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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 121 141
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +30
Contract jobs citing OpenID 14 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.64% 0.042% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.91% 0.28% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 4
10th Percentile £305 - £374
25th Percentile £373 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £620 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +30.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £486 - £581
90th Percentile £492 - £593
England median daily rate £475 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -20.83% - -4.00%

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 481 360 597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.03% 14.97% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 238 469
10th Percentile £316 £324 £363
25th Percentile £374 £382 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £532 £575 £625
90th Percentile £670 £729 £676
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 29
10th Percentile £27.60 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £30.00 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +23.70% +22.54% -34.26%
75th Percentile £88.75 £73.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £93.85 £81.00 £66.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.13% -9.86%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -4 12 £452 -27.18% 2
Manchester - 2 £416 - 2
OpenID
England

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (78.57%) Apache
1 11 (78.57%) IIS
1 11 (78.57%) JBoss
1 11 (78.57%) WebSphere
2 10 (71.43%) iPlanet
2 10 (71.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Kerberos
2 3 (21.43%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Bitbucket Server
1 11 (78.57%) CA Release Automation
1 11 (78.57%) Git
1 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
2 8 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) OAuth
2 11 (78.57%) SAML
3 10 (71.43%) LDAP
4 3 (21.43%) JDBC
4 3 (21.43%) OAuth2
4 3 (21.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) PKI
1 3 (21.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server
3 8 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Identity Access Management
2 10 (71.43%) DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) API Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Coaching
5 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
5 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
5 3 (21.43%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Open Source
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Groovy
2 8 (57.14%) Shell Script
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 9 (64.29%) Docker
3 8 (57.14%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (71.43%) CA Wily
3 9 (64.29%) Progress Chef
4 8 (57.14%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (57.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Broadcom
2 10 (71.43%) AppDynamics
2 10 (71.43%) IBM
2 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 10 (71.43%) Splunk
3 3 (21.43%) ForgeRock
3 3 (21.43%) Ping Identity