OAuth Contract Job Trends in England

OAuth
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring OAuth skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 313 394
Rank change year-on-year +21 +81 -29
Contract jobs citing OAuth 387 209 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.76% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.53% 3.40% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 138 89
10th Percentile £413 £358 £460
25th Percentile £480 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £668 £599 £672
90th Percentile £750 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 0
10th Percentile £37.75 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £84.34 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £58.75 -
% change year-on-year +27.66% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

OAuth 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,538 6,155 7,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.65% 22.30% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,584 4,225 5,039
10th Percentile £364 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 152 228
10th Percentile £28.86 £31.25 £23.94
25th Percentile £46.66 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -7.29%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -16.67%

OAuth
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OAuth relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

OAuth job vacancy trend in England

OAuth
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OAuth.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OAuth

OAuth
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OAuth in England over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OAuth in England

OAuth
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OAuth.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OAuth

OAuth
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OAuth in England over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for OAuth in England

OAuth
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OAuth within the England region over the 6 months to 8 August 2026. 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
London +2 195 £562 +2.14% 129
South East +4 78 £525 +10.53% 23
North of England -43 73 £625 +33.26% 16
North West -32 35 £625 +31.58% 8
Yorkshire -20 34 £610 +38.95% 7
South West -38 12 £550 +1.85% 12
Midlands -58 11 £438 +5.42% 8
East of England -9 10 £558 +11.50% 2
West Midlands -48 9 £531 +24.94% 7
North East - 5 £563 - 2
East Midlands -23 2 £401 -2.79% 1
OAuth
UK

