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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 396 470
Rank change year-on-year -23 +74 +39
Contract jobs citing OpenID 279 166 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.37% 1.99% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 121 62
10th Percentile £413 £368 £425
25th Percentile £480 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -15.61% -1.25%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £622
90th Percentile £750 £678 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £440 £581
% change year-on-year +26.28% -24.35% -3.17%
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 11,774 8,333 9,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.79% 25.48% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,743 5,603 6,381
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £434 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 182 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.80 £25.60
25th Percentile £46.66 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -15.05% -1.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +9.22%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -14 236 £564 +18.68% 143
UK excluding London -22 147 £555 +26.28% 61
London -40 99 £569 -1.09% 99
Work from Home -19 95 £538 +7.50% 67
South East -24 50 £513 -4.65% 20
North of England -48 47 £620 +43.19% 6
Yorkshire -19 30 £623 +52.76% 6
Midlands -54 16 £464 +12.39% 9
Scotland -25 15 £425 -29.17% 9
North West -53 14 £694 +54.80%
West Midlands -33 13 £543 -10.03% 7
South West -41 10 £575 +28.64% 11
East of England - 9 £553 - 4
North East - 4 £494 -
East Midlands -27 3 £402 -1.95% 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 13 (4.66%) Confluence
2 9 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.72%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) IIS
5 2 (0.72%) nginx
5 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 156 (55.91%) Azure
2 125 (44.80%) AWS
3 105 (37.63%) Entra ID
4 64 (22.94%) GCP
5 36 (12.90%) Serverless
6 28 (10.04%) GitHub
7 27 (9.68%) SaaS
8 24 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.73%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (5.73%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (5.02%) Kong
12 13 (4.66%) Azure App Service
13 12 (4.30%) Amazon S3
13 12 (4.30%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.94%) Azure API Management
15 10 (3.58%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.32%) DNS
2 18 (6.45%) Firewall
3 15 (5.38%) Kerberos
4 9 (3.23%) SSL
5 8 (2.87%) HTTP
6 5 (1.79%) DHCP
6 5 (1.79%) Network Security
7 4 (1.43%) NGFW
7 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.36%) DMZ
8 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.36%) Internet
8 1 (0.36%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.36%) SSH
8 1 (0.36%) VPN
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.66%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.66%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.94%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.79%) Data Vault
6 5 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.43%) Metadata
8 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.08%) MySQL
8 3 (1.08%) Redis
9 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.72%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.36%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 37 (13.26%) Git
2 19 (6.81%) GitLab
3 17 (6.09%) JIRA
4 12 (4.30%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.51%) JUnit
6 6 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.15%) Maven
7 5 (1.79%) JMeter
7 5 (1.79%) Mockito
8 4 (1.43%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.08%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.08%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.08%) git-flow
9 3 (1.08%) Selenium
9 3 (1.08%) Storybook
10 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.72%) Gatling
10 2 (0.72%) Postman
10 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.71%) Public Sector
3 54 (19.35%) Finance
4 21 (7.53%) Banking
5 17 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.09%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.23%) Military
8 6 (2.15%) Retail
9 4 (1.43%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (24.01%) Architect
2 60 (21.51%) Developer
3 32 (11.47%) Lead
4 29 (10.39%) Senior
4 29 (10.39%) Technical Architect
5 18 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 16 (5.73%) IAM Specialist
7 14 (5.02%) Technical Leader
8 12 (4.30%) IAM Developer
8 12 (4.30%) Security Architect
8 12 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.94%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.87%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.51%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.15%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.15%) Product Owner
13 6 (2.15%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (89.25%) OAuth
2 159 (56.99%) SAML
3 158 (56.63%) OAuth2
4 71 (25.45%) Terraform
5 63 (22.58%) LDAP
6 53 (19.00%) REST
7 45 (16.13%) RESTful
8 40 (14.34%) React
9 31 (11.11%) JWT
9 31 (11.11%) SailPoint
10 27 (9.68%) .NET
11 24 (8.60%) Kafka
12 22 (7.89%) Swagger
13 21 (7.53%) OpenAPI
14 19 (6.81%) CSS
15 18 (6.45%) HTML
15 18 (6.45%) JSON
15 18 (6.45%) Node.js
16 16 (5.73%) Spring
17 15 (5.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (27.96%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.39%) Onboarding
4 27 (9.68%) PKI
5 26 (9.32%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (6.45%) Product Ownership
7 12 (4.30%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.58%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (3.23%) IoT
10 8 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (2.15%) AI Agents
12 6 (2.15%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.79%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.79%) Clustering
13 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.79%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.79%) NHS
13 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.43%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.38%) Linux
2 12 (4.30%) Windows
3 4 (1.43%) Android
3 4 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.08%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (40.86%) CI/CD
2 94 (33.69%) Identity Access Management
3 86 (30.82%) DevOps
4 72 (25.81%) Microservices
5 66 (23.66%) Agile
6 60 (21.51%) RBAC
7 59 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (17.92%) Zero Trust
9 48 (17.20%) Containerisation
10 46 (16.49%) Technical Leadership
11 45 (16.13%) Test Automation
12 43 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (14.70%) Event-Driven
13 41 (14.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (13.62%) Roadmaps
15 36 (12.90%) Mentoring
16 34 (12.19%) Runbook
17 33 (11.83%) Observability
18 32 (11.47%) Analytics
18 32 (11.47%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (27.24%) Python
2 68 (24.37%) Java
3 52 (18.64%) PowerShell
4 38 (13.62%) JavaScript
5 30 (10.75%) TypeScript
6 27 (9.68%) SQL
7 23 (8.24%) C#
8 21 (7.53%) Bicep
9 10 (3.58%) Bash
9 10 (3.58%) Go
10 3 (1.08%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.72%) Cypher
11 2 (0.72%) Groovy
11 2 (0.72%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.36%) Lua
12 1 (0.36%) Perl
12 1 (0.36%) Scala
12 1 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.11%) Degree
4 20 (7.17%) CISSP
5 15 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (5.02%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (3.58%) CISM
10 9 (3.23%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.79%) CSPO
12 3 (1.08%) CEH
12 3 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.08%) MCSE
12 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.72%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (9.32%) NIST
3 24 (8.60%) GDPR
4 16 (5.73%) QA
5 15 (5.38%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.58%) Data Quality
6 10 (3.58%) NCSC
7 8 (2.87%) WCAG
8 6 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.79%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.72%) HL7
11 2 (0.72%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.72%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.72%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 84 (30.11%) Active Directory
2 43 (15.41%) Docker
3 3 (1.08%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.36%) Squid
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 64 (22.94%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (7.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (5.02%) Grafana
5 9 (3.23%) Argo
6 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.87%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.15%) Ansible
7 6 (2.15%) Istio
8 5 (1.79%) Kibana
8 5 (1.79%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.43%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.43%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.72%) Consul
10 2 (0.72%) Packer
10 2 (0.72%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.36%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.36%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.32%) Okta
3 17 (6.09%) ForgeRock
4 16 (5.73%) CyberArk
5 15 (5.38%) Dynatrace
5 15 (5.38%) Google
6 14 (5.02%) Ping Identity
6 14 (5.02%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.58%) Splunk
8 8 (2.87%) SAP
9 5 (1.79%) Denodo
9 5 (1.79%) Oracle
9 5 (1.79%) Workday
10 4 (1.43%) IBM
11 3 (1.08%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.08%) Cisco
11 3 (1.08%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.72%) Thycotic