OpenID Contract Job Trends in the South West

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring OpenID skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 128 137
Rank change year-on-year +30 +9 +31
Contract jobs citing OpenID 16 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.82% 0.30% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.86% 1.84% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 17
10th Percentile £413 £550 -
25th Percentile £423 £551 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £551 £670
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% -17.76% -0.74%
75th Percentile £470 £576 £675
90th Percentile £549 £613 £719
England median daily rate £475 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -19.83% -1.25% -6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 273 434 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.92% 16.43% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 245 405
10th Percentile £311 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £605 £630 £650
90th Percentile £669 £690 £725
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 51 34
10th Percentile £62.38 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £63.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.38
90th Percentile £71.00 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.63% +4.88% -4.13%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in the South West

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in the South West over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the South West

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bristol - 8 £438 - 1
Gloucestershire +20 5 £513 -15.29% 2
Somerset - 2 £425 -
Wiltshire +6 1 £575 +4.36%
OpenID
England

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 2 (12.50%) ShareGate
5 1 (6.25%) Akamai
5 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Metadata
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) FastAPI
1 7 (43.75%) SAML
2 5 (31.25%) OAuth
3 4 (25.00%) LDAP
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
5 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Application Security
1 7 (43.75%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 7 (43.75%) Client Onboarding
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (18.75%) RBAC
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
3 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 2 (12.50%) Information Architecture
3 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (12.50%) Runbook
3 2 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) CISM
3 2 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) MIIS
2 4 (25.00%) PingFederate
3 3 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (12.50%) SCCM
5 1 (6.25%) Ansible
5 1 (6.25%) Grafana
5 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (6.25%) Podman
5 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Ping Identity
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat