OpenID Contract Job Trends

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenID skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 456 510
Rank change year-on-year +63 +54 +130
Contract jobs citing OpenID 166 105 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.26% 1.23% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 66 109
10th Percentile £367 £425 £458
25th Percentile £413 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £596 £632 £681
90th Percentile £675 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -24.87% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 7,340 8,544 11,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.62% 22.40% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,878 5,592 8,032
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 186 178
10th Percentile £31.15 £25.60 £35.52
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.70
90th Percentile £70.40 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.52
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.22% -4.78%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID 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 15 September 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 13 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 15 September 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 +59 131 £475 -19.83% 42
UK excluding London +28 70 £440 -24.87% 25
London +33 65 £550 -8.33% 29
Work from Home +40 59 £496 -19.02% 33
North of England +5 25 £446 -28.06% 2
South West +35 16 £442 -19.74% 3
Midlands -13 15 £413 -33.57%
East Midlands -1 14 £410 -34.08%
North West -1 13 £450 -27.42% 2
Yorkshire -2 12 £408 -
Scotland -3 12 £600 -17.24% 1
South East +20 2 £538 +19.44% 19
West Midlands -13 1 £603 +41.88%

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.63%) Apache
1 11 (6.63%) JBoss
2 10 (6.02%) IIS
2 10 (6.02%) WebSphere
3 9 (5.42%) iPlanet
3 9 (5.42%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (4.22%) Confluence
5 5 (3.01%) CMS
5 5 (3.01%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.01%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 89 (53.61%) AWS
2 79 (47.59%) Azure
3 44 (26.51%) Entra ID
4 38 (22.89%) GCP
5 22 (13.25%) GitHub
6 18 (10.84%) SaaS
7 14 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (7.83%) Azure AKS
8 13 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (7.23%) Serverless
10 11 (6.63%) OCI
10 11 (6.63%) OpenShift
11 10 (6.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (3.61%) Amazon S3
14 6 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (3.01%) Datadog
15 5 (3.01%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.46%) Kerberos
2 9 (5.42%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.81%) Firewall
3 3 (1.81%) VPN
4 2 (1.20%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.42%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.82%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.61%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.01%) NewSQL
4 5 (3.01%) OLTP
4 5 (3.01%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.81%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.20%) Metadata
6 2 (1.20%) Power BI
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.60%) MySQL
7 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (14.46%) Git
2 16 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.02%) Bitbucket Server
3 10 (6.02%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (4.82%) JIRA
5 7 (4.22%) GitLab
5 7 (4.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.41%) NUnit
7 3 (1.81%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.60%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.60%) fastlane
9 1 (0.60%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.60%) JUnit
9 1 (0.60%) Maven
9 1 (0.60%) Mocha
9 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.60%) XCUITest
General
1 53 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.07%) Finance
3 25 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.46%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.82%) Banking
6 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.20%) French Language
7 2 (1.20%) Publishing
7 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.60%) Aviation
8 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (15.06%) Developer
2 23 (13.86%) Architect
3 14 (8.43%) Senior
4 13 (7.83%) Software Engineer
5 12 (7.23%) Analyst
6 10 (6.02%) IAM Specialist
6 10 (6.02%) Lead
7 9 (5.42%) AWS Specialist
7 9 (5.42%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.22%) .NET Developer
8 7 (4.22%) Consultant
8 7 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Identity Management Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Java Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Python Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Security Architect
10 5 (3.01%) Solutions Designer
10 5 (3.01%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (88.55%) OAuth
2 111 (66.87%) SAML
3 60 (36.14%) OAuth2
4 41 (24.70%) LDAP
5 20 (12.05%) Spring
6 19 (11.45%) SailPoint
7 13 (7.83%) Hibernate
7 13 (7.83%) REST
8 11 (6.63%) RESTful
9 10 (6.02%) FastAPI
9 10 (6.02%) Kafka
9 10 (6.02%) SOAP
10 9 (5.42%) JDBC
11 7 (4.22%) .NET
11 7 (4.22%) JSON
11 7 (4.22%) Swagger
12 6 (3.61%) ASP.NET
12 6 (3.61%) OpenAPI
12 6 (3.61%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (3.01%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.47%) Cloud Native
2 22 (13.25%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (11.45%) Onboarding
4 14 (8.43%) PKI
5 10 (6.02%) Taxonomies
6 5 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.60%) BYOD
10 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.24%) Linux
2 10 (6.02%) Windows
3 8 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.60%) CentOS
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (46.39%) Identity Access Management
2 64 (38.55%) DevOps
3 47 (28.31%) Identity Management
4 46 (27.71%) CI/CD
5 41 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (23.49%) RBAC
7 37 (22.29%) Agile
8 34 (20.48%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 31 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (16.27%) Containerisation
11 23 (13.86%) API Integration
11 23 (13.86%) DevSecOps
12 22 (13.25%) Microservices
13 17 (10.24%) Mentoring
14 14 (8.43%) API Development
14 14 (8.43%) Scrum
14 14 (8.43%) Software Engineering
15 13 (7.83%) Application Security
15 13 (7.83%) Migration
16 12 (7.23%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 48 (28.92%) Python
2 42 (25.30%) Java
3 26 (15.66%) PowerShell
4 23 (13.86%) C#
5 17 (10.24%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.64%) SQL
7 12 (7.23%) Groovy
8 9 (5.42%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.01%) ANSI SQL
9 5 (3.01%) Bash
10 4 (2.41%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.60%) Swift
11 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.23%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.42%) Degree
5 7 (4.22%) CISSP
6 6 (3.61%) CISM
6 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.41%) OCP
7 4 (2.41%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.60%) CCSP
10 1 (0.60%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.27%) GDPR
2 20 (12.05%) HIPAA
3 18 (10.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (10.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (7.23%) NIST
6 9 (5.42%) QA
7 7 (4.22%) SOC 2
8 6 (3.61%) Accessibility
9 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.81%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.60%) GRC
11 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.60%) PMO
11 1 (0.60%) PSD2
11 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (32.53%) Active Directory
2 34 (20.48%) Docker
3 7 (4.22%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.81%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 80 (48.19%) Single Sign-On
2 46 (27.71%) Terraform
3 43 (25.90%) Kubernetes
4 15 (9.04%) Ansible
5 13 (7.83%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 12 (7.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (6.02%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (6.02%) MIIS
8 9 (5.42%) CA Wily
9 8 (4.82%) Progress Chef
10 7 (4.22%) Tivoli
11 4 (2.41%) PingFederate
12 3 (1.81%) Grafana
12 3 (1.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
13 2 (1.20%) Puppet
13 2 (1.20%) SCCM
14 1 (0.60%) Istio
14 1 (0.60%) linkerd
Vendors
1 48 (28.92%) Microsoft
2 33 (19.88%) Ping Identity
3 25 (15.06%) IBM
4 19 (11.45%) Okta
5 17 (10.24%) ForgeRock
5 17 (10.24%) Oracle
6 13 (7.83%) Splunk
7 12 (7.23%) CyberArk
8 10 (6.02%) Broadcom
9 9 (5.42%) AppDynamics
10 8 (4.82%) Alibaba
11 6 (3.61%) Google
12 3 (1.81%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.81%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.81%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
14 1 (0.60%) Intel
14 1 (0.60%) OpenText
14 1 (0.60%) PeopleSoft
14 1 (0.60%) VMware