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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 452 495
Rank change year-on-year +50 +43 +142
Contract jobs citing OpenID 174 99 139
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.19% 1.24% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 68 110
10th Percentile £401 £412 £449
25th Percentile £423 £472 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.96% -5.47%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £681
90th Percentile £675 £729 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £551 £610
% change year-on-year -13.79% -9.67% -3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £53.40 - -
25th Percentile £54.75 - -
Median hourly rate £59.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £63.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 - -

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 7,945 7,969 10,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.95% 21.82% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,291 5,038 7,430
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £667
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 116 186
10th Percentile £29.50 £24.45 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.25 £40.94 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.20% -16.11%

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 6 November 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 14 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 6 November 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 +62 149 £481 -16.30% 214
UK excluding London +19 92 £475 -13.79% 210
London -2 63 £500 -13.04% 97
Work from Home +20 44 £492 -14.43% 177
South West +31 28 £525 -4.72% 22
North of England -14 21 £415 -36.23% 26
Midlands -16 17 £415 -2.35% 6
Scotland +11 13 £600 +38.57% 42
North West - 12 £433 - 7
East Midlands - 11 £398 - 2
South East -7 9 £481 -16.30% 100
Yorkshire -20 9 £408 - 3
West Midlands -20 6 £538 +26.47% 2
East of England - 5 £413 - 18

