OpenID Contract Job Trends in the South East

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring OpenID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 154 201
Rank change year-on-year -28 +47 +37
Contract jobs citing OpenID 10 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.23% 0.40% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 2.49% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 7
10th Percentile £431 - £500
25th Percentile £461 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £625
90th Percentile £635 £651 £670
England median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 698 602 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.98% 16.04% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 389 464
10th Percentile £281 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £623
90th Percentile £648 £675 £680
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 35
10th Percentile £40.00 £54.63 £46.76
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -2.09%
75th Percentile £77.50 £66.88 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £78.00
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 South East

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

OpenID job vacancy trend in the South East

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenID

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the South East

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley -17 9 £544 -5.43% 5
Berkshire -17 7 £600 -4.00% 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £488 - 1
Hampshire - 1 £447 - 5
OpenID
England

OpenID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (60.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (30.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) AWS
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) Datadog
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
6 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Mocha
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IAM Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) OAuth
2 8 (80.00%) OAuth2
2 8 (80.00%) SAML
3 4 (40.00%) GraphQL
3 4 (40.00%) REST
4 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
4 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
5 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
5 2 (20.00%) RESTful
5 2 (20.00%) SailPoint
5 2 (20.00%) Swagger
6 1 (10.00%) Django
6 1 (10.00%) Flask
6 1 (10.00%) LDAP
6 1 (10.00%) Node.js
6 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) RBAC
3 4 (40.00%) AI
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) API Management
4 3 (30.00%) B2C
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (30.00%) Log Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) MLOps
4 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (30.00%) Bash
4 3 (30.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) PHP
5 2 (20.00%) Java
6 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (20.00%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (20.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) VMware