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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 403 419
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 +161
Contract jobs citing OpenID 169 82 132
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.41% 1.40% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 57 100
10th Percentile £406 £411 £436
25th Percentile £450 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £691
90th Percentile £700 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -11.30% -11.54% +4.00%
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 7,013 5,877 7,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.16% 21.94% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,686 3,757 5,546
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 70 164
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.87
25th Percentile £44.88 £43.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £75.10 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -10 72 £500 -13.04% 55
North of England -23 36 £468 -10.86% 32
South West +8 35 £545 -1.09% 18
Yorkshire - 20 £513 - 18
North West -14 16 £450 -14.29% 14
South East -27 9 £481 -19.79% 34
East of England - 8 £425 - 11
Midlands -35 7 £531 +25.00% 7
West Midlands -30 6 £538 +26.47% 1
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 6
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 12 (7.10%) Apache
2 11 (6.51%) IIS
2 11 (6.51%) JBoss
2 11 (6.51%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.92%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.92%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.78%) Confluence
5 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (52.07%) Azure
2 79 (46.75%) AWS
3 46 (27.22%) Entra ID
4 36 (21.30%) GCP
5 22 (13.02%) SaaS
6 20 (11.83%) GitHub
7 18 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (8.88%) OpenShift
9 14 (8.28%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (7.69%) PaaS
11 10 (5.92%) Serverless
12 8 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (3.55%) Amazon S3
14 6 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (2.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.43%) DNS
1 21 (12.43%) Kerberos
2 20 (11.83%) Firewall
3 7 (4.14%) SSL
4 5 (2.96%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.78%) Internet
6 2 (1.18%) Extranet
6 2 (1.18%) HTTP
6 2 (1.18%) Network Security
6 2 (1.18%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.18%) VPN
7 1 (0.59%) DHCP
7 1 (0.59%) IPsec
7 1 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.59%) SMS
7 1 (0.59%) SMTP
7 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.10%) Oracle Database
2 11 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.92%) MySQL
3 10 (5.92%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.92%) Redis
4 8 (4.73%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.37%) DocumentDB
6 4 (2.37%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.78%) Metadata
7 3 (1.78%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.78%) Power BI
8 2 (1.18%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.18%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 41 (24.26%) Jenkins
2 27 (15.98%) GitLab
3 20 (11.83%) Git
4 18 (10.65%) JIRA
5 16 (9.47%) Selenium
6 14 (8.28%) Cucumber
7 11 (6.51%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (6.51%) CA Release Automation
8 10 (5.92%) REST Assured
9 9 (5.33%) Postman
9 9 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (4.14%) JUnit
10 7 (4.14%) Maven
11 5 (2.96%) Gatling
11 5 (2.96%) Mockito
11 5 (2.96%) TestRail
12 4 (2.37%) Artifactory
12 4 (2.37%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.78%) JMeter
13 3 (1.78%) SonarQube
General
1 68 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.53%) Finance
3 20 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.65%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (8.28%) Banking
6 11 (6.51%) Aviation
6 11 (6.51%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.37%) Legal
8 3 (1.78%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.78%) Games
8 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Billing
9 2 (1.18%) Military
9 2 (1.18%) Retail
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.59%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 36 (21.30%) Architect
2 26 (15.38%) Developer
3 20 (11.83%) Senior
4 14 (8.28%) Lead
5 12 (7.10%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (6.51%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.73%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) ForgeRock Developer
9 7 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Consultant
10 6 (3.55%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.55%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.96%) Security Architect
11 5 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (78.11%) OAuth
2 118 (69.82%) SAML
