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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 395 432
Rank change year-on-year +16 +37 +133
Contract jobs citing OpenID 201 80 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.33% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.58% 1.45% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 59 79
10th Percentile £420 £409 £428
25th Percentile £468 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% - -
75th Percentile £688 £663 £700
90th Percentile £788 £750 £799
UK median daily rate £550 £602 £650
% change year-on-year -8.56% -7.46% +8.33%
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 £76.50 - -

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 7,802 5,531 7,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.08% 22.61% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,242 3,754 5,400
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £794 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 85 189
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.26 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £83.58 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 19 March 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
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 19 March 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 -5 92 £580 -9.27% 12
North of England -37 44 £525 - 6
Yorkshire -30 31 £525 +5.00% 3
South West +6 28 £563 +1.12% 2
Midlands -54 14 £475 -17.39% 1
South East -55 13 £615 +6.96% 9
North West -26 12 £600 +14.29% 3
West Midlands - 10 £513 - 1
East of England - 8 £425 - 1
East Midlands -33 3 £438 -23.91%
North East - 2 £525 -
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 10 (4.98%) Confluence
2 8 (3.98%) nginx
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 99 (49.25%) Azure
2 94 (46.77%) AWS
3 57 (28.36%) Entra ID
4 41 (20.40%) GCP
5 34 (16.92%) Serverless
6 21 (10.45%) SaaS
7 19 (9.45%) Amazon S3
8 18 (8.96%) PaaS
9 17 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (8.46%) GitHub
10 16 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (7.96%) OpenShift
11 14 (6.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (5.97%) Route 53
14 10 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (4.48%) Azure AKS
15 9 (4.48%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.43%) DNS
2 28 (13.93%) Firewall
3 11 (5.47%) Kerberos
4 10 (4.98%) SSL
5 9 (4.48%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.98%) OpenVPN
6 8 (3.98%) VPN
7 5 (2.49%) IPsec
7 5 (2.49%) Network Security
7 5 (2.49%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.49%) Internet
9 2 (1.00%) HTTP
9 2 (1.00%) S/MIME
10 1 (0.50%) Extranet
10 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.50%) SMS
10 1 (0.50%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.98%) Redis
3 9 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.48%) MySQL
3 9 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.98%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.99%) DocumentDB
5 4 (1.99%) Neo4j
5 4 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.00%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.50%) Parquet
8 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (20.40%) Jenkins
2 26 (12.94%) GitLab
2 26 (12.94%) JIRA
3 18 (8.96%) Selenium
4 16 (7.96%) Cucumber
5 12 (5.97%) Postman
5 12 (5.97%) REST Assured
6 9 (4.48%) Git
7 8 (3.98%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.98%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.48%) Gatling
8 7 (3.48%) JUnit
9 6 (2.99%) Maven
10 5 (2.49%) JMeter
10 5 (2.49%) Mockito
10 5 (2.49%) TestRail
11 4 (1.99%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.99%) NeoLoad
12 2 (1.00%) Artifactory
12 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 86 (42.79%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.41%) Finance
3 33 (16.42%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.45%) Banking
6 14 (6.97%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (6.97%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.98%) Aviation
8 5 (2.49%) Legal
9 3 (1.49%) Games
9 3 (1.49%) Military
9 3 (1.49%) Retail
10 2 (1.00%) Billing
10 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (37.81%) Architect
2 26 (12.94%) Developer
2 26 (12.94%) Senior
3 20 (9.95%) Lead
4 18 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (6.97%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (6.97%) Technical Architect
6 13 (6.47%) CyberArk Architect
7 11 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.98%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.48%) Test Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) AWS Architect
10 8 (3.98%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.98%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) ForgeRock Developer
12 6 (2.99%) Analyst
12 6 (2.99%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 6 (2.99%) Security Engineer
12 6 (2.99%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (71.14%) OAuth
2 132 (65.67%) SAML
3 106 (52.74%) OAuth2
4 56 (27.86%) LDAP
5 41 (20.40%) REST
6 25 (12.44%) RESTful
6 25 (12.44%) SailPoint
7 20 (9.95%) .NET
8 16 (7.96%) Spring
8 16 (7.96%) Spring Boot
9 15 (7.46%) Kafka
9 15 (7.46%) Playwright
10 14 (6.97%) React
11 12 (5.97%) HTML
12 10 (4.98%) JPA
12 10 (4.98%) JSON
12 10 (4.98%) JWT
12 10 (4.98%) Node.js
12 10 (4.98%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (4.48%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.92%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.47%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.47%) PKI
4 11 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.98%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.99%) Replication
6 6 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.49%) BYOD
7 5 (2.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.49%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.95%) Windows
2 17 (8.46%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.48%) Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Android
4 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (41.79%) CI/CD
1 84 (41.79%) DevOps
2 56 (27.86%) Identity Access Management
3 52 (25.87%) RBAC
4 45 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (20.90%) Microservices
6 40 (19.90%) Agile
7 38 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (17.41%) Observability
8 35 (17.41%) Secrets Management
8 35 (17.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
9 34 (16.92%) Test Automation
10 31 (15.42%) Design Patterns
10 31 (15.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (14.43%) Event-Driven
12 28 (13.93%) Identity Management
13 27 (13.43%) Roadmaps
14 26 (12.94%) Containerisation
15 25 (12.44%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.38%) Java
2 38 (18.91%) Python
3 36 (17.91%) PowerShell
4 32 (15.92%) SQL
5 16 (7.96%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.96%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.97%) C#
7 8 (3.98%) Go
7 8 (3.98%) PHP
8 5 (2.49%) Bicep
8 5 (2.49%) Scala
9 4 (1.99%) Bash
9 4 (1.99%) Cypher
9 4 (1.99%) Groovy
9 4 (1.99%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.00%) Swift
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) C++
11 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 48 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (9.95%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.97%) Degree
6 11 (5.47%) CISSP
7 5 (2.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.00%) CCSP
10 2 (1.00%) GIAC
11 1 (0.50%) HND
11 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.50%) OCP
11 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (14.43%) NIST
3 23 (11.44%) GDPR
4 17 (8.46%) QA
5 15 (7.46%) NCSC
6 11 (5.47%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.98%) WCAG
8 7 (3.48%) PSD2
8 7 (3.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (3.48%) SOC 2
9 6 (2.99%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
11 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.49%) GRC
11 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
12 2 (1.00%) ISO 8583
12 2 (1.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (25.37%) Active Directory
2 27 (13.43%) Docker
3 9 (4.48%) Squid
4 5 (2.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.49%) RACF
5 4 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.00%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.00%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.00%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (34.83%) Single Sign-On
2 55 (27.36%) Kubernetes
3 43 (21.39%) Terraform
4 26 (12.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 23 (11.44%) Grafana
6 17 (8.46%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.98%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.48%) Consul
9 6 (2.99%) Argo
10 5 (2.49%) Ansible
10 5 (2.49%) Kibana
10 5 (2.49%) PingFederate
11 3 (1.49%) Istio
11 3 (1.49%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.49%) linkerd
12 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.50%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.50%) Oracle Identity Manager
13 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (36.82%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.94%) CyberArk
3 21 (10.45%) ServiceNow
4 19 (9.45%) Splunk
5 16 (7.96%) Ping Identity
6 14 (6.97%) Google
7 12 (5.97%) ForgeRock
8 10 (4.98%) Dynatrace
8 10 (4.98%) VMware
9 9 (4.48%) Okta
10 8 (3.98%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.48%) Atlassian
12 5 (2.49%) Oracle
13 3 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
13 3 (1.49%) MuleSoft
14 2 (1.00%) Confluent
14 2 (1.00%) NetIQ
14 2 (1.00%) Optimizely
15 1 (0.50%) Denodo
15 1 (0.50%) Intel