OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 650 662 680
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 +250
Permanent jobs citing OpenID 42 236 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 1.12% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 28 117 124
10th Percentile £64,075 £52,500 £49,875
25th Percentile £73,438 £53,346 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -18.75% +25.98%
75th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £97,342
90th Percentile - £100,064 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £94,637 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +35.20% +7.69% +18.18%

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 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 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
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% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £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%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenID over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +56 27 £78,250 +25.20% 131
UK excluding London +40 23 £94,637 +35.20% 105
London +95 19 £79,000 +26.40% 40
Work from Home +150 16 £94,637 +45.60% 40
Scotland +66 15 £94,637 +8.16% 6
South West +70 5 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North of England +61 2 £74,500 -3.87% 21
South East +79 1 £50,000 -45.95% 24
Yorkshire +65 1 - - 9
North West +22 1 £74,500 -9.77% 10

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 11 (26.19%) Umbraco
2 3 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) Entra ID
2 11 (26.19%) GCP
3 8 (19.05%) AWS
3 8 (19.05%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.38%) Figma
6 1 (2.38%) IaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.38%) PaaS
6 1 (2.38%) SaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) Kerberos
2 2 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) BigQuery
2 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) GIS
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) webpack
2 6 (14.29%) Grunt
2 6 (14.29%) Jasmine
2 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.29%) Mocha
3 5 (11.90%) Git
4 4 (9.52%) GitLab
5 3 (7.14%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) rollup.js
General
1 27 (64.29%) Finance
2 17 (40.48%) Banking
3 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (14.29%) Retail Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.38%) Aviation
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Lead
2 12 (28.57%) Architect
3 11 (26.19%) Lead Architect
3 11 (26.19%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 11 (26.19%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (21.43%) Developer
5 8 (19.05%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 8 (19.05%) Identity Management Engineer
6 7 (16.67%) React Developer
6 7 (16.67%) Software Engineer
7 6 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (14.29%) Lead Developer
8 5 (11.90%) Senior
9 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) .NET Software Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 2 (4.76%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 2 (4.76%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 2 (4.76%) Team Leader
10 2 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (97.62%) OAuth
2 28 (66.67%) SAML
3 22 (52.38%) CSS
4 21 (50.00%) React
5 17 (40.48%) Ajax
6 14 (33.33%) OAuth2
7 11 (26.19%) AngularJS
7 11 (26.19%) jQuery
7 11 (26.19%) REST
8 10 (23.81%) JWT
9 9 (21.43%) LDAP
10 7 (16.67%) Enzyme
10 7 (16.67%) Jest
10 7 (16.67%) Next.js
10 7 (16.67%) Redux
10 7 (16.67%) SailPoint
10 7 (16.67%) Sass
10 7 (16.67%) Vue
11 6 (14.29%) LESS
11 6 (14.29%) Semantic UI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 7 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
1 5 (11.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Agile
2 16 (38.10%) Analytics
3 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 13 (30.95%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (30.95%) Domain-Driven Design
4 13 (30.95%) Web Development
5 11 (26.19%) Content Management
5 11 (26.19%) Data Analytics
5 11 (26.19%) Identity Access Management
5 11 (26.19%) MVC
5 11 (26.19%) Software Deployment
6 10 (23.81%) Identity Management
6 10 (23.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 10 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (21.43%) Design Patterns
7 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (21.43%) RBAC
8 8 (19.05%) Business Case
8 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
8 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) JavaScript
2 10 (23.81%) TypeScript
3 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 7 (16.67%) SQL
5 6 (14.29%) Java
6 4 (9.52%) C#
7 2 (4.76%) Delphi
7 2 (4.76%) Groovy
7 2 (4.76%) Rust
8 1 (2.38%) Python
8 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) CISM
1 5 (11.90%) CISSP
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) NDS
Systems Management
1 24 (57.14%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
3 7 (16.67%) Terraform
4 5 (11.90%) QRadar
5 2 (4.76%) Ansible
5 2 (4.76%) Argo
5 2 (4.76%) Graylog
5 2 (4.76%) MIIS
5 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.38%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 21 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) Splunk
3 6 (14.29%) ForgeRock
4 5 (11.90%) SolarWinds
5 4 (9.52%) Ping Identity
6 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.76%) Google
7 1 (2.38%) Adobe
7 1 (2.38%) Mapbox
7 1 (2.38%) NetIQ
7 1 (2.38%) Okta