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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 393 454
Rank change year-on-year -23 +61 +42
Contract jobs citing OpenID 260 162 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.56% 2.18% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 116 65
10th Percentile £402 £365 £425
25th Percentile £481 £425 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -9.42% -
75th Percentile £647 £639 £638
90th Percentile £764 £676 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £558 £440 £585
% change year-on-year +26.85% -24.87% -2.50%
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 10,172 7,434 8,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 22.62% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,633 5,010 5,809
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £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 265 169 244
10th Percentile £28.65 £29.85 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.35 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £57.28
% change year-on-year +15.56% -1.79% -2.24%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -8 219 £563 +8.49% 112
UK excluding London -34 129 £558 +26.85% 46
London -40 96 £556 -6.75% 75
Work from Home -26 85 £520 +0.29% 48
South East -19 52 £500 +5.26% 14
North of England -50 46 £620 +51.59% 13
Yorkshire -26 27 £620 +51.59% 8
North West -33 16 £712 +70.54% 4
Scotland -12 11 £550 -8.33% 6
South West -36 8 £550 +23.04% 5
Midlands -64 7 £402 -2.55% 4
West Midlands -58 5 £450 -25.37% 4
East of England - 5 £543 - 1
North East - 4 £494 - 1
East Midlands -25 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 (6.15%) Confluence
2 7 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.15%) Apache
5 3 (1.15%) IIS
5 3 (1.15%) nginx
5 3 (1.15%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 147 (56.54%) Azure
2 104 (40.00%) AWS
3 102 (39.23%) Entra ID
4 52 (20.00%) GCP
5 34 (13.08%) Serverless
6 26 (10.00%) SaaS
7 20 (7.69%) GitHub
8 19 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.92%) Azure AKS
9 18 (6.92%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (6.15%) Amazon S3
11 15 (5.77%) Azure API Management
11 15 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.62%) Azure App Service
14 11 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (4.23%) Kong
15 9 (3.46%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.62%) DNS
2 18 (6.92%) Firewall
3 14 (5.38%) Kerberos
4 8 (3.08%) SSL
5 7 (2.69%) HTTP
6 6 (2.31%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.92%) DHCP
8 4 (1.54%) Network Security
8 4 (1.54%) NGFW
9 3 (1.15%) OpenVPN
9 3 (1.15%) VPN
10 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.38%) SSH
10 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.69%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.92%) Data Vault
7 5 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.54%) Metadata
9 3 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.77%) MySQL
10 2 (0.77%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.77%) Parquet
11 1 (0.38%) Db2
11 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.38%) Redis
11 1 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (10.00%) Git
2 17 (6.54%) JIRA
3 12 (4.62%) GitLab
4 11 (4.23%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.69%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.92%) JMeter
7 4 (1.54%) git-flow
8 3 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.15%) Fiddler
8 3 (1.15%) Postman
9 2 (0.77%) Gatling
9 2 (0.77%) JUnit
9 2 (0.77%) Mockito
9 2 (0.77%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.77%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.38%) Gradle
10 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 58 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 45 (17.31%) Finance
4 20 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.15%) Banking
6 9 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.46%) Military
7 8 (3.08%) Retail
8 4 (1.54%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 68 (26.15%) Architect
2 50 (19.23%) Developer
3 30 (11.54%) Lead
4 28 (10.77%) Senior
5 24 (9.23%) Technical Architect
6 21 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (6.92%) IAM Specialist
8 14 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.00%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.62%) Security Architect
10 12 (4.62%) Technical Leader
11 10 (3.85%) IAM Developer
11 10 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.46%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.08%) Lead Developer
14 7 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.69%) Senior Developer
15 6 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
15 6 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
15 6 (2.31%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (89.23%) OAuth
2 161 (61.92%) SAML
