FIDO Alliance (FIDO2)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring FIDO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited FIDO over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 715 891 978
Rank change year-on-year +176 +87 +207
Permanent jobs citing FIDO 2 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.022% 0.014% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - - £68,250
25th Percentile £64,750 £56,625 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £58,250 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.90% -33.43% +34.62%
75th Percentile £84,250 £59,875 £104,375
90th Percentile - - £104,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,500 £58,250 -
% change year-on-year +27.90% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FIDO falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,266 21,085 30,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.81% 21.25% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,325 15,771 18,730
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,834
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

FIDO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FIDO in the UK

FIDO
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FIDO.

Salary trend for FIDO in the UK

FIDO
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FIDO within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +161 2 £74,500 +27.90%
England +147 1 £74,500 +27.90% 8
Scotland - 1 £74,500 -
North of England - 1 £74,500 -
North West - 1 £74,500 -

FIDO
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Defensive Programming
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ForgeRock
1 2 (100.00%) Ping Identity