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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 480 471
Rank change year-on-year +72 -9 +158
Contract jobs citing OpenID 172 79 148
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.13% 1.01% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 55 116
10th Percentile £406 £410 £431
25th Percentile £426 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £598 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% -0.42% -7.55%
75th Percentile £600 £660 £677
90th Percentile £688 £733 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.74% -4.17% -6.25%
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 8,062 7,822 10,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.56% 21.74% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,353 4,928 7,215
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £777 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 116 184
10th Percentile £30.23 £22.00 £32.90
25th Percentile £43.00 £37.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +19.20% -13.44%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.85 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.38% +23.81% -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 1 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 1 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 +59 149 £495 -13.96% 35
UK excluding London +27 95 £496 -13.74% 67
London +29 62 £500 -13.04% 9
Work from Home +7 40 £492 -14.43% 63
South West +27 31 £533 -3.36% 7
North of England -17 25 £446 -31.38% 9
North West - 14 £448 - 8
Scotland +14 12 £600 -17.24% 32
Midlands -24 11 £465 +9.29% 3
Yorkshire - 11 £409 -
South East -13 9 £481 -16.30% 9
East of England - 8 £425 -
West Midlands -19 6 £538 +26.47% 3
East Midlands - 5 £415 -

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 (6.98%) Apache
2 11 (6.40%) IIS
2 11 (6.40%) JBoss
2 11 (6.40%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.81%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.81%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (2.91%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.16%) Confluence
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.58%) CMS
7 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (53.49%) Azure
2 86 (50.00%) AWS
3 56 (32.56%) Entra ID
4 36 (20.93%) GCP
5 29 (16.86%) GitHub
6 24 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (12.79%) SaaS
8 13 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (6.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (6.40%) OpenShift
9 11 (6.40%) PaaS
10 10 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (5.81%) Azure AKS
11 8 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.49%) Datadog
12 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.49%) Serverless
13 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.37%) Kerberos
2 18 (10.47%) Firewall
3 14 (8.14%) DNS
4 5 (2.91%) HTTPS
4 5 (2.91%) SSL
5 3 (1.74%) Internet
6 2 (1.16%) Extranet
6 2 (1.16%) HTTP
6 2 (1.16%) Network Security
6 2 (1.16%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.16%) VPN
7 1 (0.58%) DHCP
7 1 (0.58%) SMTP
7 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.98%) Oracle Database
2 9 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.33%) NewSQL
3 4 (2.33%) OLTP
3 4 (2.33%) Redis
4 3 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (1.74%) Metadata
4 3 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.74%) Power BI
5 2 (1.16%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.58%) MySQL
6 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (14.53%) Git
2 23 (13.37%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.98%) GitLab
4 11 (6.40%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (6.40%) CA Release Automation
5 9 (5.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.49%) Maven
6 6 (3.49%) Selenium
7 5 (2.91%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.91%) JIRA
7 5 (2.91%) JUnit
7 5 (2.91%) Mockito
8 4 (2.33%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.74%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.74%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.58%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.58%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.58%) Mocha
General
1 92 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.60%) Finance
3 31 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.72%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.40%) Aviation
7 8 (4.65%) Banking
8 4 (2.33%) Legal
9 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.74%) Retail
10 2 (1.16%) Billing
10 2 (1.16%) Games
11 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (18.02%) Architect
2 24 (13.95%) Developer
3 23 (13.37%) Senior
4 15 (8.72%) Lead
5 11 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (5.23%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Analyst
9 7 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Consultant
9 7 (4.07%) ForgeRock Developer
