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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 408 444
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 +85
Contract jobs citing OpenID 245 116 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.40% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 1.74% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 78 102
10th Percentile £404 £422 £439
25th Percentile £482 £464 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £560 £620
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -9.68% +10.71%
75th Percentile £688 £641 £750
90th Percentile £850 £691 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.13 - -
90th Percentile £84.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 9,445 6,670 8,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.83% 22.75% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,251 4,576 6,171
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £784 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 114 238
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £40.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.70 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.90%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +13 212 £563 -1.57% 43
UK excluding London -31 108 £550 +15.79% 27
London +5 106 £556 -12.75% 19
Work from Home -7 78 £550 +2.42% 22
North of England -10 64 £565 +11.16% 10
Yorkshire -21 41 £563 +19.94% 3
North West -30 21 £600 +14.29% 7
South East -37 18 £663 +15.22% 8
South West -34 11 £575 +28.64% 4
Midlands -67 8 £438 -0.46% 1
West Midlands -53 4 £350 -41.96%
East of England - 4 £425 - 3
Scotland +1 3 £550 -8.33% 1
East Midlands -30 3 £438 -0.46% 1
North East - 3 £469 -

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 14 (5.71%) Confluence
2 9 (3.67%) nginx
2 9 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.82%) Apache
5 2 (0.82%) IIS
5 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 132 (53.88%) Azure
2 114 (46.53%) AWS
3 82 (33.47%) Entra ID
4 63 (25.71%) GCP
5 40 (16.33%) Serverless
6 30 (12.24%) SaaS
7 24 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 19 (7.76%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (7.35%) GitHub
9 18 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (7.35%) OpenShift
10 15 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (5.31%) PaaS
12 13 (5.31%) Route 53
13 10 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.65%) DNS
2 27 (11.02%) Firewall
3 17 (6.94%) Kerberos
4 13 (5.31%) SSL
5 12 (4.90%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.08%) VPN
7 9 (3.67%) OpenVPN
8 6 (2.45%) DHCP
9 5 (2.04%) IPsec
9 5 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (1.63%) Network Security
11 3 (1.22%) HTTP
12 2 (0.82%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.82%) NGFW
13 1 (0.41%) Extranet
13 1 (0.41%) Internet
13 1 (0.41%) SMS
13 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (4.49%) Redis
1 11 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.67%) MySQL
2 9 (3.67%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.27%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.04%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.04%) Power BI
4 5 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
4 5 (2.04%) Star Schema
5 4 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.63%) DocumentDB
5 4 (1.63%) Metadata
5 4 (1.63%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.82%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 45 (18.37%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.24%) JIRA
3 27 (11.02%) GitLab
4 16 (6.53%) Git
5 14 (5.71%) Selenium
6 13 (5.31%) REST Assured
7 12 (4.90%) Cucumber
7 12 (4.90%) Postman
8 7 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.86%) Gatling
8 7 (2.86%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.04%) JMeter
9 5 (2.04%) TestRail
10 4 (1.63%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.63%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (1.22%) Fiddler
11 3 (1.22%) git-flow
12 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.82%) Maven
General
1 77 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.49%) Finance
3 34 (13.88%) Documentation Skills
4 27 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.98%) Banking
6 15 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.04%) Retail
9 4 (1.63%) Military
10 3 (1.22%) Games
10 3 (1.22%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.41%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 87 (35.51%) Architect
2 39 (15.92%) Developer
3 28 (11.43%) Senior
4 27 (11.02%) Lead
5 18 (7.35%) Technical Architect
6 13 (5.31%) CyberArk Architect
7 11 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.08%) AWS Architect
8 10 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (4.08%) IAM Specialist
8 10 (4.08%) Java Developer
8 10 (4.08%) Security Architect
9 9 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.67%) Test Engineer
