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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 457 442
Rank change year-on-year +42 -15 +173
Contract jobs citing OpenID 177 84 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.14% 1.12% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 55 125
10th Percentile £406 £410 £438
25th Percentile £447 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £598 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% -0.42% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £653 £700
90th Percentile £688 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 - -

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 8,270 7,470 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.92% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 4,753 6,888
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 96 174
10th Percentile £30.85 £21.63 £32.90
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.31 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.93 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%

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 20 December 2025.

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
Top 14 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 20 December 2025. 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 +40 157 £500 -13.04% 37
UK excluding London +35 97 £500 -13.04% 54
London +13 64 £500 -13.04% 14
Work from Home +10 44 £496 -13.74% 51
South West +22 33 £545 -1.09% 3
North of England -18 30 £453 -30.31% 15
North West - 15 £450 - 6
Yorkshire - 15 £468 - 8
South East -24 10 £488 -15.22% 9
Midlands -28 10 £500 +17.65% 1
East of England - 8 £425 -
Scotland +11 7 £575 -20.69% 24
West Midlands -25 6 £538 +26.47% 1
East Midlands - 4 £400 -

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 (6.78%) Apache
2 11 (6.21%) IIS
2 11 (6.21%) JBoss
2 11 (6.21%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.65%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.65%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (3.39%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.69%) Confluence
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (57.06%) Azure
2 82 (46.33%) AWS
3 59 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 39 (22.03%) GCP
5 31 (17.51%) GitHub
6 24 (13.56%) SaaS
7 22 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (6.78%) OpenShift
10 11 (6.21%) PaaS
11 8 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.82%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (2.82%) OCI
15 4 (2.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.99%) Kerberos
2 18 (10.17%) Firewall
3 16 (9.04%) DNS
4 6 (3.39%) HTTPS
4 6 (3.39%) SSL
5 3 (1.69%) Internet
6 2 (1.13%) DHCP
6 2 (1.13%) Extranet
6 2 (1.13%) HTTP
6 2 (1.13%) Network Security
6 2 (1.13%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.56%) SMS
7 1 (0.56%) SMTP
7 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.78%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.39%) MySQL
3 6 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.82%) Redis
5 3 (1.69%) Metadata
5 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.69%) Power BI
6 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.13%) NewSQL
6 2 (1.13%) OLTP
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (19.21%) Jenkins
2 27 (15.25%) Git
3 20 (11.30%) GitLab
4 14 (7.91%) JIRA
4 14 (7.91%) Selenium
5 12 (6.78%) Cucumber
6 11 (6.21%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (6.21%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (4.52%) REST Assured
9 7 (3.95%) JUnit
9 7 (3.95%) Maven
9 7 (3.95%) Postman
10 5 (2.82%) Mockito
10 5 (2.82%) TestRail
11 4 (2.26%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.56%) Gatling
13 1 (0.56%) git-flow
General
1 85 (48.02%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.51%) Finance
3 29 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.04%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.21%) Aviation
6 9 (5.08%) Banking
7 4 (2.26%) Legal
8 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.69%) Games
9 2 (1.13%) Billing
9 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (15.82%) Architect
2 27 (15.25%) Developer
3 23 (12.99%) Lead
4 21 (11.86%) Senior
5 12 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (3.95%) ForgeRock Developer
8 7 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.95%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.95%) Senior Developer
8 7 (3.95%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.39%) Analyst
9 6 (3.39%) Consultant
9 6 (3.39%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.39%) Lead Developer
9 6 (3.39%) Test Engineer
10 5 (2.82%) IAM Specialist
