10 (4.69%) Oracle
10 9 (4.23%) Dynatrace
10 9 (4.23%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.29%) Atlassian
12 6 (2.82%) AppDynamics
12 6 (2.82%) IBM
13 5 (2.35%) Broadcom
14 3 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
14 3 (1.41%) MuleSoft
15 2 (0.94%) Optimizely
15 2 (0.94%) Xamarin