10 8 (3.27%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.86%) Analyst
11 7 (2.86%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (75.51%) OAuth
2 146 (59.59%) SAML
3 120 (48.98%) OAuth2
4 77 (31.43%) LDAP
5 55 (22.45%) REST
6 39 (15.92%) SailPoint
7 25 (10.20%) RESTful
8 24 (9.80%) Kafka
8 24 (9.80%) Node.js
9 21 (8.57%) JWT
10 19 (7.76%) .NET
11 18 (7.35%) Spring
11 18 (7.35%) Spring Boot
12 16 (6.53%) React
13 12 (4.90%) JSON
13 12 (4.90%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (4.49%) Web Services
15 10 (4.08%) AngularJS
15 10 (4.08%) Playwright
16 9 (3.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.27%) Cloud Native
2 39 (15.92%) Onboarding
3 17 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.94%) PKI
4 14 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.49%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.45%) IoT
6 6 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.45%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.45%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.04%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.63%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.63%) Clustering
8 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.16%) Windows
2 12 (4.90%) Linux
3 7 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.22%) Android
6 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Unix
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (42.04%) CI/CD
2 98 (40.00%) DevOps
3 62 (25.31%) RBAC
4 60 (24.49%) Identity Access Management
5 55 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (21.22%) Microservices
7 42 (17.14%) Secrets Management
7 42 (17.14%) Test Automation
8 41 (16.73%) Agile
9 39 (15.92%) Containerisation
9 39 (15.92%) Event-Driven
9 39 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (15.51%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (15.51%) Observability
11 36 (14.69%) Roadmaps
12 34 (13.88%) Design Patterns
13 33 (13.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (13.06%) Zero Trust
15 31 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (11.43%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 69 (28.16%) Java
2 54 (22.04%) Python
3 44 (17.96%) SQL
4 34 (13.88%) PowerShell
5 27 (11.02%) TypeScript
6 23 (9.39%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.90%) Bicep
8 10 (4.08%) C#
9 9 (3.67%) Go
10 7 (2.86%) PHP
11 5 (2.04%) Scala
12 4 (1.63%) Cypher
12 4 (1.63%) Groovy
12 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.82%) Bash
14 2 (0.82%) Swift
15 1 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 72 (29.39%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.71%) CISSP
5 11 (4.49%) Degree
6 8 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.86%) CISM
8 6 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.22%) GIAC
11 2 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.82%) MCSE
11 2 (0.82%) OCP
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (16.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (15.10%) NIST
3 19 (7.76%) QA
4 16 (6.53%) GDPR
5 15 (6.12%) NCSC
6 10 (4.08%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.86%) HIPAA
7 7 (2.86%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.22%) GRC
9 3 (1.22%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.22%) SEPA
9 3 (1.22%) WCAG
10 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.82%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.82%) PSD2
11 1 (0.41%) GMP
11 1 (0.41%) GxP
System Software
1 62 (25.31%) Active Directory
2 38 (15.51%) Docker
3 10 (4.08%) Squid
4 5 (2.04%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.04%) RACF
5 2 (0.82%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.82%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.82%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 67 (27.35%) Single Sign-On
3 61 (24.90%) Terraform
4 22 (8.98%) Grafana
5 21 (8.57%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (3.67%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.27%) Ansible
8 8 (3.27%) Consul
9 6 (2.45%) Argo
9 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.04%) Istio
11 4 (1.63%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.63%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.63%) linkerd
11 4 (1.63%) PingFederate
12 3 (1.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.41%) Packer
13 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (33.06%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.65%) ServiceNow
3 29 (11.84%) CyberArk
4 19 (7.76%) Splunk
5 18 (7.35%) Google
6 17 (6.94%) Okta
7 12 (4.90%) Dynatrace
8 10 (4.08%) Red Hat
9 9 (3.67%) ForgeRock
9 9 (3.67%) Ping Identity
10 7 (2.86%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.86%) SAP
11 5 (2.04%) Denodo
11 5 (2.04%) Workday
12 4 (1.63%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.63%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.63%) VMware
13 3 (1.22%) Oracle
14 2 (0.82%) IBM
14 2 (0.82%) NetIQ