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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 433 458
Rank change year-on-year +50 +25 +198
Contract jobs citing OpenID 148 84 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.22% 1.23% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 59 93
10th Percentile £371 £412 £458
25th Percentile £413 £469 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -9.80% -1.92%
75th Percentile £566 £650 £681
90th Percentile £645 £730 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £618
% change year-on-year -13.04% -6.88% -3.52%
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 £59.00 - -

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 6,661 6,822 8,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.86% 21.87% 22.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,489 4,349 6,569
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £635 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 110 180
10th Percentile £30.75 £26.95 £37.73
25th Percentile £42.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
% change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%

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 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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 +23 60 £500 -13.04% 29
South West +28 28 £525 -4.72% 16
North of England -13 21 £415 -36.23% 1
Midlands -5 19 £429 +0.94% 2
East Midlands - 13 £413 - 1
North West - 12 £433 - 1
Yorkshire -20 9 £408 -
South East -10 8 £475 -17.39% 17
West Midlands -16 6 £538 +26.47% 1
East of England - 5 £413 -
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 (8.11%) Apache
1 12 (8.11%) JBoss
2 11 (7.43%) IIS
2 11 (7.43%) WebSphere
3 10 (6.76%) iPlanet
3 10 (6.76%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (3.38%) CMS
4 5 (3.38%) Headless CMS
5 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.03%) Confluence
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (57.43%) AWS
2 71 (47.97%) Azure
3 45 (30.41%) Entra ID
4 37 (25.00%) GCP
5 24 (16.22%) SaaS
6 19 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (10.14%) GitHub
8 12 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (8.11%) OpenShift
9 11 (7.43%) Serverless
10 9 (6.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.73%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.73%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (4.05%) PaaS
14 5 (3.38%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.16%) Kerberos
2 14 (9.46%) Firewall
3 12 (8.11%) DNS
4 5 (3.38%) SSL
5 4 (2.70%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.35%) HTTP
6 2 (1.35%) Internet
6 2 (1.35%) Network Security
6 2 (1.35%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.35%) VPN
7 1 (0.68%) DHCP
7 1 (0.68%) Extranet
7 1 (0.68%) SMTP
7 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.11%) Oracle Database
2 6 (4.05%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.03%) Metadata
3 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.03%) Power BI
4 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) Redis
5 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (13.51%) Git
2 19 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.43%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (7.43%) CA Release Automation
3 11 (7.43%) GitLab
4 9 (6.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (4.05%) Maven
6 5 (3.38%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.38%) JIRA
6 5 (3.38%) JUnit
6 5 (3.38%) Mockito
6 5 (3.38%) Selenium
7 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.03%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.68%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.68%) Mocha
General
1 74 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (16.89%) Finance
4 12 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (7.43%) Aviation
6 9 (6.08%) Banking
6 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.03%) Legal
7 3 (2.03%) Retail
8 2 (1.35%) Billing
8 2 (1.35%) Publishing
8 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Military
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 24 (16.22%) Architect
2 17 (11.49%) Developer
3 16 (10.81%) Senior
4 10 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (6.08%) Analyst
5 9 (6.08%) Business Analyst
5 9 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (5.41%) Consultant
7 7 (4.73%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) Identity Management Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) Java Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) Lead
8 5 (3.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.38%) ForgeRock Developer
8 5 (3.38%) IAM Specialist
8 5 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (88.51%) OAuth
2 118 (79.73%) SAML
3 72 (48.65%) OAuth2
4 48 (32.43%) LDAP
5 23 (15.54%) Spring
6 15 (10.14%) RESTful
7 14 (9.46%) JSON
7 14 (9.46%) REST
8 13 (8.78%) Hibernate
9 10 (6.76%) SailPoint
10 9 (6.08%) .NET
10 9 (6.08%) React
11 8 (5.41%) GraphQL
11 8 (5.41%) JDBC
11 8 (5.41%) Spring Boot
12 6 (4.05%) HTML
13 5 (3.38%) Gherkin
13 5 (3.38%) JPA
13 5 (3.38%) Playwright
13 5 (3.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.16%) Onboarding
2 17 (11.49%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (8.11%) PKI
4 8 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.73%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.05%) Replication
7 4 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.03%) BYOD
8 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.03%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.68%) Contactless
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.68%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.89%) Windows
2 20 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 18 (12.16%) Linux
4 8 (5.41%) Unix
5 2 (1.35%) Android
6 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (39.86%) Identity Access Management
2 54 (36.49%) RBAC
3 46 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 42 (28.38%) DevOps
6 34 (22.97%) Identity Management
7 27 (18.24%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 25 (16.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (15.54%) Containerisation
9 23 (15.54%) DevSecOps
10 21 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (13.51%) Agile
11 20 (13.51%) Microservices
12 17 (11.49%) Migration
13 15 (10.14%) Mentoring
13 15 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (8.11%) B2C
15 12 (8.11%) Privileged Identity Management
15 12 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (26.35%) PowerShell
2 35 (23.65%) Java
3 24 (16.22%) Python
4 19 (12.84%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.46%) Groovy
6 9 (6.08%) Shell Script
7 8 (5.41%) Bash
7 8 (5.41%) SQL
8 6 (4.05%) C#
9 3 (2.03%) PHP
10 2 (1.35%) C
10 2 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) Go
11 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.68%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.68%) Swift
11 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (8.78%) DV Cleared
5 12 (8.11%) AWS Certification
6 10 (6.76%) CISSP
7 9 (6.08%) Degree
8 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.70%) CISM
8 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.35%) CCSP
10 2 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.68%) ISSAP
11 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.32%) GDPR
2 18 (12.16%) HIPAA
2 18 (12.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.11%) NIST
4 10 (6.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (5.41%) SOC 2
6 6 (4.05%) PSD2
6 6 (4.05%) QA
7 5 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (3.38%) WCAG
8 4 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.70%) PCI DSS
9 3 (2.03%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.35%) SLA
11 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 69 (46.62%) Active Directory
2 32 (21.62%) Docker
3 8 (5.41%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (49.32%) Single Sign-On
2 31 (20.95%) Terraform
3 29 (19.59%) Kubernetes
4 14 (9.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (8.78%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 11 (7.43%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (6.76%) Ansible
7 10 (6.76%) CA Wily
8 9 (6.08%) Grafana
8 9 (6.08%) PingFederate
8 9 (6.08%) Progress Chef
9 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (5.41%) Tivoli
10 5 (3.38%) Kibana
11 3 (2.03%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.03%) SCCM
12 2 (1.35%) Argo
12 2 (1.35%) Puppet
13 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.68%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 72 (48.65%) Microsoft
2 31 (20.95%) Ping Identity
3 25 (16.89%) IBM
4 16 (10.81%) ForgeRock
5 15 (10.14%) Oracle
6 14 (9.46%) Okta
7 13 (8.78%) Splunk
8 11 (7.43%) Broadcom
9 10 (6.76%) AppDynamics
9 10 (6.76%) CyberArk
10 8 (5.41%) Alibaba
10 8 (5.41%) VMware
11 5 (3.38%) Google
12 4 (2.70%) ServiceNow
13 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
14 2 (1.35%) MuleSoft
14 2 (1.35%) Optimizely
14 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
14 2 (1.35%) Xamarin
15 1 (0.68%) Thales