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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 401 454
Rank change year-on-year -21 +53 +60
Contract jobs citing OpenID 212 117 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.42% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.51% 1.91% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 83 56
10th Percentile £402 £401 £425
25th Percentile £500 £430 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £681 £638 £627
90th Percentile £775 £677 £700
UK median daily rate £558 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +1.36% -10.20% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £79.91 - -
75th Percentile £87.16 - -
90th Percentile £87.32 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.91 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +45.29% - -

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 8,459 6,129 7,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.79% 22.20% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,555 4,226 5,157
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £803
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 233
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.45% +4.52% -12.50%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -23 94 £556 -9.41% 44
South East -28 49 £550 -4.35% 13
North of England -45 46 £625 +31.58% 4
Yorkshire -33 27 £625 +52.81% 3
North West -35 17 £687 +39.63% 1
Midlands -61 7 £402 -3.13% 2
South West -44 6 £550 +23.04% 4
West Midlands -47 5 £450 -25.37% 2
East of England - 5 £543 - 4
North East - 4 £525 -
East Midlands -25 2 £401 -2.79%
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 (7.55%) Confluence
2 5 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.89%) nginx
3 4 (1.89%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 131 (61.79%) Azure
2 91 (42.92%) Entra ID
3 87 (41.04%) AWS
4 42 (19.81%) GCP
5 32 (15.09%) Serverless
6 24 (11.32%) SaaS
7 18 (8.49%) Azure AKS
8 15 (7.08%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 14 (6.60%) Azure API Management
10 13 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (6.13%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (5.19%) Azure App Service
11 11 (5.19%) GitHub
11 11 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.77%) Azure Functions
14 7 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.55%) DNS
2 15 (7.08%) Kerberos
3 13 (6.13%) Firewall
4 10 (4.72%) SSL
5 6 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.89%) DHCP
6 4 (1.89%) Network Security
6 4 (1.89%) OpenVPN
6 4 (1.89%) VPN
7 3 (1.42%) IPsec
8 2 (0.94%) HTTP
8 2 (0.94%) NGFW
9 1 (0.47%) SSH
9 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.25%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.77%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.83%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.36%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.89%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.89%) Metadata
5 4 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.94%) MySQL
6 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.94%) Parquet
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.47%) Redis
7 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.02%) Git
1 17 (8.02%) JIRA
2 8 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.30%) GitLab
4 4 (1.89%) JMeter
5 3 (1.42%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.42%) Fiddler
5 3 (1.42%) git-flow
5 3 (1.42%) Postman
6 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.94%) Gatling
6 2 (0.94%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.94%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) Gradle
7 1 (0.47%) Maven
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.87%) Finance
3 38 (17.92%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.02%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (7.08%) Banking
6 14 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.77%) Military
7 8 (3.77%) Retail
8 5 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.94%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (25.00%) Architect
2 37 (17.45%) Developer
3 25 (11.79%) Lead
4 23 (10.85%) Senior
5 22 (10.38%) Technical Architect
6 17 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (6.60%) IAM Specialist
8 10 (4.72%) Java Developer
9 9 (4.25%) IAM Developer
10 8 (3.77%) AWS Architect
10 8 (3.77%) Technical Leader
11 7 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.30%) Security Architect
12 6 (2.83%) Azure Developer
12 6 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (2.36%) Data Engineer
13 5 (2.36%) Lead Architect
13 5 (2.36%) Product Owner
13 5 (2.36%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (87.26%) OAuth
2 130 (61.32%) SAML
3 112 (52.83%) OAuth2
4 59 (27.83%) LDAP
5 41 (19.34%) REST
6 34 (16.04%) SailPoint
7 29 (13.68%) RESTful
8 23 (10.85%) .NET
9 17 (8.02%) Web Services
10 16 (7.55%) JWT
11 15 (7.08%) Kafka
11 15 (7.08%) Node.js
12 14 (6.60%) JSON
12 14 (6.60%) React
13 11 (5.19%) .NET Framework
13 11 (5.19%) SOAP
14 10 (4.72%) Entity Framework
14 10 (4.72%) Spring
15 9 (4.25%) .NET Core
16 8 (3.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.06%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.74%) Onboarding
3 21 (9.91%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (8.49%) PKI
6 11 (5.19%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.77%) IoT
7 8 (3.77%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.30%) Mobile App
8 7 (3.30%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.36%) Clustering
10 5 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.36%) NHS
11 4 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.66%) Linux
2 9 (4.25%) Windows
3 3 (1.42%) Android
3 3 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.94%) Unix
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.47%) CentOS
5 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (36.79%) CI/CD
2 72 (33.96%) DevOps
3 65 (30.66%) Identity Access Management
4 58 (27.36%) RBAC
5 49 (23.11%) Microservices
6 46 (21.70%) Agile
7 42 (19.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 39 (18.40%) Zero Trust
9 38 (17.92%) Containerisation
9 38 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (15.57%) Roadmaps
11 30 (14.15%) Test Automation
12 29 (13.68%) Mentoring
13 28 (13.21%) Analytics
13 28 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (12.74%) Event-Driven
15 26 (12.26%) Runbook
16 24 (11.32%) API Integration
16 24 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 23 (10.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (24.06%) Python
2 49 (23.11%) Java
3 38 (17.92%) PowerShell
4 28 (13.21%) SQL
5 21 (9.91%) C#
5 21 (9.91%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.43%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.55%) Bicep
8 5 (2.36%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.89%) Bash
10 2 (0.94%) Cypher
10 2 (0.94%) Go
10 2 (0.94%) Groovy
10 2 (0.94%) PHP
10 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) C++
11 1 (0.47%) Perl
11 1 (0.47%) Scala
11 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 64 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 54 (25.47%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.85%) Degree
4 22 (10.38%) CISSP
5 13 (6.13%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.19%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.25%) CISM
8 6 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.83%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.36%) CSPO
10 4 (1.89%) GIAC
11 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.94%) CEH
12 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.94%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (10.38%) GDPR
3 21 (9.91%) NIST
4 10 (4.72%) QA
5 6 (2.83%) NCSC
5 6 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.36%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.94%) HL7
8 2 (0.94%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.94%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.94%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.47%) GRC
9 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (34.43%) Active Directory
2 34 (16.04%) Docker
3 4 (1.89%) Squid
4 3 (1.42%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.42%) RACF
5 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (27.36%) Single Sign-On
2 50 (23.58%) Terraform
3 38 (17.92%) Kubernetes
4 21 (9.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (6.13%) Grafana
6 11 (5.19%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.36%) Ansible
9 4 (1.89%) Argo
9 4 (1.89%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.89%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.89%) Istio
9 4 (1.89%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.89%) linkerd
9 4 (1.89%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (1.42%) Consul
11 1 (0.47%) Packer
11 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (39.62%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.85%) Okta
3 15 (7.08%) CyberArk
3 15 (7.08%) Ping Identity
3 15 (7.08%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.72%) ForgeRock
5 8 (3.77%) Google
6 7 (3.30%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.83%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.83%) SAP
8 5 (2.36%) Denodo
8 5 (2.36%) Workday
9 4 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (1.89%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.94%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.94%) Sparx
10 2 (0.94%) Splunk
10 2 (0.94%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.94%) VMware