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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 279 402
Rank change year-on-year -1 +123 -46
Contract jobs citing OAuth 445 254 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.91% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.51% 3.54% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 169 75
10th Percentile £408 £363 £440
25th Percentile £455 £409 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £492 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -18.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £575 £675
90th Percentile £750 £663 £745
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £38.75 £61.28 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.31 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% - -
75th Percentile £85.54 £64.31 -
90th Percentile £87.56 £64.43 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

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 9,867 7,166 8,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.57% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,489 4,845 5,302
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.37 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -2 225 £575 +9.52% 232
South East +1 76 £500 - 73
North of England -53 68 £570 +26.25% 51
Yorkshire -10 43 £563 +15.38% 20
Midlands -44 29 £464 +11.71% 24
West Midlands -25 24 £510 +3.29% 15
North West -59 22 £625 +39.51% 24
East of England -9 18 £550 +10.00% 23
South West -35 17 £550 +8.21% 21
East Midlands -27 5 £401 -2.79% 9
North East - 4 £600 - 7
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 18 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.70%) Confluence
3 11 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.35%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.12%) Apache
5 5 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.12%) Mule
6 3 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.45%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.67%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.45%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 246 (55.28%) Azure
2 181 (40.67%) AWS
3 120 (26.97%) Entra ID
4 100 (22.47%) GCP
5 58 (13.03%) GitHub
6 46 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (9.44%) Serverless
8 40 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (8.09%) SaaS
10 30 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (5.84%) Azure Service Bus
11 26 (5.84%) Boomi
12 23 (5.17%) Azure API Management
13 20 (4.49%) Azure AKS
14 19 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
15 17 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (3.82%) OCI
16 16 (3.60%) Kong
17 15 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 14 (3.15%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.17%) DNS
2 19 (4.27%) Kerberos
3 13 (2.92%) Firewall
4 11 (2.47%) HTTP
4 11 (2.47%) SSL
5 8 (1.80%) X.509
6 7 (1.57%) DKIM
6 7 (1.57%) DMARC
6 7 (1.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (1.35%) NGFW
8 5 (1.12%) DHCP
8 5 (1.12%) IPsec
9 4 (0.90%) Network Security
9 4 (0.90%) VPN
10 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.45%) SSH
12 1 (0.22%) DMZ
12 1 (0.22%) Internet
12 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (8.76%) Relational Database
3 32 (7.19%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.19%) SQL Server
4 20 (4.49%) MongoDB
4 20 (4.49%) MySQL
5 18 (4.04%) Redis
6 14 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.47%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.80%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.57%) Power BI
9 7 (1.57%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.35%) Metadata
11 5 (1.12%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.12%) Hazelcast
12 4 (0.90%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.90%) Flink
12 4 (0.90%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (16.40%) Git
2 32 (7.19%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.07%) GitLab
4 21 (4.72%) JIRA
5 13 (2.92%) Maven
6 11 (2.47%) Storybook
7 10 (2.25%) JUnit
8 9 (2.02%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.80%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.80%) Gradle
9 8 (1.80%) Mockito
10 5 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.90%) git-flow
11 4 (0.90%) Selenium
11 4 (0.90%) Snyk
12 3 (0.67%) MSTest
12 3 (0.67%) NUnit
12 3 (0.67%) Postman
13 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.00%) Finance
3 58 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.89%) Banking
5 39 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.70%) Military
8 10 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.25%) Retail
9 8 (1.80%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.80%) Legal
10 5 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Publishing
12 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Marketing
12 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.45%) Local Government
13 2 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (30.11%) Developer
2 102 (22.92%) Architect
3 52 (11.69%) Senior
4 36 (8.09%) Java Developer
5 34 (7.64%) Lead
6 30 (6.74%) Technical Architect
7 26 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (4.27%) Consultant
9 19 (4.27%) Senior Developer
10 15 (3.37%) Technical Leader
11 14 (3.15%) IAM Specialist
12 13 (2.92%) Azure Developer
