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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 381 417
Rank change year-on-year -4 +36 +132
Contract jobs citing OpenID 194 83 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.46% 1.52% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 60 87
10th Percentile £425 £409 £437
25th Percentile £481 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% -1.75% -
75th Percentile £688 £663 £700
90th Percentile £825 £712 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £635
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.51% +5.83%

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 7,884 5,476 7,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.93% 22.60% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,272 3,775 5,394
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.92% -5.65%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 88 173
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.38 £20.78
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £48.72
% change year-on-year +2.77% +29.82% -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 27 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 27 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 -28 89 £585 -7.69% 18
North of England -31 48 £533 +1.43% 7
Yorkshire -28 31 £525 +11.94% 5
South West +1 25 £570 +2.47% 2
North West -23 16 £550 +4.76% 2
Midlands -53 14 £475 -17.39% 1
South East -54 14 £615 +6.96% 10
West Midlands - 10 £513 - 1
East of England - 4 £425 - 2
East Midlands -29 3 £438 -23.91%
North East - 2 £525 -
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 10 (5.15%) Confluence
2 9 (4.64%) nginx
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 93 (47.94%) Azure
2 89 (45.88%) AWS
3 54 (27.84%) Entra ID
4 40 (20.62%) GCP
5 34 (17.53%) Serverless
6 21 (10.82%) Amazon S3
7 20 (10.31%) SaaS
8 18 (9.28%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (8.25%) GitHub
9 16 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.25%) OpenShift
10 15 (7.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (7.22%) PaaS
12 13 (6.70%) Route 53
13 11 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (5.15%) Azure API Management
15 9 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.64%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.95%) DNS
2 28 (14.43%) Firewall
3 10 (5.15%) Kerberos
4 9 (4.64%) OpenVPN
4 9 (4.64%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.64%) VPN
5 8 (4.12%) SSL
6 5 (2.58%) IPsec
6 5 (2.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.55%) Network Security
8 2 (1.03%) Internet
9 1 (0.52%) Extranet
9 1 (0.52%) HTTP
9 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.52%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.15%) Redis
3 9 (4.64%) MySQL
3 9 (4.64%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.12%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.06%) DocumentDB
5 4 (2.06%) Neo4j
5 4 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.55%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.03%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.03%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 41 (21.13%) Jenkins
2 26 (13.40%) GitLab
2 26 (13.40%) JIRA
3 18 (9.28%) Selenium
4 16 (8.25%) Cucumber
5 12 (6.19%) Postman
5 12 (6.19%) REST Assured
6 9 (4.64%) Git
7 8 (4.12%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.12%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.61%) Gatling
8 7 (3.61%) JUnit
9 6 (3.09%) Maven
10 5 (2.58%) JMeter
10 5 (2.58%) Mockito
10 5 (2.58%) TestRail
11 4 (2.06%) LoadRunner
11 4 (2.06%) NeoLoad
12 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
12 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
General
1 74 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.59%) Finance
3 32 (16.49%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (9.79%) Banking
5 14 (7.22%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.58%) Aviation
8 3 (1.55%) Games
8 3 (1.55%) Legal
8 3 (1.55%) Military
8 3 (1.55%) Retail
9 2 (1.03%) Billing
9 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (40.21%) Architect
2 26 (13.40%) Senior
3 23 (11.86%) Developer
4 19 (9.79%) Lead
5 18 (9.28%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (7.22%) Technical Architect
7 13 (6.70%) CyberArk Architect
8 10 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.64%) AWS Architect
9 9 (4.64%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.64%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.61%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 6 (3.09%) Senior Architect
13 5 (2.58%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.58%) Test Architect
