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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 401 432
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 +97
Contract jobs citing OpenID 245 119 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.41% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.61% 1.80% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 82 100
10th Percentile £404 £411 £436
25th Percentile £478 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £620
Median % change year-on-year - -11.29% +10.71%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £750
90th Percentile £850 £687 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £469 £550
% change year-on-year +17.27% -14.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.13 - -
90th Percentile £84.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 9,374 6,599 8,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.66% 22.70% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,179 4,521 6,171
10th Percentile £360 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 110 243
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.15 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.19 £74.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -5 214 £550 -3.17% 40
UK excluding London -21 110 £550 +17.27% 25
London -14 105 £550 -13.21% 16
Work from Home +3 79 £550 +2.42% 16
North of England -11 66 £565 +11.16% 7
Yorkshire -20 42 £563 +19.94% 1
North West -20 22 £600 +14.29% 6
South East -42 19 £700 +21.74% 11
South West -30 11 £575 +28.64% 3
Midlands -65 8 £438 -0.46%
West Midlands -58 4 £350 -41.96%
Scotland +3 3 £550 -8.33%
East Midlands -31 3 £438 +7.43%
North East - 3 £469 -
East of England - 3 £425 - 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 14 (5.71%) Confluence
2 9 (3.67%) nginx
3 8 (3.27%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.82%) Apache
6 2 (0.82%) IIS
6 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 129 (52.65%) Azure
2 114 (46.53%) AWS
3 83 (33.88%) Entra ID
4 62 (25.31%) GCP
5 41 (16.73%) Serverless
6 30 (12.24%) SaaS
7 24 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 18 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (7.35%) OpenShift
9 15 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.12%) GitHub
9 15 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (5.31%) Route 53
11 12 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.49%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (12.24%) DNS
2 24 (9.80%) Firewall
3 18 (7.35%) Kerberos
4 13 (5.31%) SSL
5 12 (4.90%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.08%) VPN
7 9 (3.67%) OpenVPN
8 6 (2.45%) DHCP
9 5 (2.04%) IPsec
9 5 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (1.63%) Network Security
11 3 (1.22%) HTTP
12 2 (0.82%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.82%) NGFW
13 1 (0.41%) Internet
13 1 (0.41%) SMS
13 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.49%) Redis
3 10 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.67%) MySQL
5 8 (3.27%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.04%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.04%) Power BI
7 5 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (2.04%) Star Schema
8 4 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.63%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.63%) Metadata
8 4 (1.63%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.22%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (16.73%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.24%) JIRA
3 26 (10.61%) GitLab
4 15 (6.12%) Git
5 14 (5.71%) Selenium
6 13 (5.31%) REST Assured
7 12 (4.90%) Cucumber
7 12 (4.90%) Postman
8 7 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.86%) Gatling
8 7 (2.86%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.45%) JMeter
10 5 (2.04%) TestRail
11 4 (1.63%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.63%) NeoLoad
12 3 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (1.22%) Fiddler
12 3 (1.22%) git-flow
13 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.82%) Maven
General
1 75 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 59 (24.08%) Finance
3 31 (12.65%) Documentation Skills
4 25 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.98%) Banking
6 15 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.45%) Retail
9 4 (1.63%) Military
10 3 (1.22%) Games
10 3 (1.22%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 86 (35.10%) Architect
2 39 (15.92%) Developer
3 27 (11.02%) Senior
4 26 (10.61%) Lead
5 20 (8.16%) Technical Architect
6 13 (5.31%) CyberArk Architect
7 11 (4.49%) AWS Architect
7 11 (4.49%) Cloud Architect
7 11 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (4.08%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (3.67%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.67%) Test Engineer
10 8 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.27%) Security Architect
