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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 398 456
Rank change year-on-year -17 +58 +46
Contract jobs citing OpenID 258 159 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 2.16% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 114 65
10th Percentile £405 £364 £425
25th Percentile £483 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -10.50% -
75th Percentile £656 £641 £638
90th Percentile £768 £677 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £561 £438 £585
% change year-on-year +28.29% -25.21% -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 10,118 7,367 8,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 22.37% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,590 4,943 5,790
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £632 £663
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 262 174 243
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.48 £22.55
25th Percentile £41.28 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -10 216 £570 +10.84% 121
UK excluding London -35 129 £561 +28.29% 52
London -47 94 £575 -3.60% 79
Work from Home -22 87 £515 +1.13% 51
South East -14 51 £500 +5.26% 16
North of England -34 48 £623 +52.76% 12
Yorkshire -24 28 £623 +52.76% 8
North West -35 17 £712 +70.54% 3
Scotland -9 12 £550 -8.33% 5
South West -40 8 £550 +23.04% 9
Midlands -63 5 £402 -2.55% 4
East of England - 5 £543 - 2
North East - 4 £494 - 1
West Midlands -41 3 £627 +3.90% 4
East Midlands -28 2 £401 -2.20%

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 15 (5.81%) Confluence
2 7 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.16%) Apache
5 3 (1.16%) IIS
5 3 (1.16%) nginx
5 3 (1.16%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.16%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 146 (56.59%) Azure
2 105 (40.70%) AWS
3 99 (38.37%) Entra ID
4 56 (21.71%) GCP
5 34 (13.18%) Serverless
6 26 (10.08%) SaaS
7 21 (8.14%) GitHub
8 20 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (6.98%) Azure AKS
10 16 (6.20%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (5.81%) Azure API Management
11 15 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (5.43%) Amazon S3
13 13 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (5.04%) Kong
14 11 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (4.26%) Azure App Service
15 9 (3.49%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.47%) DNS
2 19 (7.36%) Firewall
3 14 (5.43%) Kerberos
4 8 (3.10%) HTTP
4 8 (3.10%) SSL
5 5 (1.94%) DHCP
5 5 (1.94%) Network Security
5 5 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.55%) NGFW
7 2 (0.78%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.78%) VPN
8 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.39%) SSH
8 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.88%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.10%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.71%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.94%) Data Vault
6 5 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.55%) Metadata
8 3 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.78%) MySQL
9 2 (0.78%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.78%) Parquet
10 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.39%) Db2
10 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (10.47%) Git
2 18 (6.98%) JIRA
3 14 (5.43%) GitLab
4 11 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.71%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.94%) JMeter
7 3 (1.16%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.16%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.16%) git-flow
7 3 (1.16%) Postman
7 3 (1.16%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.78%) Gatling
8 2 (0.78%) JUnit
8 2 (0.78%) Mockito
8 2 (0.78%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.39%) Gradle
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.77%) Public Sector
3 46 (17.83%) Finance
4 19 (7.36%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.20%) Banking
6 9 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.49%) Military
7 8 (3.10%) Retail
8 4 (1.55%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 66 (25.58%) Architect
2 48 (18.60%) Developer
3 30 (11.63%) Lead
4 28 (10.85%) Senior
5 24 (9.30%) Technical Architect
6 19 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (6.98%) IAM Specialist
8 14 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.04%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.65%) Security Architect
10 12 (4.65%) Technical Leader
11 11 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.88%) IAM Developer
13 9 (3.49%) AWS Architect
14 8 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.10%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.71%) Senior Developer