9 7 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Security Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.07%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.91%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.91%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (2.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (85.47%) OAuth
2 137 (79.65%) SAML
3 82 (47.67%) OAuth2
4 42 (24.42%) LDAP
5 18 (10.47%) REST
6 17 (9.88%) Spring
7 15 (8.72%) RESTful
7 15 (8.72%) SailPoint
8 14 (8.14%) JSON
9 11 (6.40%) .NET
9 11 (6.40%) Spring Boot
10 9 (5.23%) React
11 8 (4.65%) JDBC
11 8 (4.65%) Kafka
12 7 (4.07%) GraphQL
12 7 (4.07%) Node.js
12 7 (4.07%) OpenAPI
12 7 (4.07%) Swagger
13 6 (3.49%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.05%) Onboarding
3 14 (8.14%) PKI
4 11 (6.40%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.23%) Private Cloud
6 8 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.49%) Replication
8 5 (2.91%) BYOD
9 4 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.33%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.74%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.58%) Contactless
12 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.58%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.28%) Windows
2 22 (12.79%) Linux
2 22 (12.79%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.65%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) CentOS
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.72%) DevOps
2 57 (33.14%) Identity Access Management
3 53 (30.81%) CI/CD
4 51 (29.65%) RBAC
5 40 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (20.93%) Identity Management
7 34 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (18.02%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 29 (16.86%) Agile
10 28 (16.28%) Microservices
11 26 (15.12%) Containerisation
11 26 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (12.79%) Migration
13 21 (12.21%) DevSecOps
14 20 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (11.05%) Observability
16 17 (9.88%) Software Engineering
17 16 (9.30%) Mentoring
18 15 (8.72%) Cybersecurity
18 15 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (27.91%) PowerShell
2 34 (19.77%) Java
3 32 (18.60%) Python
4 19 (11.05%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.72%) Groovy
6 12 (6.98%) SQL
7 10 (5.81%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.65%) C#
9 7 (4.07%) Bash
10 5 (2.91%) Go
11 4 (2.33%) ANSI SQL
11 4 (2.33%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.74%) PHP
13 2 (1.16%) C
14 1 (0.58%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.58%) Rust
14 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (11.05%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.30%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.98%) CISSP
5 12 (6.98%) Degree
6 8 (4.65%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.91%) CISM
8 4 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.74%) CCSP
9 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.58%) ISSAP
11 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.60%) GDPR
2 19 (11.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (6.98%) NIST
4 11 (6.40%) HIPAA
5 8 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (4.65%) SOC 2
6 7 (4.07%) QA
7 6 (3.49%) PSD2
7 6 (3.49%) WCAG
8 5 (2.91%) PCI DSS
9 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
9 4 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.16%) SLA
12 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.58%) GRC
12 1 (0.58%) NCSC
12 1 (0.58%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 82 (47.67%) Active Directory
2 31 (18.02%) Docker
3 8 (4.65%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.16%) OpenAM
5 2 (1.16%) OpenDJ
5 2 (1.16%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 80 (46.51%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (28.49%) Terraform
3 40 (23.26%) Kubernetes
4 19 (11.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (6.40%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (6.40%) Grafana
7 10 (5.81%) CA Wily
8 9 (5.23%) Ansible
8 9 (5.23%) PingFederate
8 9 (5.23%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.65%) Tivoli
10 5 (2.91%) Kibana
10 5 (2.91%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (2.33%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.74%) Argo
12 3 (1.74%) SCCM
13 2 (1.16%) Puppet
14 1 (0.58%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.58%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 82 (47.67%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.21%) Ping Identity
3 17 (9.88%) ForgeRock
3 17 (9.88%) IBM
4 16 (9.30%) CyberArk
5 15 (8.72%) Splunk
6 14 (8.14%) Oracle
7 12 (6.98%) Okta
8 11 (6.40%) AppDynamics
8 11 (6.40%) Broadcom
9 9 (5.23%) VMware
10 8 (4.65%) Alibaba
10 8 (4.65%) Google
11 4 (2.33%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.74%) Salesforce
13 2 (1.16%) Intel
13 2 (1.16%) Optimizely
13 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.16%) Xamarin
13 2 (1.16%) Zscaler