OpenID Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenID over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 329 408
Rank change year-on-year +25 +79 +23
Contract jobs citing OpenID 32 70 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 2.12% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 29
10th Percentile £409 £425 £433
25th Percentile £442 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% -3.41% -
75th Percentile £588 £622 £575
90th Percentile £601 £648 £623
UK median daily rate £560 £620 £560
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in the UK excluding London

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenID in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenID in the UK excluding London

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the UK excluding London

OpenID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenID in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenID in the UK excluding London

OpenID
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 OpenID within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +9 14 £509 +13.00% 21
South West +53 11 £447 - 14
North West +13 9 £525 +16.67% 10
Yorkshire +2 5 £469 -10.67% 9
South East +40 4 £575 +15.00% 24
Midlands +9 3 £575 -7.26% 25
Scotland +1 3 £600 -17.24% 6
East Midlands -4 2 £467 -24.76% 13
West Midlands - 1 £603 - 11
OpenID
UK

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (15.63%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
4 6 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) GitHub
5 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (12.50%) IaaS
5 4 (12.50%) Lucidchart
5 4 (12.50%) PaaS
6 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
6 3 (9.38%) Azure API Management
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (9.38%) SaaS
6 3 (9.38%) Serverless
7 2 (6.25%) Apigee
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Kerberos
2 3 (9.38%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) FTP
3 1 (3.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) Mockito
3 1 (3.13%) Toad
General
1 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Architect
2 10 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (75.00%) OAuth
2 18 (56.25%) SAML
3 8 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 7 (21.88%) FastAPI
5 5 (15.63%) Kafka
6 3 (9.38%) JDBC
6 3 (9.38%) REST
6 3 (9.38%) SOAP
7 2 (6.25%) LDAP
7 2 (6.25%) React
7 2 (6.25%) RESTful
7 2 (6.25%) Spring
7 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
8 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
8 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
8 1 (3.13%) JWT
8 1 (3.13%) Next.js
8 1 (3.13%) RAML
8 1 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Onboarding
2 4 (12.50%) PKI
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Taxonomies
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Identity Access Management
2 14 (43.75%) DevOps
3 13 (40.63%) RBAC
4 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 7 (21.88%) Application Security
5 7 (21.88%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 7 (21.88%) Client Onboarding
6 6 (18.75%) Migration
6 6 (18.75%) Privileged Access Management
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Analytics
7 5 (15.63%) API Management
7 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
8 4 (12.50%) Architectural Design
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (12.50%) Digital Twin
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) C#
1 11 (34.38%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.13%) Bicep
7 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.13%) OCP
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.38%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.13%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (21.88%) MIIS
3 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 5 (15.63%) Terraform
5 1 (3.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) ForgeRock
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) Ping Identity
3 2 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 2 (6.25%) Okta
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Talend