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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 407 457
Rank change year-on-year -12 +50 +90
Contract jobs citing OpenID 248 155 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.47% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.42% 2.10% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 107 69
10th Percentile £401 £404 £425
25th Percentile £485 £434 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £668 £650 £675
90th Percentile £785 £680 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £558 £447 £600
% change year-on-year +24.72% -25.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.29% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £87.32 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +45.29% - -

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 10,235 7,379 8,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.41% 22.59% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,677 4,985 6,032
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £543
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £664
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +5.87% -5.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 155 260
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.10 £23.70
25th Percentile £46.39 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.82 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +8.00% +7.20% -0.87%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -23 213 £563 +2.27% 73
UK excluding London -35 120 £558 +24.72% 43
London -25 95 £563 -8.39% 47
Work from Home -28 87 £525 +5.00% 35
South East -24 48 £575 - 16
North of England -41 47 £620 +30.53% 5
Yorkshire -36 26 £625 +52.81% 4
North West -30 19 £631 +28.25% 1
Scotland -11 7 £550 -8.33% 7
Midlands -64 7 £402 -3.13% 2
South West -41 6 £550 +23.04% 3
East of England - 5 £543 - 3
West Midlands -57 4 £400 -33.67% 2
North East - 4 £525 -
East Midlands -24 3 £402 -2.55%

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 (6.45%) Confluence
2 7 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.61%) nginx
5 3 (1.21%) Apache
5 3 (1.21%) IIS
5 3 (1.21%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.21%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 144 (58.06%) Azure
2 98 (39.52%) Entra ID
3 97 (39.11%) AWS
4 46 (18.55%) GCP
5 33 (13.31%) Serverless
6 27 (10.89%) SaaS
7 18 (7.26%) Azure AKS
7 18 (7.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 15 (6.05%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.05%) GitHub
8 15 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (5.24%) Azure API Management
11 12 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.44%) Azure App Service
13 9 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.63%) Azure Functions
13 9 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.87%) DNS
2 17 (6.85%) Kerberos
3 15 (6.05%) Firewall
4 10 (4.03%) SSL
5 6 (2.42%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.02%) DHCP
6 5 (2.02%) Network Security
7 4 (1.61%) HTTP
7 4 (1.61%) IPsec
7 4 (1.61%) OpenVPN
7 4 (1.61%) VPN
8 3 (1.21%) NGFW
9 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.40%) SSH
9 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.03%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.63%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.42%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.42%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.02%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.02%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.61%) Metadata
6 3 (1.21%) Power BI
6 3 (1.21%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.81%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.81%) Parquet
7 2 (0.81%) Redis
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.40%) Db2
8 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (9.27%) Git
2 18 (7.26%) JIRA
3 12 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.03%) GitLab
5 4 (1.61%) git-flow
5 4 (1.61%) JMeter
6 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.21%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.21%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.21%) Postman
7 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.81%) Gatling
7 2 (0.81%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.81%) Selenium
7 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.81%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 59 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.76%) Finance
3 40 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.47%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.05%) Banking
6 9 (3.63%) Military
7 8 (3.23%) Retail
8 5 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.81%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 67 (27.02%) Architect
2 45 (18.15%) Developer
3 31 (12.50%) Senior
4 27 (10.89%) Technical Architect
5 25 (10.08%) Lead
6 19 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (6.45%) IAM Specialist
8 11 (4.44%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.44%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.03%) AWS Architect
9 10 (4.03%) IAM Developer
10 8 (3.23%) Analyst
10 8 (3.23%) Technical Leader
11 7 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.42%) Azure Developer
12 6 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.42%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.42%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.42%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (86.69%) OAuth
2 158 (63.71%) SAML
3 129 (52.02%) OAuth2
4 70 (28.23%) LDAP
5 50 (20.16%) REST
6 36 (14.52%) SailPoint
7 31 (12.50%) RESTful
8 27 (10.89%) .NET
9 21 (8.47%) React
10 20 (8.06%) JWT
11 19 (7.66%) Node.js
12 18 (7.26%) JSON
12 18 (7.26%) Web Services
13 17 (6.85%) Kafka
14 12 (4.84%) AngularJS
14 12 (4.84%) SOAP
15 11 (4.44%) .NET Framework
16 10 (4.03%) Entity Framework
16 10 (4.03%) Spring
17 9 (3.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 34 (13.71%) Onboarding
3 23 (9.27%) PKI
4 22 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (8.87%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.03%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.63%) IoT
8 8 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.23%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.82%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.02%) Clustering
11 5 (2.02%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.61%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.65%) Linux
2 10 (4.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.61%) Android
4 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (38.31%) CI/CD
2 87 (35.08%) DevOps
3 77 (31.05%) Identity Access Management
4 65 (26.21%) RBAC
5 58 (23.39%) Microservices
6 51 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (18.95%) Agile
8 43 (17.34%) Zero Trust
9 41 (16.53%) Containerisation
10 35 (14.11%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (14.11%) Test Automation
11 33 (13.31%) Roadmaps
12 31 (12.50%) Event-Driven
13 30 (12.10%) Analytics
14 29 (11.69%) Runbook
15 28 (11.29%) Observability
16 27 (10.89%) API Integration
16 27 (10.89%) Mentoring
17 26 (10.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 58 (23.39%) Python
2 56 (22.58%) Java
3 46 (18.55%) PowerShell
4 31 (12.50%) SQL
5 25 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 25 (10.08%) TypeScript
6 21 (8.47%) C#
7 19 (7.66%) Bicep
8 7 (2.82%) Bash
9 5 (2.02%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.81%) Cypher
11 2 (0.81%) Go
11 2 (0.81%) Groovy
11 2 (0.81%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 78 (31.45%) Security Cleared
2 65 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.68%) Degree
4 23 (9.27%) CISSP
5 15 (6.05%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.05%) Azure Certification
6 13 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.03%) CISM
8 7 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.42%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.02%) CSPO
11 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.61%) GIAC
12 3 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.81%) CEH
13 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.81%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (11.29%) NIST
3 23 (9.27%) GDPR
4 12 (4.84%) NCSC
4 12 (4.84%) QA
5 6 (2.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.02%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.02%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.21%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.81%) GRC
9 2 (0.81%) HL7
9 2 (0.81%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.81%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.40%) GMP
10 1 (0.40%) GxP
10 1 (0.40%) SLA
10 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (31.45%) Active Directory
2 37 (14.92%) Docker
3 4 (1.61%) RACF
3 4 (1.61%) Squid
4 3 (1.21%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (27.02%) Single Sign-On
2 59 (23.79%) Terraform
3 50 (20.16%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 14 (5.65%) Grafana
6 12 (4.84%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.82%) Ansible
8 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.02%) Istio
9 5 (2.02%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.61%) Argo
10 4 (1.61%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.61%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.61%) linkerd
10 4 (1.61%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (1.21%) Consul
12 1 (0.40%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.40%) Packer
12 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.89%) Okta
3 19 (7.66%) CyberArk
4 17 (6.85%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.05%) Ping Identity
6 14 (5.65%) ForgeRock
7 8 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.23%) Google
7 8 (3.23%) SAP
8 7 (2.82%) Splunk
9 6 (2.42%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.02%) Denodo
10 5 (2.02%) Workday
11 4 (1.61%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.61%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.21%) IBM
13 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.81%) Oracle
13 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.81%) Thycotic