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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 389 452
Rank change year-on-year -33 +63 +67
Contract jobs citing OpenID 255 157 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 2.12% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 109 68
10th Percentile £402 £405 £425
25th Percentile £488 £438 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £603
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £645
90th Percentile £775 £679 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £447 £581
% change year-on-year +25.84% -23.06% -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.46 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.83% - -
75th Percentile £86.62 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £87.24 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.46 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +40.83% - -

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 10,100 7,404 8,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.22% 22.56% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,594 5,003 5,902
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 160 247
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.23 £23.38
25th Percentile £44.38 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £74.07 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £80.10 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.37% -0.42%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -16 216 £565 +3.96% 73
UK excluding London -34 127 £563 +25.84% 36
London -27 95 £563 -6.72% 48
Work from Home -36 85 £525 +1.25% 37
South East -19 50 £550 +15.79% 13
North of England -42 48 £625 +31.58% 5
Yorkshire -27 30 £625 +52.81% 3
North West -37 16 £712 +44.72% 1
Scotland -20 11 £550 -8.33% 2
Midlands -67 7 £402 -2.55% 2
South West -42 6 £550 +23.04% 3
West Midlands -55 5 £450 -25.37% 2
East of England - 5 £543 - 5
North East - 4 £525 - 1
East Midlands -24 2 £401 -2.20%

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 (6.27%) Confluence
2 7 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.57%) nginx
5 3 (1.18%) Apache
5 3 (1.18%) IIS
5 3 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.18%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 146 (57.25%) Azure
2 104 (40.78%) AWS
3 98 (38.43%) Entra ID
4 50 (19.61%) GCP
5 37 (14.51%) Serverless
6 27 (10.59%) SaaS
7 18 (7.06%) Azure AKS
7 18 (7.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 16 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (6.27%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.27%) GitHub
8 16 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.49%) Azure API Management
9 14 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (4.31%) Azure App Service
11 10 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.53%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.53%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.41%) DNS
2 17 (6.67%) Firewall
3 16 (6.27%) Kerberos
4 10 (3.92%) SSL
5 6 (2.35%) HTTP
5 6 (2.35%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.96%) DHCP
7 4 (1.57%) Network Security
7 4 (1.57%) OpenVPN
7 4 (1.57%) VPN
8 3 (1.18%) IPsec
8 3 (1.18%) NGFW
9 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.39%) SSH
9 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.92%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (2.75%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.96%) Data Vault
5 5 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.57%) Metadata
7 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.78%) MySQL
7 2 (0.78%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.78%) Parquet
7 2 (0.78%) Power BI
7 2 (0.78%) Redis
7 2 (0.78%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.39%) Db2
8 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (9.41%) Git
2 17 (6.67%) JIRA
3 10 (3.92%) GitLab
3 10 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.75%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.57%) git-flow
5 4 (1.57%) JMeter
6 3 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.18%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.18%) Postman
7 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.78%) Gatling
7 2 (0.78%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.39%) Gradle
8 1 (0.39%) Mockito
8 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 56 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.04%) Finance
3 44 (17.25%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.45%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.88%) Banking
6 10 (3.92%) Military
7 8 (3.14%) Retail
8 5 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.57%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 68 (26.67%) Architect
2 48 (18.82%) Developer
3 30 (11.76%) Senior
4 28 (10.98%) Lead
5 26 (10.20%) Technical Architect
6 21 (8.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (6.67%) IAM Specialist
8 12 (4.71%) Java Developer
8 12 (4.71%) Security Architect
9 11 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.92%) AWS Architect
10 10 (3.92%) IAM Developer
10 10 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Technical Leader
12 8 (3.14%) Lead Developer
13 7 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (2.35%) Azure Developer
14 6 (2.35%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (2.35%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (88.63%) OAuth
2 160 (62.75%) SAML
3 142 (55.69%) OAuth2
4 67 (26.27%) LDAP
5 50 (19.61%) REST
6 36 (14.12%) SailPoint
7 34 (13.33%) RESTful
8 26 (10.20%) .NET
8 26 (10.20%) React
9 22 (8.63%) JWT
9 22 (8.63%) Kafka
10 19 (7.45%) Node.js
11 18 (7.06%) JSON
11 18 (7.06%) Web Services
12 13 (5.10%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (4.71%) SOAP
13 12 (4.71%) Spring
14 11 (4.31%) .NET Framework
14 11 (4.31%) AngularJS
15 10 (3.92%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 66 (25.88%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 28 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (10.59%) PKI
5 23 (9.02%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.10%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.53%) IoT
7 9 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.14%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.75%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.96%) Clustering
10 5 (1.96%) NHS
10 5 (1.96%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.57%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.57%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.88%) Linux
2 11 (4.31%) Windows
3 4 (1.57%) Android
4 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.78%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (39.61%) CI/CD
2 83 (32.55%) DevOps
3 81 (31.76%) Identity Access Management
4 65 (25.49%) RBAC
5 62 (24.31%) Microservices
6 52 (20.39%) Agile
7 51 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (18.43%) Containerisation
8 47 (18.43%) Zero Trust
9 39 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (14.51%) Roadmaps
10 37 (14.51%) Test Automation
11 34 (13.33%) Event-Driven
12 32 (12.55%) Analytics
13 31 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
13 31 (12.16%) Observability
13 31 (12.16%) Runbook
14 30 (11.76%) Mentoring
15 29 (11.37%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (10.98%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 62 (24.31%) Python
2 58 (22.75%) Java
3 47 (18.43%) PowerShell
4 31 (12.16%) SQL
5 29 (11.37%) TypeScript
6 28 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.63%) C#
8 18 (7.06%) Bicep
9 7 (2.75%) Bash
10 5 (1.96%) Go
10 5 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.78%) Cypher
12 2 (0.78%) Groovy
12 2 (0.78%) PHP
13 1 (0.39%) C
13 1 (0.39%) C++
13 1 (0.39%) Perl
13 1 (0.39%) Scala
13 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 78 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.59%) Degree
4 23 (9.02%) CISSP
5 15 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.92%) CISM
8 9 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.35%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.96%) CSPO
11 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.57%) GIAC
12 3 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.78%) CEH
13 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (9.80%) NIST
3 23 (9.02%) GDPR
4 13 (5.10%) QA
5 10 (3.92%) NCSC
6 6 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.35%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.96%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.78%) HL7
9 2 (0.78%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.78%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.78%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.78%) WCAG
10 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 80 (31.37%) Active Directory
2 41 (16.08%) Docker
3 4 (1.57%) Squid
4 3 (1.18%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.18%) RACF
5 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (24.71%) Single Sign-On
2 62 (24.31%) Terraform
3 57 (22.35%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (5.88%) Grafana
6 12 (4.71%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.53%) Argo
8 8 (3.14%) Ansible
9 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.96%) Istio
10 5 (1.96%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.57%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.57%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.57%) linkerd
11 4 (1.57%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (1.18%) Consul
13 1 (0.39%) Packer
13 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (36.08%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.59%) Okta
3 18 (7.06%) ForgeRock
4 16 (6.27%) CyberArk
4 16 (6.27%) ServiceNow
5 15 (5.88%) Ping Identity
6 12 (4.71%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.92%) Google
8 8 (3.14%) SAP
9 7 (2.75%) Splunk
10 6 (2.35%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.96%) Denodo
11 5 (1.96%) Workday
12 4 (1.57%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.57%) IBM
12 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.78%) Oracle
13 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.78%) VMware