3 150 (57.69%) OAuth2
4 66 (25.38%) LDAP
5 49 (18.85%) REST
6 39 (15.00%) RESTful
7 36 (13.85%) SailPoint
8 28 (10.77%) React
9 25 (9.62%) .NET
9 25 (9.62%) JWT
10 20 (7.69%) Kafka
11 19 (7.31%) Node.js
12 18 (6.92%) JSON
13 15 (5.77%) Web Services
14 13 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
15 12 (4.62%) CSS
15 12 (4.62%) HTML
15 12 (4.62%) SOAP
15 12 (4.62%) Spring
16 11 (4.23%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 68 (26.15%) Cloud Native
2 31 (11.92%) Onboarding
3 28 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (10.77%) PKI
4 25 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.38%) Product Ownership
6 13 (5.00%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.46%) IoT
7 9 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.08%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.69%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.92%) Clustering
10 5 (1.92%) NHS
10 5 (1.92%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.54%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.15%) Linux
2 12 (4.62%) Windows
3 4 (1.54%) Android
4 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.15%) Unix
4 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (39.23%) CI/CD
2 82 (31.54%) DevOps
2 82 (31.54%) Identity Access Management
3 68 (26.15%) RBAC
4 62 (23.85%) Microservices
5 54 (20.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (19.62%) Agile
7 50 (19.23%) Containerisation
7 50 (19.23%) Zero Trust
8 41 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (15.00%) Test Automation
10 36 (13.85%) Roadmaps
11 35 (13.46%) Analytics
12 34 (13.08%) Mentoring
13 33 (12.69%) Event-Driven
13 33 (12.69%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (12.31%) Runbook
15 31 (11.92%) Observability
16 30 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
16 30 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (25.00%) Python
2 57 (21.92%) Java
3 49 (18.85%) PowerShell
4 30 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 28 (10.77%) SQL
5 28 (10.77%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.46%) C#
7 19 (7.31%) Bicep
8 8 (3.08%) Bash
9 6 (2.31%) Go
10 4 (1.54%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.15%) Groovy
12 2 (0.77%) Cypher
12 2 (0.77%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) C
13 1 (0.38%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) Perl
13 1 (0.38%) Scala
13 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 81 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 64 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.77%) Degree
4 23 (8.85%) CISSP
5 16 (6.15%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.77%) AWS Certification
6 15 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.85%) CISM
7 10 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.69%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.92%) CSPO
10 4 (1.54%) GIAC
11 3 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.15%) MCSE
12 2 (0.77%) CEH
12 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (10.00%) NIST
3 24 (9.23%) GDPR
4 15 (5.77%) QA
5 10 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 10 (3.85%) NCSC
6 6 (2.31%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.92%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.54%) WCAG
9 2 (0.77%) HL7
9 2 (0.77%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.77%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.77%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 84 (32.31%) Active Directory
2 44 (16.92%) Docker
3 3 (1.15%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.15%) Squid
3 3 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (25.00%) Terraform
2 61 (23.46%) Kubernetes
3 59 (22.69%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (8.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (6.15%) Grafana
6 12 (4.62%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.46%) Ansible
8 8 (3.08%) Argo
9 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.31%) Istio
11 5 (1.92%) Kustomize
12 4 (1.54%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.54%) Consul
12 4 (1.54%) linkerd
12 4 (1.54%) PingFederate
12 4 (1.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (1.15%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.77%) Kibana
14 2 (0.77%) Packer
14 2 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (35.77%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.00%) Okta
3 17 (6.54%) ForgeRock
4 16 (6.15%) CyberArk
5 15 (5.77%) Ping Identity
5 15 (5.77%) ServiceNow
6 13 (5.00%) Dynatrace
7 11 (4.23%) Google
8 8 (3.08%) SAP
8 8 (3.08%) Splunk
9 6 (2.31%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.92%) Denodo
10 5 (1.92%) IBM
10 5 (1.92%) Workday
11 4 (1.54%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.77%) Oracle
13 2 (0.77%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.77%) VMware
132 OpenID jobs Nationwide