16 6 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
16 6 (2.33%) Lead Architect
16 6 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (88.76%) OAuth
2 161 (62.40%) SAML
3 149 (57.75%) OAuth2
4 66 (25.58%) LDAP
5 48 (18.60%) REST
6 37 (14.34%) RESTful
7 34 (13.18%) SailPoint
8 30 (11.63%) React
9 26 (10.08%) JWT
10 23 (8.91%) Kafka
11 22 (8.53%) .NET
12 18 (6.98%) JSON
13 17 (6.59%) Node.js
14 15 (5.81%) Web Services
15 13 (5.04%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (4.65%) CSS
16 12 (4.65%) HTML
16 12 (4.65%) SOAP
16 12 (4.65%) Spring
17 11 (4.26%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 70 (27.13%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (11.63%) Onboarding
3 28 (10.85%) PKI
4 25 (9.69%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.43%) Product Ownership
6 13 (5.04%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (3.49%) IoT
7 9 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.10%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.71%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.94%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.94%) Clustering
10 5 (1.94%) NHS
10 5 (1.94%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.20%) Linux
2 12 (4.65%) Windows
3 4 (1.55%) Android
4 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.16%) Unix
4 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (39.53%) CI/CD
2 83 (32.17%) Identity Access Management
3 80 (31.01%) DevOps
4 63 (24.42%) Microservices
4 63 (24.42%) RBAC
5 54 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (19.38%) Agile
7 49 (18.99%) Containerisation
8 48 (18.60%) Zero Trust
9 38 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (14.34%) Test Automation
11 35 (13.57%) Event-Driven
12 34 (13.18%) Analytics
12 34 (13.18%) Roadmaps
12 34 (13.18%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (12.79%) Runbook
14 32 (12.40%) Mentoring
14 32 (12.40%) Observability
15 31 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 67 (25.97%) Python
2 57 (22.09%) Java
3 51 (19.77%) PowerShell
4 31 (12.02%) JavaScript
5 27 (10.47%) SQL
5 27 (10.47%) TypeScript
6 20 (7.75%) C#
7 18 (6.98%) Bicep
8 10 (3.88%) Bash
9 6 (2.33%) Go
10 4 (1.55%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.16%) Groovy
12 2 (0.78%) Cypher
12 2 (0.78%) PHP
13 1 (0.39%) C
13 1 (0.39%) C++
13 1 (0.39%) Perl
13 1 (0.39%) Scala
13 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 80 (31.01%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.63%) Degree
4 22 (8.53%) CISSP
5 16 (6.20%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.81%) AWS Certification
6 15 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.88%) CISM
9 8 (3.10%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.94%) CSPO
11 4 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.55%) GIAC
12 3 (1.16%) CEH
12 3 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.16%) MCSE
13 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (10.08%) NIST
3 23 (8.91%) GDPR
4 14 (5.43%) QA
5 10 (3.88%) Accessibility
5 10 (3.88%) NCSC
6 6 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.94%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.55%) WCAG
9 2 (0.78%) HL7
9 2 (0.78%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.78%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.78%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 82 (31.78%) Active Directory
2 42 (16.28%) Docker
3 3 (1.16%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.78%) Squid
5 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (25.19%) Terraform
2 63 (24.42%) Kubernetes
3 55 (21.32%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (8.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (5.81%) Grafana
6 11 (4.26%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.49%) Ansible
7 9 (3.49%) Argo
7 9 (3.49%) Istio
8 7 (2.71%) Kustomize
8 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.55%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.55%) linkerd
9 4 (1.55%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (1.16%) Consul
11 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.78%) Kibana
11 2 (0.78%) Packer
11 2 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 91 (35.27%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.69%) Okta
3 18 (6.98%) ForgeRock
4 15 (5.81%) CyberArk
4 15 (5.81%) Ping Identity
4 15 (5.81%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.04%) Dynatrace
5 13 (5.04%) Google
6 9 (3.49%) Splunk
7 8 (3.10%) SAP
8 6 (2.33%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.94%) Denodo
9 5 (1.94%) IBM
9 5 (1.94%) Workday
10 3 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.78%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.78%) Cisco
11 2 (0.78%) Oracle
11 2 (0.78%) Sparx
11 2 (0.78%) Thycotic