OpenID Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenID skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 320 377
Rank change year-on-year +9 +57 +58
Contract jobs citing OpenID 69 45 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.35% 1.49% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 33 33
10th Percentile £359 £425 £465
25th Percentile £408 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £492 £622 £675
90th Percentile £650 £649 £723
UK median daily rate £492 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -18.00% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 2,931 3,026 3,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.20% 17.15% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,931 1,876 2,769
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £644 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.95% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 162 131
10th Percentile £33.75 £27.08 £45.88
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +11.11% -8.02%
75th Percentile £65.81 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £61.60 £59.03
% change year-on-year -11.20% +4.35% -5.80%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the UK excluding London

OpenID
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenID.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenID

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 22 September 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 -7 22 £448 -27.74% 2
South West +31 16 £442 -19.74% 4
Midlands -8 15 £413 -33.57%
North West +3 14 £452 -27.18% 2
East Midlands -3 14 £410 -34.08%
Scotland -1 12 £600 -17.24% 2
Yorkshire -11 8 £408 -
South East +15 3 £475 +5.56% 10
West Midlands -8 1 £603 +41.88%
East of England - 1 - - 1
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 11 (15.94%) Apache
1 11 (15.94%) IIS
1 11 (15.94%) JBoss
1 11 (15.94%) WebSphere
2 10 (14.49%) iPlanet
2 10 (14.49%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (65.22%) AWS
2 30 (43.48%) Azure
3 26 (37.68%) GCP
4 15 (21.74%) Entra ID
5 10 (14.49%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (14.49%) OpenShift
5 10 (14.49%) SaaS
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (10.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (10.14%) Azure AKS
6 7 (10.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (7.25%) GitHub
8 4 (5.80%) Datadog
8 4 (5.80%) OCI
9 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.90%) ShareGate
10 1 (1.45%) Apigee
10 1 (1.45%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.45%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.09%) Kerberos
2 3 (4.35%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.90%) VPN
4 1 (1.45%) DHCP
4 1 (1.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) Oracle Database
2 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.25%) NewSQL
3 5 (7.25%) OLTP
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.35%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.90%) Metadata
5 2 (2.90%) Power BI
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (26.09%) Git
2 13 (18.84%) Jenkins
3 11 (15.94%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (15.94%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (11.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (4.35%) GitLab
6 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.45%) Mocha
General
1 28 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.09%) Finance
3 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Banking
4 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.90%) Aviation
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (13.04%) Developer
1 9 (13.04%) Senior
2 8 (11.59%) Business Analyst
3 7 (10.14%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Identity Management Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) Database Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (82.61%) OAuth
2 55 (79.71%) SAML
3 28 (40.58%) LDAP
4 16 (23.19%) OAuth2
5 14 (20.29%) Spring
6 13 (18.84%) Hibernate
7 7 (10.14%) FastAPI
7 7 (10.14%) JSON
8 5 (7.25%) SailPoint
9 3 (4.35%) JDBC
9 3 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (4.35%) SOAP
10 2 (2.90%) REST
10 2 (2.90%) Swagger
11 1 (1.45%) Kafka
11 1 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (1.45%) RAML
11 1 (1.45%) RESTful
11 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
11 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Cloud Native
2 13 (18.84%) Onboarding
3 8 (11.59%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.80%) PKI
5 3 (4.35%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Replication
7 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.64%) Linux
2 11 (15.94%) Windows
3 9 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 8 (11.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (49.28%) DevOps
2 26 (37.68%) Identity Access Management
3 22 (31.88%) RBAC
4 19 (27.54%) CI/CD
5 14 (20.29%) Containerisation
5 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (18.84%) Identity Management
6 13 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (17.39%) Agile
7 12 (17.39%) DevSecOps
8 9 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (11.59%) Application Security
9 8 (11.59%) GAP Analysis
9 8 (11.59%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 8 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (10.14%) Blue-Green Deployment
10 7 (10.14%) Client Onboarding
10 7 (10.14%) Privileged Identity Management
10 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.88%) Java
2 17 (24.64%) Python
3 11 (15.94%) Groovy
4 10 (14.49%) Shell Script
5 8 (11.59%) C#
6 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.70%) SQL
8 5 (7.25%) ANSI SQL
9 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
10 3 (4.35%) Go
11 1 (1.45%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.90%) CISM
4 2 (2.90%) CISSP
5 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.45%) OCP
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.19%) GDPR
2 11 (15.94%) HIPAA
3 6 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.90%) NIST
4 2 (2.90%) QA
4 2 (2.90%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (37.68%) Active Directory
2 19 (27.54%) Docker
3 8 (11.59%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 26 (37.68%) Kubernetes
2 23 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (26.09%) Terraform
4 13 (18.84%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 11 (15.94%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (14.49%) CA Wily
7 9 (13.04%) Progress Chef
8 8 (11.59%) Tivoli
9 7 (10.14%) MIIS
10 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (5.80%) PingFederate
12 2 (2.90%) Ansible
12 2 (2.90%) Grafana
12 2 (2.90%) SCCM
13 1 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (1.45%) Podman
13 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
13 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (33.33%) IBM
3 19 (27.54%) Ping Identity
4 12 (17.39%) Splunk
5 11 (15.94%) Broadcom
5 11 (15.94%) Oracle
6 10 (14.49%) AppDynamics
7 8 (11.59%) Alibaba
8 5 (7.25%) CyberArk
9 3 (4.35%) ForgeRock
10 2 (2.90%) Google
10 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.45%) Facebook
11 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
11 1 (1.45%) Red Hat