OpenID Contract Job Trends

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 397 437
Rank change year-on-year +5 +40 +77
Contract jobs citing OpenID 265 130 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.44% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 1.93% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 87 92
10th Percentile £402 £408 £425
25th Percentile £484 £449 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £620
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -11.29% +7.83%
75th Percentile £700 £634 £700
90th Percentile £850 £676 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £581
% change year-on-year +22.22% -22.55% +5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £67.19 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.46 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.92% - -
75th Percentile £87.36 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £89.32 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +45.29% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,670 6,720 9,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 22.88% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,358 4,600 6,346
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 122 263
10th Percentile £30.77 £29.35 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.56 £42.14 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.32 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenID job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

OpenID
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OpenID over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
England +5 229 £563 +2.27% 52
UK excluding London -14 121 £550 +22.22% 34
London -17 111 £556 -11.71% 29
Work from Home +2 94 £550 +4.22% 27
North of England -25 64 £563 +10.62% 7
Yorkshire -17 43 £565 +20.52% 2
South East -40 33 £750 +30.43% 16
North West -28 19 £600 +14.29% 5
Midlands -64 10 £438 +4.17%
South West -25 8 £550 +23.04% 2
Scotland -12 5 £550 -12.00% 6
East Midlands -32 5 £438 +6.71%
West Midlands -49 4 £350 -41.96%
North East - 3 £469 -
East of England - 1 - - 3