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 12 (6.90%) Apache
1 12 (6.90%) JBoss
2 11 (6.32%) IIS
2 11 (6.32%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.75%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.75%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (2.87%) CMS
4 5 (2.87%) Headless CMS
5 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.72%) Confluence
6 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (54.02%) AWS
2 87 (50.00%) Azure
3 55 (31.61%) Entra ID
4 39 (22.41%) GCP
5 26 (14.94%) GitHub
6 25 (14.37%) SaaS
7 21 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (6.90%) OpenShift
10 11 (6.32%) Serverless
11 10 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (5.17%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (4.02%) Amazon S3
14 7 (4.02%) PaaS
15 6 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (3.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.22%) Kerberos
2 16 (9.20%) Firewall
3 12 (6.90%) DNS
4 6 (3.45%) SSL
5 5 (2.87%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.72%) Internet
7 2 (1.15%) HTTP
7 2 (1.15%) Network Security
7 2 (1.15%) S/MIME
7 2 (1.15%) VPN
8 1 (0.57%) DHCP
8 1 (0.57%) Extranet
8 1 (0.57%) SMTP
8 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.87%) NewSQL
4 5 (2.87%) OLTP
5 3 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.72%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.72%) Metadata
5 3 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.72%) Power BI
6 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.15%) Redis
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.57%) MySQL
7 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (13.22%) Git
2 20 (11.49%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.32%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (6.32%) CA Release Automation
3 11 (6.32%) GitLab
4 9 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.45%) JUnit
5 6 (3.45%) Maven
6 5 (2.87%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.87%) JIRA
6 5 (2.87%) Mockito
6 5 (2.87%) Selenium
7 3 (1.72%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.57%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.57%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.57%) fastlane
General
1 88 (50.57%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (19.54%) Finance
4 12 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.32%) Aviation
5 11 (6.32%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.17%) Banking
7 4 (2.30%) Legal
8 3 (1.72%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.72%) Retail
9 2 (1.15%) Billing
9 2 (1.15%) Publishing
9 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Military
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (16.09%) Architect
2 21 (12.07%) Developer
2 21 (12.07%) Senior
3 11 (6.32%) Lead
3 11 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.17%) Analyst
4 9 (5.17%) Business Analyst
4 9 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (4.60%) Consultant
5 8 (4.60%) IAM Specialist
6 7 (4.02%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
6 7 (4.02%) Identity Management Engineer
6 7 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (4.02%) Java Engineer
7 6 (3.45%) Security Engineer
7 6 (3.45%) Senior Developer
7 6 (3.45%) Software Engineer
8 5 (2.87%) Database Engineer
8 5 (2.87%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (88.51%) OAuth
2 141 (81.03%) SAML
3 82 (47.13%) OAuth2
4 47 (27.01%) LDAP
5 21 (12.07%) Spring
6 18 (10.34%) SailPoint
7 17 (9.77%) RESTful
8 16 (9.20%) REST
9 14 (8.05%) JSON
10 11 (6.32%) .NET
10 11 (6.32%) Hibernate
11 9 (5.17%) React
12 8 (4.60%) GraphQL
12 8 (4.60%) JDBC
12 8 (4.60%) Spring Boot
13 7 (4.02%) OpenAPI
13 7 (4.02%) Swagger
14 6 (3.45%) .NET Framework
14 6 (3.45%) HTML
14 6 (3.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (6.90%) PKI
4 10 (5.75%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.60%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.45%) Replication
7 5 (2.87%) BYOD
8 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.30%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.72%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.37%) Windows
2 23 (13.22%) Linux
3 20 (11.49%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.60%) Unix
5 3 (1.72%) Android
6 2 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.57%) CentOS
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (36.78%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (32.18%) RBAC
3 53 (30.46%) DevOps
4 51 (29.31%) CI/CD
5 47 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (22.99%) Identity Management
7 35 (20.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 32 (18.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (17.24%) Agile
10 26 (14.94%) Containerisation
11 25 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (13.79%) Microservices
13 22 (12.64%) DevSecOps
14 17 (9.77%) Migration
14 17 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (9.20%) Mentoring
16 15 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (8.62%) Observability
17 14 (8.05%) B2C
17 14 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 47 (27.01%) PowerShell
2 37 (21.26%) Java
3 32 (18.39%) Python
4 19 (10.92%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.05%) Groovy
6 13 (7.47%) SQL
7 10 (5.75%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.60%) Bash
8 8 (4.60%) C#
9 5 (2.87%) ANSI SQL
10 4 (2.30%) Go
11 3 (1.72%) PHP
12 2 (1.15%) C
12 2 (1.15%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.15%) Swift
12 2 (1.15%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.57%) C++
13 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (7.47%) CISSP
4 13 (7.47%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.90%) Degree
6 6 (3.45%) CISM
7 4 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.72%) CCSP
8 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.57%) ISSAP
10 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (22.41%) GDPR
2 24 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (9.77%) HIPAA
4 14 (8.05%) NIST
5 10 (5.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (5.17%) SOC 2
7 7 (4.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (3.45%) PSD2
8 6 (3.45%) QA
8 6 (3.45%) WCAG
9 5 (2.87%) PCI DSS
10 4 (2.30%) Accessibility
10 4 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
12 2 (1.15%) SLA
13 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.57%) GRC
13 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 79 (45.40%) Active Directory
2 32 (18.39%) Docker
3 8 (4.60%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 85 (48.85%) Single Sign-On
2 45 (25.86%) Terraform
3 39 (22.41%) Kubernetes
4 16 (9.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (8.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (6.32%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (6.32%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 10 (5.75%) Ansible
7 10 (5.75%) CA Wily
7 10 (5.75%) Grafana
8 9 (5.17%) PingFederate
8 9 (5.17%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.60%) Tivoli
10 5 (2.87%) Kibana
11 4 (2.30%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.72%) SCCM
13 2 (1.15%) Argo
13 2 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (1.15%) Puppet
14 1 (0.57%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 78 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.82%) Ping Identity
3 23 (13.22%) IBM
4 17 (9.77%) CyberArk
4 17 (9.77%) ForgeRock
5 16 (9.20%) Oracle
6 14 (8.05%) Okta
6 14 (8.05%) Splunk
7 11 (6.32%) Broadcom
8 10 (5.75%) AppDynamics
9 8 (4.60%) Alibaba
9 8 (4.60%) VMware
10 7 (4.02%) Google
11 4 (2.30%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
13 2 (1.15%) MuleSoft
13 2 (1.15%) Optimizely
13 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.15%) Xamarin
13 2 (1.15%) Zscaler