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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 445 437
Rank change year-on-year +53 -8 +102
Contract jobs citing OpenID 227 87 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 1.30% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 60 109
10th Percentile £425 £409 £425
25th Percentile £468 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £750
90th Percentile £727 £728 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £64.10 - -
25th Percentile £68.00 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.50 - -
90th Percentile £89.70 - -
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 9,302 6,686 9,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.72% 22.69% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,202 4,463 6,264
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 95 217
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.13 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.62 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +36 202 £540 -8.40% 33
UK excluding London -12 108 £525 -8.70% 18
London +2 93 £569 -9.72% 16
Work from Home +8 64 £566 -10.12% 16
North of England -27 43 £525 - 5
Yorkshire -26 30 £525 -12.50% 1
South West +2 28 £563 +1.12% 3
Midlands -52 14 £475 -17.39% 1
South East -58 14 £605 +5.22% 8
North West -27 12 £475 -9.52% 4
West Midlands - 10 £513 - 1
East of England - 8 £425 - 1
East Midlands -31 3 £438 -23.91%
Scotland +7 2 £537 -10.58%
North East - 2 £525 -

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 11 (4.85%) Confluence
2 8 (3.52%) nginx
3 6 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.88%) Apache
5 2 (0.88%) IIS
5 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) iPlanet
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 118 (51.98%) Azure
2 98 (43.17%) AWS
3 67 (29.52%) Entra ID
4 48 (21.15%) GCP
5 35 (15.42%) Serverless
6 26 (11.45%) SaaS
7 25 (11.01%) GitHub
8 21 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (8.37%) PaaS
10 18 (7.93%) Amazon S3
10 18 (7.93%) OpenShift
11 17 (7.49%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (5.29%) Route 53
16 10 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.54%) DNS
2 29 (12.78%) Firewall
3 14 (6.17%) Kerberos
4 11 (4.85%) SSL
5 10 (4.41%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.96%) VPN
7 8 (3.52%) OpenVPN
8 5 (2.20%) IPsec
8 5 (2.20%) Network Security
8 5 (2.20%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.76%) Internet
10 3 (1.32%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.88%) DHCP
11 2 (0.88%) Extranet
11 2 (0.88%) HTTP
11 2 (0.88%) S/MIME
12 1 (0.44%) SMS
12 1 (0.44%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.85%) Redis
3 9 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.96%) MySQL
3 9 (3.96%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.52%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.52%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.64%) Power BI
6 5 (2.20%) Star Schema
7 4 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.76%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.76%) Neo4j
7 4 (1.76%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.88%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.44%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 49 (21.59%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.22%) GitLab
3 28 (12.33%) JIRA
4 21 (9.25%) Git
5 19 (8.37%) Selenium
6 17 (7.49%) Cucumber
7 13 (5.73%) REST Assured
8 12 (5.29%) Postman
9 9 (3.96%) SonarQube
10 8 (3.52%) Bitbucket
11 7 (3.08%) Gatling
11 7 (3.08%) JUnit
12 6 (2.64%) Maven
13 5 (2.20%) JMeter
13 5 (2.20%) Mockito
13 5 (2.20%) TestRail
14 4 (1.76%) LoadRunner
14 4 (1.76%) NeoLoad
15 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
15 2 (0.88%) git-flow
General
1 102 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.94%) Finance
3 34 (14.98%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.25%) Banking
6 19 (8.37%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.41%) Aviation
9 6 (2.64%) Legal
10 4 (1.76%) Retail
11 3 (1.32%) Games
11 3 (1.32%) Military
12 2 (0.88%) Billing
12 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Wearables
13 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.44%) Law
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (35.68%) Architect
2 37 (16.30%) Developer
3 26 (11.45%) Senior
4 24 (10.57%) Lead
5 21 (9.25%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (5.73%) CyberArk Architect
7 13 (5.73%) Technical Architect
8 11 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (4.41%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.96%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.52%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.52%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.52%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.52%) Test Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.08%) Analyst
12 7 (3.08%) ForgeRock Developer
13 6 (2.64%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (72.25%) OAuth
2 145 (63.88%) SAML
3 114 (50.22%) OAuth2
4 62 (27.31%) LDAP
5 51 (22.47%) REST
6 29 (12.78%) SailPoint
7 27 (11.89%) .NET
7 27 (11.89%) RESTful
8 19 (8.37%) Kafka
8 19 (8.37%) Node.js
8 19 (8.37%) React
8 19 (8.37%) Spring
8 19 (8.37%) Spring Boot
9 15 (6.61%) Playwright
10 14 (6.17%) GraphQL
11 12 (5.29%) HTML
11 12 (5.29%) JSON
12 11 (4.85%) JWT
12 11 (4.85%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (4.41%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.50%) Cloud Native
2 37 (16.30%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.05%) PKI
4 13 (5.73%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.41%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.08%) Replication
7 7 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.64%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.20%) BYOD
9 5 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.32%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.33%) Windows
2 18 (7.93%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.96%) Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Android
4 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (43.17%) CI/CD
1 98 (43.17%) DevOps
2 62 (27.31%) Identity Access Management
3 61 (26.87%) RBAC
4 50 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (20.26%) Agile
5 46 (20.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (20.26%) Microservices
6 42 (18.50%) Test Automation
7 41 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (16.74%) Cybersecurity
9 36 (15.86%) Observability
9 36 (15.86%) Secrets Management
10 35 (15.42%) Event-Driven
11 33 (14.54%) Containerisation
12 32 (14.10%) Design Patterns
12 32 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (13.66%) Roadmaps
14 29 (12.78%) Identity Management
15 27 (11.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.91%) Java
2 45 (19.82%) PowerShell
2 45 (19.82%) Python
3 33 (14.54%) SQL
4 22 (9.69%) JavaScript
4 22 (9.69%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.73%) C#
6 8 (3.52%) Go
6 8 (3.52%) PHP
7 6 (2.64%) Bicep
8 5 (2.20%) Groovy
8 5 (2.20%) Scala
9 4 (1.76%) Bash
9 4 (1.76%) Cypher
9 4 (1.76%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.32%) Swift
11 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 83 (36.56%) Security Cleared
2 56 (24.67%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (8.81%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.17%) Degree
6 11 (4.85%) CISSP
7 5 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.88%) CCSP
10 2 (0.88%) GIAC
10 2 (0.88%) OCP
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.44%) HND
11 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (13.66%) NIST
3 24 (10.57%) GDPR
4 18 (7.93%) QA
5 15 (6.61%) NCSC
6 11 (4.85%) PCI DSS
7 9 (3.96%) SOC 2
8 8 (3.52%) WCAG
9 7 (3.08%) PSD2
10 6 (2.64%) HIPAA
10 6 (2.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (2.20%) Accessibility
12 4 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
13 3 (1.32%) GRC
13 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.88%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (26.87%) Active Directory
2 35 (15.42%) Docker
3 9 (3.96%) Squid
4 5 (2.20%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.20%) RACF
5 4 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.88%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.88%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.88%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.44%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (33.92%) Single Sign-On
2 63 (27.75%) Kubernetes
3 50 (22.03%) Terraform
4 26 (11.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 26 (11.45%) Grafana
5 20 (8.81%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.52%) FortiGate
7 7 (3.08%) Ansible
7 7 (3.08%) Argo
7 7 (3.08%) Consul
8 5 (2.20%) Kibana
8 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.20%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.76%) Istio
10 3 (1.32%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.32%) linkerd
11 1 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.44%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.44%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 87 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.01%) CyberArk
3 22 (9.69%) ServiceNow
4 20 (8.81%) Splunk
5 18 (7.93%) Google
6 17 (7.49%) Ping Identity
7 13 (5.73%) ForgeRock
8 10 (4.41%) Okta
8 10 (4.41%) VMware
9 9 (3.96%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.96%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.08%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.64%) Oracle
12 3 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (1.32%) IBM
12 3 (1.32%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.88%) Confluent
13 2 (0.88%) NetIQ
13 2 (0.88%) Xamarin
13 2 (0.88%) Zscaler