OpenID Contracts with Work from Home Options

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 280 345 489
Rank change year-on-year +65 +144 -104
Contract jobs citing OpenID 63 121 140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.73% 1.95% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 91 104
10th Percentile £450 £430 £479
25th Percentile £525 £458 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -6.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £669 £643 £700
90th Percentile £768 £700 £785
UK median daily rate £620 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,634 6,192 13,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.57% 25.16% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 4,620 9,615
10th Percentile £342 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £648
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.30% +10.83%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

OpenID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenID trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenID
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenID.

OpenID daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OpenID over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

OpenID daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) AWS
2 17 (26.98%) Azure
3 16 (25.40%) Entra ID
4 7 (11.11%) PaaS
5 6 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (9.52%) IaaS
5 6 (9.52%) SaaS
5 6 (9.52%) Serverless
6 5 (7.94%) Apigee
6 5 (7.94%) GCP
7 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) Azure API Management
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.59%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) Kerberos
2 4 (6.35%) HTTP
2 4 (6.35%) SSH
3 3 (4.76%) Internet
4 2 (3.17%) SSL
5 1 (1.59%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) NoSQL
2 8 (12.70%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.94%) MySQL
4 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) GitLab
2 3 (4.76%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.17%) gulp
3 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) Maven
4 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.59%) Git
4 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Marketing
4 1 (1.59%) Retail
4 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (44.44%) Architect
2 16 (25.40%) Developer
3 8 (12.70%) ForgeRock Architect
4 7 (11.11%) Consultant
5 6 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Azure Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Cloud Developer
7 3 (4.76%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) IAM Consultant
7 3 (4.76%) IAM Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Java Scala Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Scala Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Active Directory Consultant
8 2 (3.17%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Designer
8 2 (3.17%) Product Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (77.78%) OAuth
1 49 (77.78%) SAML
2 15 (23.81%) REST
3 14 (22.22%) LDAP
4 12 (19.05%) .NET
5 11 (17.46%) OAuth2
6 10 (15.87%) RESTful
7 8 (12.70%) JSON
7 8 (12.70%) Web Services
8 7 (11.11%) Node.js
8 7 (11.11%) SailPoint
8 7 (11.11%) SOAP
9 6 (9.52%) AngularJS
9 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (9.52%) XACML
10 4 (6.35%) React
10 4 (6.35%) XML
11 3 (4.76%) ARM Templates
11 3 (4.76%) Swagger
11 3 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) Clustering
4 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) NHS
5 1 (1.59%) PKI
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Windows
3 3 (4.76%) Unix
4 2 (3.17%) Android
4 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) Identity Access Management
2 21 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 14 (22.22%) Agile
4 10 (15.87%) DevOps
4 10 (15.87%) Use Case
5 9 (14.29%) B2C
5 9 (14.29%) Scrum
6 8 (12.70%) API Design
6 8 (12.70%) E-Commerce
6 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.70%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (12.70%) User Experience
7 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.52%) Cloud Security
8 6 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (9.52%) Migration
8 6 (9.52%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 6 (9.52%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.94%) API Management
9 5 (7.94%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 14 (22.22%) Java
3 11 (17.46%) Python
3 11 (17.46%) SQL
4 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.94%) C#
6 3 (4.76%) Scala
7 1 (1.59%) BeanShell
7 1 (1.59%) Groovy
7 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.52%) Degree
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.59%) HL7
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.35%) Docker
3 2 (3.17%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.59%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 25 (39.68%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.52%) PingFederate
4 5 (7.94%) Ansible
5 2 (3.17%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.17%) Terraform
6 1 (1.59%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) ForgeRock
2 11 (17.46%) Okta
3 8 (12.70%) Ping Identity
4 7 (11.11%) CyberArk
5 6 (9.52%) MuleSoft
5 6 (9.52%) Oracle
6 5 (7.94%) Google
7 4 (6.35%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
7 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
7 4 (6.35%) Zscaler
8 3 (4.76%) IBM
9 2 (3.17%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (3.17%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.59%) Adobe
10 1 (1.59%) Cognizant
10 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.59%) SAP
10 1 (1.59%) Sitecore