OAuth
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.13%) Confluence
2 15 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.81%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.29%) Mule
6 3 (0.78%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) Apache
7 1 (0.26%) Appian
7 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.52%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 219 (56.59%) Azure
2 153 (39.53%) AWS
3 116 (29.97%) Entra ID
4 88 (22.74%) GCP
5 46 (11.89%) GitHub
6 40 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (10.08%) Serverless
8 34 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (8.53%) SaaS
10 26 (6.72%) Azure AKS
11 25 (6.46%) Azure API Management
12 22 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (5.43%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (4.91%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (4.65%) Apigee
16 16 (4.13%) Amazon S3
17 15 (3.88%) Boomi
17 15 (3.88%) Kong
18 12 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.65%) DNS
2 15 (3.88%) Kerberos
3 13 (3.36%) HTTP
4 11 (2.84%) SSL
5 9 (2.33%) Firewall
6 7 (1.81%) DKIM
6 7 (1.81%) DMARC
7 5 (1.29%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.03%) Network Security
8 4 (1.03%) NGFW
9 2 (0.52%) DHCP
9 2 (0.52%) IPsec
9 2 (0.52%) X.509
10 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.26%) SSH
10 1 (0.26%) VPN
10 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.75%) Relational Database
2 27 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 17 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.88%) Redis
6 14 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.10%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.58%) MySQL
9 9 (2.33%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.07%) Metadata
11 6 (1.55%) Power BI
12 5 (1.29%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.29%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.03%) Hazelcast
14 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 49 (12.66%) Git
2 26 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.43%) GitLab
4 20 (5.17%) JIRA
5 10 (2.58%) Browser DevTools
6 8 (2.07%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.81%) git-flow
8 6 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.55%) Postman
8 6 (1.55%) Storybook
9 5 (1.29%) Gradle
9 5 (1.29%) Maven
10 4 (1.03%) Snyk
11 3 (0.78%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.78%) JMeter
12 2 (0.52%) JUnit
12 2 (0.52%) Mockito
12 2 (0.52%) Moq
12 2 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 90 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.16%) Finance
3 55 (14.21%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.04%) Banking
5 29 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.62%) Retail
8 11 (2.84%) Military
9 10 (2.58%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.81%) Legal
12 5 (1.29%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.03%) Publishing
14 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.52%) Automotive
15 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.52%) Law
15 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (26.87%) Developer
2 98 (25.32%) Architect
3 49 (12.66%) Senior
4 31 (8.01%) Lead
5 25 (6.46%) Java Developer
5 25 (6.46%) Technical Architect
6 23 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (4.65%) Senior Developer
8 16 (4.13%) IAM Specialist
9 13 (3.36%) Consultant
10 12 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (3.10%) Integration Architect
10 12 (3.10%) Security Architect
10 12 (3.10%) Technical Leader
11 9 (2.33%) .NET Developer
11 9 (2.33%) IAM Developer
11 9 (2.33%) Lead Architect
11 9 (2.33%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (2.07%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (52.97%) OAuth2
2 194 (50.13%) OpenID
3 158 (40.83%) SAML
4 137 (35.40%) REST
5 83 (21.45%) JWT
6 66 (17.05%) SOAP
7 60 (15.50%) RESTful
8 54 (13.95%) LDAP
9 49 (12.66%) JSON
10 39 (10.08%) Kafka
11 38 (9.82%) React
11 38 (9.82%) SailPoint
12 37 (9.56%) CSS
13 36 (9.30%) .NET
14 32 (8.27%) XML
15 31 (8.01%) Spring
16 30 (7.75%) HTML
17 26 (6.72%) Middleware
17 26 (6.72%) Node.js
17 26 (6.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.30%) Onboarding
3 35 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (7.49%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (6.72%) Product Ownership
6 20 (5.17%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.13%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.13%) PKI
8 13 (3.36%) CMDB
8 13 (3.36%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.58%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.81%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.55%) Freedom of Information
12 5 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.29%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.33%) Windows
2 8 (2.07%) Linux
3 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.03%) Android
5 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (40.57%) CI/CD
2 140 (36.18%) DevOps
3 100 (25.84%) Microservices
4 92 (23.77%) Agile
5 82 (21.19%) Identity Access Management
6 73 (18.86%) Containerisation
7 72 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 69 (17.83%) Event-Driven
10 61 (15.76%) RBAC
11 59 (15.25%) AI
12 58 (14.99%) Test Automation
13 53 (13.70%) Integration Patterns
14 49 (12.66%) API Management
14 49 (12.66%) Zero Trust
15 48 (12.40%) API Integration
16 47 (12.14%) Mentoring
17 45 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
18 43 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 43 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 87 (22.48%) Java
1 87 (22.48%) Python
2 77 (19.90%) JavaScript
3 70 (18.09%) SQL
4 55 (14.21%) PowerShell
5 38 (9.82%) TypeScript
6 36 (9.30%) C#
7 23 (5.94%) Bicep
8 11 (2.84%) Bash
9 8 (2.07%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.29%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.03%) Groovy
12 3 (0.78%) Go
12 3 (0.78%) PHP
13 2 (0.52%) PromQL
13 2 (0.52%) Scala
13 2 (0.52%) Swift
14 1 (0.26%) C++
14 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.82%) Degree
4 24 (6.20%) CISSP
5 21 (5.43%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.88%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.84%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.58%) CISM
11 8 (2.07%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.29%) CSPO
14 5 (1.29%) GIAC
15 4 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
16 3 (0.78%) MCSE
17 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 31 (8.01%) NIST
2 30 (7.75%) GDPR
3 23 (5.94%) QA
4 9 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.81%) NCSC
6 6 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.29%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.52%) HL7
9 2 (0.52%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
10 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (23.51%) Active Directory
2 77 (19.90%) Docker
3 3 (0.78%) OpenAM
3 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.26%) RACF
4 1 (0.26%) Squid
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (21.45%) Kubernetes
2 78 (20.16%) Terraform
3 57 (14.73%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (6.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (5.43%) Grafana
6 19 (4.91%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.36%) Ansible
8 6 (1.55%) Argo
8 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.29%) Istio
9 5 (1.29%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.03%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.03%) linkerd
10 4 (1.03%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.78%) WMI
12 2 (0.52%) Consul
12 2 (0.52%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 110 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.04%) Google
2 35 (9.04%) Oracle
3 33 (8.53%) ServiceNow
4 26 (6.72%) Okta
5 24 (6.20%) MuleSoft
6 16 (4.13%) CyberArk
7 15 (3.88%) Ping Identity
7 15 (3.88%) SAP
8 13 (3.36%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.58%) Workday
10 9 (2.33%) ForgeRock
11 8 (2.07%) IBM
11 8 (2.07%) OpenAI
11 8 (2.07%) OutSystems
12 6 (1.55%) Informatica
13 5 (1.29%) Denodo
13 5 (1.29%) TIBCO
13 5 (1.29%) WSO2
13 5 (1.29%) Zscaler