OpenID Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OpenID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenID over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 399 432
Rank change year-on-year +77 +33 -45
Contract jobs citing OpenID 63 47 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.20% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.93% 1.12% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 49
10th Percentile £425 £423 £422
25th Percentile £450 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £575 £603
90th Percentile £653 £623 £800
UK median daily rate £620 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

OpenID is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,257 4,182 6,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.03% 18.20% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,139 3,127 4,316
10th Percentile £324 £352 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 87 146
10th Percentile £21.88 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.49 £79.19 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in the UK excluding London

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenID in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenID in the UK excluding London

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the UK excluding London

OpenID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenID in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenID in the UK excluding London

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +45 16 £620 +18.10% 2
East Midlands +28 16 £620 +18.10% 2
Scotland +57 15 £725 +45.00% 2
North of England +38 15 £488 -7.14% 1
South East +19 12 £500 +5.26% 9
Yorkshire +20 9 £525 - 1
North West +22 6 £450 -14.29%
South West -11 4 - - 4
Wales +8 1 £425 -
OpenID
UK

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.57%) AWS
2 11 (17.46%) Azure
3 10 (15.87%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.35%) GCP
5 4 (6.35%) OCI
6 3 (4.76%) Apigee
6 3 (4.76%) Azure API Management
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.76%) Serverless
7 1 (1.59%) PaaS
7 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) Kerberos
2 3 (4.76%) SSL
3 2 (3.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.35%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.52%) Bitbucket
2 6 (9.52%) Git
3 4 (6.35%) GitLab
3 4 (6.35%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.76%) gulp
4 3 (4.76%) Maven
5 1 (1.59%) JIRA
5 1 (1.59%) VersionOne
General
1 17 (26.98%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.35%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (42.86%) Architect
2 21 (33.33%) Developer
3 12 (19.05%) ForgeRock Architect
4 4 (6.35%) Consultant
4 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) IAM Consultant
5 3 (4.76%) Designer
5 3 (4.76%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) IAM Developer
5 3 (4.76%) Java Developer
5 3 (4.76%) Java Scala Developer
5 3 (4.76%) Scala Developer
5 3 (4.76%) Senior
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Developer
6 2 (3.17%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (3.17%) Integration Developer
6 2 (3.17%) React Developer
6 2 (3.17%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (68.25%) OAuth
2 37 (58.73%) SAML
3 21 (33.33%) LDAP
4 19 (30.16%) Web Services
5 16 (25.40%) RESTful
6 12 (19.05%) JSON
6 12 (19.05%) REST
7 9 (14.29%) XML
8 8 (12.70%) OAuth2
9 7 (11.11%) .NET
10 6 (9.52%) Node.js
11 5 (7.94%) React
11 5 (7.94%) SOAP
12 4 (6.35%) JWT
12 4 (6.35%) Oracle Fusion
13 3 (4.76%) ARM Templates
13 3 (4.76%) Keycloak
13 3 (4.76%) SailPoint
13 3 (4.76%) Spring
13 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.35%) Blockchain
3 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.17%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (3.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) IoT
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Android
1 3 (4.76%) Apple iOS
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
1 18 (28.57%) Identity Management
2 12 (19.05%) Agile
2 12 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
3 11 (17.46%) DevOps
4 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.29%) OO
5 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 8 (12.70%) Scrum
7 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (11.11%) Migration
7 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Identification
8 6 (9.52%) Data Modelling
8 6 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (7.94%) B2C
9 5 (7.94%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.94%) Microservices
9 5 (7.94%) Software Engineering
10 4 (6.35%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) Java
2 9 (14.29%) Go
2 9 (14.29%) Python
3 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.52%) C
4 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.76%) Bash
5 3 (4.76%) BeanShell
5 3 (4.76%) C#
5 3 (4.76%) Scala
5 3 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (6.35%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.76%) OpenAM
2 3 (4.76%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 20 (31.75%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.52%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) ForgeRock
2 10 (15.87%) Okta
3 7 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.11%) Zscaler
4 6 (9.52%) Cadence
5 4 (6.35%) Oracle
6 3 (4.76%) Google
7 1 (1.59%) Cognizant