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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 381 419
Rank change year-on-year 0 +38 +103
Contract jobs citing OpenID 225 106 117
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.44% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 1.94% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 72 76
10th Percentile £402 £406 £430
25th Percentile £485 £449 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -9.28% +5.43%
75th Percentile £712 £632 £650
90th Percentile £855 £683 £815
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £620
% change year-on-year +2.27% -11.29% +7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £66.21 - -
75th Percentile £83.76 - -
90th Percentile £86.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.91 - -

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 8,087 5,465 7,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.26% 22.56% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,329 3,782 5,410
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £630 £662 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £535
% change year-on-year +0.77% -2.62% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 106 239
10th Percentile £31.33 £31.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £78.95 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +30.30% -26.21%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -20 111 £556 -11.35% 17
North of England -27 64 £565 +11.16% 9
Yorkshire -21 42 £565 +20.52% 2
South East -34 27 £735 +27.83% 11
North West -32 20 £600 +14.29% 7
South West -32 10 £550 +23.04% 1
Midlands -56 10 £438 +4.17%
East Midlands -29 5 £438 +6.71%
West Midlands -56 4 £350 -41.96%
North East - 3 £469 -
East of England - 1 - - 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 16 (7.11%) Confluence
2 9 (4.00%) nginx
3 5 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 120 (53.33%) Azure
2 108 (48.00%) AWS
3 79 (35.11%) Entra ID
4 54 (24.00%) GCP
5 42 (18.67%) Serverless
6 26 (11.56%) SaaS
7 24 (10.67%) Amazon S3
8 18 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (8.00%) OpenShift
9 17 (7.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (7.11%) GitHub
10 16 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (6.67%) Route 53
12 13 (5.78%) Azure AKS
13 10 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.00%) Azure API Management
14 9 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.11%) DNS
2 21 (9.33%) Firewall
3 15 (6.67%) Kerberos
4 12 (5.33%) SSL
5 11 (4.89%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.00%) OpenVPN
6 9 (4.00%) VPN
7 6 (2.67%) Network Security
8 5 (2.22%) IPsec
8 5 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.78%) DHCP
10 2 (0.89%) HTTP
10 2 (0.89%) NGFW
11 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.44%) SMS
11 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.89%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.00%) MySQL
5 8 (3.56%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.56%) Redis
6 5 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.22%) Data Vault
6 5 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.78%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.78%) Metadata
7 4 (1.78%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.33%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.89%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 37 (16.44%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.78%) JIRA
3 23 (10.22%) GitLab
4 12 (5.33%) Selenium
5 11 (4.89%) Cucumber
5 11 (4.89%) Postman
5 11 (4.89%) REST Assured
6 8 (3.56%) Git
7 7 (3.11%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.11%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.67%) Gatling
8 6 (2.67%) JMeter
9 5 (2.22%) TestRail
10 4 (1.78%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.78%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.33%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (1.33%) Fiddler
11 3 (1.33%) git-flow
12 2 (0.89%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.89%) Maven
General
1 64 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.89%) Finance
3 29 (12.89%) Documentation Skills
4 27 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 23 (10.22%) Banking
6 14 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.22%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.11%) Retail
8 4 (1.78%) Military
9 3 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.33%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (37.78%) Architect
2 26 (11.56%) Developer
3 25 (11.11%) Lead
3 25 (11.11%) Senior
4 24 (10.67%) Technical Architect
5 13 (5.78%) AWS Architect
5 13 (5.78%) CyberArk Architect
6 11 (4.89%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (4.00%) IAM Specialist
7 9 (4.00%) Security Architect
7 9 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (4.00%) Test Engineer
