OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 517 601
Rank change year-on-year +91 +84 -80
Contract jobs citing OpenID 160 189 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.79% 1.37% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 131 172
10th Percentile £437 £430 £463
25th Percentile £513 £458 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £750 £649 £700
90th Percentile - £700 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,929 13,805 24,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.57% 23.25% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 10,065 17,636
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.78 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenID.

Daily rate trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenID.

Hourly rate trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +111 114 £600 +9.09% 27
UK excluding London +72 68 £525 -4.55% 14
Work from Home +70 65 £613 +9.38% 10
London +78 57 £638 +6.25% 12
North of England +51 23 £450 -14.29%
Midlands +42 16 £620 +18.10% 2
East Midlands +32 16 £620 +18.10% 2
Scotland +50 15 £725 +45.00% 3
North West +31 13 £450 -14.29%
Yorkshire +28 10 £525 -
South East +25 9 £500 +5.26% 7
South West +14 4 - - 2
Wales +1 1 £425 -26.09%

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 2 (1.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (0.63%) IIS
2 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (26.88%) Entra ID
2 39 (24.38%) AWS
3 33 (20.63%) Azure
4 14 (8.75%) SaaS
5 13 (8.13%) PaaS
6 10 (6.25%) Serverless
7 9 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.63%) GCP
7 9 (5.63%) IaaS
8 6 (3.75%) Apigee
8 6 (3.75%) Azure Functions
8 6 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.13%) OCI
10 3 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.63%) Kerberos
2 11 (6.88%) HTTP
3 6 (3.75%) SSL
4 3 (1.88%) Internet
4 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.25%) DNS
5 2 (1.25%) Firewall
5 2 (1.25%) FTP
5 2 (1.25%) Network Security
5 2 (1.25%) SSH
6 1 (0.63%) IPsec
6 1 (0.63%) NAS
6 1 (0.63%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.25%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.88%) MySQL
5 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.63%) Git
3 7 (4.38%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.75%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.75%) GitLab
5 4 (2.50%) JIRA
6 3 (1.88%) gulp
6 3 (1.88%) Maven
7 2 (1.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.25%) Gatling
8 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.63%) VersionOne
General
1 47 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 40 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.00%) Finance
4 10 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.88%) German Language
6 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.25%) Marketing
6 2 (1.25%) Retail
7 1 (0.63%) Banking
7 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (36.25%) Architect
2 35 (21.88%) Developer
3 18 (11.25%) Security Architect
4 13 (8.13%) Consultant
5 12 (7.50%) ForgeRock Architect
6 9 (5.63%) IAM Consultant
7 6 (3.75%) Java Developer
7 6 (3.75%) Senior
8 5 (3.13%) Azure Architect
8 5 (3.13%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 5 (3.13%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.50%) Analyst
9 4 (2.50%) Azure Developer
9 4 (2.50%) Cloud Developer
9 4 (2.50%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.50%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (2.50%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (2.50%) Technical Architect
10 3 (1.88%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (75.00%) OAuth
2 116 (72.50%) SAML
3 32 (20.00%) LDAP
4 30 (18.75%) RESTful
5 27 (16.88%) REST
5 27 (16.88%) Web Services
6 26 (16.25%) OAuth2
7 21 (13.13%) XACML
8 19 (11.88%) JSON
8 19 (11.88%) Node.js
9 15 (9.38%) .NET
10 13 (8.13%) XML
11 12 (7.50%) SOAP
12 11 (6.88%) SailPoint
13 7 (4.38%) JWT
13 7 (4.38%) React
14 6 (3.75%) ARM Templates
15 5 (3.13%) AngularJS
15 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
15 5 (3.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.50%) Blockchain
5 4 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.50%) PKI
5 4 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.25%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.50%) Unix
2 4 (2.50%) Windows
3 3 (1.88%) Android
3 3 (1.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.88%) Identity Access Management
2 40 (25.00%) DevOps
3 30 (18.75%) Identity Management
4 23 (14.38%) Agile
5 21 (13.13%) Infrastructure Automation
6 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (10.63%) Threat Detection
7 17 (10.63%) Use Case
8 16 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 14 (8.75%) API Design
9 14 (8.75%) B2C
9 14 (8.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 14 (8.75%) Security Architecture
10 13 (8.13%) RBAC
10 13 (8.13%) Scrum
10 13 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (6.88%) Migration
11 11 (6.88%) OO
11 11 (6.88%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.88%) Java
2 33 (20.63%) Python
3 25 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 14 (8.75%) SQL
6 11 (6.88%) C#
7 7 (4.38%) Go
8 6 (3.75%) C
9 5 (3.13%) Scala
10 3 (1.88%) Bash
10 3 (1.88%) BeanShell
10 3 (1.88%) Perl
10 3 (1.88%) PHP
10 3 (1.88%) Ruby
11 2 (1.25%) Groovy
11 2 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 43 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.63%) Degree
4 7 (4.38%) CISSP
5 2 (1.25%) CISA
5 2 (1.25%) CISM
5 2 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.13%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.63%) HL7
4 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.50%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) OpenAM
2 4 (2.50%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.63%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.63%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (31.25%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (10.63%) Ansible
3 14 (8.75%) PingFederate
4 11 (6.88%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.50%) Terraform
6 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.63%) Consul
6 1 (0.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.13%) Okta
3 20 (12.50%) ForgeRock
4 16 (10.00%) Ping Identity
5 14 (8.75%) IBM
6 10 (6.25%) Oracle
7 7 (4.38%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (4.38%) Zscaler
8 6 (3.75%) Cadence
8 6 (3.75%) CyberArk
8 6 (3.75%) Google
9 5 (3.13%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.25%) Adobe
10 2 (1.25%) CA
10 2 (1.25%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.25%) SAP
10 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.25%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.25%) Splunk