OpenID Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring OpenID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 109 113
Rank change year-on-year -21 +4 -
Contract jobs citing OpenID 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 0.59% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile £500 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £562 £438 -
90th Percentile £565 - -
England median daily rate £475 £575 £631
% change year-on-year -17.39% -8.91% -2.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 410 340 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.43% 17.96% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 183 214
10th Percentile £368 £375 £325
25th Percentile £443 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £601 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £735 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £30.63
90th Percentile - £68.98 £38.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

OpenID job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OpenID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OpenID

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Shropshire - 5 £540 - 1
Warwickshire -3 1 £500 +17.65%
OpenID
England

OpenID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Maven
1 5 (83.33%) Mockito
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) OAuth
1 6 (100.00%) OAuth2
2 5 (83.33%) Gherkin
2 5 (83.33%) GraalVM
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) JDBC
2 5 (83.33%) JPA
2 5 (83.33%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) Playwright
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) LDAP
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) SAML
3 1 (16.67%) Spring.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Coaching
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) OO
2 5 (83.33%) OOD
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Grafana
1 5 (83.33%) Kibana
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ForgeRock
2 1 (16.67%) Ping Identity