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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 329 395
Rank change year-on-year +55 +66 +15
Contract jobs citing OAuth 355 156 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 0.64% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.47% 2.86% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 107 109
10th Percentile £363 £408 £425
25th Percentile £456 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +3.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £625
90th Percentile £726 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -0.92% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.13 - -
90th Percentile £55.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 7,947 5,454 7,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.69% 22.40% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,297 3,781 5,342
10th Percentile £361 £368 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 100 218
10th Percentile £34.25 £30.13 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 1 May 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
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 1 May 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 +42 200 £543 -6.87% 46
North of England -13 79 £550 +10.89% 16
North West -12 49 £525 +5.00% 11
South East -34 36 £595 -7.03% 13
Yorkshire -29 29 £575 +22.60% 5
South West -12 22 £550 +7.32% 7
Midlands -72 10 £442 -23.09% 4
West Midlands -59 6 £400 -31.91% 2
East of England - 4 £500 - 4
East Midlands -30 3 £438 -18.98% 2
North East - 2 £525 -
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 19 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.82%) Confluence
3 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.25%) Appian
5 5 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.56%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.54%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 171 (48.17%) Azure
2 134 (37.75%) AWS
3 106 (29.86%) Entra ID
4 69 (19.44%) GCP
5 56 (15.77%) Serverless
6 31 (8.73%) GitHub
7 28 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (7.32%) Apigee
9 26 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (7.04%) Amazon S3
11 24 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (5.63%) PaaS
12 20 (5.63%) SaaS
13 19 (5.35%) Kong
14 18 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (5.07%) IaaS
15 17 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (4.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.42%) DNS
2 35 (9.86%) Kerberos
3 19 (5.35%) HTTP
4 16 (4.51%) DHCP
5 14 (3.94%) Firewall
6 11 (3.10%) SSL
7 7 (1.97%) HTTPS
7 7 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.69%) IPsec
9 5 (1.41%) DKIM
9 5 (1.41%) DMARC
9 5 (1.41%) Network Security
9 5 (1.41%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.56%) NGFW
10 2 (0.56%) RFID
10 2 (0.56%) VPN
11 1 (0.28%) Extranet
11 1 (0.28%) Internet
11 1 (0.28%) SMS
11 1 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (7.04%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.07%) Redis
3 15 (4.23%) Relational Database
4 13 (3.66%) DynamoDB
5 11 (3.10%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.10%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.82%) Metadata
6 10 (2.82%) MySQL
7 9 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.69%) Power BI
10 5 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.41%) Data Vault
10 5 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.13%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.13%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.13%) Hazelcast
11 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.61%) Git
3 22 (6.20%) GitLab
4 20 (5.63%) Postman
5 14 (3.94%) JIRA
6 8 (2.25%) MLflow
6 8 (2.25%) SoapUI
7 6 (1.69%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.41%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.13%) git-flow
10 3 (0.85%) Gradle
10 3 (0.85%) Maven
10 3 (0.85%) Vite
11 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.56%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.56%) Moq
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 94 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.28%) Finance
3 41 (11.55%) Banking
4 38 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.97%) Military
7 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.41%) Marketing
7 5 (1.41%) Retail
8 4 (1.13%) Legal
8 4 (1.13%) Publishing
9 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.85%) Games
9 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Law
10 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 86 (24.23%) Developer
2 69 (19.44%) Architect
3 47 (13.24%) Senior
4 20 (5.63%) Lead
5 18 (5.07%) Java Developer
6 17 (4.79%) Analyst
7 16 (4.51%) Technical Architect
8 13 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 11 (3.10%) Senior Developer
10 10 (2.82%) Business Analyst
10 10 (2.82%) IAM Specialist
10 10 (2.82%) Integration Engineer
11 9 (2.54%) Applications Engineer
11 9 (2.54%) Backend Developer
