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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 389 435
Rank change year-on-year -23 +46 +62
Contract jobs citing OpenID 217 117 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.56% 1.90% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 83 57
10th Percentile £402 £401 £425
25th Percentile £500 £430 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £671 £638 £625
90th Percentile £775 £677 £700
UK median daily rate £558 £550 £605
% change year-on-year +1.36% -9.09% +0.83%
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 8,476 6,174 7,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.69% 22.23% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,546 4,257 5,082
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
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 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 148 231
10th Percentile £28.93 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £46.80 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73.46 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.47 £79.09 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.32% +2.21% -10.42%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -29 95 £563 -8.39% 68
South East -22 51 £525 +10.53% 13
North of England -42 46 £623 +31.05% 6
Yorkshire -31 28 £620 +51.59% 5
North West -40 16 £712 +44.72% 1
South West -40 8 £550 +23.04% 6
Midlands -54 7 £402 -2.55% 1
West Midlands -55 5 £450 -25.37% 1
East of England - 5 £543 - 4
North East - 4 £525 -
East Midlands -27 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 (7.37%) Confluence
2 5 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.84%) nginx
3 4 (1.84%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 131 (60.37%) Azure
2 93 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 85 (39.17%) AWS
4 46 (21.20%) GCP
5 30 (13.82%) Serverless
6 24 (11.06%) SaaS
7 18 (8.29%) Azure AKS
8 15 (6.91%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.91%) Azure Key Vault
9 14 (6.45%) Azure API Management
10 13 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (5.07%) Azure App Service
11 11 (5.07%) GitHub
11 11 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.69%) Azure Functions
14 7 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.83%) DNS
2 14 (6.45%) Firewall
3 13 (5.99%) Kerberos
4 8 (3.69%) SSL
5 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.84%) DHCP
6 4 (1.84%) Network Security
6 4 (1.84%) OpenVPN
6 4 (1.84%) VPN
7 2 (0.92%) HTTP
7 2 (0.92%) NGFW
8 1 (0.46%) IPsec
8 1 (0.46%) SSH
8 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.15%) NoSQL
1 9 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (4.15%) Relational Database
2 8 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.76%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.30%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.84%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.84%) Metadata
5 4 (1.84%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.92%) MySQL
6 2 (0.92%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.92%) Parquet
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.46%) Redis
7 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.29%) Git
2 16 (7.37%) JIRA
3 7 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.76%) GitLab
5 4 (1.84%) JMeter
6 3 (1.38%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.38%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.38%) git-flow
6 3 (1.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.92%) Gatling
7 2 (0.92%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.92%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.46%) Gradle
8 1 (0.46%) Maven
8 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.89%) Finance
3 40 (18.43%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.29%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (7.37%) Banking
6 14 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.69%) Military
7 8 (3.69%) Retail
8 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.84%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.92%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (26.27%) Architect
2 37 (17.05%) Developer
3 27 (12.44%) Lead
4 21 (9.68%) Senior
4 21 (9.68%) Technical Architect
5 17 (7.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (6.91%) IAM Specialist
7 10 (4.61%) Java Developer
7 10 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.61%) Technical Leader
8 9 (4.15%) IAM Developer
9 8 (3.69%) AWS Architect
9 8 (3.69%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.23%) Lead Developer
11 6 (2.76%) Azure Developer
11 6 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (2.76%) Lead Architect
12 5 (2.30%) Consultant
12 5 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (88.02%) OAuth
2 135 (62.21%) SAML
3 119 (54.84%) OAuth2
4 59 (27.19%) LDAP
5 40 (18.43%) REST
6 34 (15.67%) SailPoint
7 30 (13.82%) RESTful
8 23 (10.60%) .NET
9 16 (7.37%) JWT
9 16 (7.37%) Web Services
10 15 (6.91%) Kafka
10 15 (6.91%) Node.js
10 15 (6.91%) React
11 14 (6.45%) JSON
12 11 (5.07%) .NET Framework
12 11 (5.07%) SOAP
13 10 (4.61%) Entity Framework
13 10 (4.61%) Spring
14 9 (4.15%) .NET Core
15 8 (3.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (24.88%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.44%) Onboarding
3 22 (10.14%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (10.14%) PKI
4 19 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (6.45%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.15%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.69%) IoT
8 7 (3.23%) Mobile App
8 7 (3.23%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.30%) Clustering
10 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.30%) NHS
11 4 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.92%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.53%) Linux
2 10 (4.61%) Windows
3 3 (1.38%) Android
3 3 (1.38%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) CentOS
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (36.87%) CI/CD
2 71 (32.72%) DevOps
3 70 (32.26%) Identity Access Management
4 60 (27.65%) RBAC
5 49 (22.58%) Microservices
6 44 (20.28%) Agile
6 44 (20.28%) Zero Trust
7 42 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (18.43%) Containerisation
9 39 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (17.05%) Roadmaps
11 32 (14.75%) Mentoring
12 30 (13.82%) Analytics
12 30 (13.82%) Event-Driven
12 30 (13.82%) Test Automation
13 29 (13.36%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (12.44%) Runbook
15 26 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (11.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 25 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (24.42%) Python
2 48 (22.12%) Java
3 40 (18.43%) PowerShell
4 25 (11.52%) SQL
5 22 (10.14%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.68%) C#
7 20 (9.22%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.37%) Bicep
9 5 (2.30%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.84%) Bash
11 2 (0.92%) Cypher
11 2 (0.92%) Go
11 2 (0.92%) Groovy
11 2 (0.92%) PHP
11 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.46%) C++
12 1 (0.46%) Perl
12 1 (0.46%) Scala
12 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 55 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.06%) Degree
4 22 (10.14%) CISSP
5 14 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.99%) Azure Certification
7 11 (5.07%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.15%) CISM
9 6 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.76%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.30%) CSPO
11 4 (1.84%) GIAC
12 3 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.92%) CEH
13 2 (0.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (10.60%) GDPR
3 22 (10.14%) NIST
4 11 (5.07%) QA
5 6 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.76%) NCSC
5 6 (2.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.30%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.92%) HL7
8 2 (0.92%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.92%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.92%) 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 77 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 35 (16.13%) Docker
3 4 (1.84%) Squid
4 3 (1.38%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.46%) RACF
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (26.27%) Single Sign-On
2 50 (23.04%) Terraform
3 43 (19.82%) Kubernetes
4 22 (10.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (5.99%) Grafana
6 11 (5.07%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.30%) Ansible
9 4 (1.84%) Argo
9 4 (1.84%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.84%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.84%) Istio
9 4 (1.84%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.84%) linkerd
9 4 (1.84%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.84%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (1.38%) Consul
11 1 (0.46%) Packer
11 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (39.63%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.60%) Okta
3 15 (6.91%) CyberArk
3 15 (6.91%) Ping Identity
4 14 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.61%) ForgeRock
5 10 (4.61%) Google
6 7 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.76%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.76%) SAP
8 5 (2.30%) Denodo
8 5 (2.30%) Workday
9 4 (1.84%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (1.84%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.92%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.92%) Sparx
10 2 (0.92%) Splunk
10 2 (0.92%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.92%) VMware