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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 393 451
Rank change year-on-year -29 +58 +48
Contract jobs citing OpenID 257 158 121
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 2.12% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 112 67
10th Percentile £402 £400 £425
25th Percentile £486 £430 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £605
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -9.09% +0.83%
75th Percentile £659 £644 £645
90th Percentile £769 £677 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £440 £585
% change year-on-year +27.99% -24.87% -2.50%
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 10,090 7,440 8,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.09% 22.61% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,588 5,024 5,854
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 165 248
10th Percentile £28.72 £30.10 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.59 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.48 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% +0.02%

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 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 4 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 4 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 -15 217 £564 +4.98% 113
UK excluding London -31 127 £563 +27.99% 47
London -25 96 £563 -8.39% 79
Work from Home -26 85 £525 -0.52% 54
South East -18 51 £525 +10.53% 12
North of England -32 45 £623 +32.73% 10
Yorkshire -28 27 £620 +51.59% 6
North West -41 16 £712 +47.26% 3
Scotland -15 11 £550 -8.33% 7
South West -45 8 £550 +23.04% 6
Midlands -59 7 £402 -2.55% 3
West Midlands -52 5 £450 -25.37% 2
East of England - 5 £543 - 4
North East - 3 £525 - 1
East Midlands -20 2 £401 -2.20% 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 (6.23%) Confluence
2 7 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.56%) nginx
5 3 (1.17%) Apache
5 3 (1.17%) IIS
5 3 (1.17%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.17%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 143 (55.64%) Azure
2 102 (39.69%) AWS
3 100 (38.91%) Entra ID
4 50 (19.46%) GCP
5 35 (13.62%) Serverless
6 25 (9.73%) SaaS
7 18 (7.00%) Azure AKS
7 18 (7.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 18 (7.00%) GitHub
8 17 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (6.61%) Amazon S3
8 17 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.45%) Azure API Management
9 14 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (4.67%) Azure App Service
11 11 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (3.89%) Kong
13 9 (3.50%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.73%) DNS
2 18 (7.00%) Firewall
3 13 (5.06%) Kerberos
4 7 (2.72%) SSL
5 6 (2.33%) HTTP
5 6 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.95%) DHCP
7 4 (1.56%) Network Security
7 4 (1.56%) OpenVPN
7 4 (1.56%) VPN
8 3 (1.17%) NGFW
9 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.39%) SSH
9 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.28%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.89%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.11%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.72%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.95%) Data Vault
7 5 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.95%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.56%) Metadata
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.78%) MySQL
10 2 (0.78%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.78%) Parquet
10 2 (0.78%) Redis
11 1 (0.39%) Db2
11 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.39%) Power BI
11 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (9.73%) Git
2 17 (6.61%) JIRA
3 10 (3.89%) GitLab
3 10 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.72%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.95%) JMeter
6 4 (1.56%) git-flow
7 3 (1.17%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.17%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.17%) Postman
8 2 (0.78%) Gatling
8 2 (0.78%) JUnit
8 2 (0.78%) Mockito
8 2 (0.78%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 57 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.90%) Public Sector
3 45 (17.51%) Finance
4 19 (7.39%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.23%) Banking
6 15 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.50%) Military
8 8 (3.11%) Retail
9 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.17%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Legal
13 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 68 (26.46%) Architect
2 49 (19.07%) Developer
3 30 (11.67%) Lead
4 28 (10.89%) Senior
5 24 (9.34%) Technical Architect
6 21 (8.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (6.61%) IAM Specialist
8 14 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.06%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.67%) Security Architect
11 11 (4.28%) Technical Leader
12 10 (3.89%) AWS Architect
12 10 (3.89%) IAM Developer
