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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 389 453
Rank change year-on-year -8 +64 +78
Contract jobs citing OpenID 230 113 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.43% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.75% 1.89% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 80 62
10th Percentile £403 £402 £425
25th Percentile £500 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £730 £632 £638
90th Percentile £850 £678 £700
UK median daily rate £563 £551 £613
% change year-on-year +2.09% -10.04% +3.38%
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 8,369 5,965 7,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.47% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,518 4,104 5,539
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £426 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 128 266
10th Percentile £30.25 £30.60 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.31 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -1.16% -10.31%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.30 £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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -19 109 £550 -12.35% 41
North of England -36 58 £600 +26.32% 8
South East -18 38 £750 +30.43% 14
Yorkshire -28 36 £600 +46.70% 3
North West -29 20 £631 +24.09% 4
Midlands -65 10 £438 +5.42% 3
South West -29 8 £550 +23.04% 6
East Midlands -27 5 £438 +5.42%
West Midlands -54 4 £350 -41.96% 3
North East - 4 £525 - 1
East of England - 3 £558 -
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 (6.96%) Confluence
2 9 (3.91%) nginx
3 5 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.74%) 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 (54.78%) Azure
2 103 (44.78%) AWS
3 89 (38.70%) Entra ID
4 52 (22.61%) GCP
5 40 (17.39%) Serverless
6 22 (9.57%) SaaS
7 21 (9.13%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.52%) OpenShift
9 14 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (5.65%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.65%) GitHub
10 13 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (5.65%) Route 53
10 13 (5.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (4.35%) Azure API Management
13 9 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.00%) DNS
2 20 (8.70%) Firewall
3 16 (6.96%) Kerberos
4 11 (4.78%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.35%) SSL
6 9 (3.91%) OpenVPN
6 9 (3.91%) VPN
7 7 (3.04%) Network Security
8 5 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.74%) DHCP
9 4 (1.74%) 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 9 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (3.04%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.61%) Neo4j
3 6 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.17%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.17%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.74%) Metadata
5 4 (1.74%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.87%) Redis
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.43%) MySQL
8 1 (0.43%) Parquet
8 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (12.17%) JIRA
2 26 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.09%) GitLab
4 11 (4.78%) Git
5 8 (3.48%) JMeter
6 7 (3.04%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.04%) Postman
6 7 (3.04%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.61%) Gatling
7 6 (2.61%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.74%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.74%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.74%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.74%) Selenium
9 3 (1.30%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.30%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.30%) git-flow
10 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.87%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 66 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.35%) Finance
3 32 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 31 (13.48%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (9.57%) Banking
6 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.48%) Retail
9 7 (3.04%) Military
10 4 (1.74%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (35.65%) Architect
2 29 (12.61%) Developer
3 27 (11.74%) Technical Architect
4 25 (10.87%) Senior
5 22 (9.57%) Lead
6 12 (5.22%) AWS Architect
6 12 (5.22%) CyberArk Architect
7 11 (4.78%) IAM Specialist
8 9 (3.91%) Security Architect
8 9 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (3.48%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.04%) Analyst
10 7 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.04%) IAM Developer
10 7 (3.04%) Lead Architect
11 6 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (2.61%) Technical Leader
12 5 (2.17%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (78.26%) OAuth
2 144 (62.61%) SAML
3 113 (49.13%) OAuth2
4 81 (35.22%) LDAP
5 42 (18.26%) REST
6 37 (16.09%) SailPoint
7 25 (10.87%) RESTful
8 18 (7.83%) JWT
8 18 (7.83%) Node.js
9 17 (7.39%) .NET
9 17 (7.39%) Web Services
10 15 (6.52%) Kafka
11 13 (5.65%) React
12 12 (5.22%) JSON
12 12 (5.22%) Playwright
13 11 (4.78%) SOAP
14 9 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
14 9 (3.91%) Spring
14 9 (3.91%) Spring Boot
15 7 (3.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (27.39%) Cloud Native
2 38 (16.52%) Onboarding
3 17 (7.39%) PKI
4 16 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.48%) IoT
9 7 (3.04%) Mobile App
9 7 (3.04%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.17%) Clustering
10 5 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.30%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.30%) Replication
13 2 (0.87%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.78%) Linux
1 11 (4.78%) Windows
2 5 (2.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.74%) 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 95 (41.30%) CI/CD
1 95 (41.30%) DevOps
2 61 (26.52%) Identity Access Management
3 58 (25.22%) RBAC
4 56 (24.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (20.87%) Agile
5 48 (20.87%) Microservices
6 43 (18.70%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (17.83%) Roadmaps
8 40 (17.39%) Event-Driven
9 39 (16.96%) Containerisation
9 39 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (16.96%) Zero Trust
10 31 (13.48%) Architectural Patterns
10 31 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (13.04%) Secrets Management
12 29 (12.61%) Test Automation
13 28 (12.17%) Design Patterns
13 28 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (12.17%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.48%) Java
2 49 (21.30%) Python
3 33 (14.35%) PowerShell
4 29 (12.61%) SQL
5 25 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.96%) Bicep
7 14 (6.09%) C#
8 13 (5.65%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.48%) Go
10 6 (2.61%) Cypher
11 5 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.17%) Scala
12 4 (1.74%) Bash
13 2 (0.87%) Groovy
13 2 (0.87%) PHP
13 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.87%) Swift
14 1 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 65 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.00%) CISSP
4 21 (9.13%) Degree
5 12 (5.22%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.91%) CISM
8 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.17%) CSPO
9 5 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.74%) GIAC
11 3 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.87%) CEH
12 2 (0.87%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (14.78%) NIST
3 22 (9.57%) GDPR
4 19 (8.26%) NCSC
5 12 (5.22%) QA
6 7 (3.04%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.04%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (2.61%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.74%) GRC
9 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.87%) WCAG
11 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.43%) SEPA
System Software
1 64 (27.83%) Active Directory
2 32 (13.91%) Docker
3 9 (3.91%) Squid
4 5 (2.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (1.74%) 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 64 (27.83%) Single Sign-On
2 59 (25.65%) Kubernetes
3 58 (25.22%) Terraform
4 23 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (7.83%) Grafana
6 16 (6.96%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.91%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.48%) Consul
9 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.74%) Ansible
10 4 (1.74%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.74%) Istio
10 4 (1.74%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.74%) linkerd
10 4 (1.74%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (1.30%) Argo
12 1 (0.43%) Packer
12 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (34.35%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.74%) CyberArk
3 25 (10.87%) Okta
4 24 (10.43%) ServiceNow
5 18 (7.83%) Splunk
6 17 (7.39%) Google
7 16 (6.96%) Ping Identity
8 12 (5.22%) Dynatrace
9 10 (4.35%) ForgeRock
10 9 (3.91%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.04%) Atlassian
12 6 (2.61%) MuleSoft
12 6 (2.61%) SAP
13 5 (2.17%) Denodo
13 5 (2.17%) Workday
14 3 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
14 3 (1.30%) Oracle
15 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
15 2 (0.87%) Thycotic
15 2 (0.87%) VMware