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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 425 444
Rank change year-on-year +30 +19 +96
Contract jobs citing OpenID 219 95 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.36% 1.43% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 66 103
10th Percentile £425 £409 £433
25th Percentile £480 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £661 £750
90th Percentile £758 £729 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -7.61% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 9,295 6,621 8,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.21% 22.73% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,217 4,492 6,234
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £495
% change year-on-year +1.01% - -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 96 196
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 24 March 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
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 24 March 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 +1 196 £543 -9.08% 35
UK excluding London -18 105 £531 -7.61% 24
London -18 91 £563 -11.76% 16
Work from Home -10 57 £573 -4.82% 22
North of England -34 46 £525 - 9
Yorkshire -34 31 £525 +11.94% 5
South West -4 26 £565 +1.57% 2
North West -27 14 £600 +14.29% 4
Midlands -53 14 £475 -17.39% 1
South East -55 13 £615 +6.96% 11
West Midlands - 10 £513 - 1
East of England - 5 £425 - 1
East Midlands -30 3 £438 -23.91%
Scotland +4 2 £537 -10.58%
North East - 2 £525 -

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 10 (4.57%) Confluence
2 9 (4.11%) nginx
3 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) IIS
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 114 (52.05%) Azure
2 100 (45.66%) AWS
3 63 (28.77%) Entra ID
4 49 (22.37%) GCP
5 35 (15.98%) Serverless
6 24 (10.96%) SaaS
7 21 (9.59%) GitHub
8 20 (9.13%) Amazon S3
8 20 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (7.76%) OpenShift
11 16 (7.31%) PaaS
12 15 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (5.94%) Route 53
15 11 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (4.57%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.61%) DNS
2 29 (13.24%) Firewall
3 11 (5.02%) Kerberos
3 11 (5.02%) SSL
4 10 (4.57%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.57%) VPN
5 9 (4.11%) OpenVPN
6 5 (2.28%) IPsec
6 5 (2.28%) Network Security
6 5 (2.28%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.37%) Internet
8 2 (0.91%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.46%) DHCP
9 1 (0.46%) Extranet
9 1 (0.46%) HTTP
9 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.46%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (4.57%) Redis
3 9 (4.11%) MySQL
3 9 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.65%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.65%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.28%) Power BI
5 5 (2.28%) Star Schema
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.83%) DocumentDB
6 4 (1.83%) Neo4j
6 4 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.37%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.91%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (21.46%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.24%) GitLab
3 27 (12.33%) JIRA
4 19 (8.68%) Selenium
5 18 (8.22%) Git
6 17 (7.76%) Cucumber
7 13 (5.94%) REST Assured
8 12 (5.48%) Postman
9 8 (3.65%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.65%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.20%) Gatling
10 7 (3.20%) JUnit
11 6 (2.74%) Maven
12 5 (2.28%) JMeter
12 5 (2.28%) Mockito
12 5 (2.28%) TestRail
13 4 (1.83%) LoadRunner
13 4 (1.83%) NeoLoad
14 2 (0.91%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.91%) git-flow
General
1 90 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.18%) Finance
3 33 (15.07%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (9.13%) Banking
5 16 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.31%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.39%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.74%) Aviation
8 4 (1.83%) Legal
9 3 (1.37%) Games
9 3 (1.37%) Military
9 3 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Billing
10 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.46%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 84 (38.36%) Architect
2 34 (15.53%) Developer
3 26 (11.87%) Senior
4 23 (10.50%) Lead
5 20 (9.13%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.39%) Technical Architect
7 13 (5.94%) CyberArk Architect
8 11 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.57%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.11%) AWS Architect
10 9 (4.11%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.65%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.65%) Test Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) ForgeRock Developer
12 7 (3.20%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.74%) Senior Architect
13 6 (2.74%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (72.60%) OAuth
2 137 (62.56%) SAML
3 113 (51.60%) OAuth2
4 61 (27.85%) LDAP
5 51 (23.29%) REST
6 29 (13.24%) SailPoint
7 26 (11.87%) .NET
7 26 (11.87%) RESTful
8 20 (9.13%) Spring
8 20 (9.13%) Spring Boot
9 19 (8.68%) Kafka
9 19 (8.68%) Node.js
9 19 (8.68%) React
10 15 (6.85%) Playwright
11 14 (6.39%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.94%) JSON
13 11 (5.02%) HTML
13 11 (5.02%) JWT
14 10 (4.57%) JPA
14 10 (4.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.18%) Cloud Native
2 38 (17.35%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.39%) PKI
4 11 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.02%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.57%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.74%) Replication
8 5 (2.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.28%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.37%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.91%) BYOD
11 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.91%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.87%) Windows
2 17 (7.76%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.65%) Linux
4 2 (0.91%) Android
4 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (43.84%) CI/CD
2 92 (42.01%) DevOps
3 61 (27.85%) RBAC
4 60 (27.40%) Identity Access Management
5 46 (21.00%) Microservices
6 45 (20.55%) Agile
6 45 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (18.72%) Test Automation
9 36 (16.44%) Secrets Management
10 35 (15.98%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (15.53%) Observability
12 33 (15.07%) Event-Driven
13 32 (14.61%) Roadmaps
14 31 (14.16%) Design Patterns
14 31 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 30 (13.70%) Containerisation
16 26 (11.87%) Architectural Patterns
16 26 (11.87%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.11%) Java
2 46 (21.00%) Python
3 40 (18.26%) PowerShell
4 35 (15.98%) SQL
5 21 (9.59%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.13%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.94%) C#
8 8 (3.65%) Go
8 8 (3.65%) PHP
9 6 (2.74%) Bicep
10 5 (2.28%) Scala
11 4 (1.83%) Bash
11 4 (1.83%) Cypher
11 4 (1.83%) Groovy
11 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.91%) Swift
13 1 (0.46%) C
13 1 (0.46%) C++
13 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (36.99%) Security Cleared
2 55 (25.11%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (9.13%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.02%) CISSP
5 11 (5.02%) Degree
6 6 (2.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.37%) GIAC
9 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.91%) CCSP
10 2 (0.91%) CISM
10 2 (0.91%) OCP
10 2 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.46%) HND
11 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (17.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (13.70%) NIST
3 24 (10.96%) GDPR
4 17 (7.76%) QA
5 15 (6.85%) NCSC
6 11 (5.02%) PCI DSS
7 9 (4.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (4.11%) SOC 2
8 8 (3.65%) HIPAA
8 8 (3.65%) WCAG
9 7 (3.20%) PSD2
10 4 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
11 3 (1.37%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.37%) GRC
11 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.91%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.91%) SEPA
System Software
1 56 (25.57%) Active Directory
2 31 (14.16%) Docker
3 10 (4.57%) Squid
4 5 (2.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (2.28%) RACF
5 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.91%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.91%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.91%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (35.16%) Single Sign-On
2 62 (28.31%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.37%) Terraform
4 26 (11.87%) Grafana
5 25 (11.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (9.13%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.11%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.20%) Ansible
8 7 (3.20%) Argo
8 7 (3.20%) Consul
9 5 (2.28%) Kibana
10 4 (1.83%) Istio
10 4 (1.83%) PingFederate
11 3 (1.37%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.37%) linkerd
12 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.46%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.46%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 78 (35.62%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.42%) CyberArk
3 24 (10.96%) ServiceNow
4 19 (8.68%) Splunk
5 17 (7.76%) Google
6 15 (6.85%) Ping Identity
7 12 (5.48%) ForgeRock
8 11 (5.02%) Dynatrace
8 11 (5.02%) Okta
9 10 (4.57%) Red Hat
9 10 (4.57%) VMware
10 7 (3.20%) Atlassian
11 5 (2.28%) Oracle
12 4 (1.83%) MuleSoft
13 3 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
14 2 (0.91%) Confluent
14 2 (0.91%) Optimizely
14 2 (0.91%) SAP
14 2 (0.91%) Workday
14 2 (0.91%) Zscaler