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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 445 453
Rank change year-on-year +63 +8 +126
Contract jobs citing OpenID 217 82 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.51% 1.18% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 54 116
10th Percentile £413 £410 £425
25th Percentile £463 £516 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £586 £645
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -9.11% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £651 £750
90th Percentile £717 £743 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -11.04% +9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £64.10 - -
25th Percentile £68.00 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.50 - -
90th Percentile £89.70 - -
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 8,634 6,975 9,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.12% 22.43% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,756 4,452 6,609
10th Percentile £357 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 86 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.32 £25.80
25th Percentile £50.13 £38.69 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.83 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +51 197 £525 -8.70% 42
UK excluding London +10 108 £512 -11.04% 29
London +13 87 £545 -8.98% 17
Work from Home +25 65 £563 -8.16% 17
North of England -23 44 £473 -9.90% 8
South West +18 35 £545 +21.11% 3
Yorkshire - 29 £525 - 4
North West -19 15 £453 -13.71% 3
Midlands -38 11 £525 -8.70% 4
South East -33 10 £546 -5.00% 12
East of England - 8 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £538 - 4
East Midlands -25 3 £438 -23.91%
Scotland +7 1 £523 -
North East -14 1 - - 1

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 8 (3.69%) Apache
2 7 (3.23%) Confluence
2 7 (3.23%) IIS
2 7 (3.23%) iPlanet
2 7 (3.23%) JBoss
2 7 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.23%) WebSphere
2 7 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
3 6 (2.76%) nginx
4 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 112 (51.61%) Azure
2 99 (45.62%) AWS
3 60 (27.65%) Entra ID
4 51 (23.50%) GCP
5 29 (13.36%) SaaS
6 25 (11.52%) GitHub
7 24 (11.06%) OpenShift
7 24 (11.06%) Serverless
8 20 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (7.83%) PaaS
10 13 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (5.99%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (5.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (5.07%) Route 53
13 10 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (3.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.36%) DNS
2 27 (12.44%) Firewall
3 23 (10.60%) Kerberos
4 11 (5.07%) SSL
5 9 (4.15%) VPN
6 8 (3.69%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.76%) HTTPS
7 6 (2.76%) OpenVPN
8 5 (2.30%) IPsec
8 5 (2.30%) Network Security
8 5 (2.30%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.84%) Internet
10 2 (0.92%) DHCP
10 2 (0.92%) Extranet
10 2 (0.92%) S/MIME
11 1 (0.46%) HTTP
11 1 (0.46%) SMS
11 1 (0.46%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.07%) Redis
3 9 (4.15%) MySQL
3 9 (4.15%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.15%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.23%) Power BI
5 5 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.30%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.84%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.84%) DocumentDB
6 4 (1.84%) Neo4j
6 4 (1.84%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.84%) Star Schema
7 3 (1.38%) Metadata
8 2 (0.92%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 57 (26.27%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.29%) GitLab
3 26 (11.98%) JIRA
4 25 (11.52%) Git
5 19 (8.76%) Selenium
6 17 (7.83%) Cucumber
7 13 (5.99%) REST Assured
8 11 (5.07%) Postman
9 8 (3.69%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (3.23%) CA Release Automation
10 7 (3.23%) Gatling
10 7 (3.23%) JUnit
10 7 (3.23%) Maven
10 7 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.76%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.30%) JMeter
12 5 (2.30%) Mockito
12 5 (2.30%) TestRail
13 4 (1.84%) LoadRunner
General
1 97 (44.70%) Social Skills
2 45 (20.74%) Finance
3 34 (15.67%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.29%) Banking
6 17 (7.83%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (5.07%) Aviation
9 5 (2.30%) Legal
10 3 (1.38%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.38%) Games
10 3 (1.38%) Military
11 2 (0.92%) Billing
11 2 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.92%) Retail
12 1 (0.46%) Law
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 73 (33.64%) Architect
2 34 (15.67%) Developer
3 26 (11.98%) Senior
4 21 (9.68%) Lead
5 20 (9.22%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (5.99%) CyberArk Architect
7 12 (5.53%) Technical Architect
8 11 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.15%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Analyst
