OpenID Contracts

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 508 614
Rank change year-on-year +86 +106 -74
Contract jobs citing OpenID 157 176 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.73% 1.36% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 129 155
10th Percentile £430 £438 £463
25th Percentile £527 £458 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -4.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £700
90th Percentile £775 £725 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £577 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.91% - +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 9,060 12,931 23,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.94% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,282 9,442 17,368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 148 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.48 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%

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 June 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 June 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 +96 116 £600 +4.35% 24
London +81 68 £620 +4.64% 11
Work from Home +50 63 £616 +9.56% 10
UK excluding London +64 59 £577 +4.91% 14
Midlands +40 16 £620 +18.10% 1
East Midlands +25 16 £620 +18.10%
Scotland +53 15 £592 +18.30% 2
North of England +40 12 £450 -14.29% 1
South East +11 10 £450 -5.26% 5
Yorkshire +28 8 £436 -16.95% 1
South West -3 5 - - 4
North West - 4 £535 -
Wales +6 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 (2.55%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (0.64%) IIS
2 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (31.85%) Entra ID
2 44 (28.03%) Azure
3 36 (22.93%) AWS
4 20 (12.74%) GCP
5 16 (10.19%) PaaS
6 11 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (7.01%) IaaS
7 10 (6.37%) SaaS
7 10 (6.37%) Serverless
8 7 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.82%) Apigee
9 6 (3.82%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.82%) OCI
10 4 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.55%) GitHub
11 3 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.46%) Kerberos
2 6 (3.82%) HTTP
2 6 (3.82%) SSL
3 4 (2.55%) SSH
4 3 (1.91%) DNS
4 3 (1.91%) Firewall
4 3 (1.91%) Network Security
4 3 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.27%) FTP
5 2 (1.27%) Internet
6 1 (0.64%) IPsec
6 1 (0.64%) NAS
6 1 (0.64%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.19%) NoSQL
2 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.18%) MySQL
5 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (7.64%) Git
2 10 (6.37%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.82%) Bitbucket
3 6 (3.82%) GitLab
4 5 (3.18%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.55%) JIRA
6 3 (1.91%) gulp
6 3 (1.91%) Maven
7 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.64%) VersionOne
General
1 39 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.66%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.38%) Finance
4 9 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.73%) Banking
5 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.91%) Retail
6 2 (1.27%) Law
6 2 (1.27%) Legal
6 2 (1.27%) Marketing
7 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (37.58%) Architect
2 29 (18.47%) Developer
3 20 (12.74%) Consultant
4 19 (12.10%) Security Architect
5 12 (7.64%) ForgeRock Architect
6 9 (5.73%) IAM Consultant
7 7 (4.46%) Security Consultant
8 6 (3.82%) Azure Architect
9 5 (3.18%) Analyst
9 5 (3.18%) Azure Developer
9 5 (3.18%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 5 (3.18%) Technical Architect
10 4 (2.55%) Cloud Developer
10 4 (2.55%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.91%) Designer
11 3 (1.91%) IAM Developer
11 3 (1.91%) Java Scala Developer
11 3 (1.91%) SailPoint Engineer
11 3 (1.91%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (73.25%) SAML
2 105 (66.88%) OAuth
3 33 (21.02%) LDAP
4 25 (15.92%) REST
5 21 (13.38%) RESTful
5 21 (13.38%) XACML
6 18 (11.46%) Web Services
7 17 (10.83%) .NET
7 17 (10.83%) JSON
8 16 (10.19%) OAuth2
9 13 (8.28%) SailPoint
10 12 (7.64%) Node.js
11 11 (7.01%) JWT
11 11 (7.01%) XML
12 10 (6.37%) SOAP
13 7 (4.46%) AngularJS
13 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Graph
13 7 (4.46%) React
14 6 (3.82%) ARM Templates
15 4 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.46%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.82%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.18%) Blockchain
4 5 (3.18%) PKI
4 5 (3.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.91%) Clustering
6 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Replication
7 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.64%) Linux
2 6 (3.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.55%) Unix
4 3 (1.91%) Android
4 3 (1.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (40.76%) Identity Access Management
2 37 (23.57%) DevOps
3 33 (21.02%) Identity Management
4 23 (14.65%) Agile
5 20 (12.74%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (10.83%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (10.19%) Cloud Security
8 16 (10.19%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (10.19%) Use Case
9 14 (8.92%) API Design
9 14 (8.92%) Security Architecture
9 14 (8.92%) Test Automation
10 13 (8.28%) B2C
10 13 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (8.28%) Migration
10 13 (8.28%) Scrum
10 13 (8.28%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (8.28%) Threat Detection
11 12 (7.64%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.75%) Python
2 28 (17.83%) Java
2 28 (17.83%) JavaScript
3 20 (12.74%) PowerShell
4 14 (8.92%) SQL
5 9 (5.73%) Go
6 8 (5.10%) C#
7 6 (3.82%) C
8 3 (1.91%) Bash
8 3 (1.91%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.91%) Perl
8 3 (1.91%) Scala
9 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 41 (26.11%) Security Cleared
2 40 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.10%) Degree
4 7 (4.46%) CISSP
5 3 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.27%) CISA
6 2 (1.27%) CISM
6 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) QA
2 3 (1.91%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.64%) HL7
4 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (22.93%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.18%) Docker
3 4 (2.55%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.91%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.64%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.64%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (33.76%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (14.01%) Kubernetes
3 19 (12.10%) Ansible
4 14 (8.92%) PingFederate
5 5 (3.18%) Terraform
6 2 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.64%) Consul
7 1 (0.64%) Istio
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 29 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 27 (17.20%) Okta
3 19 (12.10%) ForgeRock
4 15 (9.55%) Ping Identity
5 14 (8.92%) IBM
6 12 (7.64%) Oracle
7 8 (5.10%) CyberArk
8 7 (4.46%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (4.46%) Google
8 7 (4.46%) MuleSoft
8 7 (4.46%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.82%) Cadence
10 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.27%) Adobe
11 2 (1.27%) CA
11 2 (1.27%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.27%) SAP
11 2 (1.27%) Sitecore
11 2 (1.27%) Splunk