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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 386 467
Rank change year-on-year -5 +81 +45
Contract jobs citing OpenID 315 175 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.53% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.65% 2.03% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 124 58
10th Percentile £413 £383 £425
25th Percentile £463 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £492 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% -18.00% -
75th Percentile £632 £576 £650
90th Percentile £750 £665 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £447 £550
% change year-on-year +23.04% -18.73% -8.33%
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 11,905 8,624 9,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 26.09% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,826 5,738 6,104
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
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% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 188 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.50 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.94%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 0 262 £563 +18.42% 207
UK excluding London -12 161 £550 +23.04% 93
London -38 115 £575 +7.08% 136
Work from Home -29 101 £570 +15.85% 101
South East -12 50 £500 +5.26% 32
North of England -47 48 £581 +29.74% 18
Yorkshire -11 37 £570 +39.88% 8
Midlands -42 21 £464 +13.08% 10
Scotland -14 20 £425 -29.17% 11
West Midlands - 18 £510 - 7
East of England -19 11 £544 +26.20% 9
South West -43 11 £575 +28.64% 9
North West -53 9 £725 +60.58% 7
East Midlands -26 3 £402 -1.95% 3
North East - 3 £463 - 3

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 12 (3.81%) Confluence
2 9 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.27%) IIS
4 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.95%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.63%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
6 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 165 (52.38%) Azure
2 139 (44.13%) AWS
3 112 (35.56%) Entra ID
4 72 (22.86%) GCP
5 34 (10.79%) Serverless
6 31 (9.84%) GitHub
7 28 (8.89%) SaaS
8 26 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 19 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (5.40%) Kong
12 16 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (4.44%) Azure AKS
13 14 (4.44%) Azure App Service
14 13 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (3.81%) Amazon S3
15 12 (3.81%) Azure API Management
16 11 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.21%) DNS
2 21 (6.67%) Firewall
3 16 (5.08%) Kerberos
4 9 (2.86%) SSL
5 8 (2.54%) HTTP
5 8 (2.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (1.90%) Network Security
6 6 (1.90%) NGFW
7 4 (1.27%) DHCP
7 4 (1.27%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.63%) VPN
9 1 (0.32%) DMZ
9 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.32%) Internet
9 1 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.32%) SSH
9 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.08%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.90%) Data Vault
7 6 (1.90%) MySQL
8 4 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.95%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.95%) Redis
9 3 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.63%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.63%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.63%) Parquet
11 1 (0.32%) Db2
11 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 46 (14.60%) Git
2 22 (6.98%) GitLab
3 16 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.76%) JIRA
5 8 (2.54%) JUnit
6 7 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.22%) Maven
7 6 (1.90%) Mockito
8 5 (1.59%) JMeter
8 5 (1.59%) Storybook
9 4 (1.27%) Gradle
9 4 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.27%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.95%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.95%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.95%) git-flow
10 3 (0.95%) Selenium
11 2 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 76 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 64 (20.32%) Finance
3 56 (17.78%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.84%) Banking
5 23 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.40%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.17%) Military
9 4 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Aviation
11 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (23.17%) Developer
2 66 (20.95%) Architect
3 36 (11.43%) Lead
4 32 (10.16%) Senior
4 32 (10.16%) Technical Architect
5 22 (6.98%) Java Developer
6 20 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (5.08%) IAM Specialist
8 15 (4.76%) IAM Developer
8 15 (4.76%) Technical Leader
9 13 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.81%) Security Architect
11 11 (3.49%) AWS Architect
12 9 (2.86%) Lead Developer
12 9 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.54%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.54%) Senior Developer
14 7 (2.22%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (89.84%) OAuth
2 184 (58.41%) OAuth2
3 165 (52.38%) SAML
4 95 (30.16%) Terraform
5 57 (18.10%) REST
5 57 (18.10%) RESTful
6 56 (17.78%) LDAP
7 50 (15.87%) JWT
8 49 (15.56%) React
9 33 (10.48%) Swagger
10 32 (10.16%) OpenAPI
11 30 (9.52%) Kafka
12 29 (9.21%) .NET
12 29 (9.21%) SailPoint
13 26 (8.25%) Node.js
14 21 (6.67%) JSON
15 20 (6.35%) CSS
16 19 (6.03%) HTML
17 18 (5.71%) Spring
18 16 (5.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 94 (29.84%) Cloud Native
2 42 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (10.79%) PKI
4 32 (10.16%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (9.52%) Onboarding
6 18 (5.71%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (3.49%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.86%) IoT
10 8 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.90%) NHS
13 5 (1.59%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.59%) CMDB
13 5 (1.59%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.59%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.59%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.27%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.40%) Linux
2 14 (4.44%) Windows
3 5 (1.59%) Android
4 4 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.95%) Unix
6 1 (0.32%) CentOS
6 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (44.13%) CI/CD
2 103 (32.70%) Identity Access Management
3 101 (32.06%) DevOps
4 81 (25.71%) Microservices
5 77 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (24.13%) Agile
7 72 (22.86%) RBAC
8 58 (18.41%) Test Automation
9 56 (17.78%) Containerisation
10 53 (16.83%) Event-Driven
11 49 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
12 48 (15.24%) Zero Trust
13 45 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (13.97%) Validation
15 43 (13.65%) Observability
16 42 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
17 39 (12.38%) Mentoring
18 37 (11.75%) Analytics
18 37 (11.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 37 (11.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (28.25%) Python
2 75 (23.81%) Java
3 60 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 42 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 35 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 30 (9.52%) SQL
7 27 (8.57%) C#
8 26 (8.25%) Bicep
9 22 (6.98%) Go
10 10 (3.17%) Bash
11 4 (1.27%) Lua
12 3 (0.95%) C++
12 3 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.63%) Cypher
13 2 (0.63%) Groovy
13 2 (0.63%) Swift
14 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.32%) C
14 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 85 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 65 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.43%) Degree
4 18 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (5.40%) Azure Certification
5 17 (5.40%) CISSP
6 16 (5.08%) AWS Certification
7 14 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.86%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.90%) CISM
10 5 (1.59%) CSPO
10 5 (1.59%) MCSE
11 4 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.95%) CEH
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.30%) NIST
3 21 (6.67%) QA
4 19 (6.03%) Accessibility
5 16 (5.08%) GDPR
6 13 (4.13%) Data Quality
7 10 (3.17%) NCSC
7 10 (3.17%) WCAG
8 7 (2.22%) HIPAA
8 7 (2.22%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.63%) HL7
10 2 (0.63%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.63%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.63%) SLA
10 2 (0.63%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 88 (27.94%) Active Directory
2 45 (14.29%) Docker
3 6 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.95%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (29.21%) Kubernetes
2 69 (21.90%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (5.71%) Grafana
4 15 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (3.49%) Argo
5 11 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.54%) Ansible
7 6 (1.90%) Istio
8 5 (1.59%) Kibana
9 4 (1.27%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.95%) Puppet
11 2 (0.63%) Consul
11 2 (0.63%) Packer
11 2 (0.63%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.32%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 110 (34.92%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.84%) Okta
3 21 (6.67%) Google
4 17 (5.40%) ForgeRock
5 16 (5.08%) Dynatrace
6 14 (4.44%) CyberArk
6 14 (4.44%) Ping Identity
7 13 (4.13%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.13%) Splunk
8 6 (1.90%) Denodo
8 6 (1.90%) Oracle
8 6 (1.90%) SAP
9 4 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (1.27%) IBM
10 3 (0.95%) Cisco
10 3 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.95%) Sparx
10 3 (0.95%) Workday