OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring OpenID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 602 666
Rank change year-on-year +23 +64 -11
Permanent jobs citing OpenID 136 45 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.51% 0.52% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 40 31 119
10th Percentile £56,500 £64,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £53,346
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £90,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% +38.46% -18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £98,474 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 - £100,064
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £94,637 £70,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +35.20% +7.69%

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 9,005 8,699 20,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 19.99% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,614 6,119 15,728
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,063 £50,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenID relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

OpenID job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenID
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenID

OpenID
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenID over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Top 13 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 15 May 2026. 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 +23 95 £76,250 -4.69% 42
Work from Home +106 89 £73,750 -22.07% 17
UK excluding London -14 67 £66,250 -30.00% 26
London +10 56 £92,500 +2.78% 17
Scotland +8 28 - -
North of England -23 13 £80,000 +7.38% 7
South West -44 13 £45,000 -43.75% 3
South East -12 10 £66,250 +32.50% 12
North West +6 9 £80,000 +7.38% 6
Yorkshire -50 4 £62,500 - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
Wales - 1 £42,000 - 1

OpenID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.62%) Palantir Foundry
2 6 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.21%) Confluence
5 2 (1.47%) Apache
5 2 (1.47%) IIS
5 2 (1.47%) JBoss
5 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.47%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (69.12%) Azure
2 80 (58.82%) Entra ID
3 53 (38.97%) Google Workspace
4 28 (20.59%) AWS
5 18 (13.24%) SaaS
6 10 (7.35%) GCP
7 8 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.15%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.15%) Serverless
9 6 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.41%) GitHub
9 6 (4.41%) PaaS
10 5 (3.68%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.94%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.94%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.94%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 52 (38.24%) Broadband
2 14 (10.29%) Kerberos
3 13 (9.56%) Firewall
4 12 (8.82%) Network Security
5 10 (7.35%) DNS
6 7 (5.15%) DHCP
7 4 (2.94%) LTE
8 3 (2.21%) SSL
9 2 (1.47%) BGP
9 2 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.47%) VPN
10 1 (0.74%) DKIM
10 1 (0.74%) DMARC
10 1 (0.74%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.74%) DTS
5 1 (0.74%) Redis
5 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Git
2 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.94%) GitLab
3 4 (2.94%) JIRA
4 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.47%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.47%) NUnit
4 2 (1.47%) Selenium
4 2 (1.47%) Subversion
4 2 (1.47%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.74%) Moq
General
1 52 (38.24%) Organisational Skills
2 49 (36.03%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.59%) Games
4 22 (16.18%) Finance
5 9 (6.62%) Law
6 6 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Legal
8 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.47%) Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (30.88%) Senior
2 32 (23.53%) Architect
3 31 (22.79%) Developer
4 18 (13.24%) IAM Developer
5 17 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (11.03%) Consultant
7 14 (10.29%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.62%) Senior Architect
9 8 (5.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Systems Developer
10 7 (5.15%) Identity Management Architect
10 7 (5.15%) Security Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.41%) Azure Architect
11 6 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.68%) Senior Consultant
12 5 (3.68%) Senior Manager
12 5 (3.68%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (88.24%) OAuth
2 103 (75.74%) SAML
3 73 (53.68%) REST
4 66 (48.53%) LDAP
5 54 (39.71%) SOAP
6 52 (38.24%) GraphQL
7 24 (17.65%) OAuth2
8 9 (6.62%) RESTful
9 8 (5.88%) .NET
9 8 (5.88%) Node.js
10 6 (4.41%) CSS
10 6 (4.41%) HTML
10 6 (4.41%) React
11 5 (3.68%) ASP.NET
11 5 (3.68%) JWT
11 5 (3.68%) Vue
12 3 (2.21%) Flask
12 3 (2.21%) HTML5
12 3 (2.21%) SailPoint
13 2 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 57 (41.91%) Cyberattack
2 52 (38.24%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (7.35%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.62%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.88%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (4.41%) PKI
7 5 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.21%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.74%) IoT
11 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.56%) Windows
2 9 (6.62%) Linux
3 5 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.21%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (55.88%) Roadmaps
2 75 (55.15%) Identity Access Management
3 71 (52.21%) Cybersecurity
4 69 (50.74%) Mentoring
5 57 (41.91%) Programme Delivery
6 52 (38.24%) Regulatory Compliance
7 44 (32.35%) RBAC
8 32 (23.53%) CI/CD
9 29 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (17.65%) Change Control
10 24 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (13.24%) Privileged Access Management
12 18 (13.24%) Zero Trust
13 17 (12.50%) AI
13 17 (12.50%) DevOps
14 16 (11.76%) Test Automation
15 15 (11.03%) Agile
15 15 (11.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 15 (11.03%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 85 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 55 (40.44%) Bash
3 53 (38.97%) T-SQL
4 29 (21.32%) SQL
5 26 (19.12%) Python
6 14 (10.29%) Java
7 8 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.15%) C#
9 5 (3.68%) Bicep
10 4 (2.94%) Scala
10 4 (2.94%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.47%) Delphi
11 2 (1.47%) Go
11 2 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.47%) VB
11 2 (1.47%) VB6
12 1 (0.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (19.12%) CISSP
2 16 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 15 (11.03%) Degree
4 11 (8.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.68%) GIAC
6 5 (3.68%) ISACA
6 5 (3.68%) SANS
6 5 (3.68%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.21%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.74%) CISM
10 1 (0.74%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (41.91%) NIST
2 53 (38.97%) NCSC
3 28 (20.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (6.62%) Data Quality
5 8 (5.88%) SLA
6 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.94%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.47%) HL7
8 1 (0.74%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 78 (57.35%) Active Directory
2 16 (11.76%) Docker
3 2 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.74%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.74%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.74%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 44 (32.35%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (11.03%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.29%) Terraform
4 7 (5.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (3.68%) Ansible
6 4 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.47%) MIIS
7 2 (1.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 41 (30.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.56%) Okta
3 10 (7.35%) Foundry
4 9 (6.62%) Palantir
5 6 (4.41%) ForgeRock
5 6 (4.41%) Google
6 4 (2.94%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.21%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.21%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.47%) Cognizant
8 2 (1.47%) New Relic
8 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.47%) Splunk
8 2 (1.47%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.74%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.74%) Sparx
9 1 (0.74%) webMethods