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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 392 365
Rank change year-on-year +128 -27 +107
Contract jobs citing OAuth 313 130 216
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.42% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.51% 1.91% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 82 166
10th Percentile £360 £409 £413
25th Percentile £406 £514 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £736 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £594 £550
% change year-on-year -15.79% +7.95% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £55.83 - -
25th Percentile £59.31 - -
Median hourly rate £62.75 - -
75th Percentile £66.94 - -
90th Percentile £71.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 6,942 6,790 8,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.70% 21.72% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,677 4,330 6,328
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £666 £675
90th Percentile £734 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 102 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.98 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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
London +81 149 £500 -16.67% 92
North of England +17 61 £409 -14.79% 14
North West +10 36 £405 +31.71% 10
South West +22 34 £555 -10.66% 14
Midlands -23 31 £465 -15.45% 13
Yorkshire -19 25 £453 -30.38% 3
South East 0 23 £500 -21.57% 25
West Midlands -19 22 £531 -7.61% 13
East Midlands - 9 £415 -
East of England -15 2 £500 -33.33% 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 18 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.43%) Apache
3 15 (4.79%) Confluence
4 14 (4.47%) WebSphere
5 13 (4.15%) WebSphere Application Server
6 11 (3.51%) IIS
6 11 (3.51%) JBoss
7 10 (3.19%) iPlanet
8 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.92%) nginx
10 5 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (1.60%) CMS
10 5 (1.60%) Headless CMS
11 4 (1.28%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.96%) Mule
13 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.32%) CICS
14 1 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
14 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 154 (49.20%) Azure
2 119 (38.02%) AWS
3 77 (24.60%) Entra ID
4 57 (18.21%) GitHub
5 46 (14.70%) GCP
6 40 (12.78%) Serverless
7 38 (12.14%) SaaS
8 37 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
9 33 (10.54%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (7.03%) Apigee
13 21 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (6.39%) Amazon S3
15 17 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (5.43%) Power Platform
16 16 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (5.11%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (4.15%) Azure Functions
17 13 (4.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.27%) Kerberos
2 18 (5.75%) SSL
3 17 (5.43%) HTTPS
4 16 (5.11%) DNS
4 16 (5.11%) Firewall
5 12 (3.83%) HTTP
6 5 (1.60%) SSH
7 3 (0.96%) Internet
7 3 (0.96%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.64%) AMQP
8 2 (0.64%) DSL
8 2 (0.64%) Extranet
8 2 (0.64%) Network Security
8 2 (0.64%) S/MIME
8 2 (0.64%) VPN
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) DKIM
9 1 (0.32%) DMARC
9 1 (0.32%) SMTP
9 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.11%) Oracle Database
2 15 (4.79%) DynamoDB
3 12 (3.83%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.56%) Power BI
5 8 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.60%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.60%) MySQL
8 4 (1.28%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.28%) Metadata
8 4 (1.28%) Redis
9 3 (0.96%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (12.78%) Git
2 37 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.95%) JIRA
4 16 (5.11%) GitLab
5 11 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.51%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (2.88%) Postman
6 9 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.56%) Xcode
8 7 (2.24%) Gradle
8 7 (2.24%) Maven
8 7 (2.24%) Storybook
9 5 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.60%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.60%) JUnit
9 5 (1.60%) Mockito
9 5 (1.60%) Selenium
10 4 (1.28%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.28%) Fiddler
10 4 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 113 (36.10%) Social Skills
2 60 (19.17%) Finance
3 42 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.03%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (6.39%) Banking
7 9 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.60%) Digital Healthcare
8 5 (1.60%) Marketing
9 4 (1.28%) Legal
9 4 (1.28%) Retail
10 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.96%) Publishing
11 2 (0.64%) Billing
11 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 83 (26.52%) Developer
2 50 (15.97%) Architect
3 35 (11.18%) Senior
4 21 (6.71%) Lead
5 18 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (4.79%) Consultant
8 14 (4.47%) Analyst
8 14 (4.47%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.15%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.19%) Integration Engineer