OpenID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.04%) Confluence
2 9 (3.40%) nginx
2 9 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.13%) Apache
5 3 (1.13%) IIS
5 3 (1.13%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.13%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 149 (56.23%) Azure
2 123 (46.42%) AWS
3 95 (35.85%) Entra ID
4 65 (24.53%) GCP
5 43 (16.23%) Serverless
6 32 (12.08%) SaaS
7 24 (9.06%) Amazon S3
8 21 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (7.92%) GitHub
8 21 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (7.17%) OpenShift
10 17 (6.42%) Route 53
10 17 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (4.91%) Azure AKS
13 12 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.70%) DNS
2 22 (8.30%) Firewall
3 19 (7.17%) Kerberos
4 13 (4.91%) SSL
5 12 (4.53%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.77%) VPN
7 9 (3.40%) OpenVPN
8 6 (2.26%) DHCP
8 6 (2.26%) Network Security
9 5 (1.89%) IPsec
9 5 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.13%) HTTP
10 3 (1.13%) NGFW
11 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.38%) Internet
11 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.91%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.53%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.40%) MySQL
5 8 (3.02%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.02%) Redis
6 7 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.89%) Data Vault
8 5 (1.89%) Power BI
8 5 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.89%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.51%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.51%) Metadata
9 4 (1.51%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 41 (15.47%) Jenkins
2 32 (12.08%) JIRA
3 28 (10.57%) GitLab
4 18 (6.79%) Git
5 13 (4.91%) Selenium
6 12 (4.53%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.53%) REST Assured
7 11 (4.15%) Postman
8 7 (2.64%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.64%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.26%) Gatling
9 6 (2.26%) JMeter
10 5 (1.89%) TestRail
11 4 (1.51%) git-flow
11 4 (1.51%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.51%) NeoLoad
12 3 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (1.13%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.75%) Maven
General
1 79 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.40%) Finance
3 33 (12.45%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.08%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (8.68%) Banking
6 15 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.64%) Retail
9 6 (2.26%) Military
10 4 (1.51%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.13%) Legal
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 96 (36.23%) Architect
2 38 (14.34%) Developer
3 31 (11.70%) Senior
4 30 (11.32%) Lead
5 28 (10.57%) Technical Architect
6 15 (5.66%) AWS Architect
7 13 (4.91%) CyberArk Architect
7 13 (4.91%) IAM Specialist
8 11 (4.15%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (4.15%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (3.77%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.40%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.02%) Test Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) Analyst
12 7 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) IAM Developer
12 7 (2.64%) Lead Architect
12 7 (2.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (78.49%) OAuth
2 162 (61.13%) SAML
3 132 (49.81%) OAuth2
4 93 (35.09%) LDAP
5 58 (21.89%) REST
6 46 (17.36%) SailPoint
7 31 (11.70%) RESTful
8 28 (10.57%) .NET
9 24 (9.06%) Kafka
10 22 (8.30%) JWT
11 21 (7.92%) Node.js
12 19 (7.17%) React
13 18 (6.79%) Web Services
14 17 (6.42%) Spring
14 17 (6.42%) Spring Boot
15 16 (6.04%) JSON
16 14 (5.28%) OpenTelemetry
17 12 (4.53%) AngularJS
18 10 (3.77%) GraphQL
18 10 (3.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.66%) Cloud Native
2 45 (16.98%) Onboarding
3 20 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.79%) PKI
5 16 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.15%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.02%) IoT
9 7 (2.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.64%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.26%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.89%) Clustering
11 5 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.89%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.66%) Windows
2 13 (4.91%) Linux
3 4 (1.51%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.13%) Android
5 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (45.28%) CI/CD
2 110 (41.51%) DevOps
3 69 (26.04%) Identity Access Management
4 66 (24.91%) RBAC
5 65 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (23.40%) Microservices
7 53 (20.00%) Agile
8 47 (17.74%) Containerisation
9 44 (16.60%) Event-Driven
9 44 (16.60%) Test Automation
10 43 (16.23%) Cybersecurity
10 43 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (15.47%) Roadmaps
11 41 (15.47%) Secrets Management
12 38 (14.34%) Observability
12 38 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 37 (13.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (13.96%) Zero Trust
14 35 (13.21%) Design Patterns
15 33 (12.45%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 71 (26.79%) Java
2 61 (23.02%) Python
3 46 (17.36%) SQL
4 42 (15.85%) PowerShell
5 26 (9.81%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.81%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.04%) Bicep
7 15 (5.66%) C#
8 8 (3.02%) Go
9 7 (2.64%) Bash
9 7 (2.64%) PHP
10 5 (1.89%) Scala
11 4 (1.51%) Cypher
11 4 (1.51%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.75%) Groovy
13 2 (0.75%) Swift
14 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 85 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 70 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.17%) CISSP
4 15 (5.66%) Degree
5 14 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.91%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.77%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.02%) CISM
9 5 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.51%) CSPO
11 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.13%) GIAC
12 2 (0.75%) CEH
12 2 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.75%) OCP
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (14.72%) NIST
3 23 (8.68%) QA
4 21 (7.92%) GDPR
5 20 (7.55%) NCSC
6 9 (3.40%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.64%) HIPAA
7 7 (2.64%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.51%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.51%) GRC
10 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.13%) ISO 20022
10 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.13%) SEPA
10 3 (1.13%) WCAG
11 2 (0.75%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.75%) PSD2
12 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 72 (27.17%) Active Directory
2 43 (16.23%) Docker
3 10 (3.77%) Squid
4 5 (1.89%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (1.89%) RACF
5 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (27.92%) Kubernetes
2 72 (27.17%) Single Sign-On
3 68 (25.66%) Terraform
4 21 (7.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (7.92%) Grafana
4 21 (7.92%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.40%) Ansible
5 9 (3.40%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.02%) Consul
7 6 (2.26%) Argo
7 6 (2.26%) Istio
7 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.89%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.51%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.51%) linkerd
9 4 (1.51%) PingFederate
10 3 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.38%) Packer
11 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.45%) ServiceNow
3 28 (10.57%) CyberArk
4 25 (9.43%) Okta
5 18 (6.79%) Google
5 18 (6.79%) Splunk
6 15 (5.66%) Ping Identity
7 12 (4.53%) Dynatrace
7 12 (4.53%) ForgeRock
8 10 (3.77%) Red Hat
9 8 (3.02%) SAP
10 7 (2.64%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.26%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.89%) Denodo
12 5 (1.89%) Workday
13 4 (1.51%) Oracle
14 3 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
14 3 (1.13%) IBM
15 2 (0.75%) Thycotic
15 2 (0.75%) VMware