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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 378 448
Rank change year-on-year -5 +70 +78
Contract jobs citing OpenID 266 151 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.50% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.68% 2.19% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 106 83
10th Percentile £403 £406 £425
25th Percentile £500 £441 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -10.20% +6.52%
75th Percentile £700 £648 £694
90th Percentile £850 £676 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £469 £593
% change year-on-year +20.47% -20.84% +7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £88.87 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.46 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +49.92% - -

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 9,927 6,897 9,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.90% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,526 4,700 6,384
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 135 279
10th Percentile £30.05 £29.14 £22.40
25th Percentile £51.25 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -10.08%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -10 230 £564 +2.50% 46
UK excluding London -53 119 £565 +20.47% 27
London -10 113 £556 -11.35% 27
Work from Home -3 100 £550 +4.22% 41
North of England -40 55 £588 +19.41% 9
South East -30 38 £750 +30.43% 10
Yorkshire -34 33 £598 +46.09% 3
North West -27 20 £631 +20.19% 5
Midlands -63 10 £438 +5.42%
South West -46 8 £550 +23.04% 4
Scotland -15 6 £550 -8.33% 1
East Midlands -25 5 £438 +6.06%
West Midlands -54 4 £350 -41.96%
North East - 3 £469 - 1
East of England - 2 £555 -

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 16 (6.02%) Confluence
2 9 (3.38%) nginx
3 8 (3.01%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.13%) Apache
5 3 (1.13%) IIS
5 3 (1.13%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.13%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 144 (54.14%) Azure
2 118 (44.36%) AWS
3 95 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 58 (21.80%) GCP
5 45 (16.92%) Serverless
6 24 (9.02%) Amazon S3
6 24 (9.02%) SaaS
7 22 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (7.89%) GitHub
8 21 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.77%) Route 53
10 17 (6.39%) OpenShift
11 16 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.89%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.76%) Azure API Management
14 10 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.41%) DNS
2 23 (8.65%) Firewall
3 17 (6.39%) Kerberos
4 12 (4.51%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.14%) SSL
6 10 (3.76%) VPN
7 9 (3.38%) OpenVPN
8 6 (2.26%) Network Security
9 5 (1.88%) DHCP
9 5 (1.88%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (1.50%) HTTP
10 4 (1.50%) IPsec
11 3 (1.13%) NGFW
12 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.38%) Internet
12 1 (0.38%) SSH
12 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.14%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.38%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.01%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.01%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.63%) Redis
7 6 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.88%) Data Vault
8 5 (1.88%) Power BI
8 5 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.88%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.50%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.50%) Metadata
9 4 (1.50%) MySQL
9 4 (1.50%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 31 (11.65%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.15%) JIRA
3 20 (7.52%) Git
3 20 (7.52%) GitLab
4 8 (3.01%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.26%) JMeter
7 5 (1.88%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.88%) Gatling
7 5 (1.88%) Postman
7 5 (1.88%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.88%) Selenium
8 4 (1.50%) git-flow
8 4 (1.50%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.50%) NeoLoad
9 3 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.13%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.38%) Gradle
11 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 76 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.31%) Finance
3 33 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.03%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (9.02%) Banking
6 15 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.01%) Military
8 8 (3.01%) Retail
9 4 (1.50%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.13%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 95 (35.71%) Architect
2 41 (15.41%) Developer
3 30 (11.28%) Senior
4 28 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 24 (9.02%) Lead
6 16 (6.02%) AWS Architect
7 12 (4.51%) CyberArk Architect
7 12 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (4.51%) IAM Specialist
7 12 (4.51%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.14%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.38%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.01%) IAM Developer
12 7 (2.63%) Analyst
12 7 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.63%) Lead Architect
12 7 (2.63%) Technical Leader
13 6 (2.26%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (80.08%) OAuth
2 163 (61.28%) SAML
3 137 (51.50%) OAuth2
4 87 (32.71%) LDAP
5 55 (20.68%) REST
6 38 (14.29%) SailPoint
7 35 (13.16%) RESTful
8 24 (9.02%) .NET
8 24 (9.02%) Kafka
9 23 (8.65%) JWT
9 23 (8.65%) Node.js
10 22 (8.27%) React
11 17 (6.39%) JSON
11 17 (6.39%) Web Services
12 15 (5.64%) Spring
12 15 (5.64%) Spring Boot
13 14 (5.26%) AngularJS
13 14 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (4.51%) SOAP
15 11 (4.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 74 (27.82%) Cloud Native
2 44 (16.54%) Onboarding
3 23 (8.65%) PKI
4 22 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.51%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.14%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.01%) IoT
9 8 (3.01%) Mobile App
9 8 (3.01%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.88%) Clustering
12 5 (1.88%) Operational Technology
13 4 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
14 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.26%) Linux
1 14 (5.26%) Windows
2 5 (1.88%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.50%) Android
3 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.75%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (44.36%) CI/CD
2 110 (41.35%) DevOps
3 70 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (24.81%) Identity Access Management
5 65 (24.44%) RBAC
6 63 (23.68%) Microservices
7 51 (19.17%) Agile
8 48 (18.05%) Containerisation
9 46 (17.29%) Cybersecurity
9 46 (17.29%) Event-Driven
10 44 (16.54%) Roadmaps
11 42 (15.79%) Zero Trust
12 41 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (15.04%) Secrets Management
14 39 (14.66%) Observability
15 38 (14.29%) Test Automation
16 36 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
17 33 (12.41%) Design Patterns
17 33 (12.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 32 (12.03%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 67 (25.19%) Java
2 60 (22.56%) Python
3 40 (15.04%) PowerShell
4 37 (13.91%) SQL
5 29 (10.90%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.65%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.77%) Bicep
8 16 (6.02%) C#
9 8 (3.01%) Go
10 7 (2.63%) Bash
11 5 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.88%) Scala
12 4 (1.50%) Cypher
13 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.75%) Groovy
14 2 (0.75%) PHP
14 2 (0.75%) Swift
15 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 87 (32.71%) Security Cleared
2 73 (27.44%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.27%) CISSP
3 22 (8.27%) Degree
4 15 (5.64%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.51%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.38%) CISM
7 8 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.88%) CSPO
8 5 (1.88%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.50%) GIAC
10 3 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.75%) CEH
11 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.75%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (14.66%) NIST
3 22 (8.27%) GDPR
4 21 (7.89%) NCSC
5 19 (7.14%) QA
6 10 (3.76%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.01%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.63%) HIPAA
9 6 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.50%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.50%) GRC
11 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.13%) WCAG
12 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.75%) SEPA
13 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.38%) GMP
13 1 (0.38%) GxP
13 1 (0.38%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 70 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 43 (16.17%) Docker
3 9 (3.38%) Squid
4 5 (1.88%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (1.50%) RACF
6 3 (1.13%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (28.20%) Kubernetes
2 74 (27.82%) Terraform
3 70 (26.32%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (8.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (7.14%) Grafana
5 19 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.38%) Ansible
6 9 (3.38%) FortiGate
7 8 (3.01%) Consul
8 6 (2.26%) Argo
8 6 (2.26%) Istio
9 5 (1.88%) Kustomize
9 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.50%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.50%) linkerd
10 4 (1.50%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.38%) Packer
11 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 89 (33.46%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.53%) Okta
3 27 (10.15%) CyberArk
4 26 (9.77%) ServiceNow
5 19 (7.14%) Splunk
6 17 (6.39%) Google
7 16 (6.02%) Ping Identity
8 14 (5.26%) ForgeRock
9 13 (4.89%) Dynatrace
10 10 (3.76%) Red Hat
11 8 (3.01%) SAP
12 7 (2.63%) Atlassian
13 6 (2.26%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.88%) Denodo
14 5 (1.88%) Workday
15 4 (1.50%) Oracle
16 3 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
16 3 (1.13%) IBM
17 2 (0.75%) Sparx
17 2 (0.75%) Thycotic