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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 412 422
Rank change year-on-year +19 +10 +89
Contract jobs citing OpenID 240 115 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.54% 1.73% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 77 107
10th Percentile £402 £421 £437
25th Percentile £480 £492 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £568 £620
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -8.39% +10.71%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £750
90th Percentile £850 £700 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +11.79% -6.29% -4.55%
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 9,433 6,656 8,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.15% 22.66% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,271 4,567 6,211
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £780 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 111 222
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.11 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.96 £75.00
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +6 210 £550 -4.35% 33
UK excluding London -8 110 £550 +11.79% 18
London -21 103 £563 -11.24% 18
Work from Home +4 76 £556 +3.58% 28
North of England -15 62 £563 +10.62% 4
Yorkshire -30 38 £551 +17.54% 3
North West -24 22 £600 +14.29% 1
South East -45 21 £556 -3.26% 8
South West -26 12 £641 +43.46% 4
Midlands -54 8 £438 -23.91% 1
West Midlands -55 4 £350 -41.96%
East of England - 4 £425 - 1
Scotland +6 3 £550 -8.33%
East Midlands -36 3 £438 -6.22% 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 (5.83%) Confluence
2 9 (3.75%) nginx
3 8 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.83%) Apache
5 2 (0.83%) IIS
5 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.83%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 132 (55.00%) Azure
2 109 (45.42%) AWS
3 82 (34.17%) Entra ID
4 62 (25.83%) GCP
5 42 (17.50%) Serverless
6 31 (12.92%) SaaS
7 24 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 20 (8.33%) GitHub
8 20 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (7.08%) OpenShift
11 15 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (5.83%) PaaS
13 13 (5.42%) Route 53
14 12 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.58%) Azure API Management
15 11 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 30 (12.50%) DNS
2 28 (11.67%) Firewall
3 15 (6.25%) SSL
4 14 (5.83%) Kerberos
5 12 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.17%) VPN
7 9 (3.75%) OpenVPN
8 6 (2.50%) DHCP
9 5 (2.08%) IPsec
9 5 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (1.67%) Network Security
11 3 (1.25%) HTTP
12 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.83%) Internet
13 1 (0.42%) Extranet
13 1 (0.42%) NGFW
13 1 (0.42%) SMS
13 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (4.17%) Redis
1 10 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.75%) MySQL
3 8 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 8 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.08%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.08%) Power BI
4 5 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
4 5 (2.08%) Star Schema
5 4 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.67%) DocumentDB
5 4 (1.67%) Metadata
5 4 (1.67%) Neo4j
5 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.25%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.83%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 48 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.50%) JIRA
3 26 (10.83%) GitLab
4 14 (5.83%) Selenium
5 13 (5.42%) Git
5 13 (5.42%) REST Assured
6 12 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.00%) Postman
7 7 (2.92%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.92%) Gatling
7 7 (2.92%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.08%) JMeter
8 5 (2.08%) TestRail
9 4 (1.67%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.67%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.83%) git-flow
10 2 (0.83%) JUnit
10 2 (0.83%) Maven
General
1 82 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.17%) Finance
3 35 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
4 25 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 22 (9.17%) Banking
6 19 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.50%) Retail
9 4 (1.67%) Legal
10 3 (1.25%) Games
10 3 (1.25%) Military
11 2 (0.83%) Billing
11 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.42%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 89 (37.08%) Architect
2 32 (13.33%) Developer
3 27 (11.25%) Senior
4 26 (10.83%) Lead
5 19 (7.92%) Technical Architect
6 13 (5.42%) CyberArk Architect
6 13 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (4.58%) IAM Specialist
7 11 (4.58%) Security Architect
8 10 (4.17%) AWS Architect