10 5 (2.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (80.79%) OAuth
2 133 (75.14%) SAML
3 79 (44.63%) OAuth2
4 48 (27.12%) LDAP
5 24 (13.56%) SailPoint
6 23 (12.99%) REST
7 18 (10.17%) Spring
8 16 (9.04%) .NET
8 16 (9.04%) RESTful
9 13 (7.34%) Spring Boot
10 10 (5.65%) Kafka
10 10 (5.65%) Node.js
10 10 (5.65%) React
11 9 (5.08%) JSON
12 8 (4.52%) HTML
12 8 (4.52%) JDBC
13 7 (3.95%) GraphQL
13 7 (3.95%) OpenAPI
13 7 (3.95%) Swagger
14 6 (3.39%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.73%) Onboarding
2 16 (9.04%) PKI
3 11 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.21%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.08%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.39%) Replication
7 5 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.26%) BYOD
8 4 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.69%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.13%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.56%) Contactless
11 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.56%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.08%) Windows
2 23 (12.99%) Windows Server
3 21 (11.86%) Linux
4 8 (4.52%) Unix
5 2 (1.13%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) CentOS
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 55 (31.07%) Identity Access Management
3 54 (30.51%) DevOps
4 47 (26.55%) RBAC
5 40 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (18.08%) Agile
8 31 (17.51%) Identity Management
9 28 (15.82%) Microservices
10 27 (15.25%) Containerisation
10 27 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (14.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 25 (14.12%) Migration
13 23 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (11.86%) DevSecOps
15 19 (10.73%) Observability
16 18 (10.17%) Mentoring
16 18 (10.17%) Software Engineering
17 17 (9.60%) Test Automation
18 15 (8.47%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (29.38%) PowerShell
2 41 (23.16%) Java
3 34 (19.21%) Python
4 24 (13.56%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.04%) SQL
6 15 (8.47%) Groovy
7 10 (5.65%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.52%) C#
8 8 (4.52%) PHP
9 7 (3.95%) Bash
10 5 (2.82%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.26%) Go
12 2 (1.13%) ANSI SQL
12 2 (1.13%) C
13 1 (0.56%) C++
13 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.56%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.56%) Rust
13 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 18 (10.17%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.78%) Degree
6 11 (6.21%) CISSP
7 7 (3.95%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.26%) CISM
9 3 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.13%) CCSP
10 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.56%) ISSAP
11 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.95%) GDPR
2 20 (11.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (6.78%) NIST
3 12 (6.78%) QA
4 10 (5.65%) HIPAA
5 7 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (3.95%) SOC 2
6 6 (3.39%) PSD2
6 6 (3.39%) WCAG
7 5 (2.82%) PCI DSS
8 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
8 4 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.13%) NCSC
10 2 (1.13%) SLA
11 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 79 (44.63%) Active Directory
2 33 (18.64%) Docker
3 8 (4.52%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.13%) OpenAM
5 2 (1.13%) OpenDJ
5 2 (1.13%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.56%) Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 74 (41.81%) Single Sign-On
2 44 (24.86%) Terraform
3 32 (18.08%) Kubernetes
4 24 (13.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (6.78%) Grafana
7 11 (6.21%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (5.65%) CA Wily
9 9 (5.08%) Ansible
9 9 (5.08%) PingFederate
9 9 (5.08%) Progress Chef
10 8 (4.52%) Tivoli
11 5 (2.82%) Kibana
11 5 (2.82%) Prometheus
12 4 (2.26%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 3 (1.69%) Argo
13 3 (1.69%) SCCM
14 2 (1.13%) Puppet
15 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.56%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 86 (48.59%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.86%) Ping Identity
3 20 (11.30%) CyberArk
4 16 (9.04%) Splunk
5 15 (8.47%) IBM
6 14 (7.91%) Oracle
7 13 (7.34%) ForgeRock
8 11 (6.21%) AppDynamics
8 11 (6.21%) Broadcom
9 10 (5.65%) Okta
9 10 (5.65%) ServiceNow
9 10 (5.65%) VMware
10 9 (5.08%) Google
11 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.13%) Alibaba
12 2 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (1.13%) Intel
12 2 (1.13%) NetIQ
12 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.13%) Xamarin