OpenID Connect (OIDC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OpenID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 636 719 611
Rank change year-on-year +83 -108 +369
Permanent jobs citing OpenID 73 190 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 0.85% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36 96 102
10th Percentile £64,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £53,346 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,319 £61,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.34% -18.67% +19.05%
75th Percentile £98,474 £72,500 £97,290
90th Percentile - £93,750 £103,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £94,637 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +48.45% -1.92% +18.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,720 22,405 26,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 20.04% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,862 16,590 17,321
10th Percentile £37,775 £36,250 £40,920
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,350 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £86,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenID.

Salary trend for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenID over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenID in the UK

OpenID
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenID within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +123 48 £90,000 +54.51% 282
UK excluding London +89 37 £94,637 +48.45% 151
London +114 36 £90,000 +60.01% 170
Scotland +53 25 £94,637 +45.60% 24
Work from Home +76 15 £94,637 +44.22% 119
South West +105 8 £95,000 +72.19% 5
North of England +44 3 £74,500 +35.03% 27
North West +14 2 £74,500 +35.03% 12
Midlands +96 1 £60,000 +4.36% 27
Yorkshire +54 1 - - 13
East Midlands +50 1 £60,000 +4.36% 15

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 11 (15.07%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.37%) JBoss
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 43 (58.90%) Azure
2 31 (42.47%) AWS
3 18 (24.66%) GCP
4 16 (21.92%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.59%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (9.59%) Serverless
6 6 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.22%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.85%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (5.48%) SaaS
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) Kerberos
2 3 (4.11%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.74%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.37%) DHCP
4 1 (1.37%) DNS
4 1 (1.37%) HTTP
4 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) MySQL
2 11 (15.07%) BigQuery
3 8 (10.96%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.22%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (8.22%) DynamoDB
4 6 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (5.48%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) webpack
2 6 (8.22%) Grunt
2 6 (8.22%) Jasmine
2 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.22%) Mocha
3 4 (5.48%) Git
3 4 (5.48%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.37%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) rollup.js
General
1 48 (65.75%) Finance
2 27 (36.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (35.62%) Banking
4 21 (28.77%) Law
5 14 (19.18%) Marketing
6 8 (10.96%) Social Skills
7 6 (8.22%) Retail Banking
8 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.74%) Aviation
9 2 (2.74%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.37%) Advertising
10 1 (1.37%) Electronics
10 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.37%) Publishing
10 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (46.58%) Lead
1 34 (46.58%) Software Engineer
2 22 (30.14%) Senior
3 21 (28.77%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (16.44%) Architect
5 11 (15.07%) Lead Architect
5 11 (15.07%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 11 (15.07%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (13.70%) Java Engineer
6 10 (13.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (12.33%) Developer
8 8 (10.96%) Database Engineer
8 8 (10.96%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (9.59%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 7 (9.59%) Identity Management Engineer
9 7 (9.59%) React Developer
10 6 (8.22%) Associate Engineer
10 6 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (8.22%) AWS Software Engineer
10 6 (8.22%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (97.26%) OAuth
2 41 (56.16%) SAML
3 33 (45.21%) OAuth2
4 30 (41.10%) React
5 22 (30.14%) CSS
6 18 (24.66%) REST
7 17 (23.29%) Ajax
8 14 (19.18%) JWT
8 14 (19.18%) SailPoint
9 11 (15.07%) AngularJS
9 11 (15.07%) jQuery
10 9 (12.33%) LDAP
11 7 (9.59%) Enzyme
11 7 (9.59%) Jest
11 7 (9.59%) Next.js
11 7 (9.59%) Redux
11 7 (9.59%) Sass
11 7 (9.59%) SOAP
12 6 (8.22%) LESS
12 6 (8.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) Public Cloud
2 12 (16.44%) Algorithms
2 12 (16.44%) Cloud Native
2 12 (16.44%) PKI
3 10 (13.70%) Data Structures
4 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
5 8 (10.96%) Private Cloud
6 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
7 4 (5.48%) AI Agents
8 3 (4.11%) Taxonomies
9 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Unix
2 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (53.42%) Agile
2 35 (47.95%) Software Engineering
3 26 (35.62%) Analytics
4 19 (26.03%) Identity Access Management
5 18 (24.66%) CI/CD
6 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (21.92%) SDLC
7 15 (20.55%) Data Analytics
7 15 (20.55%) Domain-Driven Design
8 14 (19.18%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (19.18%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (17.81%) Containerisation
9 13 (17.81%) Microservices
9 13 (17.81%) Web Development
10 12 (16.44%) RBAC
11 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (15.07%) MVC
11 11 (15.07%) Software Deployment
11 11 (15.07%) TDD
11 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.99%) JavaScript
2 24 (32.88%) Java
3 20 (27.40%) TypeScript
4 16 (21.92%) Python
4 16 (21.92%) SQL
5 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.33%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.22%) Go
6 6 (8.22%) Rust
7 4 (5.48%) C#
8 2 (2.74%) Groovy
8 2 (2.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (6.85%) CISM
1 5 (6.85%) CISSP
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) NIST
2 9 (12.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.37%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (28.77%) Docker
2 6 (8.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) NDS
Systems Management
1 31 (42.47%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (24.66%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.07%) Ansible
4 9 (12.33%) Terraform
5 5 (6.85%) QRadar
6 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.74%) Argo
7 2 (2.74%) Graylog
8 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.37%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.37%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 22 (30.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (23.29%) ForgeRock
3 14 (19.18%) Google
4 7 (9.59%) Splunk
5 6 (8.22%) Facebook
6 5 (6.85%) Ping Identity
6 5 (6.85%) SolarWinds
7 4 (5.48%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.74%) Okta
9 1 (1.37%) Adobe
9 1 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.37%) NetIQ
9 1 (1.37%) Oracle
9 1 (1.37%) SAP
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