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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 439 421
Rank change year-on-year +58 -18 +132
Contract jobs citing OpenID 209 90 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.28% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.48% 1.27% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 60 126
10th Percentile £412 £412 £450
25th Percentile £461 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +7.44%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £700
90th Percentile £715 £728 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £551 £588
% change year-on-year -7.53% -6.21% -4.47%
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 8,429 7,067 9,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.30% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,618 4,497 6,583
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £766 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 91 182
10th Percentile £33.20 £22.00 £26.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.19 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 23 January 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 23 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for OpenID in the UK

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 23 January 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 +58 193 £519 -9.03% 116
UK excluding London +14 103 £510 -7.53% 118
London +7 89 £525 -8.70% 57
Work from Home +20 58 £560 -2.61% 130
North of England -20 40 £468 -10.86% 18
South West +21 35 £545 -1.00% 19
Yorkshire - 24 £513 - 6
North West -17 16 £450 -14.29% 12
South East -28 10 £488 -18.75% 39
Midlands -40 10 £531 +25.00% 6
East of England - 8 £425 - 12
West Midlands -41 7 £538 +26.47% 1
East Midlands - 2 £442 - 5
Scotland +7 1 £523 - 20

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 (5.74%) Apache
2 11 (5.26%) IIS
2 11 (5.26%) JBoss
2 11 (5.26%) WebSphere
3 10 (4.78%) iPlanet
3 10 (4.78%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (3.35%) Confluence
4 7 (3.35%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (50.24%) Azure
2 97 (46.41%) AWS
3 57 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 50 (23.92%) GCP
5 28 (13.40%) GitHub
6 25 (11.96%) SaaS
7 24 (11.48%) OpenShift
8 20 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (8.61%) Serverless
10 13 (6.22%) PaaS
11 12 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (5.26%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.78%) Route 53
14 9 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (4.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.40%) DNS
2 26 (12.44%) Firewall
3 22 (10.53%) Kerberos
4 8 (3.83%) VPN
5 7 (3.35%) SSL
5 7 (3.35%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.87%) HTTPS
7 5 (2.39%) OpenVPN
8 4 (1.91%) Internet
8 4 (1.91%) Network Security
8 4 (1.91%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.96%) DHCP
9 2 (0.96%) Extranet
9 2 (0.96%) HTTP
9 2 (0.96%) S/MIME
10 1 (0.48%) IPsec
10 1 (0.48%) SMS
10 1 (0.48%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.74%) Oracle Database
1 12 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.26%) Redis
3 10 (4.78%) MySQL
3 10 (4.78%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.39%) Power BI
7 4 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.91%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.91%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.91%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.91%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.44%) Metadata
8 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.96%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.96%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 56 (26.79%) Jenkins
2 32 (15.31%) GitLab
3 27 (12.92%) Git
4 25 (11.96%) JIRA
5 17 (8.13%) Selenium
6 15 (7.18%) Cucumber
7 11 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (5.26%) CA Release Automation
7 11 (5.26%) Postman
7 11 (5.26%) REST Assured
8 9 (4.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (3.83%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.35%) Gatling
10 7 (3.35%) JUnit
10 7 (3.35%) Maven
11 6 (2.87%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.39%) JMeter
12 5 (2.39%) Mockito
12 5 (2.39%) TestRail
13 4 (1.91%) NeoLoad
General
1 93 (44.50%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.53%) Finance
3 31 (14.83%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.05%) Banking
6 15 (7.18%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.26%) Aviation
7 11 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Legal
9 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.44%) Games
10 2 (0.96%) Billing
10 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Military
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 62 (29.67%) Architect
2 34 (16.27%) Developer
3 22 (10.53%) Senior
4 19 (9.09%) Lead
5 18 (8.61%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (4.78%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (4.78%) CyberArk Architect
7 10 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.31%) Test Engineer
9 8 (3.83%) Java Developer