3 85 (50.30%) OAuth2
4 50 (29.59%) LDAP
5 31 (18.34%) REST
6 22 (13.02%) RESTful
7 18 (10.65%) Spring
8 17 (10.06%) SailPoint
9 16 (9.47%) .NET
9 16 (9.47%) Spring Boot
10 13 (7.69%) Kafka
11 12 (7.10%) React
12 10 (5.92%) HTML
12 10 (5.92%) JPA
13 9 (5.33%) GraphQL
13 9 (5.33%) JSON
14 8 (4.73%) JDBC
14 8 (4.73%) Node.js
14 8 (4.73%) Playwright
15 6 (3.55%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.06%) Cloud Native
1 17 (10.06%) Onboarding
2 15 (8.88%) PKI
3 13 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.92%) Private Cloud
5 9 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.14%) Replication
7 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.37%) BYOD
8 4 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.78%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.18%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.59%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.93%) Windows
2 25 (14.79%) Windows Server
3 19 (11.24%) Linux
4 8 (4.73%) Unix
5 2 (1.18%) Android
6 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.59%) CentOS
6 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (39.05%) CI/CD
2 56 (33.14%) DevOps
3 55 (32.54%) Identity Access Management
4 43 (25.44%) RBAC
5 38 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (18.93%) Microservices
6 32 (18.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 29 (17.16%) Agile
8 27 (15.98%) Identity Management
8 27 (15.98%) Observability
9 24 (14.20%) Migration
9 24 (14.20%) Test Automation
10 22 (13.02%) Containerisation
10 22 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (11.83%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 19 (11.24%) DevSecOps
13 19 (11.24%) Event-Driven
14 17 (10.06%) Secrets Management
14 17 (10.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.22%) Java
2 41 (24.26%) PowerShell
3 36 (21.30%) Python
4 24 (14.20%) JavaScript
4 24 (14.20%) SQL
5 15 (8.88%) Groovy
6 9 (5.33%) Shell Script
6 9 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.73%) C#
7 8 (4.73%) PHP
8 7 (4.14%) Bash
9 5 (2.96%) Go
10 2 (1.18%) C
10 2 (1.18%) Cypher
10 2 (1.18%) Scala
11 1 (0.59%) C++
11 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.59%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.59%) Swift
11 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (13.02%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.83%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.69%) Degree
6 10 (5.92%) CISSP
7 7 (4.14%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.78%) CISM
10 2 (1.18%) CCSP
10 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.59%) HND
11 1 (0.59%) ISSAP
11 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.59%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.79%) GDPR
2 23 (13.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (11.83%) QA
4 17 (10.06%) NIST
5 9 (5.33%) PCI DSS
6 8 (4.73%) PSD2
7 7 (4.14%) HIPAA
7 7 (4.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (4.14%) SOC 2
7 7 (4.14%) WCAG
8 4 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.78%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.78%) NCSC
10 2 (1.18%) ISO 20022
10 2 (1.18%) ISO 8583
10 2 (1.18%) SEPA
10 2 (1.18%) SLA
11 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 66 (39.05%) Active Directory
2 31 (18.34%) Docker
3 8 (4.73%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.78%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (1.18%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.18%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.18%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.59%) Firmware
7 1 (0.59%) RACF
7 1 (0.59%) Squid
Systems Management
1 61 (36.09%) Single Sign-On
2 32 (18.93%) Terraform
3 27 (15.98%) Kubernetes
4 26 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (7.69%) Grafana
6 11 (6.51%) Ansible
6 11 (6.51%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.92%) CA Wily
8 9 (5.33%) PingFederate
8 9 (5.33%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.73%) Tivoli
10 6 (3.55%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.96%) Argo
11 5 (2.96%) Kibana
12 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.78%) SCCM
14 2 (1.18%) Puppet
15 1 (0.59%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.59%) Oracle Identity Manager
15 1 (0.59%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 79 (46.75%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.24%) Ping Identity
3 17 (10.06%) Splunk
4 15 (8.88%) ServiceNow
5 14 (8.28%) Oracle
6 13 (7.69%) ForgeRock
7 12 (7.10%) CyberArk
7 12 (7.10%) Google
7 12 (7.10%) IBM
7 12 (7.10%) Okta
8 11 (6.51%) AppDynamics
8 11 (6.51%) Broadcom
8 11 (6.51%) VMware
9 3 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.18%) Intel
10 2 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.18%) NetIQ
10 2 (1.18%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.18%) Xamarin