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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 381 461
Rank change year-on-year -21 +80 +37
Contract jobs citing OpenID 305 166 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.58% 1.92% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 120 62
10th Percentile £413 £375 £425
25th Percentile £463 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% -17.54% -
75th Percentile £627 £585 £650
90th Percentile £750 £671 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £447 £551
% change year-on-year +21.87% -18.87% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £53.40 -
25th Percentile £63.75 £54.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £59.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% - -
75th Percentile £86.08 £62.75 -
90th Percentile £87.16 £63.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £59.00 -
% change year-on-year +27.12% - -

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 11,814 8,625 9,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.62% 25.99% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,756 5,728 6,131
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 190 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.20 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.56 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +10.94%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -17 252 £563 +18.42% 240
UK excluding London -20 156 £545 +21.87% 149
London -42 111 £575 +7.08% 142
Work from Home -37 97 £570 +15.85% 173
South East -12 51 £500 +5.26% 40
North of England -46 42 £570 +27.23% 29
Yorkshire -15 33 £570 +39.88% 10
Scotland -16 21 £425 -29.17% 32
Midlands -36 21 £464 +13.08% 11
West Midlands - 18 £510 - 7
East of England -13 11 £544 +26.20% 10
South West -36 10 £600 +17.30% 13
North West -50 7 £750 +66.11% 11
East Midlands -20 3 £402 -1.95% 4
North East - 3 £463 - 8

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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 8 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.31%) IIS
5 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.98%) nginx
5 3 (0.98%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.66%) Apache
6 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.33%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 163 (53.44%) Azure
2 138 (45.25%) AWS
3 111 (36.39%) Entra ID
4 69 (22.62%) GCP
5 35 (11.48%) Serverless
6 32 (10.49%) GitHub
7 27 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (7.21%) SaaS
9 21 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (6.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 17 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (5.57%) Kong
13 16 (5.25%) Azure AKS
14 15 (4.92%) Azure App Service
15 14 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (4.26%) Amazon S3
16 13 (4.26%) Azure API Management
17 12 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
18 10 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.52%) DNS
2 15 (4.92%) Firewall
2 15 (4.92%) Kerberos
3 9 (2.95%) Reverse Proxy
4 8 (2.62%) HTTP
4 8 (2.62%) SSL
5 6 (1.97%) NGFW
6 5 (1.64%) Network Security
7 4 (1.31%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.66%) VPN
9 1 (0.33%) DHCP
9 1 (0.33%) DMZ
9 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.33%) Internet
9 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.33%) SSH
9 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.57%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.59%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.61%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.97%) MySQL
8 5 (1.64%) Data Vault
8 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.31%) Redis
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.98%) Parquet
11 2 (0.66%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.66%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.66%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.33%) Base SAS
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (15.41%) Git
2 22 (7.21%) GitLab
3 16 (5.25%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.25%) JIRA
4 8 (2.62%) JUnit
5 7 (2.30%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.97%) Maven
6 6 (1.97%) Mockito
7 5 (1.64%) JMeter
7 5 (1.64%) Storybook
8 4 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.31%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.98%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.98%) git-flow
9 3 (0.98%) Gradle
9 3 (0.98%) Selenium
10 2 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.66%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.66%) Postman
General
1 73 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.36%) Finance
2 56 (18.36%) Public Sector
3 29 (9.51%) Banking
4 18 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.28%) Military
8 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.31%) Retail
9 3 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Aviation
11 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.33%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (23.93%) Developer
2 65 (21.31%) Architect
3 36 (11.80%) Lead
4 32 (10.49%) Technical Architect
5 31 (10.16%) Senior
6 21 (6.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (6.56%) Java Developer
