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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 380 452
Rank change year-on-year -13 +72 +60
Contract jobs citing OpenID 301 162 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.50% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 1.92% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 116 71
10th Percentile £413 £372 £425
25th Percentile £463 £413 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £492 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% -18.00% -
75th Percentile £627 £583 £641
90th Percentile £749 £673 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £446 £585
% change year-on-year +23.32% -23.76% -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 11,819 8,433 9,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.66% 25.97% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,774 5,630 6,231
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £438
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 £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 186 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.25 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -27 255 £550 +16.77% 181
UK excluding London -10 163 £550 +23.32% 80
London -35 105 £550 +1.20% 128
Work from Home -18 99 £544 +10.52% 91
South East -15 51 £500 +5.26% 21
North of England -40 51 £575 +28.35% 15
Yorkshire -16 36 £573 +40.49% 9
Midlands -44 21 £464 +12.39% 9
Scotland -18 18 £425 -29.17% 15
West Midlands -31 18 £510 -15.42% 8
North West -52 13 £725 +60.58% 3
East of England -22 11 £544 - 4
South West -42 11 £575 +30.02% 9
East Midlands -25 3 £402 -1.95% 1
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 13 (4.32%) Confluence
2 9 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.66%) Apache
5 2 (0.66%) IIS
5 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 166 (55.15%) Azure
2 131 (43.52%) AWS
3 112 (37.21%) Entra ID
4 73 (24.25%) GCP
5 33 (10.96%) Serverless
6 28 (9.30%) GitHub
7 27 (8.97%) SaaS
8 24 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (5.98%) Azure Key Vault
9 18 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.32%) Kong
12 14 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.32%) Azure AKS
13 13 (4.32%) Azure App Service
14 12 (3.99%) Azure API Management
15 11 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (3.32%) Amazon S3
16 10 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (3.32%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.31%) DNS
2 19 (6.31%) Firewall
3 17 (5.65%) Kerberos
4 9 (2.99%) SSL
5 8 (2.66%) HTTP
6 6 (1.99%) Network Security
6 6 (1.99%) NGFW
6 6 (1.99%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.66%) DHCP
8 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.33%) DMZ
9 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.33%) Internet
9 1 (0.33%) SSH
9 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.98%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.32%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.66%) Data Vault
6 5 (1.66%) Metadata
7 4 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.33%) MySQL
7 4 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.00%) Redis
9 2 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.66%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.33%) Parquet
10 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (13.29%) Git
2 19 (6.31%) GitLab
3 17 (5.65%) JIRA
4 12 (3.99%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.33%) JUnit
5 7 (2.33%) Maven
6 6 (1.99%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.66%) JMeter
7 5 (1.66%) Mockito
7 5 (1.66%) Storybook
8 4 (1.33%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.00%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.00%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.00%) git-flow
9 3 (1.00%) Selenium
10 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.66%) Gatling
10 2 (0.66%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 73 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 62 (20.60%) Finance
3 56 (18.60%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.97%) Banking
5 22 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.99%) Military
9 6 (1.99%) Retail
10 4 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (23.26%) Developer
2 63 (20.93%) Architect
3 35 (11.63%) Lead
4 29 (9.63%) Senior
4 29 (9.63%) Technical Architect
5 21 (6.98%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (5.32%) IAM Specialist
8 15 (4.98%) Technical Leader
9 14 (4.65%) IAM Developer
10 12 (3.99%) Security Architect
10 12 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.32%) AWS Architect
12 9 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.66%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.66%) Lead Developer