13 5 (2.58%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (72.16%) OAuth
2 122 (62.89%) SAML
3 100 (51.55%) OAuth2
4 57 (29.38%) LDAP
5 43 (22.16%) REST
6 28 (14.43%) SailPoint
7 22 (11.34%) RESTful
8 18 (9.28%) .NET
9 16 (8.25%) Kafka
9 16 (8.25%) Spring
9 16 (8.25%) Spring Boot
10 15 (7.73%) Playwright
11 14 (7.22%) React
12 12 (6.19%) JSON
13 11 (5.67%) HTML
13 11 (5.67%) JWT
14 10 (5.15%) JPA
14 10 (5.15%) Node.js
14 10 (5.15%) OpenTelemetry
15 9 (4.64%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 30 (15.46%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.15%) Private Cloud
5 9 (4.64%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.64%) PKI
6 6 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.09%) Replication
7 5 (2.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.58%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.03%) BYOD
10 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.03%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.82%) Windows
2 17 (8.76%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.61%) Linux
4 2 (1.03%) Android
4 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (42.27%) CI/CD
2 80 (41.24%) DevOps
3 54 (27.84%) Identity Access Management
4 51 (26.29%) RBAC
5 40 (20.62%) Agile
5 40 (20.62%) Microservices
5 40 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (18.04%) Secrets Management
9 33 (17.01%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (17.01%) Test Automation
10 32 (16.49%) Observability
11 29 (14.95%) Design Patterns
12 28 (14.43%) Event-Driven
12 28 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 27 (13.92%) Roadmaps
14 25 (12.89%) Architectural Patterns
14 25 (12.89%) Identity Management
15 23 (11.86%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.74%) Java
2 34 (17.53%) Python
2 34 (17.53%) SQL
3 30 (15.46%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.25%) TypeScript
5 15 (7.73%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.19%) C#
7 9 (4.64%) PHP
8 8 (4.12%) Go
9 5 (2.58%) Bicep
9 5 (2.58%) Scala
10 4 (2.06%) Bash
10 4 (2.06%) Cypher
10 4 (2.06%) Groovy
10 4 (2.06%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.03%) Swift
12 1 (0.52%) C
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (37.63%) Security Cleared
2 47 (24.23%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (10.31%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.64%) CISSP
5 9 (4.64%) Degree
6 4 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.55%) GIAC
8 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.03%) CISM
8 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) HND
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) OCP
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (15.98%) NIST
3 19 (9.79%) GDPR
4 16 (8.25%) QA
5 15 (7.73%) NCSC
6 9 (4.64%) PCI DSS
7 8 (4.12%) WCAG
8 7 (3.61%) SOC 2
9 6 (3.09%) HIPAA
9 6 (3.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (2.06%) PSD2
11 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
11 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.55%) GRC
11 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
12 2 (1.03%) ISO 8583
12 2 (1.03%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (25.77%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.37%) Docker
3 10 (5.15%) Squid
4 5 (2.58%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.58%) RACF
5 4 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.03%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.03%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.03%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (34.02%) Single Sign-On
2 54 (27.84%) Kubernetes
3 43 (22.16%) Terraform
4 27 (13.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 24 (12.37%) Grafana
6 18 (9.28%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.64%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.61%) Consul
9 6 (3.09%) Argo
10 5 (2.58%) Ansible
10 5 (2.58%) Kibana
11 4 (2.06%) PingFederate
12 3 (1.55%) Istio
12 3 (1.55%) Kustomize
12 3 (1.55%) linkerd
13 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.52%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 67 (34.54%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.40%) CyberArk
3 23 (11.86%) ServiceNow
4 19 (9.79%) Splunk
5 14 (7.22%) Google
6 12 (6.19%) Ping Identity
7 11 (5.67%) Dynatrace
8 10 (5.15%) Okta
8 10 (5.15%) VMware
9 9 (4.64%) ForgeRock
9 9 (4.64%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.61%) Atlassian
11 5 (2.58%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (2.58%) Oracle
12 4 (2.06%) MuleSoft
13 2 (1.03%) NetIQ
13 2 (1.03%) Optimizely
13 2 (1.03%) SAP
13 2 (1.03%) Thycotic
13 2 (1.03%) Workday