8 8 (3.56%) Java Developer
8 8 (3.56%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.11%) Lead Architect
10 6 (2.67%) Analyst
10 6 (2.67%) IAM Developer
10 6 (2.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (77.78%) OAuth
2 136 (60.44%) SAML
3 117 (52.00%) OAuth2
4 77 (34.22%) LDAP
5 47 (20.89%) REST
6 40 (17.78%) SailPoint
7 27 (12.00%) RESTful
8 21 (9.33%) .NET
8 21 (9.33%) Kafka
9 20 (8.89%) JWT
10 16 (7.11%) Node.js
11 15 (6.67%) Spring
11 15 (6.67%) Spring Boot
12 14 (6.22%) OpenTelemetry
12 14 (6.22%) Web Services
13 12 (5.33%) JSON
14 11 (4.89%) React
15 10 (4.44%) Playwright
16 9 (4.00%) SOAP
17 7 (3.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (26.22%) Cloud Native
2 36 (16.00%) Onboarding
3 18 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.22%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.78%) PKI
6 7 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.11%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.11%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.22%) Clustering
7 5 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.22%) IoT
7 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.78%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.33%) Replication
10 2 (0.89%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.89%) Windows
2 10 (4.44%) Linux
3 5 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.33%) Android
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 95 (42.22%) DevOps
3 59 (26.22%) Identity Access Management
4 55 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (24.44%) RBAC
5 49 (21.78%) Microservices
6 47 (20.89%) Agile
7 40 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (17.33%) Event-Driven
9 38 (16.89%) Containerisation
9 38 (16.89%) Secrets Management
10 37 (16.44%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (16.00%) Roadmaps
12 34 (15.11%) Observability
12 34 (15.11%) Test Automation
13 33 (14.67%) Zero Trust
14 32 (14.22%) Architectural Patterns
14 32 (14.22%) Design Patterns
14 32 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 61 (27.11%) Java
2 43 (19.11%) Python
3 42 (18.67%) SQL
4 29 (12.89%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.78%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.11%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.22%) Bicep
7 14 (6.22%) C#
8 9 (4.00%) Go
9 7 (3.11%) PHP
10 5 (2.22%) Scala
11 4 (1.78%) Bash
11 4 (1.78%) Cypher
11 4 (1.78%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.89%) Groovy
12 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 70 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 56 (24.89%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.00%) CISSP
4 12 (5.33%) Degree
5 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.56%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.56%) CISM
7 7 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.22%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.33%) CSPO
10 3 (1.33%) GIAC
11 2 (0.89%) CEH
11 2 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.89%) MCSE
12 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (15.11%) NIST
3 21 (9.33%) GDPR
4 20 (8.89%) QA
5 18 (8.00%) NCSC
6 10 (4.44%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.11%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (2.22%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.78%) Accessibility
11 3 (1.33%) GRC
11 3 (1.33%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.33%) SEPA
11 3 (1.33%) WCAG
12 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.89%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.89%) PSD2
13 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 58 (25.78%) Active Directory
2 36 (16.00%) Docker
3 10 (4.44%) Squid
4 5 (2.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.22%) RACF
5 2 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (28.00%) Kubernetes
1 63 (28.00%) Single Sign-On
2 56 (24.89%) Terraform
3 20 (8.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (8.44%) Grafana
4 19 (8.44%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.00%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.56%) Consul
7 5 (2.22%) Ansible
7 5 (2.22%) Argo
7 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.78%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.78%) Istio
8 4 (1.78%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.78%) linkerd
8 4 (1.78%) PingFederate
9 3 (1.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.44%) Packer
10 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.78%) ServiceNow
3 30 (13.33%) CyberArk
4 19 (8.44%) Okta
5 18 (8.00%) Splunk
6 15 (6.67%) Google
7 13 (5.78%) Ping Identity
8 12 (5.33%) Dynatrace
9 9 (4.00%) Red Hat
10 8 (3.56%) ForgeRock
11 7 (3.11%) Atlassian
12 6 (2.67%) MuleSoft
12 6 (2.67%) SAP
13 5 (2.22%) Denodo
13 5 (2.22%) Workday
14 4 (1.78%) BeyondTrust
15 3 (1.33%) Oracle
15 3 (1.33%) VMware
16 2 (0.89%) NetIQ
16 2 (0.89%) Thycotic