OpenID Contracts with Work from Home Options

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenID over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 335 489
Rank change year-on-year +58 +154 -87
Contract jobs citing OpenID 64 122 134
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 2.04% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 93 96
10th Percentile £434 £430 £476
25th Percentile £531 £458 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £697 £650 £700
90th Percentile £768 £710 £800
UK median daily rate £620 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +7.83% -4.17% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

OpenID falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

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 12 June 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 (6.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) Entra ID
2 19 (29.69%) AWS
3 18 (28.13%) Azure
4 7 (10.94%) GCP
4 7 (10.94%) PaaS
5 6 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (9.38%) IaaS
6 5 (7.81%) Apigee
6 5 (7.81%) SaaS
7 4 (6.25%) Serverless
8 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.56%) BigCommerce
10 1 (1.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Kerberos
2 4 (6.25%) HTTP
2 4 (6.25%) SSH
3 2 (3.13%) Internet
3 2 (3.13%) SSL
4 1 (1.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.81%) MySQL
4 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) GitLab
2 2 (3.13%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) gulp
2 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.13%) Maven
3 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.94%) Finance
4 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Retail
5 1 (1.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Marketing
5 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (45.31%) Architect
2 13 (20.31%) Developer
3 9 (14.06%) Consultant
4 8 (12.50%) ForgeRock Architect
5 6 (9.38%) Security Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Architect
6 4 (6.25%) IAM Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Developer
7 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) IAM Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Java Scala Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Scala Developer
8 2 (3.13%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Active Directory Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Designer
8 2 (3.13%) Product Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (84.38%) SAML
2 46 (71.88%) OAuth
3 15 (23.44%) LDAP
4 12 (18.75%) REST
5 10 (15.63%) .NET
6 9 (14.06%) OAuth2
6 9 (14.06%) SailPoint
7 8 (12.50%) RESTful
8 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (9.38%) Node.js
8 6 (9.38%) Web Services
8 6 (9.38%) XACML
9 5 (7.81%) JSON
9 5 (7.81%) SOAP
10 4 (6.25%) React
11 3 (4.69%) OpenAPI
11 3 (4.69%) Swagger
11 3 (4.69%) YAML
12 2 (3.13%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
1 6 (9.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Clustering
3 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.13%) PKI
3 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Windows
3 3 (4.69%) Unix
4 2 (3.13%) Android
4 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.06%) Identity Access Management
2 21 (32.81%) Identity Management
3 16 (25.00%) Agile
4 10 (15.63%) Use Case
5 9 (14.06%) Scrum
6 8 (12.50%) API Design
6 8 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 8 (12.50%) DevOps
6 8 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.94%) Migration
7 7 (10.94%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 7 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (9.38%) B2C
8 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (9.38%) Presales
8 6 (9.38%) Product Management
8 6 (9.38%) Project Delivery
8 6 (9.38%) Test Automation
8 6 (9.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.13%) JavaScript
2 12 (18.75%) Java
3 10 (15.63%) Python
3 10 (15.63%) SQL
4 7 (10.94%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.69%) C#
5 3 (4.69%) Scala
6 1 (1.56%) BeanShell
6 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) Degree
3 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.56%) HL7
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.56%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 27 (42.19%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.94%) PingFederate
4 5 (7.81%) Ansible
5 3 (4.69%) Terraform
6 2 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) ForgeRock
2 10 (15.63%) Okta
3 8 (12.50%) Ping Identity
4 7 (10.94%) CyberArk
5 6 (9.38%) MuleSoft
6 5 (7.81%) Google
6 5 (7.81%) Oracle
7 4 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
7 4 (6.25%) Zscaler
8 3 (4.69%) IBM
9 2 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.56%) Adobe
10 1 (1.56%) Cognizant
10 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.56%) SAP
10 1 (1.56%) Sitecore