FIDO Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

FIDO Alliance (FIDO2)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FIDO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 336 -
Rank change year-on-year -110 - -
Contract jobs citing FIDO 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.022% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £565 - -
25th Percentile £662 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £733 £402 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.21% - -
75th Percentile £755 - -
90th Percentile £767 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £559 £550
% change year-on-year +7.33% +1.64% -8.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

FIDO 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,040 2,489 3,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.63% 15.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,680 1,717 2,195
10th Percentile £350 £320 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £567 £600
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.14% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 90 230
10th Percentile £35.63 £33.75 £22.75
25th Percentile £55.75 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £81.01 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £51.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% +13.24% -21.54%

FIDO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FIDO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

FIDO job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

FIDO
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FIDO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FIDO

FIDO
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIDO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FIDO in the UK excluding London

FIDO
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIDO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 3 £733 - 1
North of England - 3 £733 - 1
South East - 2 £500 - 2
Midlands -57 1 £500 +24.38%
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
FIDO
UK

FIDO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (60.00%) Fiddler
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (60.00%) OpenID
1 3 (60.00%) SAML
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (20.00%) PKI
3 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) RBAC
2 3 (60.00%) API Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) CyberArk