OpenID Contracts in England

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenID over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 429 530
Rank change year-on-year +45 +101 +87
Contract jobs citing OpenID 96 109 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 1.45% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 74 87
10th Percentile £411 £430 £450
25th Percentile £450 £503 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £639 £645 £675
90th Percentile £685 £815 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £620 £560
% change year-on-year -11.29% +10.71% -6.67%

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 5,325 7,506 10,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.34% 20.66% 22.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,690 5,336 8,145
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £791 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 234 129
10th Percentile £27.97 £22.50 £25.75
25th Percentile £43.70 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £74.48 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +30.00%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in England

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenID in England.

Daily rate trend for OpenID in England

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily 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 23 May 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 +50 52 £630 +2.86% 58
North of England +15 14 £509 +4.31% 62
South West +45 11 £447 - 31
North West +12 9 £525 +16.67% 28
Midlands +10 8 £407 -34.31% 57
East Midlands +2 7 £375 -39.52% 27
Yorkshire +11 5 £469 -10.67% 27
South East +43 4 £575 +15.00% 72
West Midlands - 1 £603 - 27
OpenID
UK

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.21%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.08%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (53.13%) Azure
2 41 (42.71%) Entra ID
3 32 (33.33%) AWS
4 16 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 16 (16.67%) GitHub
4 16 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (15.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 15 (15.63%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (8.33%) GCP
6 8 (8.33%) OCI
7 6 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.25%) SaaS
8 5 (5.21%) IaaS
8 5 (5.21%) PaaS
8 5 (5.21%) Serverless
9 4 (4.17%) Lucidchart
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.13%) AWS KMS
10 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) DNS
2 8 (8.33%) Kerberos
3 6 (6.25%) Firewall
3 6 (6.25%) HTTPS
4 4 (4.17%) SSL
5 2 (2.08%) HTTP
5 2 (2.08%) IPsec
6 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.08%) Redis
5 1 (1.04%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Git
2 5 (5.21%) JIRA
3 4 (4.17%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) Maven
5 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (19.79%) Public Sector
2 17 (17.71%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.63%) Finance
4 12 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Banking
6 2 (2.08%) French Language
7 1 (1.04%) Advertising
7 1 (1.04%) Front Office
7 1 (1.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (33.33%) Architect
2 15 (15.63%) Developer
3 14 (14.58%) Software Engineer
4 11 (11.46%) Security Architect
5 10 (10.42%) Python Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) AWS Specialist
7 7 (7.29%) IAM Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.13%) C# Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Java Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Senior
12 2 (2.08%) ForgeRock Developer
12 2 (2.08%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (88.54%) OAuth
2 56 (58.33%) SAML
3 34 (35.42%) OAuth2
4 18 (18.75%) Kafka
5 16 (16.67%) REST
6 15 (15.63%) LDAP
7 13 (13.54%) SailPoint
8 9 (9.38%) NumPy
8 9 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (9.38%) Pandas
8 9 (9.38%) Spring
9 8 (8.33%) RESTful
10 7 (7.29%) FastAPI
10 7 (7.29%) Node.js
10 7 (7.29%) React
10 7 (7.29%) SOAP
11 6 (6.25%) JDBC
11 6 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (6.25%) XACML
12 5 (5.21%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Enterprise Software
1 11 (11.46%) PKI
2 8 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.29%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.29%) Taxonomies
4 4 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.08%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.04%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (54.17%) Identity Access Management
2 31 (32.29%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (28.13%) Identity Management
4 23 (23.96%) DevOps
5 21 (21.88%) RBAC
6 20 (20.83%) Agile
7 19 (19.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 14 (14.58%) CI/CD
8 14 (14.58%) Mentoring
8 14 (14.58%) Software Engineering
8 14 (14.58%) Test Automation
9 13 (13.54%) Scrum
10 11 (11.46%) Cloud Security
10 11 (11.46%) Migration
10 11 (11.46%) Open Source
10 11 (11.46%) Quantitative Finance
11 10 (10.42%) API Integration
11 10 (10.42%) Privileged Access Management
12 9 (9.38%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (9.38%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (51.04%) Python
2 30 (31.25%) Java
3 26 (27.08%) C#
4 19 (19.79%) PowerShell
5 17 (17.71%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.33%) SQL
7 3 (3.13%) Bash
8 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.04%) Bicep
9 1 (1.04%) Groovy
9 1 (1.04%) Ruby
9 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.42%) Degree
4 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.29%) OCP
5 7 (7.29%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (4.17%) CISSP
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.04%) CISM
9 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 15 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (13.54%) GDPR
3 13 (13.54%) HIPAA
3 13 (13.54%) NIST
4 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (2.08%) NCSC
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.33%) Docker
3 3 (3.13%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.08%) RACF
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (44.79%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (23.96%) Terraform
3 21 (21.88%) Kubernetes
4 9 (9.38%) Ansible
5 7 (7.29%) MIIS
6 5 (5.21%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (2.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (21.88%) Ping Identity
3 16 (16.67%) Okta
4 12 (12.50%) ForgeRock
5 8 (8.33%) Oracle
6 7 (7.29%) IBM
7 4 (4.17%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.13%) Google
9 1 (1.04%) Confluent
9 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.04%) NetIQ
9 1 (1.04%) Splunk