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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 395 446
Rank change year-on-year -6 +51 +41
Contract jobs citing OpenID 236 130 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.41% 1.89% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 96 54
10th Percentile £413 £363 £425
25th Percentile £491 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £475 £581
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -18.28% -3.13%
75th Percentile £638 £601 £622
90th Percentile £751 £676 £643
UK median daily rate £555 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +11.00% -15.61% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.46 - -
75th Percentile £86.62 - -
90th Percentile £87.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.46 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +40.83% - -

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 9,812 6,893 8,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 25.01% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,452 4,717 5,562
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 164 178
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £27.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.40 £71.40 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.80
% change year-on-year +27.62% -15.05% +3.00%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -43 99 £569 -1.09% 125
South East -24 50 £513 -4.65% 22
North of England -45 47 £620 +43.19% 11
Yorkshire -22 30 £623 +52.76% 10
Midlands -55 16 £464 +12.39% 13
North West -51 14 £694 +54.80% 1
West Midlands -35 13 £543 -10.03% 9
South West -46 10 £575 +28.64% 13
East of England - 9 £553 - 8
North East - 4 £494 -
East Midlands -27 3 £402 -1.95% 4
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 13 (5.51%) Confluence
2 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.85%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 143 (60.59%) Azure
2 100 (42.37%) Entra ID
3 99 (41.95%) AWS
4 57 (24.15%) GCP
5 29 (12.29%) Serverless
6 25 (10.59%) SaaS
7 19 (8.05%) GitHub
8 16 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.51%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (5.08%) Azure App Service
12 11 (4.66%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.66%) Azure API Management
13 10 (4.24%) Amazon S3
14 9 (3.81%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.97%) Azure Event Grid
16 6 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.78%) DNS
2 14 (5.93%) Kerberos
3 13 (5.51%) Firewall
4 9 (3.81%) SSL
5 5 (2.12%) Network Security
6 4 (1.69%) DHCP
6 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.27%) NGFW
8 2 (0.85%) HTTP
9 1 (0.42%) DMZ
9 1 (0.42%) Internet
9 1 (0.42%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.42%) SSH
9 1 (0.42%) VPN
9 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.08%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.66%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.12%) Data Vault
6 5 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.69%) Metadata
8 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.27%) MySQL
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.85%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.85%) Redis
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 30 (12.71%) Git
2 16 (6.78%) JIRA
3 14 (5.93%) GitLab
4 9 (3.81%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.54%) Maven
6 5 (2.12%) JUnit
7 4 (1.69%) JMeter
7 4 (1.69%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.27%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.27%) Fiddler
8 3 (1.27%) Mockito
8 3 (1.27%) Selenium
8 3 (1.27%) Storybook
9 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.85%) Gatling
9 2 (0.85%) git-flow
9 2 (0.85%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.85%) Postman
9 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.42%) Gradle
General
1 55 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.92%) Public Sector
3 46 (19.49%) Finance
4 17 (7.20%) Banking
4 17 (7.20%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.39%) Military
8 6 (2.54%) Retail
9 4 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Legal
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (24.15%) Architect
2 48 (20.34%) Developer
3 28 (11.86%) Lead
4 25 (10.59%) Technical Architect
5 22 (9.32%) Senior
6 15 (6.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (6.36%) IAM Specialist
6 15 (6.36%) Java Developer
7 13 (5.51%) Technical Leader
8 11 (4.66%) IAM Developer
9 10 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.81%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.39%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.97%) Lead Developer
13 6 (2.54%) GCP Developer
13 6 (2.54%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.54%) Product Owner
14 5 (2.12%) Azure Developer
14 5 (2.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 5 (2.12%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (88.14%) OAuth
2 135 (57.20%) SAML
3 124 (52.54%) OAuth2
4 58 (24.58%) LDAP
5 53 (22.46%) Terraform
6 45 (19.07%) REST
7 36 (15.25%) RESTful
8 31 (13.14%) SailPoint
9 26 (11.02%) .NET
10 25 (10.59%) React
11 20 (8.47%) JWT
12 17 (7.20%) Swagger
13 16 (6.78%) OpenAPI
14 15 (6.36%) CSS
14 15 (6.36%) HTML
14 15 (6.36%) JSON
14 15 (6.36%) Web Services
15 14 (5.93%) Kafka
15 14 (5.93%) Node.js
16 13 (5.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.42%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.44%) Onboarding
3 25 (10.59%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (9.32%) PKI
5 18 (7.63%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (3.39%) IoT
6 8 (3.39%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.12%) Clustering
8 5 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.12%) NHS
9 4 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) CMDB
10 3 (1.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.08%) Linux
2 11 (4.66%) Windows
3 4 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.27%) Android
4 3 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) CentOS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (37.71%) CI/CD
2 83 (35.17%) Identity Access Management
3 73 (30.93%) DevOps
4 58 (24.58%) Microservices
5 56 (23.73%) Agile
5 56 (23.73%) RBAC
6 46 (19.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (18.64%) Zero Trust
8 42 (17.80%) Technical Leadership
9 41 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (16.95%) Containerisation
11 39 (16.53%) Test Automation
12 38 (16.10%) Roadmaps
12 38 (16.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (15.25%) Event-Driven
14 34 (14.41%) Mentoring
15 31 (13.14%) Analytics
16 29 (12.29%) Runbook
16 29 (12.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 28 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 65 (27.54%) Python
2 57 (24.15%) Java
3 44 (18.64%) PowerShell
4 31 (13.14%) JavaScript
5 24 (10.17%) SQL
6 22 (9.32%) C#
7 19 (8.05%) Bicep
7 19 (8.05%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.54%) Bash
9 3 (1.27%) Go
9 3 (1.27%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.85%) Cypher
10 2 (0.85%) Groovy
10 2 (0.85%) PHP
10 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.42%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.42%) C++
11 1 (0.42%) Perl
11 1 (0.42%) Scala
11 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 66 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 55 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.44%) Degree
4 19 (8.05%) CISSP
5 15 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.08%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.66%) AWS Certification
8 10 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (3.81%) CISM
9 9 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (3.81%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.12%) CSPO
11 3 (1.27%) CEH
11 3 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.27%) MCSE
11 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.85%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (10.17%) GDPR
2 24 (10.17%) NIST
3 14 (5.93%) QA
4 12 (5.08%) Accessibility
5 10 (4.24%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.54%) NCSC
6 6 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.12%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.12%) WCAG
8 2 (0.85%) HL7
8 2 (0.85%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.85%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.85%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.42%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 81 (34.32%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.41%) Docker
3 3 (1.27%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.42%) Squid
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 50 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 11 (4.66%) Grafana
5 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.97%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.12%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.69%) Ansible
8 4 (1.69%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (1.27%) Istio
9 3 (1.27%) Kibana
10 2 (0.85%) Argo
10 2 (0.85%) Consul
10 2 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.85%) Packer
10 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.42%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 95 (40.25%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.75%) Okta
3 15 (6.36%) CyberArk
4 14 (5.93%) Google
4 14 (5.93%) Ping Identity
5 13 (5.51%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.39%) ForgeRock
7 7 (2.97%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.54%) SAP
9 5 (2.12%) Denodo
9 5 (2.12%) Workday
10 4 (1.69%) Oracle
11 3 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.27%) Cisco
11 3 (1.27%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.27%) Splunk
12 2 (0.85%) IBM
12 2 (0.85%) Thycotic
12 2 (0.85%) VMware