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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 471 482
Rank change year-on-year +62 +11 +152
Contract jobs citing OpenID 178 93 149
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.20% 1.17% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 63 119
10th Percentile £406 £411 £435
25th Percentile £427 £491 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £682
90th Percentile £678 £735 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -15.22% -4.17% -5.14%
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 8,083 7,920 10,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.89% 21.65% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,370 5,006 7,501
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 115 190
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.00 £35.59
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%

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 November 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 November 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 +52 152 £492 -14.43% 67
UK excluding London +33 92 £488 -15.22% 38
London +6 66 £500 -13.04% 37
Work from Home +22 43 £492 -14.43% 44
South West +30 29 £525 -4.72% 11
North of England -16 21 £415 -36.23% 8
Midlands -20 15 £429 +0.94% 1
Scotland +6 13 £600 +38.57% 3
North West - 12 £433 - 7
South East -4 9 £481 -16.30% 11
Yorkshire -31 9 £408 - 1
East Midlands - 9 £413 -
West Midlands -19 6 £538 +26.47% 1
East of England - 6 £419 -

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 (6.74%) Apache
1 12 (6.74%) JBoss
2 11 (6.18%) IIS
2 11 (6.18%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.62%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.62%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (2.81%) CMS
4 5 (2.81%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.81%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.69%) Confluence
5 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (52.25%) AWS
2 92 (51.69%) Azure
3 56 (31.46%) Entra ID
4 38 (21.35%) GCP
5 30 (16.85%) GitHub
6 25 (14.04%) SaaS
7 23 (12.92%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.74%) OpenShift
11 11 (6.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (6.18%) Serverless
12 10 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (5.62%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.06%) PaaS
14 7 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.93%) Amazon S3
15 6 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (3.37%) Datadog
15 6 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.36%) Kerberos
2 17 (9.55%) Firewall
3 13 (7.30%) DNS
4 6 (3.37%) SSL
5 5 (2.81%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.69%) Internet
7 2 (1.12%) Extranet
7 2 (1.12%) HTTP
7 2 (1.12%) Network Security
7 2 (1.12%) S/MIME
7 2 (1.12%) VPN
8 1 (0.56%) DHCP
8 1 (0.56%) SMTP
8 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.74%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.37%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.81%) NewSQL
4 5 (2.81%) OLTP
5 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.69%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.69%) Metadata
5 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.69%) Power BI
6 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.12%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) MySQL
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (14.04%) Git
2 24 (13.48%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.74%) GitLab
4 11 (6.18%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (6.18%) CA Release Automation
5 9 (5.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.37%) JUnit
6 6 (3.37%) Maven
7 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.81%) JIRA
7 5 (2.81%) Mockito
7 5 (2.81%) Selenium
8 4 (2.25%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.56%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.56%) fastlane
10 1 (0.56%) git-flow
General
1 92 (51.69%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (19.10%) Finance
4 15 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.18%) Aviation
7 9 (5.06%) Banking
8 4 (2.25%) Legal
9 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.69%) Retail
10 2 (1.12%) Billing
10 2 (1.12%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Military
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (17.42%) Architect
2 23 (12.92%) Senior
3 22 (12.36%) Developer
4 13 (7.30%) Lead
5 11 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (5.06%) Analyst
6 9 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (5.06%) Business Analyst
6 9 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (4.49%) Consultant
8 7 (3.93%) IAM Specialist
8 7 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Identity Management Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Java Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Security Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.37%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.81%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (87.08%) OAuth
2 143 (80.34%) SAML
3 86 (48.31%) OAuth2
4 44 (24.72%) LDAP
5 22 (12.36%) Spring
6 17 (9.55%) RESTful
7 16 (8.99%) REST
7 16 (8.99%) SailPoint
8 14 (7.87%) JSON
9 11 (6.18%) .NET
9 11 (6.18%) Spring Boot
10 9 (5.06%) Hibernate
10 9 (5.06%) Kafka
10 9 (5.06%) React
11 8 (4.49%) GraphQL
11 8 (4.49%) JDBC
12 7 (3.93%) OpenAPI
12 7 (3.93%) Swagger
13 6 (3.37%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.37%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.11%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.87%) PKI
4 12 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (6.18%) Management Information System
6 9 (5.06%) Private Cloud
7 6 (3.37%) Replication
8 5 (2.81%) BYOD
9 4 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.69%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.56%) Contactless
12 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.56%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.61%) Windows
2 23 (12.92%) Linux
3 21 (11.80%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.49%) Unix
5 3 (1.69%) Android
6 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.56%) CentOS
7 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (35.39%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (32.58%) DevOps
3 57 (32.02%) CI/CD
4 54 (30.34%) RBAC
5 46 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (22.47%) Identity Management
7 34 (19.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (19.10%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 32 (17.98%) Agile
9 28 (15.73%) Containerisation
9 28 (15.73%) Microservices
10 27 (15.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (13.48%) DevSecOps
12 20 (11.24%) Migration
13 19 (10.67%) Mentoring
14 18 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (8.99%) Observability
15 16 (8.99%) Technical Leadership
16 15 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 48 (26.97%) PowerShell
2 38 (21.35%) Java
3 32 (17.98%) Python
4 19 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.87%) Groovy
6 13 (7.30%) SQL
7 10 (5.62%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.49%) C#
9 7 (3.93%) Bash
10 5 (2.81%) ANSI SQL
10 5 (2.81%) Go
11 3 (1.69%) PHP
12 2 (1.12%) C
12 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.12%) Swift
12 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.56%) C++
13 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.56%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (23.03%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.87%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.74%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.74%) CISSP
4 12 (6.74%) Degree
5 5 (2.81%) CISM
6 4 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.69%) CCSP
7 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.79%) GDPR
2 21 (11.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (8.43%) HIPAA
4 12 (6.74%) NIST
5 9 (5.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (4.49%) SOC 2
7 6 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (3.37%) PSD2
7 6 (3.37%) QA
7 6 (3.37%) WCAG
8 5 (2.81%) PCI DSS
9 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
9 4 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.12%) SLA
12 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.56%) GRC
12 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 80 (44.94%) Active Directory
2 34 (19.10%) Docker
3 8 (4.49%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (46.63%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (27.53%) Terraform
3 43 (24.16%) Kubernetes
4 16 (8.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (8.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (6.18%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (6.18%) Grafana
7 10 (5.62%) Ansible
7 10 (5.62%) CA Wily
8 9 (5.06%) PingFederate
8 9 (5.06%) Progress Chef
8 9 (5.06%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 8 (4.49%) Tivoli
10 5 (2.81%) Kibana
11 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.69%) Argo
12 3 (1.69%) SCCM
13 2 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (1.12%) Puppet
14 1 (0.56%) linkerd
Vendors
1 80 (44.94%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.73%) Ping Identity
3 21 (11.80%) IBM
4 17 (9.55%) ForgeRock
5 16 (8.99%) CyberArk
5 16 (8.99%) Oracle
6 15 (8.43%) Splunk
7 13 (7.30%) Okta
8 11 (6.18%) AppDynamics
8 11 (6.18%) Broadcom
9 8 (4.49%) Alibaba
9 8 (4.49%) Google
9 8 (4.49%) VMware
10 4 (2.25%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.12%) Intel
12 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.12%) Xamarin
12 2 (1.12%) Zscaler