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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 446 444
Rank change year-on-year +63 -2 +167
Contract jobs citing OpenID 153 72 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.20% 1.08% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 51 97
10th Percentile £406 £409 £433
25th Percentile £425 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -14.71% -2.29% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £59.00 - -

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 6,949 6,675 8,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.34% 21.83% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,671 4,252 6,119
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 99 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -15.72%

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 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +11 62 £500 -12.28% 12
South West +24 33 £545 -1.09% 6
North of England -21 26 £448 -31.08% 20
North West - 15 £450 - 8
Midlands -26 11 £465 +9.29% 3
Yorkshire - 11 £409 - 9
South East -9 10 £488 -15.22% 11
East of England - 8 £425 -
West Midlands -21 6 £538 +26.47% 3
East Midlands - 5 £415 -
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 12 (7.84%) Apache
2 11 (7.19%) IIS
2 11 (7.19%) JBoss
2 11 (7.19%) WebSphere
3 10 (6.54%) iPlanet
3 10 (6.54%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (3.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.31%) Confluence
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (51.63%) Azure
2 73 (47.71%) AWS
3 48 (31.37%) Entra ID
4 29 (18.95%) GCP
5 24 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (14.38%) SaaS
7 17 (11.11%) GitHub
8 11 (7.19%) OpenShift
8 11 (7.19%) PaaS
9 10 (6.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.23%) Azure AKS
10 8 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.61%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.76%) Firewall
1 18 (11.76%) Kerberos
2 15 (9.80%) DNS
3 5 (3.27%) SSL
4 4 (2.61%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.96%) Internet
6 2 (1.31%) Extranet
6 2 (1.31%) HTTP
6 2 (1.31%) Network Security
6 2 (1.31%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.31%) VPN
7 1 (0.65%) DHCP
7 1 (0.65%) SMTP
7 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.84%) Oracle Database
2 5 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.61%) Redis
4 3 (1.96%) Metadata
4 3 (1.96%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.96%) Power BI
5 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.65%) MySQL
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 20 (13.07%) Git
3 11 (7.19%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (7.19%) CA Release Automation
3 11 (7.19%) GitLab
4 9 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.92%) Maven
5 6 (3.92%) Selenium
6 5 (3.27%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.27%) JIRA
6 5 (3.27%) JUnit
6 5 (3.27%) Mockito
7 4 (2.61%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.96%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.96%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.65%) Gatling
9 1 (0.65%) git-flow
9 1 (0.65%) Postman
9 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
General
1 75 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.34%) Finance
3 24 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.80%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (7.19%) Aviation
6 9 (5.88%) Banking
7 8 (5.23%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.61%) Legal
9 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.96%) Games
9 3 (1.96%) Retail
10 2 (1.31%) Billing
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Law
11 1 (0.65%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (18.30%) Architect
2 20 (13.07%) Developer
3 18 (11.76%) Senior
4 10 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (6.54%) Lead
4 10 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 9 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.23%) Analyst
7 7 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Consultant
7 7 (4.58%) ForgeRock Developer
7 7 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Security Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Security Architect
9 5 (3.27%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (84.97%) OAuth
2 122 (79.74%) SAML
3 74 (48.37%) OAuth2
4 40 (26.14%) LDAP
5 17 (11.11%) REST
6 15 (9.80%) Spring
7 14 (9.15%) JSON
8 13 (8.50%) RESTful
9 9 (5.88%) .NET
9 9 (5.88%) React
9 9 (5.88%) Spring Boot
10 8 (5.23%) JDBC
11 7 (4.58%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.92%) HTML
12 6 (3.92%) Node.js
12 6 (3.92%) SailPoint
13 5 (3.27%) Gherkin
13 5 (3.27%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.27%) JPA
13 5 (3.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.42%) Onboarding
2 14 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.15%) PKI
3 11 (7.19%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.88%) Private Cloud
5 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.92%) Replication
7 4 (2.61%) BYOD
7 4 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.61%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.96%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.65%) Contactless
10 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.65%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.61%) Windows
2 23 (15.03%) Windows Server
3 18 (11.76%) Linux
4 8 (5.23%) Unix
5 2 (1.31%) Android
6 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.65%) CentOS
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.99%) Identity Access Management
2 50 (32.68%) RBAC
3 46 (30.07%) DevOps
4 45 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 38 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (22.88%) Identity Management
7 25 (16.34%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 23 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (14.38%) DevSecOps
9 22 (14.38%) Migration
10 21 (13.73%) Microservices
11 20 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (11.76%) Agile
13 18 (11.76%) Containerisation
14 16 (10.46%) Observability
15 14 (9.15%) Privileged Identity Management
15 14 (9.15%) Technical Leadership
16 13 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 13 (8.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 41 (26.80%) PowerShell
2 29 (18.95%) Java
3 24 (15.69%) Python
4 19 (12.42%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.80%) Groovy
6 9 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 8 (5.23%) SQL
8 6 (3.92%) Bash
8 6 (3.92%) C#
9 5 (3.27%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.96%) Go
10 3 (1.96%) PHP
11 2 (1.31%) C
12 1 (0.65%) C++
12 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.65%) Swift
12 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (13.07%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.84%) Degree
6 10 (6.54%) CISSP
7 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.96%) CISM
8 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.31%) CCSP
9 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.65%) HND
10 1 (0.65%) ISSAP
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.65%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.61%) GDPR
2 16 (10.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.19%) NIST
4 10 (6.54%) HIPAA
5 8 (5.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (4.58%) QA
7 6 (3.92%) PSD2
7 6 (3.92%) SOC 2
8 5 (3.27%) PCI DSS
8 5 (3.27%) WCAG
9 4 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.96%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.31%) SLA
12 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.65%) NCSC
12 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (49.67%) Active Directory
2 26 (16.99%) Docker
3 8 (5.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.31%) OpenAM
5 2 (1.31%) OpenDJ
5 2 (1.31%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (46.41%) Single Sign-On
2 32 (20.92%) Terraform
3 27 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 22 (14.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (7.19%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (6.54%) CA Wily
6 10 (6.54%) Grafana
7 9 (5.88%) Ansible
7 9 (5.88%) PingFederate
7 9 (5.88%) Progress Chef
8 8 (5.23%) Tivoli
9 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (3.27%) Kibana
10 5 (3.27%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 3 (1.96%) Argo
11 3 (1.96%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.96%) SCCM
12 2 (1.31%) Puppet
13 1 (0.65%) Oracle Identity Manager
13 1 (0.65%) Podman
Vendors
1 79 (51.63%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.73%) Ping Identity
3 17 (11.11%) IBM
4 16 (10.46%) ForgeRock
5 15 (9.80%) Splunk
6 13 (8.50%) Oracle
7 11 (7.19%) AppDynamics
7 11 (7.19%) Broadcom
7 11 (7.19%) CyberArk
7 11 (7.19%) Okta
8 10 (6.54%) VMware
9 8 (5.23%) Alibaba
10 6 (3.92%) Google
11 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
13 2 (1.31%) BeyondTrust
13 2 (1.31%) Intel
13 2 (1.31%) MuleSoft
13 2 (1.31%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.31%) Xamarin