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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 508 633
Rank change year-on-year +81 +125 -120
Contract jobs citing OpenID 154 176 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.73% 1.33% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 125 151
10th Percentile £435 £430 £463
25th Percentile £525 £458 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £644 £700
90th Percentile £755 £700 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £564 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.45% - +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 8,897 13,217 23,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.91% 23.20% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 9,648 17,304
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +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 - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 149 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.25 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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 16 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 16 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 +109 110 £600 +9.09% 31
UK excluding London +70 63 £564 +2.45% 17
Work from Home +62 63 £613 +9.38% 9
London +79 58 £619 +3.13% 12
Midlands +42 16 £620 +18.10% 2
East Midlands +28 16 £620 +18.10% 2
Scotland +47 15 £725 +45.00% 2
North of England +37 15 £488 -7.14% 1
South East +16 12 £500 +5.26% 9
Yorkshire +21 9 £525 - 1
North West +24 6 £450 -14.29%
South West -3 4 - - 3
Wales +4 1 £425 -

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 4 (2.60%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (0.65%) IIS
2 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (29.22%) Entra ID
2 38 (24.68%) Azure
3 33 (21.43%) AWS
4 14 (9.09%) PaaS
5 13 (8.44%) GCP
6 12 (7.79%) SaaS
7 11 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (6.49%) IaaS
8 10 (6.49%) Serverless
9 6 (3.90%) Apigee
9 6 (3.90%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.90%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.25%) OCI
11 4 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.95%) Azure API Management
12 3 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.95%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.04%) Kerberos
2 8 (5.19%) HTTP
3 6 (3.90%) SSL
4 4 (2.60%) SSH
5 3 (1.95%) Internet
5 3 (1.95%) Network Security
5 3 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.30%) DNS
6 2 (1.30%) Firewall
6 2 (1.30%) FTP
7 1 (0.65%) IPsec
7 1 (0.65%) NAS
7 1 (0.65%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.69%) NoSQL
2 12 (7.79%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.25%) MySQL
5 4 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.30%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (6.49%) Git
1 10 (6.49%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.55%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.90%) Bitbucket
3 6 (3.90%) GitLab
4 4 (2.60%) JIRA
5 3 (1.95%) gulp
5 3 (1.95%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.65%) VersionOne
General
1 38 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.03%) Public Sector
3 18 (11.69%) Finance
4 7 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.30%) Marketing
5 2 (1.30%) Retail
6 1 (0.65%) Banking
6 1 (0.65%) Law
6 1 (0.65%) Legal
6 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (38.31%) Architect
2 32 (20.78%) Developer
3 18 (11.69%) Security Architect
4 13 (8.44%) Consultant
5 12 (7.79%) ForgeRock Architect
6 9 (5.84%) IAM Consultant
7 6 (3.90%) Azure Architect
8 5 (3.25%) Azure Developer
8 5 (3.25%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 5 (3.25%) Technical Architect
9 4 (2.60%) Analyst
9 4 (2.60%) Cloud Developer
9 4 (2.60%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.60%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (2.60%) Senior
10 3 (1.95%) IAM Developer
10 3 (1.95%) Identity Management Specialist
10 3 (1.95%) Java Scala Developer
10 3 (1.95%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (74.68%) SAML
2 110 (71.43%) OAuth
3 34 (22.08%) LDAP
4 27 (17.53%) REST
5 23 (14.94%) RESTful
6 21 (13.64%) XACML
7 20 (12.99%) Web Services
8 19 (12.34%) JSON
9 16 (10.39%) .NET
9 16 (10.39%) OAuth2
10 15 (9.74%) Node.js
11 13 (8.44%) SailPoint
11 13 (8.44%) XML
12 12 (7.79%) SOAP
13 7 (4.55%) React
14 6 (3.90%) AngularJS
14 6 (3.90%) ARM Templates
14 6 (3.90%) JWT
14 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (2.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.90%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.60%) Blockchain
5 4 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.60%) PKI
5 4 (2.60%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.95%) Clustering
6 3 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.95%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.30%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.14%) Linux
2 6 (3.90%) Windows
3 4 (2.60%) Unix
4 3 (1.95%) Android
4 3 (1.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 39 (25.32%) DevOps
3 32 (20.78%) Identity Management
4 22 (14.29%) Agile
5 19 (12.34%) Infrastructure Automation
6 18 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (10.39%) Use Case
8 15 (9.74%) B2C
8 15 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (9.74%) Threat Detection
9 14 (9.09%) API Design
9 14 (9.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 14 (9.09%) Security Architecture
9 14 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 13 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (7.79%) RBAC
12 11 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (7.14%) Migration
12 11 (7.14%) Risk Management
12 11 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.78%) Python
2 26 (16.88%) JavaScript
3 24 (15.58%) Java
4 18 (11.69%) PowerShell
5 14 (9.09%) SQL
6 9 (5.84%) Go
7 8 (5.19%) C#
8 6 (3.90%) C
9 3 (1.95%) Bash
9 3 (1.95%) BeanShell
9 3 (1.95%) Perl
9 3 (1.95%) Scala
10 2 (1.30%) Groovy
10 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 44 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 43 (27.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.84%) Degree
4 7 (4.55%) CISSP
5 3 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.30%) CISA
6 2 (1.30%) CISM
6 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.25%) QA
2 4 (2.60%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.65%) HL7
4 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (20.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.25%) Docker
3 4 (2.60%) OpenAM
3 4 (2.60%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.65%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.65%) Terminal Server
4 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (33.12%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (12.34%) Ansible
3 15 (9.74%) Kubernetes
4 14 (9.09%) PingFederate
5 5 (3.25%) Terraform
6 2 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.65%) Consul
7 1 (0.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 30 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.83%) Okta
3 20 (12.99%) ForgeRock
4 16 (10.39%) Ping Identity
5 14 (9.09%) IBM
6 12 (7.79%) Oracle
7 8 (5.19%) CyberArk
8 7 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (4.55%) Google
8 7 (4.55%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.90%) Cadence
9 6 (3.90%) MuleSoft
10 4 (2.60%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.30%) Adobe
11 2 (1.30%) CA
11 2 (1.30%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.30%) SAP
11 2 (1.30%) Sitecore
11 2 (1.30%) Splunk