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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 395 446
Rank change year-on-year -5 +51 +46
Contract jobs citing OpenID 250 127 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.56% 1.81% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 91 61
10th Percentile £413 £363 £425
25th Percentile £483 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £471 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.83% -21.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £575 £622
90th Percentile £750 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £492 £600
% change year-on-year +11.79% -18.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.08 - -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +36.36% - -

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 9,779 7,022 8,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.46% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,428 4,778 5,448
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £667
90th Percentile £738 £749 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 168 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -42 104 £550 +1.20% 179
South East -16 50 £513 +7.89% 31
North of England -40 49 £588 +31.14% 14
Yorkshire -13 34 £581 +42.64% 8
Midlands -40 21 £464 +12.39% 12
West Midlands -29 18 £510 -15.42% 9
North West -50 13 £725 +60.58% 3
South West -44 11 £575 +30.02% 13
East of England -18 10 £550 - 12
East Midlands -25 3 £402 -1.95% 3
North East - 3 £463 - 3
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 (5.20%) Confluence
2 7 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 149 (59.60%) Azure
2 105 (42.00%) Entra ID
3 101 (40.40%) AWS
4 63 (25.20%) GCP
5 26 (10.40%) Serverless
6 25 (10.00%) SaaS
7 19 (7.60%) GitHub
8 18 (7.20%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
9 16 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.80%) Azure AKS
11 12 (4.80%) Azure API Management
11 12 (4.80%) Azure App Service
12 10 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.20%) Amazon S3
14 8 (3.20%) Azure Functions
15 7 (2.80%) Azure Event Grid
16 6 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.40%) Kerberos
2 15 (6.00%) DNS
3 14 (5.60%) Firewall
4 9 (3.60%) SSL
5 6 (2.40%) Network Security
6 5 (2.00%) NGFW
7 4 (1.60%) DHCP
7 4 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.80%) HTTP
10 1 (0.40%) DMZ
10 1 (0.40%) Internet
10 1 (0.40%) SSH
10 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.20%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.40%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.20%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.00%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.00%) Metadata
8 4 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.20%) MySQL
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.80%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.80%) Redis
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.40%) Parquet
11 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (12.80%) Git
2 16 (6.40%) JIRA
3 14 (5.60%) GitLab
4 8 (3.20%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.40%) Maven
6 5 (2.00%) JUnit
6 5 (2.00%) Storybook
7 4 (1.60%) JMeter
7 4 (1.60%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.20%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.20%) Fiddler
8 3 (1.20%) Mockito
8 3 (1.20%) Selenium
9 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) Gatling
9 2 (0.80%) git-flow
9 2 (0.80%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.80%) Postman
9 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
General
1 61 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.40%) Finance
3 48 (19.20%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.00%) Banking
5 18 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.80%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.20%) Military
9 6 (2.40%) Retail
10 4 (1.60%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Aviation
12 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (21.60%) Developer
2 53 (21.20%) Architect
3 31 (12.40%) Lead
4 25 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 21 (8.40%) Senior
6 16 (6.40%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (6.00%) IAM Specialist
8 14 (5.60%) Technical Leader
9 12 (4.80%) IAM Developer
10 10 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.20%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.20%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.80%) GCP Developer
12 7 (2.80%) Lead Architect
12 7 (2.80%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.80%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.40%) Product Owner
14 5 (2.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (88.80%) OAuth
2 138 (55.20%) SAML
3 135 (54.00%) OAuth2
4 62 (24.80%) Terraform
5 55 (22.00%) LDAP
6 44 (17.60%) REST
7 39 (15.60%) RESTful
8 31 (12.40%) SailPoint
9 30 (12.00%) React
10 26 (10.40%) JWT
11 25 (10.00%) .NET
12 22 (8.80%) Swagger
13 21 (8.40%) OpenAPI
14 19 (7.60%) Node.js
15 16 (6.40%) CSS
15 16 (6.40%) HTML
16 15 (6.00%) JSON
16 15 (6.00%) Web Services
17 14 (5.60%) Kafka
18 13 (5.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 63 (25.20%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.20%) Onboarding
3 27 (10.80%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (9.20%) PKI
6 18 (7.20%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (3.20%) IoT
9 7 (2.80%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.00%) Clustering
11 5 (2.00%) CMDB
11 5 (2.00%) NHS
11 5 (2.00%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.60%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.20%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.80%) Linux
2 11 (4.40%) Windows
3 4 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.20%) Unix
5 2 (0.80%) Android
5 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (38.00%) CI/CD
2 85 (34.00%) Identity Access Management
3 78 (31.20%) DevOps
4 63 (25.20%) RBAC
5 62 (24.80%) Microservices
6 59 (23.60%) Agile
7 55 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (18.00%) Zero Trust
9 44 (17.60%) Technical Leadership
9 44 (17.60%) Test Automation
10 42 (16.80%) Containerisation
11 40 (16.00%) Event-Driven
11 40 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (14.80%) Roadmaps
14 35 (14.00%) Analytics
14 35 (14.00%) Mentoring
15 32 (12.80%) Cybersecurity
16 31 (12.40%) Runbook
16 31 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 70 (28.00%) Python
2 57 (22.80%) Java
3 49 (19.60%) PowerShell
4 32 (12.80%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.20%) Bicep
5 23 (9.20%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.80%) SQL
7 21 (8.40%) C#
8 7 (2.80%) Go
9 6 (2.40%) Bash
10 2 (0.80%) Cypher
10 2 (0.80%) Groovy
10 2 (0.80%) PHP
10 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.40%) C++
11 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.40%) Lua
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 55 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.00%) Degree
4 19 (7.60%) CISSP
5 17 (6.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (5.60%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (4.40%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (3.60%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.80%) CISM
11 5 (2.00%) CSPO
11 5 (2.00%) MCSE
12 3 (1.20%) CEH
12 3 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.80%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (9.60%) NIST
3 21 (8.40%) GDPR
4 15 (6.00%) QA
5 14 (5.60%) Accessibility
6 11 (4.40%) Data Quality
7 7 (2.80%) WCAG
8 6 (2.40%) NCSC
9 5 (2.00%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.60%) SOC 2
11 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.80%) HL7
12 2 (0.80%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.80%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.80%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.40%) SEPA
System Software
1 85 (34.00%) Active Directory
2 34 (13.60%) Docker
3 6 (2.40%) 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 62 (24.80%) Single Sign-On
2 56 (22.40%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 11 (4.40%) Grafana
4 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.00%) PingFederate
7 4 (1.60%) Ansible
7 4 (1.60%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (1.20%) Istio
8 3 (1.20%) Kibana
9 2 (0.80%) Argo
9 2 (0.80%) Consul
9 2 (0.80%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.80%) Packer
9 2 (0.80%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.40%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 101 (40.40%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.40%) Okta
3 18 (7.20%) Google
4 16 (6.40%) CyberArk
4 16 (6.40%) Ping Identity
5 13 (5.20%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.20%) ForgeRock
7 6 (2.40%) BeyondTrust
7 6 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.00%) Denodo
9 4 (1.60%) Oracle
9 4 (1.60%) SAP
9 4 (1.60%) Splunk
10 3 (1.20%) Cisco
10 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.20%) Workday
11 2 (0.80%) IBM
11 2 (0.80%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.80%) VMware