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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 393 439
Rank change year-on-year +2 +46 +103
Contract jobs citing OpenID 264 145 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.48% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.66% 2.12% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 98 83
10th Percentile £403 £404 £425
25th Percentile £497 £440 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -10.20% +8.89%
75th Percentile £700 £636 £694
90th Percentile £850 £676 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £447 £593
% change year-on-year +26.40% -24.56% +7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £88.87 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.46 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +49.92% - -

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 9,907 6,842 9,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.53% 22.85% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,502 4,663 6,379
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 131 280
10th Percentile £30.15 £29.07 £22.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.45 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
% change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -12.12%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +3 228 £563 +3.50% 51
UK excluding London -39 118 £565 +26.40% 29
London -10 112 £550 -12.35% 29
Work from Home -2 98 £550 +8.00% 27
North of England -38 56 £588 +19.41% 10
South East -30 36 £750 +30.43% 12
Yorkshire -32 34 £598 +36.10% 4
North West -26 20 £631 +20.19% 5
Midlands -59 10 £438 +5.42%
South West -35 8 £550 +23.04% 3
Scotland -8 6 £550 -8.33% 1
East Midlands -26 5 £438 +6.06%
West Midlands -55 4 £350 -41.96%
North East - 3 £469 - 1
East of England - 2 £555 - 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 16 (6.06%) Confluence
2 9 (3.41%) nginx
3 8 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.14%) Apache
5 3 (1.14%) IIS
5 3 (1.14%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.14%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 142 (53.79%) Azure
2 119 (45.08%) AWS
3 92 (34.85%) Entra ID
4 59 (22.35%) GCP
5 45 (17.05%) Serverless
6 25 (9.47%) SaaS
7 24 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 22 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (8.33%) GitHub
8 22 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.82%) OpenShift
9 18 (6.82%) Route 53
10 16 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (4.92%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.50%) DNS
2 23 (8.71%) Firewall
3 18 (6.82%) Kerberos
4 12 (4.55%) SSL
4 12 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.79%) VPN
6 9 (3.41%) OpenVPN
7 6 (2.27%) Network Security
8 5 (1.89%) DHCP
8 5 (1.89%) IPsec
8 5 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.52%) HTTP
10 3 (1.14%) NGFW
11 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.38%) Internet
11 1 (0.38%) SSH
11 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.03%) Redis
5 8 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.89%) Data Vault
7 5 (1.89%) Power BI
7 5 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (1.89%) Star Schema
8 4 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.52%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.52%) Metadata
8 4 (1.52%) MySQL
8 4 (1.52%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.14%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 31 (11.74%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.85%) JIRA
3 20 (7.58%) GitLab
4 18 (6.82%) Git
5 8 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.65%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.27%) Gatling
7 6 (2.27%) JMeter
8 5 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.89%) Postman
8 5 (1.89%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.89%) Selenium
9 4 (1.52%) git-flow
9 4 (1.52%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.52%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (1.14%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.38%) Gradle
12 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 75 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.86%) Finance
3 34 (12.88%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
5 25 (9.47%) Banking
6 15 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.03%) Military
8 8 (3.03%) Retail
9 4 (1.52%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.14%) Legal
11 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 96 (36.36%) Architect
2 41 (15.53%) Developer
3 31 (11.74%) Senior
4 29 (10.98%) Technical Architect
5 24 (9.09%) Lead
6 16 (6.06%) AWS Architect
7 12 (4.55%) CyberArk Architect
7 12 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (4.55%) IAM Specialist
7 12 (4.55%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (3.79%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.03%) IAM Developer
11 7 (2.65%) Analyst
11 7 (2.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.65%) Lead Architect
11 7 (2.65%) Technical Leader
12 6 (2.27%) Senior Architect
