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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 445 435
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 +181
Contract jobs citing OpenID 166 91 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 1.25% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 59 127
10th Percentile £406 £412 £438
25th Percentile £450 £509 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £700
90th Percentile £688 £740 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -11.19% -6.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 - -

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 8,280 7,290 9,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.44% 21.88% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,489 4,634 6,667
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £773 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 87 170
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.93
25th Percentile £45.00 £30.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 +24 150 £500 -13.04% 244
UK excluding London +12 89 £500 -11.19% 220
London -4 62 £500 -13.04% 41
Work from Home +5 41 £496 -13.74% 78
South West +20 33 £545 -1.09% 25
North of England -21 29 £453 -13.71% 54
North West -8 15 £450 -14.29% 19
Yorkshire - 14 £469 - 32
South East -12 9 £481 -16.30% 52
East of England - 8 £425 - 33
Midlands -37 7 £531 +25.00% 43
West Midlands -24 6 £538 +26.47% 22
Scotland +5 4 £525 -27.59% 7
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 19

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 (7.23%) Apache
2 11 (6.63%) IIS
2 11 (6.63%) JBoss
2 11 (6.63%) WebSphere
3 10 (6.02%) iPlanet
3 10 (6.02%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (4.22%) SharePoint
5 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.81%) Confluence
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (55.42%) Azure
2 74 (44.58%) AWS
3 49 (29.52%) Entra ID
4 36 (21.69%) GCP
5 24 (14.46%) GitHub
5 24 (14.46%) SaaS
6 20 (12.05%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (7.83%) OpenShift
9 12 (7.23%) PaaS
10 8 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (3.01%) Serverless
12 4 (2.41%) Azure API Management
12 4 (2.41%) Datadog
12 4 (2.41%) OneDrive
12 4 (2.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.46%) Kerberos
2 18 (10.84%) Firewall
3 16 (9.64%) DNS
4 7 (4.22%) SSL
5 6 (3.61%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.81%) Internet
7 2 (1.20%) DHCP
7 2 (1.20%) Extranet
7 2 (1.20%) HTTP
7 2 (1.20%) Network Security
7 2 (1.20%) S/MIME
7 2 (1.20%) VPN
8 1 (0.60%) IPsec
8 1 (0.60%) SMS
8 1 (0.60%) SMTP
8 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.23%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.61%) MySQL
3 6 (3.61%) Redis
3 6 (3.61%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.81%) Metadata
5 3 (1.81%) Power BI
6 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.20%) NewSQL
6 2 (1.20%) OLTP
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.60%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (21.08%) Jenkins
2 27 (16.27%) Git
3 20 (12.05%) GitLab
4 14 (8.43%) JIRA
4 14 (8.43%) Selenium
5 12 (7.23%) Cucumber
6 11 (6.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (6.63%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (5.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (4.82%) REST Assured
9 7 (4.22%) JUnit
9 7 (4.22%) Maven
9 7 (4.22%) Postman
10 5 (3.01%) Mockito
10 5 (3.01%) TestRail
11 4 (2.41%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.81%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.81%) SonarQube
13 2 (1.20%) Gatling
14 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
General
1 74 (44.58%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.28%) Finance
3 21 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.64%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (6.63%) Aviation
7 9 (5.42%) Banking
8 4 (2.41%) Legal
9 3 (1.81%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.81%) Games
10 2 (1.20%) Billing
10 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Law
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.60%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (16.87%) Architect
1 28 (16.87%) Developer
2 22 (13.25%) Senior
3 18 (10.84%) Lead
4 12 (7.23%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (4.22%) ForgeRock Developer
7 7 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.22%) Java Developer
7 7 (4.22%) Senior Developer
7 7 (4.22%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.61%) Consultant
8 6 (3.61%) Lead Developer
8 6 (3.61%) Security Engineer
8 6 (3.61%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.01%) Analyst
9 5 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.01%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (78.92%) OAuth
2 121 (72.89%) SAML
3 79 (47.59%) OAuth2
4 45 (27.11%) LDAP
