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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 712 611
Rank change year-on-year +72 -101 +346
Permanent jobs citing OpenID 71 193 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 0.87% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 34 99 100
10th Percentile £64,750 £47,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £80,625 £53,346 £61,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,319 £61,000 £78,566
Median % change year-on-year +51.34% -22.36% +24.71%
75th Percentile £98,474 £72,500 £97,290
90th Percentile - £93,750 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £94,637 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +48.45% -1.92% +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 9,713 22,074 26,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 20.09% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 16,295 17,588
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £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%

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 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Top 11 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 13 June 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 +116 46 £90,000 +54.51% 111
UK excluding London +86 37 £94,637 +48.45% 80
London +102 34 £90,000 +56.54% 61
Scotland +61 25 £94,637 +45.60% 16
Work from Home +102 14 £94,637 +44.90% 47
South West +110 8 £95,000 +72.19% 4
North of England +70 3 £74,500 +35.03% 17
North West +25 2 £74,500 +35.03% 2
Midlands +73 1 £60,000 +4.36% 12
Yorkshire +62 1 - - 14
East Midlands +50 1 £60,000 +4.36% 6

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 (15.49%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.41%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.41%) JBoss
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (59.15%) Azure
2 31 (43.66%) AWS
3 18 (25.35%) GCP
4 14 (19.72%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (9.86%) Serverless
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.45%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.23%) SaaS
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) Kerberos
2 3 (4.23%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.82%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) MySQL
2 11 (15.49%) BigQuery
3 8 (11.27%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.45%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (8.45%) DynamoDB
4 6 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.63%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) webpack
2 6 (8.45%) Grunt
2 6 (8.45%) Jasmine
2 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.45%) Mocha
3 4 (5.63%) Git
3 4 (5.63%) GitLab
4 1 (1.41%) JIRA
4 1 (1.41%) rollup.js
General
1 47 (66.20%) Finance
2 27 (38.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (36.62%) Banking
4 21 (29.58%) Law
5 13 (18.31%) Marketing
6 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
7 6 (8.45%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Aviation
8 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.41%) Advertising
9 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (47.89%) Software Engineer
2 33 (46.48%) Lead
3 22 (30.99%) Senior
4 21 (29.58%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (16.90%) Architect
6 11 (15.49%) Lead Architect
6 11 (15.49%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 11 (15.49%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (14.08%) Java Engineer
7 10 (14.08%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (12.68%) Developer
9 8 (11.27%) Database Engineer
9 8 (11.27%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (9.86%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 7 (9.86%) Identity Management Engineer
10 7 (9.86%) React Developer
11 6 (8.45%) Associate Engineer
11 6 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (8.45%) AWS Software Engineer
11 6 (8.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (97.18%) OAuth
2 39 (54.93%) SAML
3 32 (45.07%) OAuth2
4 30 (42.25%) React
5 22 (30.99%) CSS
6 18 (25.35%) REST
7 17 (23.94%) Ajax
8 14 (19.72%) JWT
9 13 (18.31%) SailPoint
10 11 (15.49%) AngularJS
10 11 (15.49%) jQuery
11 9 (12.68%) LDAP
12 7 (9.86%) Enzyme
12 7 (9.86%) Jest
12 7 (9.86%) Next.js
12 7 (9.86%) Redux
12 7 (9.86%) Sass
12 7 (9.86%) SOAP
13 6 (8.45%) Material-UI
13 6 (8.45%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Public Cloud
2 12 (16.90%) Algorithms
2 12 (16.90%) Cloud Native
3 11 (15.49%) PKI
4 10 (14.08%) Data Structures
5 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
6 8 (11.27%) Private Cloud
7 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
8 4 (5.63%) AI Agents
9 3 (4.23%) Taxonomies
10 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.27%) Unix
2 5 (7.04%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.93%) Agile
2 35 (49.30%) Software Engineering
3 26 (36.62%) Analytics
4 18 (25.35%) CI/CD
4 18 (25.35%) Identity Access Management
5 16 (22.54%) SDLC
6 15 (21.13%) Data Analytics
6 15 (21.13%) Domain-Driven Design
6 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.72%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (19.72%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (18.31%) Containerisation
8 13 (18.31%) Microservices
8 13 (18.31%) Web Development
9 11 (15.49%) Content Management
9 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (15.49%) MVC
9 11 (15.49%) Software Deployment
9 11 (15.49%) TDD
9 11 (15.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.03%) JavaScript
2 24 (33.80%) Java
3 20 (28.17%) TypeScript
4 16 (22.54%) Python
4 16 (22.54%) SQL
5 9 (12.68%) Shell Script
6 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.45%) Go
7 6 (8.45%) Rust
8 4 (5.63%) C#
9 2 (2.82%) Groovy
9 2 (2.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) CISM
1 5 (7.04%) CISSP
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) Degree
3 2 (2.82%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) NIST
2 8 (11.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (29.58%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) NDS
Systems Management
1 30 (42.25%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (25.35%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.49%) Ansible
4 9 (12.68%) Terraform
5 5 (7.04%) QRadar
6 3 (4.23%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.82%) Argo
7 2 (2.82%) Graylog
8 1 (1.41%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.41%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.54%) ForgeRock
3 14 (19.72%) Google
4 7 (9.86%) Splunk
5 6 (8.45%) Facebook
6 5 (7.04%) Ping Identity
6 5 (7.04%) SolarWinds
7 4 (5.63%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.82%) Okta
9 1 (1.41%) Adobe
9 1 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.41%) NetIQ
9 1 (1.41%) Oracle