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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 392 475
Rank change year-on-year +9 +83 +18
Contract jobs citing OpenID 321 162 97
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.71% 1.88% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 117 63
10th Percentile £413 £391 £425
25th Percentile £463 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £650
90th Percentile £750 £650 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £539 £449 £551
% change year-on-year +20.07% -18.60% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £53.40 -
25th Percentile £63.75 £54.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £59.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% - -
75th Percentile £86.08 £62.75 -
90th Percentile £87.16 £63.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £59.00 -
% change year-on-year +27.12% - -

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 11,840 8,596 9,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 25.95% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,770 5,701 6,067
10th Percentile £380 £356 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 188 183
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.38 £39.56 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +10.11%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -6 262 £558 +17.37% 192
UK excluding London +2 162 £539 +20.07% 75
London -35 114 £575 +13.86% 124
Work from Home -11 107 £570 +15.85% 101
South East -17 55 £500 +5.26% 18
North of England -51 43 £570 +31.64% 14
Yorkshire -4 33 £570 +39.88% 8
Scotland -10 22 £425 -29.17% 14
Midlands -34 22 £464 +13.08% 5
West Midlands - 19 £487 - 5
East of England -27 11 £544 +26.20% 12
South West -36 9 £695 +42.56% 11
North West -54 8 £738 +64.62% 4
East Midlands -24 3 £402 -1.95%
North East - 3 £463 - 2

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 (4.36%) Confluence
2 8 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.56%) nginx
4 3 (0.93%) IIS
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.93%) Traefik
5 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 177 (55.14%) Azure
2 146 (45.48%) AWS
3 122 (38.01%) Entra ID
4 71 (22.12%) GCP
5 39 (12.15%) GitHub
6 37 (11.53%) Serverless
7 31 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (8.10%) SaaS
9 25 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (7.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 22 (6.85%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (5.92%) Azure AKS
14 17 (5.30%) Azure App Service
14 17 (5.30%) Kong
15 15 (4.67%) Azure API Management
16 14 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (4.36%) Amazon S3
17 13 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
18 12 (3.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.35%) DNS
2 17 (5.30%) Firewall
3 15 (4.67%) Kerberos
4 10 (3.12%) Reverse Proxy
5 8 (2.49%) HTTP
5 8 (2.49%) SSL
6 6 (1.87%) Network Security
6 6 (1.87%) NGFW
7 4 (1.25%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.62%) VPN
9 1 (0.31%) DHCP
9 1 (0.31%) DMZ
9 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.31%) Internet
9 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.31%) SSH
9 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.61%) NoSQL
3 16 (4.98%) MongoDB
3 16 (4.98%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.74%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.49%) MySQL
7 7 (2.18%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.87%) Redis
9 5 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.56%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.93%) Parquet
12 2 (0.62%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.62%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.62%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.31%) Db2
13 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (16.82%) Git
2 24 (7.48%) GitLab
3 17 (5.30%) JIRA
4 16 (4.98%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.49%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.49%) JUnit
6 6 (1.87%) Maven
6 6 (1.87%) Mockito
7 5 (1.56%) JMeter
7 5 (1.56%) Storybook
8 4 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.25%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.93%) git-flow
9 3 (0.93%) Gradle
9 3 (0.93%) Selenium
10 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.62%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.62%) Xcode
General
1 76 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.00%) Public Sector
3 57 (17.76%) Finance
4 30 (9.35%) Banking
5 20 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.74%) Military
8 4 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.25%) Retail
9 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Aviation
10 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.62%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Police
11 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (22.74%) Developer
2 69 (21.50%) Architect
3 37 (11.53%) Lead
4 35 (10.90%) Senior
5 32 (9.97%) Technical Architect
6 22 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (5.92%) IAM Specialist
7 19 (5.92%) Java Developer
