OpenID Contracts in Scotland

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 104 152
Rank change year-on-year -3 +48 -1
Contract jobs citing OpenID 8 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.49% 0.72% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.14% 3.57% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile - £417 £464
25th Percentile £550 £427 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £592 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +18.30% -6.54%
75th Percentile £656 £775 £613
90th Percentile £668 - £710
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £563
% change year-on-year -10.20% +8.89% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 374 420 654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.69% 20.11% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 284 483
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -6.92% -0.51%
75th Percentile £536 £543 £547
90th Percentile £600 £669 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £36.10 £18.90
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year - +15.23% +0.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £59.03
90th Percentile - - £65.61
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +25.30%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in Scotland

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for OpenID in Scotland

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Glasgow -14 6 £600 - 12
Edinburgh -1 2 - - 4
OpenID
UK

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) CockroachDB
1 3 (37.50%) NewSQL
1 3 (37.50%) OLTP
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Mockito
1 1 (12.50%) Toad
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Database Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth
2 7 (87.50%) SAML
3 3 (37.50%) OAuth2
4 2 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (12.50%) Apache Camel
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
5 1 (12.50%) JWT
5 1 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (12.50%) Spring
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Sequence Diagram
5 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Go
4 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Facebook
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 1 (12.50%) Okta
2 1 (12.50%) Talend