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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 396 465
Rank change year-on-year -28 +69 +40
Contract jobs citing OpenID 263 161 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 2.19% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 117 63
10th Percentile £413 £366 £425
25th Percentile £488 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -10.50% -
75th Percentile £644 £642 £629
90th Percentile £751 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £564 £439 £585
% change year-on-year +28.56% -25.04% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.46 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.83% - -
75th Percentile £86.62 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £87.24 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.46 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +40.83% - -

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 10,136 7,346 8,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 22.39% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,589 4,921 5,783
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £411 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £740 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 177 230
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.70 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -1.35% -6.54%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £81.15 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -8.69% +5.14%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -25 221 £575 +10.90% 115
UK excluding London -10 134 £564 +28.56% 60
London -45 94 £563 -6.48% 65
Work from Home -35 88 £520 +0.29% 59
South East -21 53 £513 +7.89% 19
North of England -51 48 £625 +52.81% 10
Yorkshire -26 29 £625 +53.37% 5
North West -45 16 £719 +59.67% 4
Scotland -13 12 £550 -8.33% 6
South West -45 8 £550 +23.04% 13
East of England - 7 £555 - 4
Midlands -49 6 £575 +39.39% 7
West Midlands -52 4 £627 +3.90% 5
North East - 4 £494 - 1
East Midlands -27 2 £401 -2.20% 2

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 15 (5.70%) Confluence
2 7 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.14%) Apache
5 3 (1.14%) IIS
5 3 (1.14%) nginx
5 3 (1.14%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.14%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 151 (57.41%) Azure
2 110 (41.83%) AWS
3 99 (37.64%) Entra ID
4 61 (23.19%) GCP
5 36 (13.69%) Serverless
6 25 (9.51%) SaaS
7 24 (9.13%) GitHub
8 23 (8.75%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (6.84%) Azure AKS
10 17 (6.46%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (5.70%) Azure API Management
11 15 (5.70%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (5.32%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.94%) Kong
14 11 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (4.18%) Azure App Service
15 9 (3.42%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.65%) DNS
2 19 (7.22%) Firewall
3 15 (5.70%) Kerberos
4 9 (3.42%) SSL
5 7 (2.66%) HTTP
6 5 (1.90%) DHCP
6 5 (1.90%) Network Security
6 5 (1.90%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.52%) NGFW
8 2 (0.76%) OpenVPN
8 2 (0.76%) VPN
9 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.38%) SSH
9 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.94%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.80%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.80%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.42%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.90%) Data Vault
6 5 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.52%) Metadata
8 3 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.14%) Redis
9 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.76%) MySQL
9 2 (0.76%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.76%) Parquet
10 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.38%) Db2
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (11.03%) Git
2 19 (7.22%) JIRA
3 15 (5.70%) GitLab
4 11 (4.18%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.66%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.90%) JMeter
7 4 (1.52%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.14%) Fiddler
8 3 (1.14%) git-flow
9 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.76%) Gatling
9 2 (0.76%) JUnit
9 2 (0.76%) Mockito
9 2 (0.76%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.76%) Postman
9 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.38%) Gradle
10 1 (0.38%) Maven
10 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.53%) Public Sector
3 47 (17.87%) Finance
4 19 (7.22%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (6.46%) Banking
6 16 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.42%) Military
9 8 (3.04%) Retail
10 4 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Legal
13 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 65 (24.71%) Architect
2 50 (19.01%) Developer
3 33 (12.55%) Lead
4 27 (10.27%) Senior
5 24 (9.13%) Technical Architect
6 19 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (6.84%) IAM Specialist
8 15 (5.70%) Java Developer
9 14 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (5.32%) Technical Leader
10 13 (4.94%) Security Architect
11 11 (4.18%) IAM Developer
11 11 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.42%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.04%) Lead Developer
14 6 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (2.28%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (2.28%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.28%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (88.59%) OAuth
2 160 (60.84%) SAML
3 150 (57.03%) OAuth2
4 67 (25.48%) LDAP
5 49 (18.63%) REST
6 39 (14.83%) RESTful
7 33 (12.55%) React
7 33 (12.55%) SailPoint
8 27 (10.27%) JWT
9 23 (8.75%) Kafka
10 22 (8.37%) .NET
11 17 (6.46%) JSON
11 17 (6.46%) Node.js
12 16 (6.08%) CSS
13 15 (5.70%) Web Services
14 13 (4.94%) HTML
14 13 (4.94%) OpenTelemetry
15 12 (4.56%) Django
15 12 (4.56%) Spring
16 11 (4.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (28.90%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.17%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (11.03%) Onboarding
4 27 (10.27%) PKI
5 26 (9.89%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (5.32%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.94%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (3.42%) IoT
10 8 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (3.04%) Mobile App
11 7 (2.66%) Security Posture
12 6 (2.28%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.90%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.90%) Clustering
13 5 (1.90%) NHS
13 5 (1.90%) Operational Technology
14 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.08%) Linux
2 12 (4.56%) Windows
3 4 (1.52%) Android
4 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.14%) Unix
4 3 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (40.68%) CI/CD
2 85 (32.32%) DevOps
2 85 (32.32%) Identity Access Management
3 68 (25.86%) Microservices
4 63 (23.95%) RBAC
5 55 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (20.15%) Agile
7 52 (19.77%) Containerisation
8 47 (17.87%) Zero Trust
9 41 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (15.59%) Test Automation
10 39 (14.83%) Technical Leadership
11 35 (13.31%) Analytics
11 35 (13.31%) Event-Driven
11 35 (13.31%) Mentoring
11 35 (13.31%) Roadmaps
12 33 (12.55%) Runbook
13 32 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (11.79%) Observability
15 30 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 71 (27.00%) Python
2 58 (22.05%) Java
3 51 (19.39%) PowerShell
4 32 (12.17%) JavaScript
5 28 (10.65%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.27%) SQL
7 20 (7.60%) C#
8 18 (6.84%) Bicep
9 10 (3.80%) Bash
10 6 (2.28%) Go
11 4 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.76%) Cypher
12 2 (0.76%) Groovy
12 2 (0.76%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) C
13 1 (0.38%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) Perl
13 1 (0.38%) Scala
13 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 80 (30.42%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.95%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.17%) Degree
4 22 (8.37%) CISSP
5 15 (5.70%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.70%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.80%) CISM
7 10 (3.80%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.90%) CSPO
9 4 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.52%) GIAC
10 3 (1.14%) CEH
10 3 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.14%) MCSE
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (9.89%) NIST
3 23 (8.75%) GDPR
4 16 (6.08%) QA
5 11 (4.18%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.80%) NCSC
7 6 (2.28%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.90%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.14%) WCAG
10 2 (0.76%) HL7
10 2 (0.76%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.76%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.76%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.38%) GMP
11 1 (0.38%) GRC
11 1 (0.38%) GxP
11 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (31.18%) Active Directory
2 47 (17.87%) Docker
3 3 (1.14%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.76%) Squid
5 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (25.48%) Kubernetes
2 65 (24.71%) Terraform
3 59 (22.43%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (8.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (5.70%) Grafana
6 11 (4.18%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.42%) Argo
7 9 (3.42%) Istio
8 8 (3.04%) Ansible
9 7 (2.66%) Kustomize
9 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.52%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.52%) linkerd
10 4 (1.52%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (1.14%) Consul
12 2 (0.76%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.76%) Kibana
12 2 (0.76%) Packer
12 2 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (36.12%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.51%) Okta
3 17 (6.46%) ForgeRock
4 15 (5.70%) CyberArk
4 15 (5.70%) Google
4 15 (5.70%) Ping Identity
4 15 (5.70%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.94%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.42%) Splunk
7 8 (3.04%) SAP
8 5 (1.90%) Denodo
8 5 (1.90%) IBM
8 5 (1.90%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.90%) Workday
9 3 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.14%) Oracle
9 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco
10 2 (0.76%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.76%) VMware