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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 404 438
Rank change year-on-year +3 +34 +86
Contract jobs citing OpenID 266 150 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.64% 2.07% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 104 77
10th Percentile £404 £405 £425
25th Percentile £500 £439 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £551 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -10.04% +3.38%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £700
90th Percentile £850 £677 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £447 £581
% change year-on-year +26.40% -23.06% +3.29%
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 10,057 7,233 9,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.44% 22.78% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,590 4,891 6,377
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £654
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 277 147 283
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.44 £22.55
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.41 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -3 230 £563 +2.27% 67
UK excluding London -52 123 £565 +26.40% 43
London -23 109 £550 -12.35% 41
Work from Home -1 99 £550 +4.22% 41
North of England -34 58 £600 +26.32% 8
South East -23 38 £750 +30.43% 14
Yorkshire -31 36 £600 +46.70% 3
North West -28 20 £631 +24.09% 4
Midlands -63 10 £438 +5.42% 3
South West -25 8 £550 +23.04% 6
Scotland -18 6 £550 -8.33% 3
East Midlands -24 5 £438 +5.42%
West Midlands -59 4 £350 -41.96% 3
North East - 4 £525 - 1
East of England - 3 £558 -

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 (6.02%) Confluence
2 9 (3.38%) nginx
3 7 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.13%) Apache
6 3 (1.13%) IIS
6 3 (1.13%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.13%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 143 (53.76%) Azure
2 116 (43.61%) AWS
3 95 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 58 (21.80%) GCP
5 42 (15.79%) Serverless
6 24 (9.02%) SaaS
7 21 (7.89%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (6.39%) GitHub
9 17 (6.39%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (6.02%) OpenShift
11 15 (5.64%) Route 53
12 13 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (4.89%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (3.76%) Azure API Management
15 9 (3.38%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (11.28%) DNS
2 23 (8.65%) Firewall
3 17 (6.39%) Kerberos
4 12 (4.51%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.14%) SSL
6 10 (3.76%) VPN
7 9 (3.38%) OpenVPN
8 7 (2.63%) Network Security
9 5 (1.88%) DHCP
9 5 (1.88%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (1.50%) HTTP
10 4 (1.50%) IPsec
11 3 (1.13%) NGFW
12 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.38%) Internet
12 1 (0.38%) SSH
12 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.38%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.26%) Neo4j
5 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.88%) Data Vault
6 5 (1.88%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.88%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.88%) Power BI
6 5 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (1.88%) Star Schema
7 4 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.50%) Metadata
8 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.13%) Redis
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.38%) Parquet
10 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (10.90%) Jenkins
1 29 (10.90%) JIRA
2 20 (7.52%) Git
3 19 (7.14%) GitLab
4 8 (3.01%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.01%) JMeter
5 7 (2.63%) Postman
5 7 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.26%) Gatling
6 6 (2.26%) NeoLoad
7 5 (1.88%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.88%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.88%) Selenium
8 4 (1.50%) git-flow
8 4 (1.50%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.13%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.75%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.38%) Gradle
General
1 76 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.68%) Finance
3 34 (12.78%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.03%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (8.65%) Banking
6 16 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.01%) Military
8 8 (3.01%) Retail
9 4 (1.50%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.13%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) 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 94 (35.34%) Architect
2 41 (15.41%) Developer
3 31 (11.65%) Senior
4 30 (11.28%) Technical Architect
5 24 (9.02%) Lead
6 14 (5.26%) AWS Architect
7 12 (4.51%) CyberArk Architect
7 12 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (4.51%) IAM Specialist
7 12 (4.51%) Security Architect
7 12 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.38%) Java Developer
9 8 (3.01%) Analyst
9 8 (3.01%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (3.01%) IAM Developer
10 7 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (2.63%) Lead Architect
10 7 (2.63%) Technical Leader
11 6 (2.26%) Test Architect
11 6 (2.26%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (79.32%) OAuth
2 164 (61.65%) SAML
3 131 (49.25%) OAuth2
4 89 (33.46%) LDAP
5 54 (20.30%) REST
6 39 (14.66%) SailPoint
7 30 (11.28%) RESTful
8 23 (8.65%) .NET
8 23 (8.65%) Node.js
9 22 (8.27%) JWT
9 22 (8.27%) React
10 18 (6.77%) Kafka
11 17 (6.39%) Web Services
12 16 (6.02%) JSON
13 13 (4.89%) AngularJS
14 12 (4.51%) Playwright
14 12 (4.51%) SOAP
15 10 (3.76%) GraphQL
15 10 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
15 10 (3.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 72 (27.07%) Cloud Native
2 43 (16.17%) Onboarding
3 23 (8.65%) PKI
4 19 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.51%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.14%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (3.38%) IoT
10 8 (3.01%) Mobile App
10 8 (3.01%) Security Posture
11 7 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.88%) Clustering
13 5 (1.88%) Operational Technology
14 4 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
15 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.64%) Linux
2 14 (5.26%) Windows
3 5 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.50%) Android
4 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 110 (41.35%) DevOps
3 72 (27.07%) Identity Access Management
4 68 (25.56%) RBAC
5 65 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (21.80%) Microservices
7 52 (19.55%) Agile
8 47 (17.67%) Containerisation
9 46 (17.29%) Cybersecurity
10 44 (16.54%) Event-Driven
11 42 (15.79%) Roadmaps
11 42 (15.79%) Zero Trust
12 40 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (14.66%) Test Automation
14 35 (13.16%) Secrets Management
15 34 (12.78%) Observability
15 34 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (12.41%) Architectural Patterns
17 32 (12.03%) Design Patterns
17 32 (12.03%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 63 (23.68%) Java
2 62 (23.31%) Python
3 41 (15.41%) PowerShell
4 33 (12.41%) SQL
5 31 (11.65%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.65%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.77%) Bicep
8 15 (5.64%) C#
9 8 (3.01%) Go
10 7 (2.63%) Bash
11 6 (2.26%) Cypher
12 5 (1.88%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.88%) Scala
13 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.75%) Groovy
14 2 (0.75%) PHP
14 2 (0.75%) Swift
15 1 (0.38%) C
15 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (33.46%) Security Cleared
2 75 (28.20%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.65%) CISSP
4 22 (8.27%) Degree
5 16 (6.02%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.51%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.38%) CISM
8 8 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.88%) CSPO
9 5 (1.88%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.50%) GIAC
11 3 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.75%) CEH
12 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.75%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (13.91%) NIST
3 22 (8.27%) GDPR
4 21 (7.89%) NCSC
5 15 (5.64%) QA
6 7 (2.63%) HIPAA
6 7 (2.63%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.63%) SOC 2
7 6 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.50%) GRC
9 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.75%) WCAG
11 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.38%) GMP
11 1 (0.38%) GxP
11 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 69 (25.94%) Active Directory
2 38 (14.29%) Docker
3 9 (3.38%) Squid
4 5 (1.88%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (1.50%) RACF
6 3 (1.13%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (26.69%) Kubernetes
2 70 (26.32%) Single Sign-On
3 69 (25.94%) Terraform
4 23 (8.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (7.52%) Grafana
6 18 (6.77%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.38%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.01%) Ansible
8 8 (3.01%) Consul
9 6 (2.26%) Istio
10 5 (1.88%) Argo
10 5 (1.88%) Kustomize
10 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.50%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.50%) linkerd
11 4 (1.50%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.38%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.38%) Packer
12 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (33.08%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.90%) Okta
3 28 (10.53%) CyberArk
4 26 (9.77%) ServiceNow
5 19 (7.14%) Splunk
6 18 (6.77%) Google
7 16 (6.02%) Ping Identity
8 14 (5.26%) ForgeRock
9 13 (4.89%) Dynatrace
10 10 (3.76%) Red Hat
11 8 (3.01%) SAP
12 7 (2.63%) Atlassian
13 6 (2.26%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.88%) Denodo
14 5 (1.88%) Workday
15 4 (1.50%) Oracle
16 3 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
16 3 (1.13%) IBM
17 2 (0.75%) Sparx
17 2 (0.75%) Thycotic