12 10 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Lead Developer
14 7 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
15 6 (2.33%) Azure Developer
15 6 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
15 6 (2.33%) Lead Architect
15 6 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (89.11%) OAuth
2 159 (61.87%) SAML
3 147 (57.20%) OAuth2
4 66 (25.68%) LDAP
5 49 (19.07%) REST
6 36 (14.01%) RESTful
7 35 (13.62%) SailPoint
8 28 (10.89%) React
9 25 (9.73%) .NET
10 24 (9.34%) JWT
11 21 (8.17%) Kafka
12 20 (7.78%) Node.js
13 18 (7.00%) JSON
14 15 (5.84%) Web Services
15 13 (5.06%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (4.67%) SOAP
16 12 (4.67%) Spring
17 11 (4.28%) .NET Framework
17 11 (4.28%) CSS
17 11 (4.28%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (26.46%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.28%) Onboarding
3 28 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (10.89%) PKI
4 24 (9.34%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.45%) Product Ownership
6 13 (5.06%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.50%) IoT
7 9 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.11%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.72%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.72%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.95%) Clustering
10 5 (1.95%) NHS
10 5 (1.95%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.56%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.84%) Linux
2 12 (4.67%) Windows
3 4 (1.56%) Android
4 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.78%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (38.52%) CI/CD
2 82 (31.91%) Identity Access Management
3 80 (31.13%) DevOps
4 66 (25.68%) RBAC
5 61 (23.74%) Microservices
6 52 (20.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (19.46%) Agile
7 50 (19.46%) Zero Trust
8 48 (18.68%) Containerisation
9 40 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (14.40%) Roadmaps
10 37 (14.40%) Test Automation
11 34 (13.23%) Mentoring
12 33 (12.84%) Event-Driven
13 32 (12.45%) Analytics
13 32 (12.45%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (12.06%) Observability
14 31 (12.06%) Runbook
15 29 (11.28%) API Integration
15 29 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.51%) Python
2 57 (22.18%) Java
3 48 (18.68%) PowerShell
4 30 (11.67%) TypeScript
5 29 (11.28%) JavaScript
6 27 (10.51%) SQL
7 22 (8.56%) C#
8 18 (7.00%) Bicep
9 7 (2.72%) Bash
10 5 (1.95%) Go
11 4 (1.56%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.78%) Cypher
13 2 (0.78%) Groovy
13 2 (0.78%) PHP
14 1 (0.39%) C
14 1 (0.39%) C++
14 1 (0.39%) Perl
14 1 (0.39%) Scala
14 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 81 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 64 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.51%) Degree
4 23 (8.95%) CISSP
5 15 (5.84%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.84%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.89%) CISM
8 9 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.95%) CSPO
11 4 (1.56%) GIAC
12 3 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.78%) CEH
13 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (9.73%) NIST
3 24 (9.34%) GDPR
4 14 (5.45%) QA
5 10 (3.89%) NCSC
6 9 (3.50%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.33%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.95%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.56%) WCAG
10 2 (0.78%) HL7
10 2 (0.78%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.78%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.78%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 82 (31.91%) Active Directory
2 43 (16.73%) Docker
3 4 (1.56%) Squid
4 3 (1.17%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (24.90%) Terraform
2 60 (23.35%) Single Sign-On
3 59 (22.96%) Kubernetes
4 22 (8.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (6.61%) Grafana
6 13 (5.06%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.50%) Argo
8 8 (3.11%) Ansible
9 6 (2.33%) Istio
9 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.95%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.56%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.56%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.56%) linkerd
11 4 (1.56%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (1.17%) Consul
13 2 (0.78%) Kibana
14 1 (0.39%) FreeIPA
14 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 91 (35.41%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.12%) Okta
3 17 (6.61%) ForgeRock
4 16 (6.23%) CyberArk
5 15 (5.84%) Ping Identity
5 15 (5.84%) ServiceNow
6 13 (5.06%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.89%) Google
8 8 (3.11%) SAP
9 7 (2.72%) Splunk
10 6 (2.33%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.95%) Denodo
11 5 (1.95%) Workday
12 4 (1.56%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.56%) IBM
12 4 (1.56%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.78%) Oracle
13 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.78%) VMware