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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 394 444
Rank change year-on-year -18 +50 +62
Contract jobs citing OpenID 272 161 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.50% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.32% 1.94% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 119 62
10th Percentile £410 £367 £425
25th Percentile £480 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £510 £593
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -13.92% -1.25%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £622
90th Percentile £750 £679 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £440 £581
% change year-on-year +26.28% -24.35% -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 11,701 8,291 9,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.51% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,710 5,586 6,363
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 186 195
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.50 £26.16
25th Percentile £45.31 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.88 £79.35 £74.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -29 230 £563 +14.33% 176
UK excluding London -18 145 £555 +26.28% 83
London -42 95 £563 -2.17% 116
Work from Home -10 92 £525 +3.09% 88
South East -17 50 £513 -4.65% 23
North of England -34 46 £623 +50.18% 14
Yorkshire -23 29 £625 +53.37% 11
Midlands -48 16 £464 +12.39% 11
Scotland -20 15 £443 -26.13% 14
North West -41 14 £694 +59.43% 3
West Midlands -37 13 £543 -10.03% 7
South West -40 10 £575 +28.64% 12
East of England - 8 £555 - 6
North East - 4 £494 -
East Midlands -30 3 £402 -1.95% 4

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 13 (4.78%) Confluence
2 9 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.10%) Apache
5 3 (1.10%) IIS
5 3 (1.10%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.10%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 151 (55.51%) Azure
2 119 (43.75%) AWS
3 101 (37.13%) Entra ID
4 61 (22.43%) GCP
5 35 (12.87%) Serverless
6 27 (9.93%) GitHub
6 27 (9.93%) SaaS
7 24 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
10 14 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (4.78%) Kong
12 12 (4.41%) Amazon S3
12 12 (4.41%) Azure AKS
12 12 (4.41%) Azure App Service
13 11 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (4.04%) Azure API Management
14 9 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.93%) DNS
2 18 (6.62%) Firewall
3 15 (5.51%) Kerberos
4 9 (3.31%) SSL
5 8 (2.94%) HTTP
6 5 (1.84%) DHCP
6 5 (1.84%) Network Security
7 4 (1.47%) NGFW
7 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.37%) DMZ
8 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.37%) Internet
8 1 (0.37%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.37%) SSH
8 1 (0.37%) VPN
8 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.78%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.04%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.84%) Data Vault
7 5 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.47%) Metadata
9 3 (1.10%) MySQL
9 3 (1.10%) Redis
10 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.74%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.37%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 37 (13.60%) Git
2 19 (6.99%) GitLab
3 17 (6.25%) JIRA
4 12 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.57%) JUnit
6 6 (2.21%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.21%) Maven
7 5 (1.84%) JMeter
7 5 (1.84%) Mockito
8 4 (1.47%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.10%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.10%) git-flow
9 3 (1.10%) Selenium
9 3 (1.10%) Storybook
10 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.74%) Gatling
10 2 (0.74%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.74%) Postman
10 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.22%) Public Sector
3 51 (18.75%) Finance
4 19 (6.99%) Banking
5 17 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.31%) Military
8 6 (2.21%) Retail
9 4 (1.47%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (23.90%) Architect
2 57 (20.96%) Developer
3 32 (11.76%) Lead
4 30 (11.03%) Senior
5 27 (9.93%) Technical Architect
6 18 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 16 (5.88%) IAM Specialist
9 14 (5.15%) Technical Leader
10 12 (4.41%) Security Architect
10 12 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.04%) IAM Developer
12 10 (3.68%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.94%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
16 6 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 6 (2.21%) Product Owner
16 6 (2.21%) Python Developer
16 6 (2.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (88.97%) OAuth
2 157 (57.72%) SAML
3 153 (56.25%) OAuth2
4 70 (25.74%) Terraform
5 63 (23.16%) LDAP
6 52 (19.12%) REST
7 44 (16.18%) RESTful
8 40 (14.71%) React
9 31 (11.40%) SailPoint
10 30 (11.03%) JWT
11 26 (9.56%) .NET
12 24 (8.82%) Kafka
13 20 (7.35%) Swagger
14 19 (6.99%) CSS
14 19 (6.99%) JSON
14 19 (6.99%) OpenAPI
15 18 (6.62%) HTML
15 18 (6.62%) Node.js
16 16 (5.88%) Spring
17 15 (5.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (28.31%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.66%) Onboarding
4 26 (9.56%) PKI
5 25 (9.19%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (6.62%) Product Ownership
7 12 (4.41%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (3.31%) IoT
10 8 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (2.21%) AI Agents
11 6 (2.21%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.84%) Clustering
12 5 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.84%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.84%) NHS
12 5 (1.84%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.47%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.51%) Linux
2 12 (4.41%) Windows
3 4 (1.47%) Android
3 4 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 92 (33.82%) Identity Access Management
3 83 (30.51%) DevOps
4 71 (26.10%) Microservices
5 64 (23.53%) Agile
6 60 (22.06%) RBAC
7 57 (20.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 47 (17.28%) Zero Trust
10 45 (16.54%) Test Automation
11 44 (16.18%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (14.71%) Event-Driven
14 38 (13.97%) Roadmaps
15 37 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (13.24%) Mentoring
17 33 (12.13%) Runbook
18 32 (11.76%) Analytics
18 32 (11.76%) Observability
19 31 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.84%) Python
2 67 (24.63%) Java
3 50 (18.38%) PowerShell
4 38 (13.97%) JavaScript
5 30 (11.03%) TypeScript
6 27 (9.93%) SQL
7 22 (8.09%) C#
8 20 (7.35%) Bicep
9 10 (3.68%) Bash
10 9 (3.31%) Go
11 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.74%) Cypher
12 2 (0.74%) Groovy
12 2 (0.74%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) Lua
13 1 (0.37%) Scala
13 1 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 77 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 60 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.40%) Degree
4 19 (6.99%) CISSP
5 15 (5.51%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (5.15%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (3.68%) CISM
10 9 (3.31%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.84%) CSPO
12 3 (1.10%) CEH
12 3 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.10%) MCSE
13 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.74%) GIAC
13 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (9.56%) NIST
3 24 (8.82%) GDPR
4 16 (5.88%) QA
5 15 (5.51%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.68%) NCSC
7 9 (3.31%) Data Quality
8 8 (2.94%) WCAG
9 6 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (1.84%) HIPAA
11 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.74%) HL7
12 2 (0.74%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.74%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.74%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 81 (29.78%) Active Directory
2 42 (15.44%) Docker
3 3 (1.10%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.37%) Squid
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (26.10%) Kubernetes
2 60 (22.06%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (8.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (5.15%) Grafana
5 9 (3.31%) Argo
6 8 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.57%) Ansible
8 6 (2.21%) Istio
9 5 (1.84%) Kibana
9 5 (1.84%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.47%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.47%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.74%) Consul
11 2 (0.74%) Packer
11 2 (0.74%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.37%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 95 (34.93%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.56%) Okta
3 16 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 16 (5.88%) ForgeRock
4 15 (5.51%) Dynatrace
4 15 (5.51%) Google
5 14 (5.15%) Ping Identity
5 14 (5.15%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.68%) Splunk
7 8 (2.94%) SAP
8 5 (1.84%) Denodo
8 5 (1.84%) IBM
8 5 (1.84%) Oracle
8 5 (1.84%) Workday
9 3 (1.10%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.10%) Cisco
9 3 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.74%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.74%) VMware