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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 397 465
Rank change year-on-year -7 +68 +42
Contract jobs citing OpenID 284 169 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.51% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.40% 2.00% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 123 62
10th Percentile £413 £369 £425
25th Percentile £480 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £638 £602 £624
90th Percentile £750 £677 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £440 £581
% change year-on-year +26.28% -24.35% -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.46 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.83% - -
75th Percentile £86.62 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £87.24 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.46 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +40.83% - -

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 11,845 8,450 9,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.71% 25.60% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,776 5,680 6,380
10th Percentile £375 £355 £357
25th Percentile £435 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 183 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.50 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -30 240 £563 +18.42% 140
UK excluding London -26 150 £555 +26.28% 61
London -41 102 £563 -0.97% 92
Work from Home -26 96 £531 +7.11% 422
South East -10 50 £513 -4.65% 21
North of England -49 48 £610 +36.77% 7
Yorkshire -25 31 £620 +52.15% 5
Scotland -19 17 £425 -29.17% 7
Midlands -49 16 £464 +12.39% 7
North West -45 14 £694 +54.11% 1
West Midlands -37 13 £543 -10.03% 7
South West -48 10 £575 +30.02% 10
East of England - 9 £553 - 7
North East - 4 £494 - 1
East Midlands -28 3 £402 -1.95%

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 13 (4.58%) Confluence
2 9 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) Apache
5 2 (0.70%) IIS
5 2 (0.70%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 158 (55.63%) Azure
2 129 (45.42%) AWS
3 106 (37.32%) Entra ID
4 65 (22.89%) GCP
5 35 (12.32%) Serverless
6 29 (10.21%) GitHub
7 26 (9.15%) SaaS
8 25 (8.80%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (5.28%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (4.93%) Kong
13 13 (4.58%) Azure App Service
14 12 (4.23%) Amazon S3
14 12 (4.23%) Azure AKS
15 11 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (3.87%) Azure API Management
16 9 (3.17%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.15%) DNS
2 19 (6.69%) Firewall
3 16 (5.63%) Kerberos
4 9 (3.17%) SSL
5 8 (2.82%) HTTP
6 5 (1.76%) DHCP
6 5 (1.76%) Network Security
6 5 (1.76%) NGFW
7 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.35%) DMZ
8 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.35%) SSH
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (4.93%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.58%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.52%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.76%) Data Vault
7 5 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.41%) Metadata
8 4 (1.41%) MySQL
9 3 (1.06%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.06%) Redis
10 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.70%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 38 (13.38%) Git
2 19 (6.69%) GitLab
3 17 (5.99%) JIRA
4 13 (4.58%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.46%) JUnit
5 7 (2.46%) Maven
6 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.76%) JMeter
7 5 (1.76%) Mockito
8 4 (1.41%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.06%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.06%) git-flow
9 3 (1.06%) Selenium
9 3 (1.06%) Storybook
10 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.70%) Gatling
10 2 (0.70%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.70%) Postman
10 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.72%) Finance
2 56 (19.72%) Public Sector
3 22 (7.75%) Banking
4 17 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.17%) Military
7 6 (2.11%) Retail
8 4 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (23.59%) Architect
2 60 (21.13%) Developer
3 32 (11.27%) Lead
4 29 (10.21%) Senior
4 29 (10.21%) Technical Architect
5 19 (6.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (6.69%) Java Developer
6 16 (5.63%) IAM Specialist
7 14 (4.93%) Technical Leader
8 12 (4.23%) IAM Developer
8 12 (4.23%) Security Architect
8 12 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.87%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.82%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.11%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.11%) Product Owner
13 6 (2.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (89.08%) OAuth
2 162 (57.04%) OAuth2
3 160 (56.34%) SAML
4 74 (26.06%) Terraform
5 63 (22.18%) LDAP
6 53 (18.66%) REST
7 47 (16.55%) RESTful
8 41 (14.44%) React
9 34 (11.97%) JWT
10 31 (10.92%) SailPoint
11 26 (9.15%) .NET
12 25 (8.80%) Kafka
13 23 (8.10%) Swagger
14 22 (7.75%) OpenAPI
15 19 (6.69%) CSS
15 19 (6.69%) JSON
16 18 (6.34%) HTML
16 18 (6.34%) Node.js
17 17 (5.99%) Spring
18 15 (5.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (27.82%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.62%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.21%) Onboarding
4 28 (9.86%) PKI
5 27 (9.51%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (6.34%) Product Ownership
7 12 (4.23%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (3.17%) IoT
10 8 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (2.11%) AI Agents
12 6 (2.11%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.76%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.76%) Clustering
13 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.76%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.76%) NHS
13 5 (1.76%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.41%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.28%) Linux
2 12 (4.23%) Windows
3 4 (1.41%) Android
3 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.06%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) CentOS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (40.85%) CI/CD
2 95 (33.45%) Identity Access Management
3 88 (30.99%) DevOps
4 73 (25.70%) Microservices
5 66 (23.24%) Agile
6 60 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (21.13%) RBAC
7 50 (17.61%) Zero Trust
8 49 (17.25%) Containerisation
9 46 (16.20%) Technical Leadership
10 45 (15.85%) Test Automation
11 43 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (14.79%) Event-Driven
12 42 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (13.38%) Roadmaps
14 36 (12.68%) Mentoring
15 35 (12.32%) Runbook
16 34 (11.97%) Observability
17 32 (11.27%) Analytics
17 32 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 78 (27.46%) Python
2 71 (25.00%) Java
3 53 (18.66%) PowerShell
4 38 (13.38%) JavaScript
5 30 (10.56%) TypeScript
6 27 (9.51%) SQL
7 22 (7.75%) C#
8 21 (7.39%) Bicep
9 11 (3.87%) Go
10 10 (3.52%) Bash
11 3 (1.06%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.70%) Cypher
12 2 (0.70%) Groovy
12 2 (0.70%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.35%) Lua
13 1 (0.35%) Scala
13 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (27.82%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.92%) Degree
4 20 (7.04%) CISSP
5 16 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 15 (5.28%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (3.52%) CISM
10 9 (3.17%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.76%) CSPO
12 4 (1.41%) MCSE
13 3 (1.06%) CEH
13 3 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (9.15%) NIST
3 24 (8.45%) GDPR
4 17 (5.99%) QA
5 15 (5.28%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.52%) Data Quality
6 10 (3.52%) NCSC
7 8 (2.82%) WCAG
8 6 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.76%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.70%) HL7
11 2 (0.70%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.70%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.70%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.35%) SEPA
12 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (29.93%) Active Directory
2 44 (15.49%) Docker
3 4 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.06%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.35%) Squid
5 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (26.76%) Kubernetes
2 65 (22.89%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (7.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (5.28%) Grafana
5 9 (3.17%) Argo
5 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.11%) Ansible
6 6 (2.11%) Istio
7 5 (1.76%) Kibana
7 5 (1.76%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.41%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.41%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.70%) Consul
9 2 (0.70%) Packer
9 2 (0.70%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.35%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 100 (35.21%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.51%) Okta
3 17 (5.99%) ForgeRock
4 16 (5.63%) CyberArk
4 16 (5.63%) Dynatrace
5 15 (5.28%) Google
6 14 (4.93%) Ping Identity
6 14 (4.93%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.87%) Splunk
8 8 (2.82%) SAP
9 6 (2.11%) Oracle
10 5 (1.76%) Denodo
10 5 (1.76%) Workday
11 4 (1.41%) IBM
12 3 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (1.06%) Cisco
12 3 (1.06%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.70%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.70%) Thycotic