13 8 (2.66%) Security Engineer
14 7 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.33%) GCP Developer
14 7 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (90.03%) OAuth
2 176 (58.47%) OAuth2
3 165 (54.82%) SAML
4 85 (28.24%) Terraform
5 60 (19.93%) LDAP
6 52 (17.28%) REST
6 52 (17.28%) RESTful
7 48 (15.95%) React
8 44 (14.62%) JWT
9 31 (10.30%) SailPoint
10 28 (9.30%) Swagger
11 27 (8.97%) OpenAPI
12 26 (8.64%) .NET
13 25 (8.31%) Kafka
13 25 (8.31%) Node.js
14 20 (6.64%) CSS
15 19 (6.31%) HTML
15 19 (6.31%) JSON
16 17 (5.65%) Spring
17 15 (4.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 85 (28.24%) Cloud Native
2 39 (12.96%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (9.97%) Onboarding
4 29 (9.63%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (9.63%) PKI
5 18 (5.98%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.99%) IoT
9 8 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.99%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.66%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.66%) Clustering
12 5 (1.66%) CMDB
12 5 (1.66%) NHS
12 5 (1.66%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.66%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.98%) Linux
2 12 (3.99%) Windows
3 4 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.00%) Android
4 3 (1.00%) Unix
5 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) CentOS
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (41.86%) CI/CD
2 97 (32.23%) Identity Access Management
3 96 (31.89%) DevOps
4 80 (26.58%) Microservices
5 71 (23.59%) Agile
5 71 (23.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (22.92%) RBAC
7 53 (17.61%) Containerisation
8 51 (16.94%) Test Automation
9 50 (16.61%) Zero Trust
10 49 (16.28%) Event-Driven
11 48 (15.95%) Technical Leadership
12 42 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (12.96%) Observability
15 37 (12.29%) Mentoring
15 37 (12.29%) Roadmaps
15 37 (12.29%) Runbook
16 36 (11.96%) Validation
17 35 (11.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (27.57%) Python
2 73 (24.25%) Java
3 57 (18.94%) PowerShell
4 39 (12.96%) JavaScript
5 34 (11.30%) TypeScript
6 25 (8.31%) SQL
7 24 (7.97%) Bicep
8 22 (7.31%) C#
9 18 (5.98%) Go
10 10 (3.32%) Bash
11 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.66%) Cypher
12 2 (0.66%) Groovy
12 2 (0.66%) Lua
12 2 (0.66%) PHP
13 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.33%) C++
13 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 62 (20.60%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.96%) Degree
4 20 (6.64%) CISSP
5 18 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.32%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.98%) AWS Certification
8 14 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.99%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.66%) CISM
11 5 (1.66%) CSPO
11 5 (1.66%) MCSE
12 3 (1.00%) CEH
12 3 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.66%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (8.64%) NIST
3 21 (6.98%) GDPR
4 18 (5.98%) QA
5 17 (5.65%) Accessibility
6 11 (3.65%) Data Quality
7 10 (3.32%) NCSC
7 10 (3.32%) WCAG
8 7 (2.33%) HIPAA
8 7 (2.33%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.66%) HL7
10 2 (0.66%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.66%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.66%) SLA
10 2 (0.66%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 88 (29.24%) Active Directory
2 44 (14.62%) Docker
3 6 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.00%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 69 (22.92%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (6.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (4.98%) Grafana
5 11 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.99%) Argo
6 9 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.99%) Ansible
7 6 (1.99%) Istio
8 5 (1.66%) Kibana
8 5 (1.66%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.33%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.33%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.66%) Consul
10 2 (0.66%) Packer
10 2 (0.66%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.33%) linkerd
11 1 (0.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.30%) Okta
3 21 (6.98%) Google
4 18 (5.98%) Ping Identity
5 17 (5.65%) CyberArk
5 17 (5.65%) ForgeRock
5 17 (5.65%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.98%) Dynatrace
7 12 (3.99%) Splunk
8 6 (1.99%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (1.99%) Oracle
8 6 (1.99%) SAP
9 5 (1.66%) Denodo
10 4 (1.33%) IBM
11 3 (1.00%) Cisco
11 3 (1.00%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.00%) Workday
12 2 (0.66%) BiZZdesign