OpenID Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OpenID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenID over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 404 441
Rank change year-on-year +68 +37 -71
Contract jobs citing OpenID 67 53 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 1.21% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 55
10th Percentile £425 £430 £408
25th Percentile £450 £455 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £622 £575 £601
90th Percentile £649 £623 £780
UK median daily rate £620 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

OpenID is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,274 4,364 6,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.25% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 3,271 4,418
10th Percentile £324 £360 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.68%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 91 145
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 +47 22 £450 -14.29% 1
Midlands +44 16 £620 +18.10% 2
East Midlands +36 16 £620 +18.10% 2
Scotland +49 15 £725 +45.00% 2
North West +28 12 £450 -14.29%
Yorkshire +29 10 £525 - 1
South East +16 9 £500 +5.26% 8
South West +6 4 - - 2
Wales +1 1 £425 -26.09%
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:

Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) AWS
2 10 (14.93%) Entra ID
3 9 (13.43%) Azure
4 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.97%) GCP
4 4 (5.97%) OCI
5 3 (4.48%) Apigee
5 3 (4.48%) Azure API Management
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.48%) Serverless
6 1 (1.49%) PaaS
6 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Kerberos
2 3 (4.48%) SSL
3 2 (2.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.97%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.48%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.96%) Bitbucket
2 6 (8.96%) Git
3 4 (5.97%) GitLab
3 4 (5.97%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.48%) gulp
4 3 (4.48%) Maven
5 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.99%) Gatling
6 1 (1.49%) JIRA
6 1 (1.49%) VersionOne
General
1 18 (26.87%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.49%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (40.30%) Architect
2 23 (34.33%) Developer
3 12 (17.91%) ForgeRock Architect
4 5 (7.46%) Java Developer
4 5 (7.46%) Senior
5 4 (5.97%) Consultant
5 4 (5.97%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) IAM Consultant
5 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Backend Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Designer
6 3 (4.48%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (4.48%) IAM Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Java Scala Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Scala Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Automation Tester
7 2 (2.99%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (73.13%) OAuth
2 37 (55.22%) SAML
3 25 (37.31%) Web Services
4 22 (32.84%) RESTful
5 21 (31.34%) LDAP
6 14 (20.90%) OAuth2
7 12 (17.91%) JSON
8 10 (14.93%) REST
9 9 (13.43%) XML
10 7 (10.45%) .NET
10 7 (10.45%) Node.js
11 5 (7.46%) JWT
11 5 (7.46%) React
11 5 (7.46%) SOAP
12 4 (5.97%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (5.97%) Spring
12 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
13 3 (4.48%) ARM Templates
13 3 (4.48%) SailPoint
14 2 (2.99%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.97%) Blockchain
3 4 (5.97%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.99%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) IoT
6 1 (1.49%) NHS
6 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Android
1 3 (4.48%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.87%) Identity Access Management
1 18 (26.87%) Identity Management
2 14 (20.90%) Agile
3 12 (17.91%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
5 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.93%) Scrum
6 9 (13.43%) DevOps
6 9 (13.43%) OO
7 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (10.45%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (10.45%) Full Stack Development
7 7 (10.45%) Migration
7 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Identification
8 6 (8.96%) Data Modelling
9 5 (7.46%) B2C
9 5 (7.46%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.46%) Microservices
9 5 (7.46%) Software Engineering
10 4 (5.97%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.82%) Java
2 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.45%) Go
3 7 (10.45%) Python
4 6 (8.96%) C
4 6 (8.96%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.46%) Scala
6 3 (4.48%) Bash
6 3 (4.48%) BeanShell
6 3 (4.48%) C#
6 3 (4.48%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.48%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (5.97%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (23.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.48%) OpenAM
2 3 (4.48%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.97%) Ansible
4 1 (1.49%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) ForgeRock
2 10 (14.93%) Okta
3 7 (10.45%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.45%) Zscaler
4 6 (8.96%) Cadence
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle
6 3 (4.48%) Google
7 1 (1.49%) Cognizant