OpenID Contracts in the North West

OpenID Connect (OIDC)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 134 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenID 8 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.40% 0.11% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% 0.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £483 £484 -
25th Percentile £492 £535 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
England median daily rate £544 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -9.42% +4.35% -6.12%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 457 507 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.82% 17.87% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 355 439
10th Percentile £349 £350 £338
25th Percentile £385 £423 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £575
90th Percentile £625 £750 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £37.76
25th Percentile - £45.88 £37.77
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%
75th Percentile £79.38 £71.87 £44.78
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.50 £45.62
England median hourly rate £62.50 £55.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.36% -14.42% +23.81%

OpenID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing OpenID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for OpenID in the North West

OpenID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for OpenID in the North West

OpenID
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenID in the North West over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenID in the North West

OpenID
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 June 2025. 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
Manchester +18 5 £525 +16.67% 7
Cheshire -6 3 £492 -20.65% 4
OpenID
England

OpenID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTPS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (37.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth2
2 5 (62.50%) SAML
3 4 (50.00%) Kafka
4 3 (37.50%) JDBC
4 3 (37.50%) SOAP
5 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
2 3 (37.50%) Taxonomies
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (62.50%) RBAC
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Data Security
3 4 (50.00%) Digital Twin
3 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ForgeRock
1 3 (37.50%) Ping Identity
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