OpenID Contract Job Trends in the North West

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring OpenID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - 124
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing OpenID 15 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.60% - 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.98% - 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 12
10th Percentile £305 - £375
25th Percentile £343 - £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £487 - £466
90th Percentile £600 - £565
England median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 503 353 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.27% 16.29% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 231 449
10th Percentile £325 £356 £367
25th Percentile £381 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £669 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 31
10th Percentile £50.25 - £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +41.84% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £74.98 £78.80 £73.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

OpenID job vacancy trend in the North West

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OpenID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OpenID

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in the North West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the North West

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Cheshire - 9 £446 -
Manchester - 6 £536 - 6
OpenID
England

OpenID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (73.33%) Apache
1 11 (73.33%) IIS
1 11 (73.33%) JBoss
1 11 (73.33%) WebSphere
2 10 (66.67%) iPlanet
2 10 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 11 (73.33%) CA Release Automation
1 11 (73.33%) Git
1 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (53.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Integration Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) OAuth
2 12 (80.00%) SAML
3 10 (66.67%) LDAP
4 4 (26.67%) OAuth2
5 3 (20.00%) Node.js
5 3 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (53.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (20.00%) Observability
5 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (20.00%) Secrets Management
5 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Webhook
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Groovy
2 8 (53.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (60.00%) Docker
3 8 (53.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (66.67%) CA Wily
3 9 (60.00%) Progress Chef
4 8 (53.33%) Tivoli
5 5 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Broadcom
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 10 (66.67%) IBM
2 10 (66.67%) Oracle
2 10 (66.67%) Splunk