11 9 (2.88%) Integration Developer
11 9 (2.88%) Java Developer
11 9 (2.88%) React Developer
11 9 (2.88%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.24%) ForgeRock Developer
13 7 (2.24%) Lead Architect
13 7 (2.24%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (46.33%) SAML
2 141 (45.05%) OAuth2
3 134 (42.81%) OpenID
4 76 (24.28%) REST
5 58 (18.53%) RESTful
6 57 (18.21%) JSON
7 52 (16.61%) JWT
7 52 (16.61%) LDAP
8 43 (13.74%) SOAP
9 35 (11.18%) Spring
10 32 (10.22%) XML
11 29 (9.27%) GraphQL
12 26 (8.31%) HTML
13 25 (7.99%) Node.js
13 25 (7.99%) React
13 25 (7.99%) Spring Boot
14 22 (7.03%) .NET
15 19 (6.07%) Kafka
16 14 (4.47%) Microsoft Graph
16 14 (4.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (6.07%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.75%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (5.75%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.15%) Mobile App
6 10 (3.19%) PKI
7 7 (2.24%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.24%) Replication
7 7 (2.24%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.28%) BYOD
9 4 (1.28%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.64%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.50%) Windows
2 29 (9.27%) Linux
3 25 (7.99%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.19%) Android
5 9 (2.88%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.56%) Unix
7 5 (1.60%) AIX
7 5 (1.60%) Solaris
8 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (38.34%) CI/CD
2 113 (36.10%) DevOps
3 77 (24.60%) Identity Access Management
4 71 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (22.04%) Agile
6 68 (21.73%) RBAC
7 57 (18.21%) Identity Management
8 56 (17.89%) Microservices
9 48 (15.34%) Containerisation
10 47 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 42 (13.42%) API Management
12 34 (10.86%) AI
13 32 (10.22%) Mentoring
13 32 (10.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 31 (9.90%) Computer Science
15 29 (9.27%) Analytics
15 29 (9.27%) API Design
15 29 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (9.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (8.63%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 69 (22.04%) Python
2 65 (20.77%) Java
3 53 (16.93%) PowerShell
4 48 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.22%) SQL
6 28 (8.95%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.07%) C#
8 15 (4.79%) Groovy
9 10 (3.19%) Bash
10 8 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.96%) Bicep
12 3 (0.96%) DataWeave
12 3 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.64%) Go
13 2 (0.64%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 71 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.86%) Degree
4 26 (8.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (6.39%) CISSP
7 18 (5.75%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.47%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.19%) Azure Certification
9 10 (3.19%) CISM
10 9 (2.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.60%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.96%) PhD
13 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.64%) CCSP
13 2 (0.64%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.74%) GDPR
2 25 (7.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.79%) HIPAA
4 12 (3.83%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.51%) NIST
6 10 (3.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (3.19%) SOC 2
7 9 (2.88%) QA
8 8 (2.56%) PCI DSS
8 8 (2.56%) WCAG
9 6 (1.92%) PSD2
10 4 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.28%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.64%) SLA
13 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.32%) NCSC
13 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 99 (31.63%) Active Directory
2 65 (20.77%) Docker
3 8 (2.56%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.64%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.64%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.64%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (31.31%) Single Sign-On
2 56 (17.89%) Terraform
3 49 (15.65%) Kubernetes
4 23 (7.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (6.39%) Ansible
6 11 (3.51%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.51%) Grafana
7 10 (3.19%) CA Wily
8 9 (2.88%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.56%) Tivoli
9 8 (2.56%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 6 (1.92%) Kibana
10 6 (1.92%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.96%) SCCM
12 2 (0.64%) Argo
12 2 (0.64%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.64%) Puppet
13 1 (0.32%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 114 (36.42%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.31%) IBM
2 26 (8.31%) Splunk
3 23 (7.35%) Oracle
4 18 (5.75%) Google
5 17 (5.43%) ForgeRock
5 17 (5.43%) Ping Identity
6 16 (5.11%) CyberArk
7 15 (4.79%) OpenAI
8 13 (4.15%) MuleSoft
8 13 (4.15%) Okta
8 13 (4.15%) Salesforce
9 11 (3.51%) AppDynamics
9 11 (3.51%) Broadcom
10 10 (3.19%) SAP
10 10 (3.19%) ServiceNow
11 9 (2.88%) VMware
12 8 (2.56%) Alibaba
12 8 (2.56%) Axway
13 6 (1.92%) Databricks