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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 458 506
Rank change year-on-year +50 +48 +129
Contract jobs citing OpenID 159 105 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.08% 1.26% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 70 105
10th Percentile £381 £413 £451
25th Percentile £413 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% -1.88% -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £650 £726 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £551 £600
% change year-on-year -18.33% -8.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £53.40 - -
25th Percentile £54.75 - -
Median hourly rate £59.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £63.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 - -

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 7,654 8,325 10,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.01% 22.13% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,034 5,296 7,693
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 164 204
10th Percentile £30.18 £25.18 £38.38
25th Percentile £41.13 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £50.72 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.97% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.99% -14.52%

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 16 October 2025.

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
Top 14 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 16 October 2025. 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 +64 131 £475 -17.39% 44
UK excluding London +17 75 £450 -18.33% 34
London +25 61 £500 -16.67% 19
Work from Home +28 48 £492 -14.43% 18
North of England -6 19 £420 -35.38%
Midlands -4 18 £415 -2.35% 1
South West +21 17 £488 -11.52% 19
East Midlands - 14 £410 - 1
Scotland +8 13 £600 +3.63% 2
North West - 11 £446 -
Yorkshire -20 8 £408 -
East of England - 5 £413 -
South East -6 4 £475 -17.39% 12
West Midlands -14 4 £525 +23.53%

