OpenID Contracts with Work from Home Options

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for OpenID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenID over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 345 477
Rank change year-on-year +61 +132 -89
Contract jobs citing OpenID 65 121 143
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 1.90% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 91 107
10th Percentile £450 £430 £477
25th Percentile £506 £458 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -6.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £663 £649 £700
90th Percentile £760 £700 £770
UK median daily rate £620 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

OpenID is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,613 6,357 13,117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.19% 25.24% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,530 4,729 9,676
10th Percentile £337 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £644
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 81 123
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.50 £21.20
25th Percentile - £43.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

OpenID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenID trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing OpenID over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

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 3 (4.62%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) AWS
2 16 (24.62%) Azure
3 15 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.77%) PaaS
5 6 (9.23%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (9.23%) IaaS
5 6 (9.23%) SaaS
5 6 (9.23%) Serverless
6 5 (7.69%) Apigee
7 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.15%) GCP
8 3 (4.62%) Azure API Management
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) HTTP
1 5 (7.69%) Kerberos
2 3 (4.62%) Internet
2 3 (4.62%) SSH
3 2 (3.08%) SSL
4 1 (1.54%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.92%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.15%) MySQL
4 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) GitLab
2 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.08%) gulp
3 2 (3.08%) Maven
4 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.54%) Gatling
4 1 (1.54%) Git
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.77%) Finance
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.54%) German Language
5 1 (1.54%) Marketing
5 1 (1.54%) Retail
5 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (43.08%) Architect
2 17 (26.15%) Developer
3 8 (12.31%) ForgeRock Architect
4 6 (9.23%) Consultant
4 6 (9.23%) Security Architect
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Architect
5 4 (6.15%) Technical Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Developer
6 3 (4.62%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) IAM Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) IAM Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Java Scala Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Scala Developer
7 2 (3.08%) C# Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Designer
7 2 (3.08%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Product Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (80.00%) OAuth
2 49 (75.38%) SAML
3 16 (24.62%) REST
4 14 (21.54%) OAuth2
5 13 (20.00%) LDAP
6 12 (18.46%) .NET
6 12 (18.46%) RESTful
7 10 (15.38%) Web Services
8 8 (12.31%) JSON
8 8 (12.31%) Node.js
9 7 (10.77%) SOAP
10 6 (9.23%) AngularJS
10 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (9.23%) SailPoint
10 6 (9.23%) XACML
11 4 (6.15%) React
11 4 (6.15%) XML
12 3 (4.62%) ARM Templates
12 3 (4.62%) OpenAPI
12 3 (4.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Clustering
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) IoT
5 1 (1.54%) NHS
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
5 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Unix
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) Android
3 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Identity Access Management
2 21 (32.31%) Identity Management
3 15 (23.08%) Agile
4 10 (15.38%) DevOps
4 10 (15.38%) Scrum
4 10 (15.38%) Use Case
5 9 (13.85%) B2C
5 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.31%) API Design
6 8 (12.31%) E-Commerce
6 8 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.77%) Test Automation
7 7 (10.77%) User Experience
8 6 (9.23%) Cloud Security
8 6 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (9.23%) Migration
8 6 (9.23%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 6 (9.23%) Product Management
9 5 (7.69%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) JavaScript
2 17 (26.15%) Java
3 12 (18.46%) Python
4 11 (16.92%) SQL
5 6 (9.23%) C#
5 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.15%) Scala
7 1 (1.54%) BeanShell
7 1 (1.54%) Groovy
7 1 (1.54%) PHP
7 1 (1.54%) Ruby
7 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) Degree
3 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.54%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.54%) HL7
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.15%) Docker
3 2 (3.08%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.54%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 24 (36.92%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.23%) PingFederate
4 5 (7.69%) Ansible
5 2 (3.08%) Terraform
6 1 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.54%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) ForgeRock
2 11 (16.92%) Okta
3 8 (12.31%) Ping Identity
4 6 (9.23%) CyberArk
4 6 (9.23%) MuleSoft
5 5 (7.69%) Google
5 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.69%) Oracle
6 4 (6.15%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (6.15%) Zscaler
7 3 (4.62%) IBM
7 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.08%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.54%) Adobe
9 1 (1.54%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.54%) SAP
9 1 (1.54%) Sitecore