10 8 (3.27%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.86%) Analyst
11 7 (2.86%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (77.14%) OAuth
2 144 (58.78%) SAML
3 120 (48.98%) OAuth2
4 79 (32.24%) LDAP
5 57 (23.27%) REST
6 40 (16.33%) SailPoint
7 28 (11.43%) RESTful
8 23 (9.39%) .NET
8 23 (9.39%) Node.js
9 22 (8.98%) Kafka
10 21 (8.57%) JWT
11 16 (6.53%) React
12 15 (6.12%) Spring
12 15 (6.12%) Spring Boot
13 14 (5.71%) JSON
14 13 (5.31%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (5.31%) Web Services
15 10 (4.08%) AngularJS
15 10 (4.08%) GraphQL
15 10 (4.08%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.67%) Cloud Native
2 41 (16.73%) Onboarding
3 17 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.71%) PKI
6 9 (3.67%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.45%) IoT
7 6 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.04%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.63%) Clustering
9 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.82%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.76%) Windows
2 12 (4.90%) Linux
3 6 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.22%) Android
6 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Unix
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (41.63%) CI/CD
2 97 (39.59%) DevOps
3 63 (25.71%) RBAC
4 59 (24.08%) Identity Access Management
5 55 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (20.82%) Microservices
7 43 (17.55%) Test Automation
8 42 (17.14%) Secrets Management
9 41 (16.73%) Agile
9 41 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (15.92%) Event-Driven
10 39 (15.92%) Observability
11 38 (15.51%) Containerisation
12 36 (14.69%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (14.29%) Roadmaps
14 34 (13.88%) Design Patterns
14 34 (13.88%) Zero Trust
15 32 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 31 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (11.84%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 67 (27.35%) Java
2 53 (21.63%) Python
3 45 (18.37%) SQL
4 34 (13.88%) PowerShell
5 28 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 25 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.71%) Bicep
8 13 (5.31%) C#
9 8 (3.27%) Go
10 7 (2.86%) PHP
11 5 (2.04%) Scala
12 4 (1.63%) Cypher
12 4 (1.63%) Groovy
12 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.82%) Bash
14 2 (0.82%) Swift
15 1 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 73 (29.80%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.71%) CISSP
5 9 (3.67%) Degree
6 8 (3.27%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.27%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.86%) CISM
7 7 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.22%) GIAC
11 2 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.82%) MCSE
11 2 (0.82%) OCP
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (16.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (15.10%) NIST
3 21 (8.57%) QA
4 17 (6.94%) GDPR
5 16 (6.53%) NCSC
6 10 (4.08%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.86%) HIPAA
7 7 (2.86%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.22%) GRC
9 3 (1.22%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.22%) SEPA
9 3 (1.22%) WCAG
10 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.82%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.82%) PSD2
11 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.41%) GMP
System Software
1 62 (25.31%) Active Directory
2 38 (15.51%) Docker
3 10 (4.08%) Squid
4 5 (2.04%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.04%) RACF
5 2 (0.82%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.82%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.82%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (27.35%) Single Sign-On
2 66 (26.94%) Kubernetes
3 58 (23.67%) Terraform
4 21 (8.57%) Grafana
4 21 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 20 (8.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (3.67%) FortiGate
7 8 (3.27%) Ansible
7 8 (3.27%) Consul
8 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.04%) Argo
9 5 (2.04%) Istio
10 4 (1.63%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.63%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.63%) linkerd
10 4 (1.63%) PingFederate
11 3 (1.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.41%) Packer
12 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.65%) ServiceNow
3 29 (11.84%) CyberArk
4 18 (7.35%) Okta
4 18 (7.35%) Splunk
5 17 (6.94%) Google
6 12 (4.90%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.08%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.67%) ForgeRock
8 9 (3.67%) Ping Identity
9 8 (3.27%) SAP
10 7 (2.86%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.45%) MuleSoft
12 5 (2.04%) Denodo
12 5 (2.04%) Workday
13 4 (1.63%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.63%) VMware
14 3 (1.22%) Oracle
15 2 (0.82%) IBM
15 2 (0.82%) NetIQ