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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 394 447
Rank change year-on-year +14 +53 +65
Contract jobs citing OpenID 262 144 149
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.48% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.66% 2.11% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 97 87
10th Percentile £403 £406 £425
25th Percentile £500 £447 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -10.20% +6.52%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £700
90th Percentile £850 £676 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £564 £450 £585
% change year-on-year +25.28% -23.08% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £88.87 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.46 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +49.92% - -

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 9,851 6,815 9,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.85% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,652 6,374
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.22% -2.43%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 126 276
10th Percentile £30.50 £29.16 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% -13.46%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -6 225 £563 +2.27% 45
UK excluding London -42 117 £564 +25.28% 24
London -14 110 £556 -11.35% 26
Work from Home +4 96 £550 +6.08% 24
North of England -33 55 £575 +16.87% 6
South East -33 36 £750 +30.43% 10
Yorkshire -36 34 £598 +36.10% 2
North West -26 19 £600 +14.29% 4
Midlands -59 10 £438 +5.42%
South West -26 8 £550 +23.04% 5
Scotland -11 6 £550 -8.33% 1
East Midlands -23 5 £438 +6.06%
West Midlands -57 4 £350 -41.96%
North East - 3 £469 -
East of England - 2 £555 - 1

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 (6.11%) Confluence
2 9 (3.44%) nginx
2 9 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.15%) Apache
5 3 (1.15%) IIS
5 3 (1.15%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 142 (54.20%) Azure
2 118 (45.04%) AWS
3 93 (35.50%) Entra ID
4 60 (22.90%) GCP
5 44 (16.79%) Serverless
6 26 (9.92%) SaaS
7 24 (9.16%) Amazon S3
8 23 (8.78%) GitHub
8 23 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (6.87%) OpenShift
10 18 (6.87%) Route 53
11 16 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.96%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.20%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.60%) DNS
2 23 (8.78%) Firewall
3 17 (6.49%) Kerberos
4 12 (4.58%) SSL
4 12 (4.58%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.82%) VPN
6 9 (3.44%) OpenVPN
7 6 (2.29%) Network Security
8 5 (1.91%) DHCP
8 5 (1.91%) IPsec
8 5 (1.91%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.53%) HTTP
10 3 (1.15%) NGFW
11 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.38%) Internet
11 1 (0.38%) SSH
11 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.58%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.44%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.05%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.05%) Redis
5 8 (3.05%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.29%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.91%) Data Vault
7 5 (1.91%) Power BI
7 5 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (1.91%) Star Schema
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.53%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.53%) Metadata
8 4 (1.53%) MySQL
8 4 (1.53%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 32 (12.21%) Jenkins
2 25 (9.54%) JIRA
3 20 (7.63%) GitLab
4 19 (7.25%) Git
5 8 (3.05%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.67%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.29%) Gatling
7 6 (2.29%) JMeter
8 5 (1.91%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.91%) Postman
8 5 (1.91%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.91%) Selenium
9 4 (1.53%) git-flow
9 4 (1.53%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.53%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (1.15%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.38%) fastlane
12 1 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 76 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.66%) Finance
3 35 (13.36%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.21%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (9.16%) Banking
6 15 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.05%) Military
8 8 (3.05%) Retail
9 4 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 95 (36.26%) Architect
2 41 (15.65%) Developer
3 30 (11.45%) Senior
4 29 (11.07%) Technical Architect
5 24 (9.16%) Lead
6 16 (6.11%) AWS Architect
7 12 (4.58%) CyberArk Architect
7 12 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (4.58%) IAM Specialist
7 12 (4.58%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.20%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (4.20%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.05%) IAM Developer