12 13 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.47%) Backend Developer
13 11 (2.47%) IAM Developer
13 11 (2.47%) Security Architect
14 10 (2.25%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (2.25%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (2.25%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (52.58%) OAuth2
2 227 (51.01%) OpenID
3 174 (39.10%) REST
4 159 (35.73%) SAML
5 105 (23.60%) Terraform
6 101 (22.70%) JWT
7 71 (15.96%) SOAP
8 68 (15.28%) RESTful
9 63 (14.16%) JSON
10 61 (13.71%) React
11 52 (11.69%) CSS
12 51 (11.46%) Kafka
13 50 (11.24%) LDAP
14 47 (10.56%) .NET
15 46 (10.34%) Swagger
16 45 (10.11%) OpenAPI
17 44 (9.89%) HTML
18 41 (9.21%) Node.js
19 40 (8.99%) Middleware
20 39 (8.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 99 (22.25%) Cloud Native
2 48 (10.79%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (8.99%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (8.31%) Onboarding
5 35 (7.87%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.27%) PKI
6 19 (4.27%) Security Posture
7 15 (3.37%) AI Agents
7 15 (3.37%) CMDB
7 15 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.02%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
11 6 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.35%) Replication
12 4 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.15%) Linux
1 14 (3.15%) Windows
2 8 (1.80%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.12%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.90%) Android
4 4 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) CentOS
5 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (43.37%) CI/CD
2 158 (35.51%) DevOps
3 129 (28.99%) Microservices
4 128 (28.76%) Agile
5 101 (22.70%) Identity Access Management
6 90 (20.22%) Event-Driven
7 87 (19.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 85 (19.10%) Test Automation
9 75 (16.85%) Containerisation
10 73 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (15.28%) AI
12 67 (15.06%) RBAC
12 67 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 66 (14.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 63 (14.16%) Observability
15 62 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
16 60 (13.48%) Software Engineering
17 58 (13.03%) Mentoring
18 57 (12.81%) API Management
19 53 (11.91%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 116 (26.07%) Java
2 112 (25.17%) Python
3 94 (21.12%) JavaScript
4 85 (19.10%) SQL
5 69 (15.51%) PowerShell
6 58 (13.03%) TypeScript
7 44 (9.89%) C#
8 33 (7.42%) Bicep
9 15 (3.37%) Go
10 8 (1.80%) Bash
11 5 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.67%) C++
13 3 (0.67%) Groovy
13 3 (0.67%) Lua
13 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.45%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.45%) PHP
14 2 (0.45%) Swift
14 2 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 117 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 88 (19.78%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.66%) Degree
4 24 (5.39%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (4.04%) CISSP
8 16 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (3.37%) AWS Certification
10 14 (3.15%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.02%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.57%) CISM
13 5 (1.12%) CSPO
13 5 (1.12%) MCSE
14 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.45%) CRISC
15 2 (0.45%) GIAC
15 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (6.52%) QA
3 28 (6.29%) NIST
4 23 (5.17%) GDPR
5 16 (3.60%) Accessibility
6 14 (3.15%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.80%) NCSC
8 7 (1.57%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.57%) WCAG
9 6 (1.35%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.67%) SLA
11 2 (0.45%) HL7
11 2 (0.45%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.45%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.45%) SEPA
11 2 (0.45%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 98 (22.02%) Active Directory
2 81 (18.20%) Docker
3 6 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.67%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Squid
6 1 (0.22%) zsh
Systems Management
1 113 (25.39%) Kubernetes
2 69 (15.51%) Single Sign-On
3 28 (6.29%) Grafana
4 23 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 19 (4.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (3.60%) Ansible
7 10 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.02%) Argo
9 3 (0.67%) Kibana
9 3 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.67%) Puppet
9 3 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.67%) WMI
10 2 (0.45%) Consul
10 2 (0.45%) Istio
10 2 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.45%) SCOM
10 2 (0.45%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.45%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.22%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 135 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.79%) Oracle
3 46 (10.34%) Google
4 34 (7.64%) ServiceNow
5 29 (6.52%) Okta
6 28 (6.29%) MuleSoft
7 17 (3.82%) Salesforce
8 15 (3.37%) SAP
9 14 (3.15%) CyberArk
9 14 (3.15%) Ping Identity
10 12 (2.70%) Databricks
10 12 (2.70%) IBM
11 11 (2.47%) Informatica
11 11 (2.47%) OpenAI
12 10 (2.25%) Workday
13 9 (2.02%) TIBCO
13 9 (2.02%) WSO2
14 8 (1.80%) Dell
14 8 (1.80%) ForgeRock
14 8 (1.80%) OutSystems