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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 384 453
Rank change year-on-year -16 +69 +32
Contract jobs citing OpenID 251 133 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.48% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.57% 1.87% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 95 53
10th Percentile £416 £365 £425
25th Percentile £482 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £578
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -17.75% -3.75%
75th Percentile £638 £572 £638
90th Percentile £751 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £553 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +11.67% -17.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -
75th Percentile £86.08 £64.50 -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £59.00 -
% change year-on-year +27.12% - -

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 9,763 7,122 8,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.17% 25.50% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,416 4,807 5,269
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 175 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.60
25th Percentile £54.68 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.40 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -40 111 £575 +7.08% 141
South East -10 51 £500 +5.26% 37
North of England -50 42 £570 +27.23% 25
Yorkshire -9 33 £570 +39.88% 10
Midlands -35 21 £464 +13.08% 11
West Midlands - 18 £510 - 7
East of England -16 11 £544 +26.20% 9
South West -42 9 £650 +27.08% 10
North West -51 7 £750 +66.11% 8
East Midlands -21 3 £402 -1.95% 4
North East - 3 £463 - 7
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 13 (5.18%) Confluence
2 6 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.80%) IIS
5 2 (0.80%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.40%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 147 (58.57%) Azure
2 104 (41.43%) AWS
2 104 (41.43%) Entra ID
3 61 (24.30%) GCP
4 26 (10.36%) Serverless
5 22 (8.76%) GitHub
6 20 (7.97%) Azure Monitor
7 19 (7.57%) SaaS
8 18 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.77%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (5.98%) Azure AKS
12 14 (5.58%) Azure App Service
13 13 (5.18%) Azure API Management
14 10 (3.98%) Amazon S3
14 10 (3.98%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (3.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 8 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (3.19%) Azure Functions
16 8 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.77%) DNS
2 14 (5.58%) Kerberos
3 11 (4.38%) Firewall
4 8 (3.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 8 (3.19%) SSL
5 5 (1.99%) Network Security
5 5 (1.99%) NGFW
6 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.80%) HTTP
7 2 (0.80%) VPN
8 1 (0.40%) DHCP
8 1 (0.40%) DMZ
8 1 (0.40%) Internet
8 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.40%) SSH
8 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.98%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.18%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.59%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.59%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.99%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.59%) MySQL
8 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.20%) Parquet
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.80%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.80%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.80%) Redis
9 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (15.54%) Git
2 17 (6.77%) GitLab
3 15 (5.98%) JIRA
4 12 (4.78%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.99%) JUnit
5 5 (1.99%) Maven
5 5 (1.99%) Storybook
6 4 (1.59%) JMeter
6 4 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.59%) Zephyr
7 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.20%) Mockito
7 3 (1.20%) Selenium
8 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.80%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.80%) Gatling
8 2 (0.80%) git-flow
8 2 (0.80%) Gradle
8 2 (0.80%) NeoLoad
General
1 59 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 44 (17.53%) Finance
4 22 (8.76%) Banking
5 17 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.59%) Military
9 4 (1.59%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.59%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (23.51%) Developer
2 53 (21.12%) Architect
3 31 (12.35%) Lead
4 26 (10.36%) Technical Architect
5 21 (8.37%) Senior
6 17 (6.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (6.37%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.58%) IAM Specialist
8 14 (5.58%) Technical Leader
9 11 (4.38%) IAM Developer
9 11 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.59%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.19%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.19%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.79%) GCP Developer
12 7 (2.79%) Lead Architect
12 7 (2.79%) Lead Developer
13 6 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.39%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (89.64%) OAuth
2 138 (54.98%) OAuth2
3 129 (51.39%) SAML
4 71 (28.29%) Terraform
5 49 (19.52%) LDAP
6 48 (19.12%) REST
7 44 (17.53%) RESTful
8 34 (13.55%) React
9 30 (11.95%) JWT
10 29 (11.55%) .NET
11 27 (10.76%) SailPoint
12 24 (9.56%) Swagger
13 23 (9.16%) OpenAPI
14 22 (8.76%) Node.js
15 19 (7.57%) JSON
16 16 (6.37%) CSS
16 16 (6.37%) HTML
16 16 (6.37%) Kafka
17 15 (5.98%) Web Services
18 12 (4.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 69 (27.49%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.95%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (10.76%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (10.36%) Onboarding
4 26 (10.36%) PKI
5 17 (6.77%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.79%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.39%) NHS
9 5 (1.99%) CMDB
10 4 (1.59%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.59%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.20%) IoT
11 3 (1.20%) Wiki
12 2 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.98%) Linux
2 8 (3.19%) Windows
3 4 (1.59%) Android
3 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) CentOS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (42.63%) CI/CD
2 87 (34.66%) Identity Access Management
3 84 (33.47%) DevOps
4 66 (26.29%) RBAC
5 65 (25.90%) Agile
5 65 (25.90%) Microservices
6 62 (24.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (21.12%) Test Automation
8 45 (17.93%) Containerisation
8 45 (17.93%) Technical Leadership
9 42 (16.73%) Zero Trust
10 41 (16.33%) Event-Driven
11 38 (15.14%) Analytics
11 38 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (14.34%) Mentoring
12 36 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (13.55%) Roadmaps
14 30 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (11.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 78 (31.08%) Python
2 54 (21.51%) Java
3 52 (20.72%) PowerShell
4 35 (13.94%) JavaScript
5 27 (10.76%) SQL
6 26 (10.36%) Bicep
6 26 (10.36%) C#
7 24 (9.56%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.38%) Go
9 6 (2.39%) Bash
10 3 (1.20%) C++
10 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.20%) Lua
11 2 (0.80%) Cypher
11 2 (0.80%) Groovy
11 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.80%) Swift
12 1 (0.40%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
12 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 70 (27.89%) Security Cleared
2 57 (22.71%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.75%) Degree
4 18 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (6.37%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.98%) CISSP
7 14 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (4.78%) AWS Certification
8 12 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (3.59%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.99%) CISM
10 5 (1.99%) CSPO
10 5 (1.99%) MCSE
11 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.80%) CEH
13 1 (0.40%) CRISC
13 1 (0.40%) GIAC
13 1 (0.40%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (7.57%) NIST
3 17 (6.77%) QA
4 16 (6.37%) Accessibility
4 16 (6.37%) GDPR
5 13 (5.18%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.79%) HIPAA
6 7 (2.79%) WCAG
7 6 (2.39%) NCSC
7 6 (2.39%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.80%) HL7
9 2 (0.80%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.80%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.80%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (33.47%) Active Directory
2 34 (13.55%) Docker
3 6 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.20%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (25.50%) Kubernetes
2 62 (24.70%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (5.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (5.98%) Grafana
4 11 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.98%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.79%) Ansible
7 4 (1.59%) Argo
8 3 (1.20%) Istio
8 3 (1.20%) Kibana
8 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.20%) Puppet
8 3 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.80%) Consul
9 2 (0.80%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.80%) Packer
9 2 (0.80%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.40%) linkerd
10 1 (0.40%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 103 (41.04%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.76%) Okta
3 20 (7.97%) Google
4 14 (5.58%) Ping Identity
5 12 (4.78%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.38%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.19%) ForgeRock
8 7 (2.79%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.99%) Denodo
9 5 (1.99%) Splunk
10 4 (1.59%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle
10 4 (1.59%) SAP
11 3 (1.20%) Cisco
11 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.20%) Sparx
11 3 (1.20%) Workday
12 2 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
228 OpenID jobs in England