8 15 (4.92%) IAM Specialist
8 15 (4.92%) Technical Leader
9 13 (4.26%) IAM Developer
9 13 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.93%) Security Architect
11 11 (3.61%) AWS Architect
12 9 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.95%) Lead Developer
12 9 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.62%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.62%) Senior Developer
14 7 (2.30%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (90.82%) OAuth
2 180 (59.02%) OAuth2
3 154 (50.49%) SAML
4 95 (31.15%) Terraform
5 57 (18.69%) REST
6 56 (18.36%) RESTful
7 55 (18.03%) LDAP
8 50 (16.39%) React
9 48 (15.74%) JWT
10 32 (10.49%) Swagger
11 31 (10.16%) .NET
11 31 (10.16%) OpenAPI
12 29 (9.51%) Kafka
13 28 (9.18%) SailPoint
14 26 (8.52%) Node.js
15 22 (7.21%) JSON
16 20 (6.56%) CSS
17 19 (6.23%) HTML
18 17 (5.57%) Spring
19 16 (5.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 92 (30.16%) Cloud Native
2 40 (13.11%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (10.49%) PKI
4 31 (10.16%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (9.18%) Onboarding
6 17 (5.57%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (3.61%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.97%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.97%) NHS
11 5 (1.64%) CMDB
11 5 (1.64%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.31%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.31%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.98%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.93%) Linux
2 8 (2.62%) Windows
3 5 (1.64%) Android
4 4 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.98%) Unix
6 1 (0.33%) CentOS
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (45.57%) CI/CD
2 105 (34.43%) DevOps
3 101 (33.11%) Identity Access Management
4 79 (25.90%) Microservices
5 77 (25.25%) Agile
6 76 (24.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (23.61%) RBAC
8 58 (19.02%) Test Automation
9 54 (17.70%) Containerisation
10 51 (16.72%) Event-Driven
11 49 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
12 48 (15.74%) Zero Trust
13 44 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (14.10%) Observability
14 43 (14.10%) Validation
15 38 (12.46%) Analytics
15 38 (12.46%) Mentoring
15 38 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (12.13%) Full-Stack Development
16 37 (12.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (29.84%) Python
2 70 (22.95%) Java
3 60 (19.67%) PowerShell
4 42 (13.77%) JavaScript
5 36 (11.80%) TypeScript
6 30 (9.84%) SQL
7 28 (9.18%) C#
8 27 (8.85%) Bicep
9 22 (7.21%) Go
10 10 (3.28%) Bash
11 4 (1.31%) Lua
12 3 (0.98%) C++
12 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.66%) Cypher
13 2 (0.66%) Groovy
13 2 (0.66%) Swift
14 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.33%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 84 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 65 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.80%) Degree
4 18 (5.90%) Azure Certification
4 18 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (5.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.25%) AWS Certification
5 16 (5.25%) CISSP
6 14 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.95%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.97%) CISM
9 5 (1.64%) CSPO
9 5 (1.64%) MCSE
10 4 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.66%) CEH
11 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.33%) GIAC
12 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (6.89%) NIST
2 21 (6.89%) QA
3 19 (6.23%) Accessibility
4 16 (5.25%) GDPR
5 13 (4.26%) Data Quality
6 10 (3.28%) NCSC
6 10 (3.28%) WCAG
7 7 (2.30%) HIPAA
7 7 (2.30%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.66%) HL7
9 2 (0.66%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.66%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.66%) SLA
9 2 (0.66%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (28.52%) Active Directory
2 44 (14.43%) Docker
3 6 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.98%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (29.84%) Kubernetes
2 68 (22.30%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (6.56%) Grafana
4 15 (4.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.61%) Argo
6 11 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.95%) Ansible
8 6 (1.97%) Istio
9 5 (1.64%) Kibana
10 4 (1.31%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.98%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.98%) Puppet
11 3 (0.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.66%) Consul
12 2 (0.66%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.66%) Packer
12 2 (0.66%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (35.08%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.84%) Okta
3 21 (6.89%) Google
4 18 (5.90%) ForgeRock
5 16 (5.25%) Dynatrace
6 14 (4.59%) Ping Identity
7 13 (4.26%) CyberArk
7 13 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.26%) Splunk
8 6 (1.97%) Oracle
8 6 (1.97%) SAP
9 5 (1.64%) Denodo
10 4 (1.31%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (1.31%) IBM
11 3 (0.98%) Cisco
11 3 (0.98%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.98%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.98%) Sparx
11 3 (0.98%) Workday