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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 395 449
Rank change year-on-year -27 +54 +72
Contract jobs citing OpenID 266 159 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.49% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 1.92% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 117 64
10th Percentile £413 £366 £425
25th Percentile £485 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £537 £593
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -9.37% -1.25%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £623
90th Percentile £750 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £439 £581
% change year-on-year +28.28% -24.53% -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 11,719 8,295 9,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.36% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,711 5,600 6,428
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £635 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 183 200
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.35 £25.27
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £77.96 £74.54
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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -15 222 £575 +15.00% 176
UK excluding London -23 140 £563 +28.28% 81
London -62 92 £575 -2.54% 110
Work from Home -25 90 £520 +2.11% 85
South East -9 51 £513 -4.65% 21
North of England -40 46 £623 +52.20% 21
Yorkshire -27 29 £625 +53.37% 15
Scotland -8 15 £443 -26.13% 5
North West -40 14 £694 +65.12% 4
Midlands -52 11 £585 +41.82% 10
South West -30 10 £575 +28.64% 14
West Midlands -47 8 £620 +2.82% 7
East of England - 7 £555 - 5
North East - 4 £494 - 2
East Midlands -28 3 £402 -1.95% 3

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 (4.89%) Confluence
2 7 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.13%) Apache
5 3 (1.13%) IIS
5 3 (1.13%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.13%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 149 (56.02%) Azure
2 114 (42.86%) AWS
3 103 (38.72%) Entra ID
4 60 (22.56%) GCP
5 35 (13.16%) Serverless
6 26 (9.77%) SaaS
7 24 (9.02%) GitHub
8 23 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (6.02%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (5.64%) Azure AKS
11 15 (5.64%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (5.26%) Azure API Management
13 13 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.89%) Kong
14 11 (4.14%) Amazon S3
15 10 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (3.76%) Azure App Service
15 10 (3.76%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.53%) DNS
2 18 (6.77%) Firewall
3 15 (5.64%) Kerberos
4 9 (3.38%) SSL
5 8 (3.01%) HTTP
6 5 (1.88%) DHCP
6 5 (1.88%) Network Security
7 4 (1.50%) NGFW
7 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.38%) DMZ
8 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.38%) Internet
8 1 (0.38%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.38%) SSH
8 1 (0.38%) VPN
8 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.89%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.76%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.38%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.88%) Data Vault
6 5 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.50%) Metadata
8 3 (1.13%) Redis
9 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.75%) MySQL
9 2 (0.75%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.38%) Db2
10 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.38%) Parquet
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (11.65%) Git
2 17 (6.39%) GitLab
2 17 (6.39%) JIRA
3 11 (4.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.26%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.88%) JMeter
5 5 (1.88%) JUnit
6 4 (1.50%) Maven
6 4 (1.50%) Zephyr
7 3 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.13%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.13%) git-flow
7 3 (1.13%) Mockito
8 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.75%) Gatling
8 2 (0.75%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.75%) Postman
8 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.38%) Gradle
9 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 59 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 49 (18.42%) Finance
4 18 (6.77%) Banking
4 18 (6.77%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.38%) Military
8 6 (2.26%) Retail
9 4 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
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 67 (25.19%) Architect
2 51 (19.17%) Developer
3 32 (12.03%) Lead
4 27 (10.15%) Senior
4 27 (10.15%) Technical Architect
5 18 (6.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (6.39%) IAM Specialist
7 16 (6.02%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.26%) Technical Leader
9 13 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.51%) Security Architect
11 11 (4.14%) IAM Developer
12 10 (3.76%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.01%) Lead Developer
14 7 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
15 6 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 6 (2.26%) Lead Architect
15 6 (2.26%) Senior Developer
15 6 (2.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (88.72%) OAuth
2 157 (59.02%) SAML
3 147 (55.26%) OAuth2
4 67 (25.19%) Terraform
5 66 (24.81%) LDAP
6 49 (18.42%) REST
7 41 (15.41%) RESTful
8 34 (12.78%) React
9 33 (12.41%) SailPoint
10 28 (10.53%) JWT
11 24 (9.02%) Kafka
12 23 (8.65%) .NET
13 17 (6.39%) JSON
14 16 (6.02%) CSS
15 15 (5.64%) Node.js
15 15 (5.64%) Web Services
16 14 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
16 14 (5.26%) Spring
17 13 (4.89%) HTML
17 13 (4.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 79 (29.70%) Cloud Native
2 31 (11.65%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 27 (10.15%) PKI
5 25 (9.40%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (5.64%) Product Ownership
7 12 (4.51%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.76%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (3.38%) IoT
10 8 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (3.01%) Mobile App
11 6 (2.26%) AI Agents
11 6 (2.26%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.88%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.88%) Clustering
12 5 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.88%) NHS
12 5 (1.88%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.02%) Linux
2 13 (4.89%) Windows
3 4 (1.50%) Android
3 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.13%) Unix
5 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (39.85%) CI/CD
2 88 (33.08%) Identity Access Management
3 84 (31.58%) DevOps
4 67 (25.19%) Microservices
5 62 (23.31%) RBAC
6 59 (22.18%) Agile
7 54 (20.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (18.80%) Containerisation
9 47 (17.67%) Zero Trust
10 43 (16.17%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (14.66%) Test Automation
13 37 (13.91%) Roadmaps
14 36 (13.53%) Event-Driven
15 35 (13.16%) Mentoring
15 35 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (12.41%) Observability
16 33 (12.41%) Runbook
17 32 (12.03%) Analytics
18 31 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.32%) Python
2 63 (23.68%) Java
3 50 (18.80%) PowerShell
4 33 (12.41%) JavaScript
5 27 (10.15%) SQL
5 27 (10.15%) TypeScript
6 20 (7.52%) C#
7 18 (6.77%) Bicep
8 10 (3.76%) Bash
9 9 (3.38%) Go
10 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.13%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.75%) Cypher
12 2 (0.75%) Groovy
12 2 (0.75%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.38%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) Lua
13 1 (0.38%) Scala
13 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 83 (31.20%) Security Cleared
2 66 (24.81%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.65%) Degree
4 19 (7.14%) CISSP
5 15 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 14 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.76%) CISM
8 10 (3.76%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.88%) CSPO
11 3 (1.13%) CEH
11 3 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.13%) MCSE
12 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.75%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (10.15%) NIST
3 24 (9.02%) GDPR
4 17 (6.39%) QA
5 11 (4.14%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.76%) NCSC
7 7 (2.63%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.88%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.13%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.13%) WCAG
11 2 (0.75%) HL7
11 2 (0.75%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.75%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.75%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 82 (30.83%) Active Directory
2 44 (16.54%) Docker
3 3 (1.13%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.38%) Squid
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 57 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (8.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (6.02%) Grafana
5 12 (4.51%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.76%) Argo
7 9 (3.38%) Istio
8 8 (3.01%) Ansible
8 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.63%) Kustomize
10 5 (1.88%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.50%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.50%) linkerd
11 4 (1.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (1.13%) Kibana
13 2 (0.75%) Consul
13 2 (0.75%) Packer
13 2 (0.75%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (35.34%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.77%) Okta
3 16 (6.02%) CyberArk
3 16 (6.02%) ForgeRock
4 15 (5.64%) Dynatrace
4 15 (5.64%) Google
5 14 (5.26%) Ping Identity
5 14 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.76%) Splunk
7 8 (3.01%) SAP
8 5 (1.88%) Denodo
8 5 (1.88%) IBM
8 5 (1.88%) Workday
9 4 (1.50%) Oracle
10 3 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.13%) Cisco
10 3 (1.13%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.75%) Thycotic