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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 397 452
Rank change year-on-year -2 +55 +46
Contract jobs citing OpenID 306 172 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.52% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.57% 2.00% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 122 72
10th Percentile £413 £379 £425
25th Percentile £463 £413 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £492 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% -18.00% -
75th Percentile £627 £586 £645
90th Percentile £749 £669 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £447 £585
% change year-on-year +23.18% -23.68% -2.50%
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 11,928 8,587 9,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.74% 26.02% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,844 5,729 6,245
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £438
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% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 190 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.50 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.85 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.51% -10.96% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.75 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +10.11%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -18 257 £555 +16.84% 193
UK excluding London -20 160 £550 +23.18% 90
London -51 111 £569 +3.41% 127
Work from Home -21 102 £550 +11.79% 96
South East -22 51 £500 +5.26% 28
North of England -35 47 £588 +31.14% 17
Yorkshire -9 36 £573 +40.49% 9
Midlands -39 21 £464 +12.39% 8
Scotland -20 19 £425 -29.17% 17
West Midlands -22 18 £510 -15.42% 8
East of England -26 11 £544 +26.20% 7
South West -44 11 £575 +28.64% 9
North West -58 9 £725 +60.58% 5
East Midlands -22 3 £402 -1.95%
North East - 3 £463 - 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 (4.58%) Confluence
2 9 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.65%) Apache
5 2 (0.65%) IIS
5 2 (0.65%) nginx
5 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 164 (53.59%) Azure
2 136 (44.44%) AWS
3 110 (35.95%) Entra ID
4 73 (23.86%) GCP
5 33 (10.78%) Serverless
6 29 (9.48%) GitHub
7 27 (8.82%) SaaS
8 24 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
10 18 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (5.23%) Kong
12 14 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.25%) Azure AKS
13 13 (4.25%) Azure App Service
14 12 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (3.92%) Amazon S3
15 11 (3.59%) Azure API Management
16 10 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.50%) DNS
2 20 (6.54%) Firewall
3 16 (5.23%) Kerberos
4 10 (3.27%) SSL
5 8 (2.61%) HTTP
6 6 (1.96%) Network Security
6 6 (1.96%) NGFW
6 6 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.63%) DHCP
8 3 (0.98%) TCP/IP
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%) VPN
9 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.90%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.25%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.25%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.96%) Data Vault
6 5 (1.63%) Metadata
6 5 (1.63%) MySQL
7 4 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.98%) Redis
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.65%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.65%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 42 (13.73%) Git
2 20 (6.54%) GitLab
3 18 (5.88%) JIRA
4 13 (4.25%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.29%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.29%) JUnit
5 7 (2.29%) Maven
6 5 (1.63%) JMeter
6 5 (1.63%) Mockito
6 5 (1.63%) Storybook
7 4 (1.31%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.98%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.98%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.98%) git-flow
8 3 (0.98%) Selenium
8 3 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.65%) Gatling
9 2 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 73 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 62 (20.26%) Finance
3 54 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.15%) Banking
5 22 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.94%) Military
9 6 (1.96%) Retail
10 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (23.20%) Developer
2 65 (21.24%) Architect
3 35 (11.44%) Lead
4 32 (10.46%) Technical Architect
5 30 (9.80%) Senior
6 21 (6.86%) Java Developer
7 19 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (5.23%) IAM Specialist
9 15 (4.90%) Technical Leader
10 14 (4.58%) IAM Developer
11 13 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.92%) Security Architect
13 11 (3.59%) AWS Architect
14 9 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (2.61%) Lead Developer
15 8 (2.61%) Security Engineer
16 7 (2.29%) GCP Developer
16 7 (2.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 7 (2.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (89.87%) OAuth
2 178 (58.17%) OAuth2
3 163 (53.27%) SAML
4 89 (29.08%) Terraform
5 60 (19.61%) LDAP
6 54 (17.65%) RESTful
7 53 (17.32%) REST
8 48 (15.69%) React
9 46 (15.03%) JWT
10 30 (9.80%) Swagger
11 29 (9.48%) Kafka
11 29 (9.48%) OpenAPI
12 28 (9.15%) SailPoint
13 27 (8.82%) .NET
14 25 (8.17%) Node.js
15 20 (6.54%) CSS
16 19 (6.21%) HTML
16 19 (6.21%) JSON
17 17 (5.56%) Spring
18 15 (4.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (29.74%) Cloud Native
2 41 (13.40%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (10.13%) PKI
4 30 (9.80%) Onboarding
5 29 (9.48%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (5.88%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (3.59%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.94%) IoT
10 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.96%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.63%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.63%) Clustering
13 5 (1.63%) CMDB
13 5 (1.63%) NHS
13 5 (1.63%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.63%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.23%) Linux
2 13 (4.25%) Windows
3 4 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.98%) Android
4 3 (0.98%) Unix
5 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
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
1 130 (42.48%) CI/CD
2 102 (33.33%) DevOps
3 99 (32.35%) Identity Access Management
4 80 (26.14%) Microservices
5 74 (24.18%) Agile
5 74 (24.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (22.88%) RBAC
7 55 (17.97%) Containerisation
8 54 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 52 (16.99%) Event-Driven
10 50 (16.34%) Zero Trust
11 49 (16.01%) Technical Leadership
12 42 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (13.40%) Observability
14 40 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (12.42%) Validation
16 37 (12.09%) Mentoring
16 37 (12.09%) Roadmaps
17 36 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 36 (11.76%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 85 (27.78%) Python
2 75 (24.51%) Java
3 58 (18.95%) PowerShell
4 40 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 34 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 26 (8.50%) SQL
7 24 (7.84%) Bicep
7 24 (7.84%) C#
8 20 (6.54%) Go
9 10 (3.27%) Bash
10 3 (0.98%) Lua
10 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.65%) C++
11 2 (0.65%) Cypher
11 2 (0.65%) Groovy
11 2 (0.65%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) C
12 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 64 (20.92%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.76%) Degree
4 19 (6.21%) CISSP
5 18 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.23%) AWS Certification
6 16 (5.23%) Azure Certification
7 14 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.61%) CISM
10 5 (1.63%) CSPO
10 5 (1.63%) MCSE
11 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.98%) CEH
12 3 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (7.84%) NIST
3 21 (6.86%) GDPR
4 18 (5.88%) QA
5 17 (5.56%) Accessibility
6 12 (3.92%) Data Quality
7 10 (3.27%) NCSC
7 10 (3.27%) WCAG
8 7 (2.29%) HIPAA
8 7 (2.29%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.65%) HL7
10 2 (0.65%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.65%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.65%) SLA
10 2 (0.65%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 87 (28.43%) Active Directory
2 44 (14.38%) Docker
3 6 (1.96%) 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 88 (28.76%) Kubernetes
2 70 (22.88%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (6.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (5.23%) Grafana
5 11 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.27%) Argo
6 10 (3.27%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.29%) Ansible
8 6 (1.96%) Istio
9 5 (1.63%) Kibana
9 5 (1.63%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.31%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.31%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.65%) Consul
11 2 (0.65%) Packer
11 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.65%) Puppet
11 2 (0.65%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 105 (34.31%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.80%) Okta
3 21 (6.86%) Google
4 18 (5.88%) Ping Identity
5 17 (5.56%) ForgeRock
5 17 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.90%) Dynatrace
7 14 (4.58%) CyberArk
8 12 (3.92%) Splunk
9 6 (1.96%) Denodo
9 6 (1.96%) Oracle
9 6 (1.96%) SAP
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