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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 389 445
Rank change year-on-year -17 +56 +48
Contract jobs citing OpenID 219 122 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.44% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 1.97% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 89 58
10th Percentile £403 £362 £425
25th Percentile £494 £425 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -13.58% -
75th Percentile £668 £638 £624
90th Percentile £775 £676 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £544 £600
% change year-on-year +1.20% -9.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.46 - -
75th Percentile £86.62 - -
90th Percentile £87.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.46 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +40.83% - -

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 8,461 6,180 7,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.57% 22.21% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,535 4,246 5,039
10th Percentile £363 £350 £359
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £641 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 152 226
10th Percentile £28.22 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £45.63 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -9.20%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -50 97 £550 -7.80% 76
South East -22 52 £500 +5.26% 14
North of England -36 46 £620 +51.59% 14
Yorkshire -27 27 £620 +51.59% 9
North West -34 16 £712 +70.54% 4
South West -44 8 £550 +23.04% 6
Midlands -57 6 £401 -2.79% 4
East of England - 5 £543 - 1
West Midlands -47 4 £488 -19.03% 4
North East - 4 £494 - 1
East Midlands -20 2 £401 -2.20%
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 (7.31%) Confluence
2 5 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.37%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 134 (61.19%) Azure
2 95 (43.38%) Entra ID
3 84 (38.36%) AWS
4 48 (21.92%) GCP
5 28 (12.79%) Serverless
6 24 (10.96%) SaaS
7 19 (8.68%) Azure AKS
8 15 (6.85%) Azure API Management
8 15 (6.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 14 (6.39%) Amazon S3
9 14 (6.39%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.94%) GitHub
10 13 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.02%) Azure App Service
12 9 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.65%) Azure Functions
14 7 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.22%) DNS
2 14 (6.39%) Firewall
3 13 (5.94%) Kerberos
4 8 (3.65%) SSL
5 6 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.83%) DHCP
6 4 (1.83%) Network Security
7 3 (1.37%) HTTP
7 3 (1.37%) NGFW
7 3 (1.37%) OpenVPN
7 3 (1.37%) VPN
8 1 (0.46%) SSH
8 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.11%) NoSQL
1 9 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (4.11%) Relational Database
2 8 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.28%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.28%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.83%) Metadata
5 4 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.37%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.91%) MySQL
7 2 (0.91%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.91%) Parquet
8 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (9.13%) Git
2 16 (7.31%) JIRA
3 8 (3.65%) GitLab
3 8 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.83%) JMeter
5 3 (1.37%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.37%) Fiddler
5 3 (1.37%) git-flow
5 3 (1.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.91%) Gatling
6 2 (0.91%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.91%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) Gradle
7 1 (0.46%) Maven
General
1 49 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 44 (20.09%) Public Sector
3 41 (18.72%) Finance
4 19 (8.68%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (7.31%) Banking
6 14 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.65%) Military
7 8 (3.65%) Retail
8 4 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (25.57%) Architect
2 37 (16.89%) Developer
3 26 (11.87%) Lead
4 21 (9.59%) Senior
5 20 (9.13%) Technical Architect
6 17 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (7.31%) IAM Specialist
8 11 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (5.02%) Technical Leader
9 10 (4.57%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.11%) IAM Developer
11 8 (3.65%) Security Architect
12 7 (3.20%) AWS Architect
12 7 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) Lead Developer
13 6 (2.74%) Azure Developer
13 6 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.74%) Lead Architect
14 5 (2.28%) Data Engineer
14 5 (2.28%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (88.13%) OAuth
2 136 (62.10%) SAML
3 121 (55.25%) OAuth2
4 59 (26.94%) LDAP
5 40 (18.26%) REST
6 34 (15.53%) SailPoint
7 32 (14.61%) RESTful
8 23 (10.50%) .NET
9 17 (7.76%) JWT
10 16 (7.31%) React
11 15 (6.85%) Web Services
12 14 (6.39%) JSON
12 14 (6.39%) Kafka
12 14 (6.39%) Node.js
13 11 (5.02%) .NET Framework
13 11 (5.02%) SOAP
14 10 (4.57%) Entity Framework
15 9 (4.11%) .NET Core
15 9 (4.11%) HTML
15 9 (4.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 56 (25.57%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.24%) Onboarding
3 23 (10.50%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (10.05%) PKI
5 19 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (6.39%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.11%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.65%) IoT
9 7 (3.20%) Mobile App
9 7 (3.20%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.28%) Clustering
11 5 (2.28%) NHS
12 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (1.37%) CMDB
13 3 (1.37%) Operational Technology
13 3 (1.37%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.94%) Linux
2 10 (4.57%) Windows
3 3 (1.37%) Android
3 3 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.37%) Unix
3 3 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) CentOS
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (36.99%) CI/CD
2 71 (32.42%) DevOps
3 69 (31.51%) Identity Access Management
4 61 (27.85%) RBAC
5 50 (22.83%) Microservices
6 44 (20.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (20.09%) Zero Trust
7 42 (19.18%) Agile
8 41 (18.72%) Containerisation
9 39 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (15.98%) Roadmaps
11 33 (15.07%) Analytics
12 32 (14.61%) Mentoring
13 31 (14.16%) Test Automation
14 30 (13.70%) Event-Driven
15 29 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (12.79%) Runbook
17 27 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 27 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
18 26 (11.87%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.11%) Python
2 47 (21.46%) Java
3 42 (19.18%) PowerShell
4 25 (11.42%) SQL
5 24 (10.96%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.59%) C#
7 18 (8.22%) TypeScript
8 17 (7.76%) Bicep
9 6 (2.74%) Bash
10 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.37%) Go
11 3 (1.37%) Groovy
11 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.91%) Cypher
12 2 (0.91%) PHP
13 1 (0.46%) C++
13 1 (0.46%) Perl
13 1 (0.46%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 55 (25.11%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.42%) Degree
4 21 (9.59%) CISSP
5 15 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (6.39%) Azure Certification
7 11 (5.02%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.11%) CISM
9 7 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.20%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.28%) CSPO
11 4 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.83%) GIAC
12 3 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.37%) MCSE
13 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.91%) CEH
13 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (10.50%) GDPR
3 22 (10.05%) NIST
4 12 (5.48%) QA
5 7 (3.20%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.74%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.74%) NCSC
6 6 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.28%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.91%) HL7
8 2 (0.91%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.91%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.91%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.46%) SEPA
9 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (36.07%) Active Directory
2 35 (15.98%) Docker
3 3 (1.37%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.37%) Squid
3 3 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (24.66%) Single Sign-On
2 51 (23.29%) Terraform
3 45 (20.55%) Kubernetes
4 22 (10.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 12 (5.48%) Grafana
6 10 (4.57%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.74%) Ansible
9 5 (2.28%) Istio
9 5 (2.28%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.83%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.83%) Consul
10 4 (1.83%) linkerd
10 4 (1.83%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (1.37%) Argo
11 3 (1.37%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.91%) Packer
12 2 (0.91%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (39.73%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.59%) Okta
3 15 (6.85%) Ping Identity
4 14 (6.39%) CyberArk
4 14 (6.39%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.02%) Google
6 9 (4.11%) ForgeRock
7 7 (3.20%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.74%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.74%) SAP
9 5 (2.28%) Denodo
9 5 (2.28%) Workday
10 3 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.37%) Splunk
11 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.91%) IBM
11 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.91%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.91%) VMware