OpenID Contracts

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenID over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 444 529
Rank change year-on-year +36 +85 +98
Contract jobs citing OpenID 116 157 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 1.77% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 102 131
10th Percentile £422 £439 £430
25th Percentile £464 £516 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £620 £560
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £641 £750 £649
90th Percentile £691 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 6,670 8,884 13,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.74% 20.58% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,578 6,170 10,017
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £782 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 238 152
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.61 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.90% +28.43%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenID.

Daily rate trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenID.

Hourly rate trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Top 13 Contract 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 May 2025. 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 +44 93 £572 -4.75% 125
London +31 53 £638 - 36
Work from Home +30 48 £537 -12.33% 45
UK excluding London +20 33 £475 -13.64% 102
North of England +11 14 £509 +13.00% 18
South West +43 11 £447 - 15
North West +9 9 £525 +16.67% 9
Yorkshire +15 5 £469 -10.67% 7
Midlands +9 5 £440 -29.11% 25
South East +31 4 £575 +15.00% 23
East Midlands 0 4 £440 -29.11% 13
Scotland -4 2 £600 -17.24% 5
West Midlands - 1 £603 - 11

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.17%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.72%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (4.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (50.86%) Azure
2 42 (36.21%) Entra ID
3 37 (31.90%) AWS
4 17 (14.66%) GitHub
4 17 (14.66%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (13.79%) Azure AKS
5 16 (13.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (12.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (12.07%) Serverless
8 8 (6.90%) OCI
9 7 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (6.03%) IaaS
9 7 (6.03%) PaaS
9 7 (6.03%) SaaS
10 5 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.31%) Lucidchart
11 4 (3.45%) AWS KMS
11 4 (3.45%) Azure API Management
11 4 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.62%) DNS
2 9 (7.76%) Kerberos
3 6 (5.17%) HTTPS
3 6 (5.17%) SSL
4 5 (4.31%) Firewall
4 5 (4.31%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (2.59%) IPsec
6 2 (1.72%) HTTP
7 1 (0.86%) FTP
7 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.72%) Redis
6 1 (0.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (12.07%) Git
2 7 (6.03%) JIRA
3 6 (5.17%) GitLab
4 4 (3.45%) NUnit
5 3 (2.59%) Maven
6 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.86%) Mockito
7 1 (0.86%) Postman
7 1 (0.86%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.86%) Toad
General
1 24 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 18 (15.52%) Finance
3 17 (14.66%) Social Skills
4 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Banking
6 2 (1.72%) French Language
6 2 (1.72%) Retail
7 1 (0.86%) Advertising
7 1 (0.86%) Automotive
7 1 (0.86%) Billing
7 1 (0.86%) Front Office
7 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (29.31%) Architect
2 24 (20.69%) Developer
3 14 (12.07%) Software Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Security Architect
5 10 (8.62%) Python Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) AWS Specialist
6 9 (7.76%) IAM Specialist
7 8 (6.90%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Senior
8 6 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.31%) Analyst
9 5 (4.31%) C# Developer
9 5 (4.31%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (86.21%) OAuth
2 65 (56.03%) SAML
3 39 (33.62%) OAuth2
4 19 (16.38%) Kafka
5 18 (15.52%) REST
6 15 (12.93%) LDAP
7 14 (12.07%) RESTful
8 13 (11.21%) SailPoint
9 10 (8.62%) .NET
9 10 (8.62%) FastAPI
9 10 (8.62%) Node.js
10 9 (7.76%) NumPy
10 9 (7.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (7.76%) Pandas
11 8 (6.90%) ASP.NET
11 8 (6.90%) SOAP
11 8 (6.90%) Spring
12 7 (6.03%) .NET Core
12 7 (6.03%) React
12 7 (6.03%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.66%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (11.21%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.34%) PKI
4 11 (9.48%) Onboarding
5 8 (6.90%) Management Information System
6 7 (6.03%) Security Posture
6 7 (6.03%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.59%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.86%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.86%) Life Science
9 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.86%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (49.14%) Identity Access Management
2 40 (34.48%) DevOps
3 37 (31.90%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (29.31%) Agile
5 28 (24.14%) Identity Management
6 25 (21.55%) RBAC
7 23 (19.83%) CI/CD
8 21 (18.10%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 16 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (13.79%) Microservices
10 15 (12.93%) API Integration
10 15 (12.93%) Test Automation
11 14 (12.07%) Containerisation
11 14 (12.07%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.07%) Scrum
11 14 (12.07%) Software Engineering
12 13 (11.21%) Migration
12 13 (11.21%) Performance Testing
13 11 (9.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (9.48%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 56 (48.28%) Python
2 35 (30.17%) C#
3 30 (25.86%) Java
4 21 (18.10%) PowerShell
5 18 (15.52%) JavaScript
6 17 (14.66%) SQL
7 2 (1.72%) Bash
7 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.72%) Ruby
7 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.86%) Bicep
8 1 (0.86%) VBScript
8 1 (0.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (32.76%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.76%) Degree
4 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.03%) OCP
4 7 (6.03%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.59%) CISSP
5 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 16 (13.79%) GDPR
3 13 (11.21%) HIPAA
3 13 (11.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (9.48%) NIST
5 7 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (4.31%) QA
7 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.72%) NCSC
9 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.86%) SLA
9 1 (0.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 16 (13.79%) Docker
3 3 (2.59%) OpenAM
3 3 (2.59%) RACF
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (43.97%) Single Sign-On
2 33 (28.45%) Kubernetes
2 33 (28.45%) Terraform
3 14 (12.07%) Ansible
4 10 (8.62%) MIIS
5 3 (2.59%) Packer
5 3 (2.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (1.72%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 1 (0.86%) Argo
Vendors
1 21 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (16.38%) Okta
2 19 (16.38%) Ping Identity
3 11 (9.48%) Oracle
4 10 (8.62%) ForgeRock
5 6 (5.17%) IBM
6 3 (2.59%) Google
6 3 (2.59%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.72%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.72%) SAP
8 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.86%) Confluent
8 1 (0.86%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.86%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.86%) NetIQ
8 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.86%) Splunk
8 1 (0.86%) Talend