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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 375 450
Rank change year-on-year +3 +75 +63
Contract jobs citing OpenID 228 112 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.45% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 1.99% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 78 65
10th Percentile £403 £402 £425
25th Percentile £500 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -9.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £735 £610 £638
90th Percentile £850 £679 £700
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +2.27% -10.20% +8.89%
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 8,259 5,640 7,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.59% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,445 3,912 5,512
10th Percentile £363 £358 £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 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 113 264
10th Percentile £30.71 £32.50 £23.07
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £81.01 £74.48
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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -10 112 £550 -12.35% 19
North of England -38 56 £588 +19.41% 6
South East -30 36 £750 +30.43% 10
Yorkshire -32 34 £598 +36.10% 2
North West -26 20 £631 +20.19% 4
Midlands -59 10 £438 +5.42%
South West -35 8 £550 +23.04% 3
East Midlands -26 5 £438 +6.06%
West Midlands -55 4 £350 -41.96%
North East - 3 £469 -
East of England - 2 £555 - 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 16 (7.02%) Confluence
2 9 (3.95%) nginx
3 5 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 124 (54.39%) Azure
2 107 (46.93%) AWS
3 85 (37.28%) Entra ID
4 52 (22.81%) GCP
5 43 (18.86%) Serverless
6 24 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 22 (9.65%) SaaS
8 18 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (7.89%) GitHub
8 18 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (7.46%) OpenShift
10 16 (7.02%) Route 53
10 16 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (5.70%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.95%) Azure API Management
15 9 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.40%) DNS
2 20 (8.77%) Firewall
3 17 (7.46%) Kerberos
4 11 (4.82%) SSL
4 11 (4.82%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.95%) OpenVPN
5 9 (3.95%) VPN
6 6 (2.63%) Network Security
7 5 (2.19%) IPsec
7 5 (2.19%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.75%) DHCP
9 2 (0.88%) HTTP
9 2 (0.88%) NGFW
10 1 (0.44%) SSH
10 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.82%) NoSQL
1 11 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.51%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.07%) Redis
4 7 (3.07%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.07%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.19%) Data Vault
5 5 (2.19%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.75%) DocumentDB
6 4 (1.75%) Metadata
6 4 (1.75%) MySQL
6 4 (1.75%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.88%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.44%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 28 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.96%) JIRA
3 15 (6.58%) GitLab
4 9 (3.95%) Git
5 7 (3.07%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.07%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.63%) Gatling
6 6 (2.63%) JMeter
7 5 (2.19%) Postman
8 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.75%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.75%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.75%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.75%) Selenium
9 3 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.32%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.32%) git-flow
10 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.44%) Gradle
11 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.56%) Finance
3 32 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 31 (13.60%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (10.53%) Banking
6 14 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.51%) Retail
9 7 (3.07%) Military
10 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Legal
13 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (37.28%) Architect
2 29 (12.72%) Developer
3 27 (11.84%) Technical Architect
4 25 (10.96%) Senior
5 22 (9.65%) Lead
6 14 (6.14%) AWS Architect
7 12 (5.26%) CyberArk Architect
8 11 (4.82%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (4.82%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (3.95%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.95%) Security Architect
10 8 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.07%) IAM Developer
11 7 (3.07%) Lead Architect
12 6 (2.63%) Analyst
12 6 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (2.63%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.19%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (79.39%) OAuth
2 141 (61.84%) SAML
3 119 (52.19%) OAuth2
4 77 (33.77%) LDAP
5 41 (17.98%) REST
6 36 (15.79%) SailPoint
7 29 (12.72%) RESTful
8 21 (9.21%) Kafka
9 19 (8.33%) JWT
10 18 (7.89%) Web Services
11 17 (7.46%) .NET
11 17 (7.46%) Node.js
12 15 (6.58%) Spring
12 15 (6.58%) Spring Boot
13 14 (6.14%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (5.70%) JSON
14 13 (5.70%) React
15 10 (4.39%) Playwright
16 9 (3.95%) SOAP
17 7 (3.07%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 64 (28.07%) Cloud Native
2 38 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 19 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (6.58%) PKI
6 11 (4.82%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.39%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.07%) IoT
8 7 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.07%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.19%) Clustering
9 5 (2.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.19%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.32%) Replication
12 2 (0.88%) CMDB
12 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.39%) Linux
1 10 (4.39%) Windows
2 5 (2.19%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.32%) Android
5 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.88%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) CentOS
6 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (43.42%) CI/CD
2 95 (41.67%) DevOps
3 61 (26.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (24.56%) Identity Access Management
5 55 (24.12%) RBAC
6 53 (23.25%) Microservices
7 47 (20.61%) Agile
8 42 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
9 41 (17.98%) Containerisation
9 41 (17.98%) Event-Driven
9 41 (17.98%) Roadmaps
10 38 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (16.23%) Zero Trust
12 36 (15.79%) Secrets Management
13 33 (14.47%) Observability
13 33 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (13.60%) Architectural Patterns
14 31 (13.60%) Design Patterns
15 30 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (12.28%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 58 (25.44%) Java
2 45 (19.74%) Python
3 35 (15.35%) SQL
4 31 (13.60%) PowerShell
5 23 (10.09%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.58%) Bicep
7 14 (6.14%) C#
8 13 (5.70%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.51%) Go
10 5 (2.19%) Scala
11 4 (1.75%) Bash
11 4 (1.75%) Cypher
11 4 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.88%) Groovy
12 2 (0.88%) PHP
12 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 74 (32.46%) Security Cleared
2 63 (27.63%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.65%) CISSP
4 19 (8.33%) Degree
5 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.82%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.39%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.95%) CISM
9 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.19%) CSPO
11 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.75%) GIAC
12 3 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.88%) CEH
13 2 (0.88%) MCSE
14 1 (0.44%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (15.79%) NIST
3 21 (9.21%) GDPR
4 19 (8.33%) NCSC
5 16 (7.02%) QA
6 10 (4.39%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.07%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (2.63%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.75%) GRC
10 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.32%) ISO 20022
10 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.32%) SEPA
10 3 (1.32%) WCAG
11 2 (0.88%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.88%) PSD2
12 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 62 (27.19%) Active Directory
2 38 (16.67%) Docker
3 9 (3.95%) Squid
4 5 (2.19%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.19%) RACF
5 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.44%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (28.07%) Kubernetes
2 63 (27.63%) Single Sign-On
2 63 (27.63%) Terraform
3 21 (9.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (7.89%) Grafana
4 18 (7.89%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.95%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.51%) Consul
7 6 (2.63%) Ansible
8 5 (2.19%) Argo
8 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.75%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.75%) Istio
9 4 (1.75%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.75%) linkerd
9 4 (1.75%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.44%) Packer
10 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (33.77%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.40%) CyberArk
3 24 (10.53%) Okta
3 24 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.89%) Splunk
5 16 (7.02%) Ping Identity
6 15 (6.58%) Google
7 12 (5.26%) Dynatrace
8 10 (4.39%) ForgeRock
9 9 (3.95%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.07%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.63%) MuleSoft
11 6 (2.63%) SAP
12 5 (2.19%) Denodo
12 5 (2.19%) Workday
13 3 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
13 3 (1.32%) Oracle
14 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.88%) Thycotic
14 2 (0.88%) VMware