11 9 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.25%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (2.25%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (48.45%) OAuth2
2 156 (43.94%) OpenID
3 154 (43.38%) SAML
4 94 (26.48%) REST
5 77 (21.69%) JWT
6 55 (15.49%) JSON
7 52 (14.65%) RESTful
8 49 (13.80%) LDAP
8 49 (13.80%) SOAP
9 37 (10.42%) XML
10 36 (10.14%) Node.js
11 35 (9.86%) Spring
11 35 (9.86%) Spring Boot
12 33 (9.30%) Web Services
13 29 (8.17%) Kafka
14 27 (7.61%) .NET
14 27 (7.61%) React
15 23 (6.48%) SailPoint
15 23 (6.48%) Swagger
16 22 (6.20%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.76%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.92%) Mobile App
5 20 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.51%) Replication
7 13 (3.66%) Low-Code
7 13 (3.66%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.38%) Management Information System
9 11 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.54%) PKI
12 8 (2.25%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.69%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.41%) CMDB
14 5 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (1.13%) Clustering
15 4 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
15 4 (1.13%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.61%) Windows
2 21 (5.92%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.25%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.97%) Android
5 6 (1.69%) Linux
6 2 (0.56%) zOS
7 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (37.18%) CI/CD
2 109 (30.70%) DevOps
3 89 (25.07%) Microservices
4 71 (20.00%) RBAC
5 64 (18.03%) Agile
5 64 (18.03%) Identity Access Management
6 63 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (14.37%) Containerisation
8 51 (14.37%) Event-Driven
9 48 (13.52%) Test Automation
10 46 (12.96%) Data Modelling
11 43 (12.11%) Observability
12 42 (11.83%) Integration Patterns
12 42 (11.83%) Validation
13 40 (11.27%) AI
14 39 (10.99%) Design Patterns
15 38 (10.70%) API Integration
15 38 (10.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 38 (10.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.54%) Python
2 77 (21.69%) Java
3 67 (18.87%) SQL
4 51 (14.37%) PowerShell
5 48 (13.52%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.30%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.61%) C#
8 14 (3.94%) Go
9 13 (3.66%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.38%) Bicep
11 7 (1.97%) Bash
12 4 (1.13%) Groovy
12 4 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.13%) PHP
13 3 (0.85%) Swift
14 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.28%) C++
15 1 (0.28%) COBOL
15 1 (0.28%) REXX
15 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 56 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.30%) Degree
4 22 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (5.35%) CISSP
6 18 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.38%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.25%) CISM
10 5 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.13%) GIAC
11 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.56%) MCSE
12 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.42%) GDPR
2 32 (9.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (7.32%) NIST
4 21 (5.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (4.51%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.38%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.82%) QA
8 7 (1.97%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.69%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.41%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.85%) GRC
11 3 (0.85%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.85%) SEPA
11 3 (0.85%) WCAG
12 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 82 (23.10%) Active Directory
2 69 (19.44%) Docker
3 6 (1.69%) RACF
4 2 (0.56%) OpenAM
4 2 (0.56%) OpenDJ
4 2 (0.56%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.56%) Squid
4 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (23.38%) Single Sign-On
2 76 (21.41%) Kubernetes
3 66 (18.59%) Terraform
4 37 (10.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (4.23%) Grafana
6 14 (3.94%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.25%) Ansible
8 6 (1.69%) Argo
8 6 (1.69%) Istio
8 6 (1.69%) linkerd
9 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.13%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.13%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.13%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 103 (29.01%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.89%) Google
3 27 (7.61%) Okta
4 24 (6.76%) Oracle
5 21 (5.92%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.79%) CyberArk
7 14 (3.94%) SAP
8 13 (3.66%) MuleSoft
9 12 (3.38%) OpenAI
10 11 (3.10%) Splunk
11 9 (2.54%) Ping Identity
12 8 (2.25%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (2.25%) ForgeRock
12 8 (2.25%) UiPath
13 7 (1.97%) Workday
14 5 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (1.41%) Denodo
14 5 (1.41%) Zscaler
15 4 (1.13%) Apple
15 4 (1.13%) OutSystems