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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 711 651
Rank change year-on-year +66 -60 +315
Permanent jobs citing OpenID 57 197 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.92% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 31 106 97
10th Percentile £64,750 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £53,346 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% -21.88% +25.98%
75th Percentile £98,474 £79,688 £97,290
90th Percentile - £93,750 £104,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £94,637 £65,620 £65,000
% change year-on-year +44.22% +0.95% +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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -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 31 May 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 31 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 +101 36 £90,000 +44.00% 70
UK excluding London +65 31 £94,637 +44.22% 32
London +95 26 £90,000 +56.54% 41
Scotland +63 21 £94,637 +26.18% 3
Work from Home +79 14 £94,637 +45.60% 30
South West +104 6 £87,500 +58.59% 6
North of England +26 3 £74,500 +35.03% 6
North West -2 2 £74,500 +35.03% 5
Midlands +60 1 £60,000 +4.36% 10
Yorkshire +51 1 - -
East Midlands +42 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 (19.30%) Umbraco
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) CMS
3 1 (1.75%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.75%) JBoss
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (57.89%) Azure
2 20 (35.09%) AWS
3 15 (26.32%) GCP
4 11 (19.30%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (8.77%) Serverless
7 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.26%) SaaS
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) Kerberos
2 3 (5.26%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.51%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) BigQuery
2 6 (10.53%) MySQL
3 4 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.02%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.51%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) webpack
2 6 (10.53%) Grunt
2 6 (10.53%) Jasmine
2 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.53%) Mocha
3 4 (7.02%) Git
3 4 (7.02%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) JIRA
4 1 (1.75%) rollup.js
General
1 36 (63.16%) Finance
2 21 (36.84%) Banking
3 16 (28.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (17.54%) Law
5 7 (12.28%) Marketing
5 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
6 6 (10.53%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Aviation
7 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.75%) Advertising
8 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (45.61%) Lead
2 23 (40.35%) Software Engineer
3 15 (26.32%) Senior
4 14 (24.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (21.05%) Architect
6 11 (19.30%) Lead Architect
6 11 (19.30%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 11 (19.30%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (15.79%) Developer
8 7 (12.28%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 7 (12.28%) Identity Management Engineer
8 7 (12.28%) React Developer
9 6 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (10.53%) Lead Developer
10 5 (8.77%) Java Engineer
10 5 (8.77%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (7.02%) Database Engineer
11 4 (7.02%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (7.02%) Team Leader
12 3 (5.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (96.49%) OAuth
2 33 (57.89%) SAML
3 25 (43.86%) React
4 24 (42.11%) OAuth2
5 22 (38.60%) CSS
6 17 (29.82%) Ajax
7 14 (24.56%) REST
8 12 (21.05%) JWT
9 11 (19.30%) AngularJS
9 11 (19.30%) jQuery
10 10 (17.54%) SailPoint
11 9 (15.79%) LDAP
12 7 (12.28%) Enzyme
12 7 (12.28%) Jest
12 7 (12.28%) Next.js
12 7 (12.28%) Redux
12 7 (12.28%) Sass
12 7 (12.28%) SOAP
13 6 (10.53%) Chai
13 6 (10.53%) Semantic UI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) PKI
2 8 (14.04%) Public Cloud
3 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
4 6 (10.53%) Algorithms
4 6 (10.53%) Data Structures
5 5 (8.77%) Onboarding
5 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
6 4 (7.02%) Private Cloud
7 3 (5.26%) Taxonomies
8 2 (3.51%) AI Agents
8 2 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Windows
1 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
2 4 (7.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) Agile
2 24 (42.11%) Software Engineering
3 21 (36.84%) Analytics
4 16 (28.07%) CI/CD
5 15 (26.32%) Identity Access Management
6 14 (24.56%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (22.81%) Data Analytics
7 13 (22.81%) Domain-Driven Design
7 13 (22.81%) Web Development
8 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
8 11 (19.30%) Content Management
8 11 (19.30%) MVC
8 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (19.30%) Software Deployment
9 10 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (15.79%) Microservices
11 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (14.04%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 27 (47.37%) JavaScript
2 17 (29.82%) Java
3 16 (28.07%) TypeScript
4 10 (17.54%) Python
4 10 (17.54%) SQL
5 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.77%) Shell Script
7 4 (7.02%) C#
7 4 (7.02%) Rust
8 3 (5.26%) Go
9 2 (3.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) CISM
1 5 (8.77%) CISSP
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Degree
3 2 (3.51%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) NIST
2 5 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (29.82%) Docker
2 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) NDS
Systems Management
1 28 (49.12%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (24.56%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.28%) Ansible
3 7 (12.28%) Terraform
4 5 (8.77%) QRadar
5 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.51%) Argo
6 2 (3.51%) Graylog
7 1 (1.75%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.75%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 21 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.81%) ForgeRock
3 7 (12.28%) Google
3 7 (12.28%) Splunk
4 5 (8.77%) Ping Identity
4 5 (8.77%) SolarWinds
5 3 (5.26%) Facebook
6 2 (3.51%) Okta
6 2 (3.51%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.75%) Adobe
7 1 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.75%) NetIQ
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle