OpenID Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OpenID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 110 135
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 +51
Contract jobs citing OpenID 4 15 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.70% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 3.69% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 1
10th Percentile £490 £409 -
25th Percentile £513 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £634 £650 -
90th Percentile £644 £651 -
South East median daily rate £538 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -6.52% -8.00% +8.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 333 406 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.72% 18.95% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 273 279
10th Percentile £318 £382 £308
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £625 £662 £688
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile - £42.20 £46.68
25th Percentile £13.25 £57.89 £50.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +17.83% -18.86%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £81.70
90th Percentile £28.60 £68.23 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £58.55
% change year-on-year -24.53% +13.16% -9.93%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

OpenID job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenID

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the Thames Valley

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Berkshire -1 3 £600 - 8
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
OpenID
South East

OpenID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) OAuth
2 3 (75.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) SAML
3 2 (50.00%) Swagger
4 1 (25.00%) Django
4 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (25.00%) Fastify
4 1 (25.00%) Flask
4 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (25.00%) Jest
4 1 (25.00%) Node.js
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
4 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Blocking Code
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) VMware