12 6 (2.27%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (79.92%) OAuth
2 162 (61.36%) SAML
3 137 (51.89%) OAuth2
4 85 (32.20%) LDAP
5 53 (20.08%) REST
6 38 (14.39%) SailPoint
7 34 (12.88%) RESTful
8 24 (9.09%) Kafka
9 23 (8.71%) .NET
9 23 (8.71%) JWT
10 22 (8.33%) Node.js
10 22 (8.33%) React
11 18 (6.82%) Web Services
12 17 (6.44%) JSON
13 16 (6.06%) Spring
13 16 (6.06%) Spring Boot
14 15 (5.68%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (5.30%) AngularJS
16 10 (3.79%) Playwright
16 10 (3.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (27.65%) Cloud Native
2 44 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 22 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (7.95%) PKI
5 18 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.17%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.03%) IoT
8 8 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.03%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.27%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.89%) Clustering
11 5 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.89%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.14%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.30%) Linux
1 14 (5.30%) Windows
2 5 (1.89%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.52%) Android
3 4 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.76%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (44.70%) CI/CD
2 109 (41.29%) DevOps
3 70 (26.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 65 (24.62%) RBAC
6 63 (23.86%) Microservices
7 50 (18.94%) Agile
8 49 (18.56%) Containerisation
9 45 (17.05%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (17.05%) Event-Driven
10 42 (15.91%) Roadmaps
11 41 (15.53%) Secrets Management
12 40 (15.15%) Observability
12 40 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (15.15%) Zero Trust
13 37 (14.02%) Test Automation
14 36 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (12.88%) Design Patterns
16 33 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 32 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 67 (25.38%) Java
2 59 (22.35%) Python
3 40 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 39 (14.77%) SQL
5 29 (10.98%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.71%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.44%) Bicep
8 15 (5.68%) C#
9 8 (3.03%) Go
10 7 (2.65%) Bash
11 5 (1.89%) Scala
12 4 (1.52%) Cypher
12 4 (1.52%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.76%) Groovy
14 2 (0.76%) PHP
14 2 (0.76%) Swift
15 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 86 (32.58%) Security Cleared
2 72 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.33%) CISSP
4 20 (7.58%) Degree
5 15 (5.68%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.41%) CISM
8 8 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.89%) CSPO
10 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.52%) GIAC
11 3 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.76%) CEH
12 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.76%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (14.77%) NIST
3 21 (7.95%) GDPR
3 21 (7.95%) NCSC
4 19 (7.20%) QA
5 10 (3.79%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.03%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.65%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.52%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.52%) GRC
10 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.14%) ISO 20022
10 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.14%) SEPA
10 3 (1.14%) WCAG
11 2 (0.76%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.76%) PSD2
12 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 68 (25.76%) Active Directory
2 44 (16.67%) Docker
3 9 (3.41%) Squid
4 5 (1.89%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (1.89%) RACF
5 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.38%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (28.79%) Kubernetes
2 74 (28.03%) Terraform
3 70 (26.52%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (7.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (7.58%) Grafana
5 20 (7.58%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.79%) Ansible
7 9 (3.41%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.03%) Consul
9 7 (2.65%) Argo
10 6 (2.27%) Istio
11 5 (1.89%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.52%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.52%) linkerd
12 4 (1.52%) PingFederate
12 4 (1.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.38%) FreeIPA
13 1 (0.38%) Packer
13 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (32.95%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.61%) Okta
3 27 (10.23%) CyberArk
4 26 (9.85%) ServiceNow
5 19 (7.20%) Splunk
6 17 (6.44%) Google
7 16 (6.06%) Ping Identity
8 14 (5.30%) ForgeRock
9 13 (4.92%) Dynatrace
10 10 (3.79%) Red Hat
11 8 (3.03%) SAP
12 7 (2.65%) Atlassian
13 6 (2.27%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.89%) Denodo
14 5 (1.89%) Workday
15 4 (1.52%) Oracle
16 3 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
16 3 (1.14%) IBM
17 2 (0.76%) Sparx
17 2 (0.76%) Thycotic