9 8 (3.83%) Technical Architect
9 8 (3.83%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) AWS Architect
10 7 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) ForgeRock Developer
10 7 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.35%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.87%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (71.77%) OAuth
2 138 (66.03%) SAML
3 96 (45.93%) OAuth2
4 67 (32.06%) LDAP
5 39 (18.66%) REST
6 25 (11.96%) RESTful
7 23 (11.00%) SailPoint
8 21 (10.05%) Spring
9 20 (9.57%) Spring Boot
10 19 (9.09%) .NET
11 18 (8.61%) Kafka
12 15 (7.18%) Node.js
12 15 (7.18%) React
13 11 (5.26%) GraphQL
14 10 (4.78%) HTML
14 10 (4.78%) JPA
14 10 (4.78%) Playwright
15 9 (4.31%) JSON
16 8 (3.83%) JDBC
17 7 (3.35%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.35%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.88%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.18%) PKI
4 13 (6.22%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.78%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.35%) Replication
7 6 (2.87%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.91%) BYOD
9 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.44%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.70%) Windows
2 26 (12.44%) Windows Server
3 20 (9.57%) Linux
4 8 (3.83%) Unix
5 2 (0.96%) Android
5 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (42.58%) CI/CD
2 84 (40.19%) DevOps
3 62 (29.67%) Identity Access Management
4 51 (24.40%) RBAC
5 46 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (19.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (18.66%) Agile
8 38 (18.18%) Microservices
9 36 (17.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 35 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (15.79%) Containerisation
12 32 (15.31%) Event-Driven
13 30 (14.35%) Identity Management
13 30 (14.35%) Secrets Management
13 30 (14.35%) Test Automation
14 29 (13.88%) Observability
15 28 (13.40%) Migration
16 26 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
17 25 (11.96%) Roadmaps
18 24 (11.48%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.36%) Java
2 46 (22.01%) Python
3 45 (21.53%) PowerShell
4 28 (13.40%) SQL
5 26 (12.44%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.18%) Groovy
7 14 (6.70%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.31%) C#
8 9 (4.31%) Go
8 9 (4.31%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.83%) PHP
10 6 (2.87%) Bash
11 4 (1.91%) Cypher
11 4 (1.91%) Scala
12 2 (0.96%) Bicep
12 2 (0.96%) C
12 2 (0.96%) Swift
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 67 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (9.57%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.22%) Degree
6 11 (5.26%) CISSP
7 8 (3.83%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.91%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.44%) CISM
11 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.96%) CCSP
11 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.48%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (18.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (13.40%) GDPR
3 27 (12.92%) NIST
4 21 (10.05%) QA
5 12 (5.74%) NCSC
5 12 (5.74%) SOC 2
6 10 (4.78%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.83%) HIPAA
7 8 (3.83%) PSD2
7 8 (3.83%) WCAG
8 7 (3.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.91%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.96%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.96%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.96%) SEPA
11 2 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (33.97%) Active Directory
2 40 (19.14%) Docker
3 8 (3.83%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 6 (2.87%) Squid
5 5 (2.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.96%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.96%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.96%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.48%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (35.89%) Single Sign-On
2 53 (25.36%) Kubernetes
3 50 (23.92%) Terraform
4 26 (12.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (9.57%) Grafana
6 13 (6.22%) Prometheus
7 12 (5.74%) Ansible
8 11 (5.26%) CA Single Sign-On
9 10 (4.78%) CA Wily
10 9 (4.31%) PingFederate
10 9 (4.31%) Progress Chef
11 8 (3.83%) Tivoli
12 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (2.87%) Argo
14 5 (2.39%) Consul
14 5 (2.39%) FortiGate
14 5 (2.39%) Kibana
15 3 (1.44%) SCCM
16 2 (0.96%) Puppet
17 1 (0.48%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 85 (40.67%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.40%) Splunk
3 22 (10.53%) CyberArk
4 20 (9.57%) Google
5 19 (9.09%) Ping Identity
5 19 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 16 (7.66%) Oracle
7 13 (6.22%) ForgeRock
7 13 (6.22%) Okta
8 11 (5.26%) AppDynamics
8 11 (5.26%) Broadcom
8 11 (5.26%) IBM
8 11 (5.26%) VMware
9 8 (3.83%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.39%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.39%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.96%) Confluent
12 2 (0.96%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.96%) Xamarin