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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 390 449
Rank change year-on-year -20 +59 +43
Contract jobs citing OpenID 222 124 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.45% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.28% 1.80% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 94 55
10th Percentile £412 £363 £425
25th Percentile £500 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £496 £585
Median % change year-on-year +15.93% -15.21% -2.50%
75th Percentile £659 £603 £622
90th Percentile £753 £677 £645
UK median daily rate £560 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.58% -
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 9,753 6,907 8,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 24.89% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,423 4,743 5,578
10th Percentile £376 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 166 183
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.72% -12.34% -3.10%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.51 £76.85 £74.79
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 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 31 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 31 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 -44 92 £569 -1.09% 80
South East -18 51 £513 -4.65% 14
North of England -44 46 £623 +52.20% 10
Yorkshire -27 29 £625 +53.37% 8
North West -43 14 £694 +65.12%
Midlands -53 11 £585 +41.82% 7
South West -41 10 £575 +28.64% 7
West Midlands -37 8 £620 +2.82% 6
East of England - 7 £555 - 3
North East - 4 £494 - 2
East Midlands -24 3 £402 -1.95% 1
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 13 (5.86%) Confluence
2 5 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.90%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 136 (61.26%) Azure
2 97 (43.69%) Entra ID
3 90 (40.54%) AWS
4 54 (24.32%) GCP
5 28 (12.61%) Serverless
6 24 (10.81%) SaaS
7 16 (7.21%) GitHub
8 15 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (5.86%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.86%) Azure API Management
10 13 (5.86%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (4.50%) Azure App Service
13 9 (4.05%) Amazon S3
13 9 (4.05%) Azure Functions
13 9 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (3.15%) Azure Event Grid
15 6 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.66%) DNS
2 14 (6.31%) Kerberos
3 13 (5.86%) Firewall
4 9 (4.05%) SSL
5 5 (2.25%) Network Security
6 4 (1.80%) DHCP
6 4 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.35%) NGFW
8 2 (0.90%) HTTP
9 1 (0.45%) DMZ
9 1 (0.45%) Internet
9 1 (0.45%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.45%) SSH
9 1 (0.45%) VPN
9 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.95%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.25%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.80%) Metadata
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.90%) MySQL
9 2 (0.90%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.90%) Redis
10 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.45%) Parquet
10 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (10.81%) Git
2 16 (7.21%) JIRA
3 12 (5.41%) GitLab
4 8 (3.60%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.80%) JMeter
5 4 (1.80%) Maven
5 4 (1.80%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.35%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.35%) JUnit
7 2 (0.90%) Gatling
7 2 (0.90%) git-flow
7 2 (0.90%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.90%) Postman
7 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.45%) Gradle
8 1 (0.45%) Mockito
8 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 49 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 42 (18.92%) Finance
4 17 (7.66%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.76%) Banking
6 11 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.60%) Military
8 6 (2.70%) Retail
9 4 (1.80%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (25.23%) Architect
2 40 (18.02%) Developer
3 28 (12.61%) Lead
4 23 (10.36%) Technical Architect
5 19 (8.56%) Senior
6 15 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (6.76%) IAM Specialist
7 13 (5.86%) Java Developer
7 13 (5.86%) Technical Leader
8 10 (4.50%) IAM Developer
8 10 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.60%) AWS Architect
9 8 (3.60%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.15%) Lead Developer
11 6 (2.70%) Lead Architect
12 5 (2.25%) Azure Developer
12 5 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.25%) Product Owner
12 5 (2.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (87.39%) OAuth
2 131 (59.01%) SAML
3 114 (51.35%) OAuth2
4 59 (26.58%) LDAP
5 50 (22.52%) Terraform
6 41 (18.47%) REST
7 33 (14.86%) RESTful
8 32 (14.41%) SailPoint
9 23 (10.36%) .NET
10 19 (8.56%) React
11 18 (8.11%) JWT
12 15 (6.76%) Web Services
13 14 (6.31%) Kafka
14 13 (5.86%) JSON
15 12 (5.41%) CSS
16 11 (4.95%) Node.js
16 11 (4.95%) Spring
17 10 (4.50%) HTML
17 10 (4.50%) SOAP
17 10 (4.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 61 (27.48%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.71%) Onboarding
3 23 (10.36%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (9.46%) PKI
5 20 (9.01%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (6.76%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.60%) IoT
7 8 (3.60%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.70%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.70%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.25%) Clustering
9 5 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.25%) NHS
10 4 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.80%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.35%) CMDB
11 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.86%) Linux
2 11 (4.95%) Windows
3 4 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.35%) Android
4 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) CentOS
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (36.94%) CI/CD
2 77 (34.68%) Identity Access Management
3 72 (32.43%) DevOps
4 57 (25.68%) RBAC
5 53 (23.87%) Microservices
6 49 (22.07%) Agile
7 43 (19.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (18.47%) Containerisation
8 41 (18.47%) Zero Trust
9 39 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (17.57%) Technical Leadership
10 37 (16.67%) Roadmaps
11 33 (14.86%) Mentoring
11 33 (14.86%) Test Automation
12 32 (14.41%) Event-Driven
12 32 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (13.96%) Analytics
14 29 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 27 (12.16%) Runbook
16 26 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 61 (27.48%) Python
2 52 (23.42%) Java
3 41 (18.47%) PowerShell
4 26 (11.71%) JavaScript
5 24 (10.81%) SQL
6 20 (9.01%) C#
7 17 (7.66%) Bicep
8 16 (7.21%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.70%) Bash
10 3 (1.35%) Go
10 3 (1.35%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.90%) Cypher
11 2 (0.90%) Groovy
11 2 (0.90%) PHP
12 1 (0.45%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Perl
12 1 (0.45%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (30.63%) Security Cleared
2 57 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.16%) Degree
4 18 (8.11%) CISSP
5 14 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.41%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.95%) AWS Certification
8 10 (4.50%) Master's Degree
9 9 (4.05%) CISM
9 9 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.25%) CSPO
11 3 (1.35%) CEH
11 3 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.35%) MCSE
12 2 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.90%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (10.81%) GDPR
2 24 (10.81%) NIST
3 14 (6.31%) QA
4 8 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.70%) NCSC
5 6 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.25%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.90%) HL7
7 2 (0.90%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 13485
7 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.90%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 78 (35.14%) Active Directory
2 35 (15.77%) Docker
3 3 (1.35%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.45%) Squid
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (23.87%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (22.07%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (5.41%) Grafana
5 10 (4.50%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.25%) Ansible
7 5 (2.25%) Istio
7 5 (2.25%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.80%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.80%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (1.35%) Argo
9 3 (1.35%) linkerd
10 2 (0.90%) Consul
10 2 (0.90%) Packer
10 2 (0.90%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.45%) Kibana
11 1 (0.45%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 90 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.91%) Okta
3 15 (6.76%) CyberArk
4 14 (6.31%) Google
4 14 (6.31%) Ping Identity
5 13 (5.86%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.15%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.15%) ForgeRock
7 6 (2.70%) SAP
8 5 (2.25%) Denodo
8 5 (2.25%) Workday
9 3 (1.35%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.35%) Cisco
9 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.35%) Oracle
9 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.35%) Splunk
10 2 (0.90%) IBM
10 2 (0.90%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.90%) VMware