11 7 (2.67%) Analyst
11 7 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.67%) Lead Architect
11 7 (2.67%) Technical Leader
12 6 (2.29%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (80.92%) OAuth
2 161 (61.45%) SAML
3 138 (52.67%) OAuth2
4 84 (32.06%) LDAP
5 53 (20.23%) REST
6 38 (14.50%) SailPoint
7 34 (12.98%) RESTful
8 25 (9.54%) Kafka
9 23 (8.78%) .NET
9 23 (8.78%) JWT
10 22 (8.40%) Node.js
10 22 (8.40%) React
11 18 (6.87%) Web Services
12 17 (6.49%) JSON
12 17 (6.49%) Spring
12 17 (6.49%) Spring Boot
13 15 (5.73%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (5.34%) AngularJS
15 10 (3.82%) Playwright
15 10 (3.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (27.48%) Cloud Native
2 43 (16.41%) Onboarding
3 22 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (7.63%) PKI
5 18 (6.87%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.58%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.82%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.05%) IoT
8 8 (3.05%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.29%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.91%) Clustering
11 5 (1.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.91%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.73%) Windows
2 13 (4.96%) Linux
3 5 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.53%) Android
4 4 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.76%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (45.04%) CI/CD
2 108 (41.22%) DevOps
3 69 (26.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (24.81%) Identity Access Management
5 64 (24.43%) Microservices
5 64 (24.43%) RBAC
6 50 (19.08%) Agile
6 50 (19.08%) Containerisation
7 46 (17.56%) Event-Driven
8 45 (17.18%) Cybersecurity
9 43 (16.41%) Roadmaps
10 41 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (15.27%) Secrets Management
12 39 (14.89%) Zero Trust
13 38 (14.50%) Observability
14 37 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
14 37 (14.12%) Test Automation
15 34 (12.98%) Design Patterns
16 32 (12.21%) Architectural Patterns
16 32 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 68 (25.95%) Java
2 60 (22.90%) Python
3 41 (15.65%) PowerShell
4 39 (14.89%) SQL
5 28 (10.69%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.78%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.49%) Bicep
8 15 (5.73%) C#
9 8 (3.05%) Go
10 7 (2.67%) Bash
11 5 (1.91%) Scala
12 4 (1.53%) Cypher
12 4 (1.53%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.76%) Groovy
14 2 (0.76%) PHP
14 2 (0.76%) Swift
15 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 85 (32.44%) Security Cleared
2 71 (27.10%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.40%) CISSP
4 20 (7.63%) Degree
5 15 (5.73%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.58%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.44%) CISM
8 8 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.91%) CSPO
10 4 (1.53%) GIAC
11 3 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.76%) CEH
12 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.76%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (14.89%) NIST
3 21 (8.02%) GDPR
4 20 (7.63%) NCSC
5 19 (7.25%) QA
6 10 (3.82%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.05%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.67%) HIPAA
9 6 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.53%) GRC
11 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.15%) SEPA
11 3 (1.15%) WCAG
12 2 (0.76%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.76%) PSD2
13 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 69 (26.34%) Active Directory
2 45 (17.18%) Docker
3 9 (3.44%) Squid
4 5 (1.91%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (1.91%) RACF
5 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.38%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (29.01%) Kubernetes
2 74 (28.24%) Terraform
3 70 (26.72%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (8.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (7.63%) Grafana
5 20 (7.63%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.82%) Ansible
7 9 (3.44%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.05%) Consul
9 7 (2.67%) Argo
10 6 (2.29%) Istio
11 5 (1.91%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.53%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.53%) linkerd
12 4 (1.53%) PingFederate
12 4 (1.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.38%) Packer
13 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (33.59%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.69%) Okta
3 26 (9.92%) CyberArk
3 26 (9.92%) ServiceNow
4 19 (7.25%) Splunk
5 18 (6.87%) Google
6 16 (6.11%) Ping Identity
7 14 (5.34%) ForgeRock
8 13 (4.96%) Dynatrace
9 10 (3.82%) Red Hat
10 8 (3.05%) SAP
11 7 (2.67%) Atlassian
12 6 (2.29%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.91%) Denodo
13 5 (1.91%) Workday
14 4 (1.53%) Oracle
15 3 (1.15%) BeyondTrust
15 3 (1.15%) IBM
16 2 (0.76%) Thycotic
16 2 (0.76%) VMware