8 10 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (3.75%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.75%) Test Engineer
10 8 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.33%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.92%) Analyst
11 7 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.92%) Lead Architect
12 6 (2.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (74.58%) OAuth
2 148 (61.67%) SAML
3 117 (48.75%) OAuth2
4 77 (32.08%) LDAP
5 56 (23.33%) REST
6 39 (16.25%) SailPoint
7 24 (10.00%) Kafka
7 24 (10.00%) Node.js
8 21 (8.75%) .NET
8 21 (8.75%) RESTful
9 17 (7.08%) Spring
9 17 (7.08%) Spring Boot
10 16 (6.67%) JWT
11 14 (5.83%) React
12 12 (5.00%) GraphQL
12 12 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (4.58%) JSON
13 11 (4.58%) Web Services
14 10 (4.17%) Playwright
15 8 (3.33%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 34 (14.17%) Onboarding
3 18 (7.50%) PKI
4 16 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (5.42%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.50%) IoT
7 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.08%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.67%) Clustering
9 4 (1.67%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.25%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.75%) Windows
2 11 (4.58%) Linux
3 8 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (42.50%) CI/CD
2 98 (40.83%) DevOps
3 65 (27.08%) Identity Access Management
4 64 (26.67%) RBAC
5 54 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (18.75%) Microservices
7 43 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (17.08%) Secrets Management
8 41 (17.08%) Test Automation
9 40 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (15.83%) Agile
11 37 (15.42%) Observability
12 36 (15.00%) Containerisation
12 36 (15.00%) Event-Driven
12 36 (15.00%) Roadmaps
13 34 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (13.75%) Design Patterns
14 33 (13.75%) Zero Trust
15 32 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (11.25%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.33%) Java
2 54 (22.50%) Python
3 42 (17.50%) SQL
4 37 (15.42%) PowerShell
5 26 (10.83%) TypeScript
6 24 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.00%) C#
8 10 (4.17%) PHP
9 9 (3.75%) Go
10 7 (2.92%) Bicep
11 5 (2.08%) Bash
11 5 (2.08%) Scala
12 4 (1.67%) Cypher
12 4 (1.67%) Groovy
12 4 (1.67%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (30.42%) Security Cleared
2 55 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (6.25%) CISSP
5 14 (5.83%) Degree
6 9 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.92%) CISM
8 5 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.25%) GIAC
10 2 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.83%) OCP
10 2 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (17.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (15.83%) NIST
3 18 (7.50%) GDPR
3 18 (7.50%) QA
4 15 (6.25%) NCSC
5 10 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.92%) HIPAA
6 7 (2.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (2.92%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.08%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.25%) GRC
8 3 (1.25%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.25%) SEPA
8 3 (1.25%) WCAG
9 2 (0.83%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.83%) PSD2
10 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.42%) GMP
System Software
1 62 (25.83%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.17%) Docker
3 10 (4.17%) Squid
4 5 (2.08%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.08%) RACF
5 2 (0.83%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.83%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.83%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 62 (25.83%) Single Sign-On
3 60 (25.00%) Terraform
4 22 (9.17%) Grafana
5 21 (8.75%) Prometheus
6 20 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (3.75%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.33%) Ansible
8 8 (3.33%) Consul
9 6 (2.50%) Argo
10 5 (2.08%) Istio
11 4 (1.67%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.67%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.67%) linkerd
11 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.67%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.42%) Oracle Identity Manager
13 1 (0.42%) Packer
13 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (34.17%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 30 (12.50%) CyberArk
4 20 (8.33%) Splunk
5 18 (7.50%) Google
6 15 (6.25%) Okta
7 12 (5.00%) Dynatrace
8 10 (4.17%) Red Hat
9 9 (3.75%) Ping Identity
10 8 (3.33%) ForgeRock
11 7 (2.92%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.92%) SAP
12 5 (2.08%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (2.08%) Denodo
12 5 (2.08%) Workday
13 4 (1.67%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.67%) Oracle
13 4 (1.67%) VMware
14 3 (1.25%) IBM
15 2 (0.83%) NetIQ