OpenID Contracts

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenID over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 450 530
Rank change year-on-year +70 +80 +123
Contract jobs citing OpenID 150 138 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.13% 1.48% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 79 115
10th Percentile £405 £425 £450
25th Percentile £439 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £613 £585
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +4.70% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £675
90th Percentile £677 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £585 £563
% change year-on-year -23.59% +4.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 7,043 9,312 12,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.46% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 6,381 9,221
10th Percentile £352 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £765 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 279 155
10th Percentile £27.97 £22.70 £28.50
25th Percentile £37.10 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.71 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenID.

Daily rate trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenID.

Hourly rate trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Top 13 Contract 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 2 July 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 +71 113 £550 -8.33% 252
UK excluding London +51 58 £447 -23.59% 131
Work from Home +36 55 £528 -14.88% 77
London +33 55 £628 +2.45% 141
North of England +18 19 £475 +5.56% 29
Midlands +6 15 £415 -33.06% 32
East Midlands +2 14 £415 -33.06% 18
Yorkshire +4 13 £409 -5.76% 9
Scotland 0 11 £600 +1.44% 21
South West +45 10 £447 - 8
North West +13 6 £509 -17.98% 19
South East +49 5 £575 +27.78% 27
West Midlands - 1 £603 - 14

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.67%) Confluence
2 5 (3.33%) CMS
2 5 (3.33%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.33%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.67%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (52.00%) Azure
2 76 (50.67%) AWS
3 52 (34.67%) Entra ID
4 27 (18.00%) GCP
5 22 (14.67%) GitHub
6 20 (13.33%) Azure AKS
7 18 (12.00%) Serverless
8 17 (11.33%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (10.67%) SaaS
10 14 (9.33%) OCI
11 13 (8.67%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (5.33%) Amazon Cognito
14 8 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (4.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.33%) Kerberos
2 7 (4.67%) DNS
3 6 (4.00%) HTTPS
4 5 (3.33%) Firewall
5 4 (2.67%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.33%) SSL
7 1 (0.67%) FTP
7 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.00%) CockroachDB
4 3 (2.00%) NewSQL
4 3 (2.00%) OLTP
4 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.67%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (8.67%) Git
2 7 (4.67%) JIRA
3 4 (2.67%) NUnit
4 3 (2.00%) GitLab
4 3 (2.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.67%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.67%) fastlane
5 1 (0.67%) JUnit
5 1 (0.67%) Mockito
5 1 (0.67%) Postman
5 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.67%) Toad
5 1 (0.67%) XCUITest
General
1 44 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 20 (13.33%) Finance
5 6 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.33%) French Language
6 2 (1.33%) Publishing
6 2 (1.33%) Retail
6 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.67%) Advertising
7 1 (0.67%) Billing
7 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (22.00%) Architect
2 23 (15.33%) Developer
3 14 (9.33%) IAM Specialist
3 14 (9.33%) Software Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) AWS Specialist
5 11 (7.33%) Security Architect
5 11 (7.33%) Senior
6 10 (6.67%) Lead
7 9 (6.00%) Analyst
8 8 (5.33%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.33%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) Identity Management Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Designer
10 5 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (89.33%) OAuth
2 104 (69.33%) SAML
3 52 (34.67%) OAuth2
4 28 (18.67%) LDAP
5 21 (14.00%) SailPoint
6 19 (12.67%) REST
7 16 (10.67%) Spring
8 14 (9.33%) Kafka
9 12 (8.00%) Hibernate
9 12 (8.00%) RESTful
10 11 (7.33%) JSON
11 10 (6.67%) FastAPI
12 9 (6.00%) SOAP
13 8 (5.33%) .NET
13 8 (5.33%) NumPy
13 8 (5.33%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (5.33%) Pandas
14 7 (4.67%) Oracle Fusion
15 6 (4.00%) JDBC
15 6 (4.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.67%) Cloud Native
2 24 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (10.67%) Onboarding
4 13 (8.67%) PKI
5 7 (4.67%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.67%) Taxonomies
6 6 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.33%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.67%) BYOD
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.67%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Android
2 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (50.67%) Identity Access Management
2 55 (36.67%) DevOps
3 47 (31.33%) Identity Management
3 47 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (28.00%) RBAC
5 34 (22.67%) Agile
6 32 (21.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 31 (20.67%) CI/CD
8 30 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (12.67%) Mentoring
10 18 (12.00%) API Integration
10 18 (12.00%) Containerisation
11 15 (10.00%) DevSecOps
11 15 (10.00%) Microservices
11 15 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 14 (9.33%) Regulatory Compliance
12 14 (9.33%) Test Automation
13 13 (8.67%) API Development
13 13 (8.67%) Scrum
13 13 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (37.33%) Python
2 41 (27.33%) Java
3 30 (20.00%) C#
4 27 (18.00%) PowerShell
5 15 (10.00%) SQL
6 12 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.67%) Bash
8 3 (2.00%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.33%) Go
9 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.33%) Ruby
9 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.67%) Bicep
10 1 (0.67%) Groovy
10 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.67%) Swift
10 1 (0.67%) VBScript
10 1 (0.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.67%) Degree
4 8 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.67%) OCP
5 7 (4.67%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.00%) CISSP
8 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.33%) CISM
8 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.67%) CCSP
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 26 (17.33%) GDPR
3 21 (14.00%) HIPAA
4 18 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (10.00%) NIST
6 7 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (3.33%) QA
8 4 (2.67%) Accessibility
8 4 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.67%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.33%) NCSC
9 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.67%) GRC
10 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (28.67%) Active Directory
2 19 (12.67%) Docker
3 3 (2.00%) OpenAM
4 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (49.33%) Single Sign-On
2 47 (31.33%) Kubernetes
3 42 (28.00%) Terraform
4 12 (8.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 10 (6.67%) Ansible
5 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (6.67%) MIIS
6 3 (2.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.67%) Argo
8 1 (0.67%) Istio
8 1 (0.67%) linkerd
Vendors
1 34 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 32 (21.33%) Ping Identity
3 18 (12.00%) Okta
4 15 (10.00%) IBM
5 13 (8.67%) ForgeRock
5 13 (8.67%) Oracle
6 11 (7.33%) CyberArk
7 8 (5.33%) Alibaba
8 3 (2.00%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.33%) Google
9 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.33%) SAP
10 1 (0.67%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.67%) Facebook
10 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.67%) Pega
10 1 (0.67%) Splunk
10 1 (0.67%) Talend