5 23 (13.86%) REST
6 16 (9.64%) .NET
6 16 (9.64%) RESTful
6 16 (9.64%) SailPoint
6 16 (9.64%) Spring
7 14 (8.43%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.63%) Kafka
9 10 (6.02%) Node.js
9 10 (6.02%) React
10 8 (4.82%) HTML
10 8 (4.82%) JDBC
10 8 (4.82%) JSON
11 7 (4.22%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.22%) OpenAPI
11 7 (4.22%) Swagger
12 6 (3.61%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.84%) Onboarding
2 16 (9.64%) PKI
3 11 (6.63%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.42%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.42%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.61%) Replication
6 5 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.01%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.41%) BYOD
7 4 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.81%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.60%) Contactless
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.60%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.88%) Windows
2 23 (13.86%) Windows Server
3 21 (12.65%) Linux
4 8 (4.82%) Unix
5 2 (1.20%) Android
6 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.54%) CI/CD
2 53 (31.93%) DevOps
3 52 (31.33%) Identity Access Management
4 41 (24.70%) RBAC
5 39 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (19.88%) Agile
7 30 (18.07%) Microservices
8 27 (16.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (15.66%) Containerisation
9 26 (15.66%) Identity Management
9 26 (15.66%) Migration
10 24 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (12.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 21 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (12.05%) Observability
13 19 (11.45%) DevSecOps
14 18 (10.84%) Mentoring
14 18 (10.84%) Software Engineering
15 17 (10.24%) Test Automation
16 15 (9.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 44 (26.51%) PowerShell
2 39 (23.49%) Java
3 35 (21.08%) Python
4 24 (14.46%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.84%) SQL
6 15 (9.04%) Groovy
7 10 (6.02%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.82%) C#
8 8 (4.82%) PHP
9 7 (4.22%) Bash
10 5 (3.01%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.41%) Go
12 2 (1.20%) ANSI SQL
12 2 (1.20%) C
13 1 (0.60%) C++
13 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.60%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.60%) Rust
13 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (13.25%) SC Cleared
4 18 (10.84%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.23%) Degree
6 11 (6.63%) CISSP
7 7 (4.22%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.41%) CISM
9 3 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.20%) CCSP
10 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.60%) ISSAP
11 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.27%) GDPR
2 21 (12.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (7.83%) QA
4 12 (7.23%) NIST
5 8 (4.82%) SOC 2
6 7 (4.22%) HIPAA
6 7 (4.22%) PSD2
6 7 (4.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (3.61%) WCAG
8 5 (3.01%) PCI DSS
9 4 (2.41%) Accessibility
9 4 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.20%) NCSC
11 2 (1.20%) SLA
12 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.60%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.60%) PMO
12 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 69 (41.57%) Active Directory
2 32 (19.28%) Docker
3 8 (4.82%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.20%) OpenAM
5 2 (1.20%) OpenDJ
5 2 (1.20%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.60%) Firmware
6 1 (0.60%) RACF
6 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 65 (39.16%) Single Sign-On
2 35 (21.08%) Terraform
3 29 (17.47%) Kubernetes
4 24 (14.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (7.83%) Grafana
6 11 (6.63%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (6.02%) Ansible
7 10 (6.02%) CA Wily
8 9 (5.42%) PingFederate
8 9 (5.42%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.82%) Tivoli
10 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (3.61%) Prometheus
12 5 (3.01%) Kibana
13 4 (2.41%) Argo
14 3 (1.81%) SCCM
15 2 (1.20%) Puppet
16 1 (0.60%) Opsgenie
16 1 (0.60%) Oracle Identity Manager
16 1 (0.60%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 79 (47.59%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.84%) Ping Identity
3 16 (9.64%) Splunk
4 14 (8.43%) Oracle
5 13 (7.83%) ForgeRock
6 12 (7.23%) CyberArk
6 12 (7.23%) IBM
7 11 (6.63%) AppDynamics
7 11 (6.63%) Broadcom
8 10 (6.02%) Google
8 10 (6.02%) Okta
8 10 (6.02%) ServiceNow
8 10 (6.02%) VMware
9 3 (1.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.20%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.20%) Intel
10 2 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.20%) NetIQ
10 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.20%) Xamarin