OpenID Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 281 356
Rank change year-on-year +23 +75 +108
Contract jobs citing OpenID 46 64 122
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.42% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.79% 1.75% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 43 94
10th Percentile £410 £433 £430
25th Percentile £500 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £613 £560
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +9.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £603 £644 £649
90th Percentile £664 £760 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £620 £560
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OpenID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenID trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenID.

OpenID daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OpenID over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OpenID daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (50.00%) Azure
2 16 (34.78%) AWS
3 14 (30.43%) Entra ID
4 9 (19.57%) Serverless
5 7 (15.22%) GitHub
5 7 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.87%) Azure AKS
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (10.87%) SaaS
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.70%) IaaS
7 4 (8.70%) PaaS
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (6.52%) AWS KMS
8 3 (6.52%) Route 53
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.35%) Apigee
9 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) SSL
2 4 (8.70%) HTTPS
2 4 (8.70%) Kerberos
2 4 (8.70%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (6.52%) Firewall
3 3 (6.52%) IPsec
4 2 (4.35%) HTTP
5 1 (2.17%) DNS
5 1 (2.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) NoSQL
2 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
1 4 (8.70%) GitLab
1 4 (8.70%) NUnit
2 3 (6.52%) Maven
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) Mockito
4 1 (2.17%) Postman
4 1 (2.17%) Toad
General
1 10 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Advertising
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) Billing
6 1 (2.17%) Front Office
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Architect
3 7 (15.22%) .NET Developer
3 7 (15.22%) Senior
3 7 (15.22%) Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Python Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Python Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (10.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) AWS Specialist
5 4 (8.70%) C# Developer
5 4 (8.70%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) IAM Specialist
5 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (86.96%) OAuth
2 23 (50.00%) SAML
3 20 (43.48%) OAuth2
4 10 (21.74%) RESTful
5 8 (17.39%) Kafka
5 8 (17.39%) REST
6 7 (15.22%) .NET
7 6 (13.04%) .NET Core
7 6 (13.04%) ASP.NET
7 6 (13.04%) LDAP
7 6 (13.04%) Node.js
8 5 (10.87%) Keycloak
8 5 (10.87%) NumPy
8 5 (10.87%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (10.87%) Pandas
8 5 (10.87%) XACML
9 4 (8.70%) ARM Templates
9 4 (8.70%) JDBC
9 4 (8.70%) SOAP
9 4 (8.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (10.87%) PKI
4 4 (8.70%) Taxonomies
5 3 (6.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.17%) Life Science
7 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) Agile
2 22 (47.83%) DevOps
3 19 (41.30%) Identity Access Management
4 17 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.09%) CI/CD
6 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (21.74%) API Integration
7 10 (21.74%) Identity Management
7 10 (21.74%) Microservices
7 10 (21.74%) Scrum
8 8 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (17.39%) Event-Driven
8 8 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (17.39%) TDD
9 7 (15.22%) API Development
9 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
9 7 (15.22%) RBAC
9 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) Python
2 14 (30.43%) C#
3 12 (26.09%) Java
3 12 (26.09%) SQL
4 9 (19.57%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) OCP
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (15.22%) GDPR
3 5 (10.87%) QA
4 4 (8.70%) Accessibility
4 4 (8.70%) HIPAA
5 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (6.52%) NIST
6 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (2.17%) NCSC
7 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (2.17%) SLA
7 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Docker
2 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.52%) RACF
Systems Management
1 22 (47.83%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (41.30%) Terraform
3 18 (39.13%) Kubernetes
4 9 (19.57%) Ansible
5 3 (6.52%) MIIS
5 3 (6.52%) Packer
6 1 (2.17%) Argo
6 1 (2.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Okta
1 8 (17.39%) Ping Identity
2 4 (8.70%) ForgeRock
3 3 (6.52%) IBM
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.17%) Confluent
5 1 (2.17%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.17%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Talend