8 15 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.67%) Technical Leader
9 12 (3.74%) AWS Architect
9 12 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (3.74%) IAM Developer
9 12 (3.74%) Security Architect
10 9 (2.80%) Lead Developer
10 9 (2.80%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.49%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.49%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.18%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (90.34%) OAuth
2 192 (59.81%) OAuth2
3 162 (50.47%) SAML
4 102 (31.78%) Terraform
5 63 (19.63%) REST
6 58 (18.07%) LDAP
7 57 (17.76%) RESTful
8 54 (16.82%) JWT
9 53 (16.51%) React
10 34 (10.59%) .NET
10 34 (10.59%) Kafka
10 34 (10.59%) Swagger
11 33 (10.28%) OpenAPI
12 31 (9.66%) SailPoint
13 28 (8.72%) Node.js
14 22 (6.85%) JSON
15 21 (6.54%) CSS
16 20 (6.23%) HTML
17 19 (5.92%) Spring
18 17 (5.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 95 (29.60%) Cloud Native
2 42 (13.08%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (10.59%) PKI
4 33 (10.28%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (9.35%) Onboarding
6 18 (5.61%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.05%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.87%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.87%) NHS
11 5 (1.56%) CMDB
11 5 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.25%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.25%) Replication
12 4 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.74%) Linux
2 8 (2.49%) Windows
3 5 (1.56%) Android
4 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.93%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (46.11%) CI/CD
2 115 (35.83%) DevOps
3 107 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 88 (27.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (26.79%) Microservices
6 82 (25.55%) RBAC
7 79 (24.61%) Agile
8 65 (20.25%) Test Automation
9 56 (17.45%) Containerisation
9 56 (17.45%) Event-Driven
10 54 (16.82%) Zero Trust
11 51 (15.89%) Technical Leadership
12 50 (15.58%) Observability
13 48 (14.95%) Validation
14 46 (14.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (12.77%) Analytics
15 41 (12.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 41 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (12.77%) Software Engineering
16 39 (12.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 95 (29.60%) Python
2 69 (21.50%) Java
3 66 (20.56%) PowerShell
4 44 (13.71%) JavaScript
5 39 (12.15%) TypeScript
6 32 (9.97%) SQL
7 30 (9.35%) Bicep
8 29 (9.03%) C#
9 23 (7.17%) Go
10 13 (4.05%) Bash
11 4 (1.25%) Lua
12 3 (0.93%) C++
12 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.62%) Cypher
13 2 (0.62%) Groovy
13 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.62%) Swift
14 1 (0.31%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.31%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 95 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 73 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.21%) Degree
4 20 (6.23%) Azure Certification
5 18 (5.61%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (4.98%) CISSP
7 9 (2.80%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.87%) CISM
9 5 (1.56%) CSPO
9 5 (1.56%) MCSE
10 4 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.62%) CEH
12 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (7.48%) NIST
3 22 (6.85%) QA
4 19 (5.92%) Accessibility
5 16 (4.98%) Data Quality
5 16 (4.98%) GDPR
6 10 (3.12%) NCSC
6 10 (3.12%) WCAG
7 7 (2.18%) HIPAA
7 7 (2.18%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.62%) HL7
9 2 (0.62%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.62%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.62%) SLA
9 2 (0.62%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.31%) GRC
10 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 96 (29.91%) Active Directory
2 48 (14.95%) Docker
3 6 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.56%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (30.53%) Kubernetes
2 72 (22.43%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (7.17%) Grafana
4 15 (4.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.74%) Argo
7 11 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (2.49%) Ansible
9 7 (2.18%) Istio
10 5 (1.56%) Kibana
10 5 (1.56%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.25%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.93%) FreeIPA
12 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.93%) Puppet
12 3 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.62%) Consul
13 2 (0.62%) Packer
13 2 (0.62%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 122 (38.01%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.35%) Okta
3 23 (7.17%) Google
4 20 (6.23%) ForgeRock
5 18 (5.61%) Dynatrace
6 15 (4.67%) Ping Identity
7 13 (4.05%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.05%) Splunk
8 12 (3.74%) CyberArk
9 8 (2.49%) Oracle
10 6 (1.87%) BeyondTrust
10 6 (1.87%) SAP
11 5 (1.56%) Denodo
12 4 (1.25%) F5
12 4 (1.25%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.25%) Sparx
13 3 (0.93%) Cisco
13 3 (0.93%) IBM
13 3 (0.93%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.93%) Workday