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 12 (7.55%) Apache
1 12 (7.55%) JBoss
2 11 (6.92%) IIS
2 11 (6.92%) WebSphere
3 10 (6.29%) iPlanet
3 10 (6.29%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (3.14%) CMS
4 5 (3.14%) Headless CMS
5 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.89%) Confluence
6 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (62.26%) AWS
2 81 (50.94%) Azure
3 51 (32.08%) Entra ID
4 40 (25.16%) GCP
5 23 (14.47%) GitHub
6 21 (13.21%) SaaS
7 17 (10.69%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (7.55%) OpenShift
10 10 (6.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (6.29%) Serverless
11 9 (5.66%) Azure AKS
12 8 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.40%) Amazon S3
14 6 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (3.77%) OCI
15 5 (3.14%) Datadog
15 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.47%) Kerberos
2 6 (3.77%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.52%) SSL
4 3 (1.89%) Firewall
5 2 (1.26%) DNS
5 2 (1.26%) HTTP
5 2 (1.26%) Internet
5 2 (1.26%) Network Security
5 2 (1.26%) S/MIME
5 2 (1.26%) VPN
6 1 (0.63%) DHCP
6 1 (0.63%) Extranet
6 1 (0.63%) SMTP
6 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.55%) Oracle Database
2 8 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.77%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.14%) NewSQL
4 5 (3.14%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.14%) OLTP
5 3 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.89%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.89%) Metadata
5 3 (1.89%) Power BI
6 2 (1.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.26%) Redis
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.63%) MySQL
7 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.21%) Git
2 18 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.92%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (6.92%) CA Release Automation
3 11 (6.92%) GitLab
4 9 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (3.14%) JIRA
6 4 (2.52%) JUnit
6 4 (2.52%) Maven
7 3 (1.89%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.89%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.89%) Mockito
7 3 (1.89%) NUnit
7 3 (1.89%) Selenium
7 3 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.63%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.63%) Crashlytics
General
1 77 (48.43%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.38%) Finance
3 32 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.29%) Aviation
6 9 (5.66%) Banking
7 6 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.89%) Legal
9 2 (1.26%) French Language
9 2 (1.26%) Publishing
9 2 (1.26%) Retail
9 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Military
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 25 (15.72%) Developer
2 21 (13.21%) Architect
3 17 (10.69%) Senior
4 10 (6.29%) Lead
5 9 (5.66%) Analyst
5 9 (5.66%) Business Analyst
5 9 (5.66%) Consultant
6 8 (5.03%) IAM Specialist
7 7 (4.40%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 7 (4.40%) Identity Management Engineer
7 7 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) ForgeRock Developer
8 6 (3.77%) Java Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) Senior Developer
8 6 (3.77%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (88.68%) OAuth
2 123 (77.36%) SAML
3 64 (40.25%) OAuth2
4 47 (29.56%) LDAP
5 22 (13.84%) Spring
6 19 (11.95%) RESTful
7 18 (11.32%) SailPoint
8 13 (8.18%) Hibernate
8 13 (8.18%) REST
9 12 (7.55%) JSON
10 9 (5.66%) .NET
11 8 (5.03%) Swagger
12 7 (4.40%) JDBC
12 7 (4.40%) OpenAPI
12 7 (4.40%) Spring Boot
13 6 (3.77%) Kafka
13 6 (3.77%) React
13 6 (3.77%) SOAP
14 5 (3.14%) GraphQL
15 4 (2.52%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.72%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.69%) Onboarding
3 15 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (7.55%) PKI
5 7 (4.40%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.52%) BYOD
6 4 (2.52%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.89%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.63%) Contactless
9 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.84%) Linux
2 13 (8.18%) Windows
3 9 (5.66%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.03%) Unix
5 3 (1.89%) Android
6 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.63%) CentOS
7 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (38.36%) Identity Access Management
2 53 (33.33%) DevOps
3 49 (30.82%) CI/CD
4 40 (25.16%) RBAC
5 39 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (23.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 34 (21.38%) Identity Management
8 30 (18.87%) Agile
8 30 (18.87%) Containerisation
8 30 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (15.72%) Microservices
10 20 (12.58%) DevSecOps
10 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (10.69%) Migration
12 16 (10.06%) API Integration
13 14 (8.81%) Observability
14 12 (7.55%) API Development
14 12 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (7.55%) User Experience
14 12 (7.55%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.90%) Java
2 33 (20.75%) PowerShell
3 30 (18.87%) Python
4 16 (10.06%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.81%) Groovy
5 14 (8.81%) SQL
6 10 (6.29%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.40%) C#
8 5 (3.14%) ANSI SQL
8 5 (3.14%) Bash
9 4 (2.52%) Go
10 2 (1.26%) C
10 2 (1.26%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.26%) Swift
10 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.63%) C++
11 1 (0.63%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.63%) Rust
11 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (15.72%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.55%) AWS Certification
3 12 (7.55%) CISSP
4 9 (5.66%) Degree
5 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.77%) CISM
7 4 (2.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.89%) CCSP
8 3 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.63%) ISSAP
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (24.53%) GDPR
2 22 (13.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (12.58%) HIPAA
4 12 (7.55%) NIST
5 10 (6.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (5.66%) SOC 2
7 8 (5.03%) QA
8 6 (3.77%) Accessibility
8 6 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (3.77%) PSD2
9 5 (3.14%) PCI DSS
10 4 (2.52%) WCAG
11 3 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (1.26%) SLA
13 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.63%) GRC
13 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (39.62%) Active Directory
2 37 (23.27%) Docker
3 8 (5.03%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.89%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 77 (48.43%) Single Sign-On
2 43 (27.04%) Terraform
3 41 (25.79%) Kubernetes
4 16 (10.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (8.18%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 11 (6.92%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (6.29%) Ansible
7 10 (6.29%) CA Wily
8 9 (5.66%) Progress Chef
9 8 (5.03%) Grafana
9 8 (5.03%) PingFederate
9 8 (5.03%) Tivoli
10 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.89%) Kibana
11 3 (1.89%) SCCM
11 3 (1.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.26%) Argo
12 2 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (39.62%) Microsoft
2 34 (21.38%) Ping Identity
3 24 (15.09%) IBM
4 18 (11.32%) ForgeRock
5 15 (9.43%) CyberArk
5 15 (9.43%) Oracle
6 14 (8.81%) Okta
6 14 (8.81%) Splunk
7 11 (6.92%) Broadcom
8 10 (6.29%) AppDynamics
9 8 (5.03%) Alibaba
10 7 (4.40%) Google
11 3 (1.89%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.26%) Optimizely
12 2 (1.26%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.26%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.63%) Intel
13 1 (0.63%) PeopleSoft