OpenAM Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenAM
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenAM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 - 383
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAM 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - 0.014%
As % of the System Software category 0.038% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £573
25th Percentile - - £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £581
75th Percentile - - £592
90th Percentile - - £595
UK median daily rate - £568 £581
% change year-on-year - -2.24% -13.93%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

OpenAM falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,647 1,845 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.30% 13.78% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,775 1,231 1,703
10th Percentile £198 £200 £185
25th Percentile £358 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £645 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 53 186
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.33 £14.16
Median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -39.94%
75th Percentile £73.25 £80.00 £62.06
90th Percentile £77.50 £91.50 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.68%

OpenAM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OpenAM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenAM
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

OpenAM
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 OpenAM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East - 1 - - 1
OpenAM
UK

OpenAM
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft