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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 383 446
Rank change year-on-year -2 +63 +78
Contract jobs citing OpenID 231 114 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.45% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 1.99% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 81 64
10th Percentile £403 £403 £425
25th Percentile £500 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £733 £630 £638
90th Percentile £850 £678 £700
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +2.27% -10.20% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £67.19 - -
Median hourly rate £82.46 - -
75th Percentile £87.16 - -
90th Percentile £87.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +54.55% - -

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 8,316 5,724 7,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.48% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,478 3,950 5,529
10th Percentile £363 £357 £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 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 121 266
10th Percentile £30.40 £30.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%
75th Percentile £74.63 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.89 £81.01 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -5 113 £556 -11.35% 27
North of England -32 56 £588 +23.68% 8
South East -28 38 £750 +30.43% 11
Yorkshire -27 34 £598 +46.09% 2
North West -28 20 £631 +24.09% 5
Midlands -61 10 £438 +5.42%
South West -37 8 £550 +23.04% 5
East Midlands -21 5 £438 +5.42%
West Midlands -55 4 £350 -41.96%
North East - 3 £469 - 1
East of England - 2 £555 -
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 (6.93%) Confluence
2 9 (3.90%) nginx
3 5 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.73%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 126 (54.55%) Azure
2 106 (45.89%) AWS
3 88 (38.10%) Entra ID
4 52 (22.51%) GCP
5 43 (18.61%) Serverless
6 24 (10.39%) Amazon S3
7 21 (9.09%) SaaS
8 18 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (7.36%) GitHub
9 17 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (6.93%) OpenShift
10 16 (6.93%) Route 53
10 16 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (5.63%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.33%) Azure API Management
15 9 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.26%) DNS
2 20 (8.66%) Firewall
3 16 (6.93%) Kerberos
4 11 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.33%) SSL
6 9 (3.90%) OpenVPN
6 9 (3.90%) VPN
7 6 (2.60%) Network Security
8 5 (2.16%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.73%) DHCP
9 4 (1.73%) IPsec
10 2 (0.87%) HTTP
10 2 (0.87%) NGFW
11 1 (0.43%) SSH
11 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.33%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (3.46%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.60%) Redis
7 5 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.16%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.16%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.73%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.73%) Metadata
8 4 (1.73%) MySQL
9 3 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (12.55%) Jenkins
2 27 (11.69%) JIRA
3 16 (6.93%) GitLab
4 11 (4.76%) Git
5 7 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.03%) JMeter
5 7 (3.03%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.60%) Gatling
6 6 (2.60%) Postman
7 5 (2.16%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.73%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.73%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.73%) Selenium
9 3 (1.30%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.30%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.30%) git-flow
10 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.43%) Maven
11 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.81%) Finance
3 31 (13.42%) Documentation Skills
3 31 (13.42%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.96%) Banking
5 14 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (3.46%) Retail
8 7 (3.03%) Military
9 4 (1.73%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (36.36%) Architect
2 29 (12.55%) Developer
3 26 (11.26%) Technical Architect
4 24 (10.39%) Senior
5 22 (9.52%) Lead
6 14 (6.06%) AWS Architect
7 12 (5.19%) CyberArk Architect
8 11 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (4.76%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (3.90%) Security Architect
10 8 (3.46%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.03%) IAM Developer
11 7 (3.03%) Lead Architect
12 6 (2.60%) Analyst
12 6 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (2.60%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.16%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (79.22%) OAuth
2 142 (61.47%) SAML
3 119 (51.52%) OAuth2
4 80 (34.63%) LDAP
5 44 (19.05%) REST
6 36 (15.58%) SailPoint
7 30 (12.99%) RESTful
8 21 (9.09%) Kafka
9 19 (8.23%) JWT
10 18 (7.79%) .NET
10 18 (7.79%) Node.js
11 17 (7.36%) Web Services
12 14 (6.06%) Spring
12 14 (6.06%) Spring Boot
13 13 (5.63%) JSON
13 13 (5.63%) OpenTelemetry
13 13 (5.63%) React
14 11 (4.76%) Playwright
14 11 (4.76%) SOAP
15 7 (3.03%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 66 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 38 (16.45%) Onboarding
3 19 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.36%) PKI
5 16 (6.93%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.33%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (3.03%) IoT
9 7 (3.03%) Mobile App
9 7 (3.03%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.16%) Clustering
10 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.30%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.30%) Replication
13 2 (0.87%) CMDB
13 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.33%) Linux
1 10 (4.33%) Windows
2 5 (2.16%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.73%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.30%) Android
5 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.87%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (43.29%) CI/CD
2 97 (41.99%) DevOps
3 61 (26.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (24.68%) Identity Access Management
5 56 (24.24%) RBAC
6 53 (22.94%) Microservices
7 48 (20.78%) Agile
8 43 (18.61%) Cybersecurity
8 43 (18.61%) Event-Driven
8 43 (18.61%) Roadmaps
9 40 (17.32%) Containerisation
10 39 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (16.88%) Zero Trust
11 35 (15.15%) Secrets Management
12 33 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (13.85%) Observability
14 30 (12.99%) Architectural Patterns
14 30 (12.99%) Design Patterns
14 30 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (12.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (25.11%) Java
2 47 (20.35%) Python
3 33 (14.29%) SQL
4 31 (13.42%) PowerShell
5 24 (10.39%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.93%) Bicep
7 15 (6.49%) C#
8 13 (5.63%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.46%) Go
10 5 (2.16%) Cypher
10 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.16%) Scala
11 4 (1.73%) Bash
12 2 (0.87%) Groovy
12 2 (0.87%) PHP
12 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 75 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 64 (27.71%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.52%) CISSP
4 21 (9.09%) Degree
5 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.76%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.33%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.90%) CISM
9 7 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.16%) CSPO
10 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.73%) GIAC
12 3 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.87%) CEH
13 2 (0.87%) MCSE
14 1 (0.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (15.58%) NIST
3 22 (9.52%) GDPR
4 19 (8.23%) NCSC
5 16 (6.93%) QA
6 10 (4.33%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.03%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (2.60%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.73%) GRC
10 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.30%) WCAG
11 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.87%) SEPA
12 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 64 (27.71%) Active Directory
2 37 (16.02%) Docker
3 9 (3.90%) Squid
4 5 (2.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (1.73%) RACF
6 3 (1.30%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 63 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
1 63 (27.27%) Terraform
2 23 (9.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 18 (7.79%) Grafana
4 17 (7.36%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.90%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.46%) Consul
7 5 (2.16%) Ansible
7 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.73%) Argo
8 4 (1.73%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.73%) Istio
8 4 (1.73%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.73%) linkerd
8 4 (1.73%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.43%) Packer
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (34.20%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.26%) CyberArk
3 24 (10.39%) Okta
3 24 (10.39%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.79%) Splunk
5 16 (6.93%) Google
5 16 (6.93%) Ping Identity
6 12 (5.19%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.33%) ForgeRock
8 9 (3.90%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.03%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.60%) MuleSoft
10 6 (2.60%) SAP
11 5 (2.16%) Denodo
11 5 (2.16%) Workday
12 3 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (1.30%) Oracle
13 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.87%) Thycotic
13 2 (0.87%) VMware