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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 396 454
Rank change year-on-year -11 +58 +34
Contract jobs citing OpenID 298 163 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.49% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.51% 1.91% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 117 69
10th Percentile £413 £366 £425
25th Percentile £463 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £626 £580 £638
90th Percentile £749 £673 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £447 £585
% change year-on-year +23.18% -23.68% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - -
75th Percentile £86.08 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +36.36% - -

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 11,886 8,520 9,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.67% 25.86% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,817 5,696 6,345
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £437 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £635 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 187 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.20 £74.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -10 253 £555 +18.34% 204
UK excluding London -23 159 £550 +23.18% 93
London -37 107 £556 +3.58% 136
Work from Home -25 99 £544 +10.52% 99
South East -12 50 £513 +7.89% 28
North of England -46 49 £588 +30.56% 12
Yorkshire -13 34 £581 +42.11% 6
Midlands -43 21 £464 +12.39% 12
Scotland -12 18 £425 -29.17% 16
West Midlands -32 18 £510 -15.42% 9
North West -56 13 £725 +60.58% 4
South West -40 11 £575 +30.02% 11
East of England - 10 £550 - 8
East Midlands -25 3 £402 -1.95% 3
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 13 (4.36%) Confluence
2 9 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.67%) Apache
5 2 (0.67%) IIS
5 2 (0.67%) nginx
5 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 164 (55.03%) Azure
2 131 (43.96%) AWS
3 111 (37.25%) Entra ID
4 70 (23.49%) GCP
5 33 (11.07%) Serverless
6 28 (9.40%) GitHub
7 26 (8.72%) SaaS
8 24 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (6.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 18 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (5.37%) Kong
11 14 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.36%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.36%) Azure App Service
13 12 (4.03%) Azure API Management
14 11 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (3.69%) Amazon S3
15 10 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.72%) DNS
2 20 (6.71%) Firewall
3 17 (5.70%) Kerberos
4 9 (3.02%) SSL
5 8 (2.68%) HTTP
6 6 (2.01%) Network Security
6 6 (2.01%) NGFW
7 5 (1.68%) DHCP
8 4 (1.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.34%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.34%) DMZ
9 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.34%) Internet
9 1 (0.34%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.34%) SSH
9 1 (0.34%) VPN
9 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.03%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.36%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.36%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.68%) Data Vault
6 5 (1.68%) Metadata
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.34%) MySQL
7 4 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.01%) Redis
9 2 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.67%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.34%) Db2
10 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (13.42%) Git
2 19 (6.38%) GitLab
3 17 (5.70%) JIRA
4 12 (4.03%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.35%) JUnit
5 7 (2.35%) Maven
6 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.68%) JMeter
7 5 (1.68%) Mockito
7 5 (1.68%) Storybook
8 4 (1.34%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.01%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.01%) git-flow
9 3 (1.01%) Selenium
10 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.67%) Gatling
10 2 (0.67%) Postman
10 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 71 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.47%) Finance
3 56 (18.79%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.72%) Banking
5 20 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.70%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.02%) Military
9 6 (2.01%) Retail
10 4 (1.34%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) Aviation
12 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (22.15%) Architect
1 66 (22.15%) Developer
2 35 (11.74%) Lead
3 29 (9.73%) Technical Architect
4 28 (9.40%) Senior
5 20 (6.71%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (5.37%) IAM Specialist
8 15 (5.03%) Technical Leader
9 13 (4.36%) IAM Developer
10 12 (4.03%) Security Architect
10 12 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.69%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.68%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.68%) Lead Developer
14 7 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.35%) GCP Developer
14 7 (2.35%) Lead Architect
14 7 (2.35%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (89.60%) OAuth
2 171 (57.38%) OAuth2
3 163 (54.70%) SAML
4 83 (27.85%) Terraform
5 63 (21.14%) LDAP
6 54 (18.12%) REST
7 50 (16.78%) RESTful
8 46 (15.44%) React
9 40 (13.42%) JWT
10 31 (10.40%) SailPoint
11 28 (9.40%) Swagger
12 27 (9.06%) OpenAPI
13 25 (8.39%) .NET
13 25 (8.39%) Kafka
14 23 (7.72%) Node.js
15 20 (6.71%) CSS
15 20 (6.71%) JSON
16 19 (6.38%) HTML
17 17 (5.70%) Spring
18 15 (5.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 83 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.74%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (10.40%) Onboarding
4 29 (9.73%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (9.40%) PKI
6 18 (6.04%) Product Ownership
7 12 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (4.03%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.02%) IoT
9 8 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (2.01%) AI Agents
11 6 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.68%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.68%) Clustering
12 5 (1.68%) CMDB
12 5 (1.68%) NHS
12 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.68%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.34%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.03%) Linux
2 12 (4.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) Android
4 3 (1.01%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) CentOS
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (41.28%) CI/CD
2 97 (32.55%) Identity Access Management
3 95 (31.88%) DevOps
4 77 (25.84%) Microservices
5 69 (23.15%) Agile
5 69 (23.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 68 (22.82%) RBAC
7 52 (17.45%) Zero Trust
8 51 (17.11%) Containerisation
9 49 (16.44%) Test Automation
10 48 (16.11%) Technical Leadership
11 46 (15.44%) Event-Driven
12 44 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (12.75%) Mentoring
14 38 (12.75%) Roadmaps
15 37 (12.42%) Observability
16 36 (12.08%) Runbook
17 35 (11.74%) Analytics
18 34 (11.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (27.85%) Python
2 73 (24.50%) Java
3 58 (19.46%) PowerShell
4 39 (13.09%) JavaScript
5 34 (11.41%) TypeScript
6 27 (9.06%) SQL
7 24 (8.05%) Bicep
8 21 (7.05%) C#
9 16 (5.37%) Go
10 10 (3.36%) Bash
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.67%) Cypher
12 2 (0.67%) Groovy
12 2 (0.67%) Lua
12 2 (0.67%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.34%) C++
13 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.41%) Degree
4 22 (7.38%) CISSP
5 17 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.37%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (5.03%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (3.36%) CISM
10 9 (3.02%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.68%) CSPO
11 5 (1.68%) MCSE
12 3 (1.01%) CEH
12 3 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (8.72%) NIST
3 23 (7.72%) GDPR
4 18 (6.04%) QA
5 17 (5.70%) Accessibility
6 11 (3.69%) Data Quality
7 10 (3.36%) NCSC
7 10 (3.36%) WCAG
8 7 (2.35%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.68%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.67%) HL7
10 2 (0.67%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.67%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.34%) GRC
System Software
1 88 (29.53%) Active Directory
2 44 (14.77%) Docker
3 6 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.01%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.34%) Squid
5 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (27.52%) Kubernetes
2 68 (22.82%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (7.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (5.37%) Grafana
5 11 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.36%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.02%) Argo
8 6 (2.01%) Ansible
8 6 (2.01%) Istio
9 5 (1.68%) Kibana
9 5 (1.68%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.34%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.34%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.67%) Consul
11 2 (0.67%) Packer
11 2 (0.67%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.34%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (34.90%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.73%) Okta
3 19 (6.38%) Google
4 17 (5.70%) CyberArk
4 17 (5.70%) ForgeRock
5 16 (5.37%) Dynatrace
5 16 (5.37%) Ping Identity
5 16 (5.37%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.03%) Splunk
7 8 (2.68%) SAP
8 6 (2.01%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (2.01%) Oracle
9 5 (1.68%) Denodo
9 5 (1.68%) Workday
10 4 (1.34%) IBM
11 3 (1.01%) Cisco
11 3 (1.01%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.67%) Thycotic