11 8 (3.69%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.69%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.69%) Test Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) ForgeRock Developer
12 7 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (70.05%) OAuth
2 146 (67.28%) SAML
3 97 (44.70%) OAuth2
4 69 (31.80%) LDAP
5 44 (20.28%) REST
6 25 (11.52%) SailPoint
7 23 (10.60%) RESTful
8 21 (9.68%) .NET
9 19 (8.76%) Spring
10 18 (8.29%) React
10 18 (8.29%) Spring Boot
11 17 (7.83%) Kafka
12 15 (6.91%) Node.js
13 12 (5.53%) GraphQL
14 11 (5.07%) Playwright
15 10 (4.61%) HTML
15 10 (4.61%) JPA
16 9 (4.15%) JSON
17 8 (3.69%) JDBC
17 8 (3.69%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.59%) Onboarding
2 34 (15.67%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.91%) PKI
4 13 (5.99%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.61%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.23%) Replication
7 6 (2.76%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.84%) BYOD
9 4 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.38%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.92%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.21%) Windows
2 22 (10.14%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.37%) Linux
4 6 (2.76%) Unix
5 2 (0.92%) Android
5 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.46%) CentOS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (43.78%) CI/CD
2 89 (41.01%) DevOps
3 62 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 53 (24.42%) RBAC
5 45 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (18.89%) Agile
8 40 (18.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (17.51%) Microservices
10 34 (15.67%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (15.67%) Secrets Management
10 34 (15.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 34 (15.67%) Test Automation
11 33 (15.21%) Event-Driven
12 30 (13.82%) Design Patterns
12 30 (13.82%) Identity Management
13 29 (13.36%) Roadmaps
14 27 (12.44%) Containerisation
14 27 (12.44%) Migration
14 27 (12.44%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 53 (24.42%) Java
2 47 (21.66%) Python
3 45 (20.74%) PowerShell
4 31 (14.29%) SQL
5 26 (11.98%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.07%) Groovy
8 9 (4.15%) C#
8 9 (4.15%) Go
9 8 (3.69%) PHP
10 7 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.76%) Bash
12 4 (1.84%) Cypher
12 4 (1.84%) Scala
13 3 (1.38%) Bicep
14 2 (0.92%) C
14 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.92%) Swift
15 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (34.10%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.66%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.99%) Degree
6 11 (5.07%) CISSP
7 5 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.84%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.38%) CISM
10 2 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.92%) CCSP
10 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.46%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (19.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (14.29%) NIST
3 29 (13.36%) GDPR
4 18 (8.29%) QA
5 15 (6.91%) NCSC
6 13 (5.99%) SOC 2
7 12 (5.53%) PCI DSS
8 8 (3.69%) HIPAA
8 8 (3.69%) PSD2
8 8 (3.69%) WCAG
9 7 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.38%) GRC
11 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.92%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.92%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (31.34%) Active Directory
2 33 (15.21%) Docker
3 7 (3.23%) Squid
4 6 (2.76%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 5 (2.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (2.30%) RACF
6 4 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.92%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.92%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.92%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 85 (39.17%) Single Sign-On
2 56 (25.81%) Kubernetes
3 47 (21.66%) Terraform
4 26 (11.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (9.68%) Grafana
6 15 (6.91%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.15%) PingFederate
8 7 (3.23%) Argo
8 7 (3.23%) CA Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.23%) CA Wily
8 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (2.76%) Ansible
9 6 (2.76%) FortiGate
9 6 (2.76%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.76%) Tivoli
10 5 (2.30%) Consul
10 5 (2.30%) Kibana
11 3 (1.38%) SCCM
12 1 (0.46%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.46%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 90 (41.47%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.98%) Splunk
3 25 (11.52%) CyberArk
4 21 (9.68%) ServiceNow
5 19 (8.76%) Google
5 19 (8.76%) Ping Identity
6 14 (6.45%) ForgeRock
7 13 (5.99%) Okta
7 13 (5.99%) Oracle
8 11 (5.07%) VMware
9 9 (4.15%) Red Hat
10 8 (3.69%) AppDynamics
10 8 (3.69%) IBM
11 7 (3.23%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.76%) Dynatrace
13 5 (2.30%) Atlassian
14 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
15 2 (0.92%) Confluent
15 2 (0.92%) NetIQ
15 2 (0.92%) Xamarin