OpenAM Contracts

ForgeRock OpenAM
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OpenAM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenAM over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 596 710
Rank change year-on-year +87 +114 +141
Contract jobs citing OpenAM 10 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.009% 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.27% 0.085% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £406 £573 -
25th Percentile £434 £574 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £581 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -13.93% +50.00%
75th Percentile £568 £592 £769
90th Percentile £578 £595 £803
UK excluding London median daily rate - £581 -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

OpenAM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenAM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAM in the UK

OpenAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenAM.

Daily rate trend for OpenAM in the UK

OpenAM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAM over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAM in the UK

OpenAM
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +69 10 £534 -8.09% 1
London +44 10 £534 - 1
Work from Home +51 2 £463 -19.84% 3

OpenAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) HTTP
1 6 (60.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) French Language
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) OAuth
1 9 (90.00%) SAML
2 6 (60.00%) JWT
2 6 (60.00%) REST
2 6 (60.00%) SOAP
3 5 (50.00%) LDAP
4 4 (40.00%) FIDO
5 3 (30.00%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (40.00%) Open Source
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Log Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Groovy
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) OpenDJ
1 6 (60.00%) OpenIDM
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) ForgeRock
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Ping Identity