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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 328 386
Rank change year-on-year +57 +58 +49
Contract jobs citing OAuth 362 151 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 2.75% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 106 112
10th Percentile £358 £408 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +1.77% -1.74%
75th Percentile £624 £656 £650
90th Percentile £702 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.58 - -
25th Percentile £58.69 - -
Median hourly rate £64.63 - -
75th Percentile £69.82 - -
90th Percentile £72.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.63 - -

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 8,013 5,487 7,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.68% 22.52% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 3,797 5,387
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 87 156
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.95 £83.38 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +45 197 £527 -8.35% 31
North of England -25 74 £475 -5.00% 18
North West -16 45 £475 -7.32% 11
South East -41 32 £595 +3.48% 18
South West -2 28 £575 +27.78% 5
Yorkshire -36 28 £506 +7.89% 7
Midlands -49 22 £500 -13.04% 2
West Midlands -41 18 £520 -11.49% 2
East Midlands -32 3 £438 -21.52%
East of England - 3 £500 - 4
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 17 (4.70%) Confluence
2 16 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.21%) Appian
4 5 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.83%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.55%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.49%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 177 (48.90%) Azure
2 134 (37.02%) AWS
3 96 (26.52%) Entra ID
4 59 (16.30%) Serverless
5 58 (16.02%) GCP
6 42 (11.60%) GitHub
7 36 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (8.56%) Amazon S3
8 31 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (8.29%) Apigee
10 24 (6.63%) PaaS
11 22 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (6.08%) IaaS
11 22 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (6.08%) SaaS
12 20 (5.52%) Power Platform
13 18 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (4.97%) Power Automate
14 17 (4.70%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 39 (10.77%) DNS
2 36 (9.94%) Kerberos
3 20 (5.52%) Firewall
4 19 (5.25%) HTTP
5 15 (4.14%) DHCP
6 14 (3.87%) SSL
7 8 (2.21%) HTTPS
8 7 (1.93%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.38%) IPsec
10 4 (1.10%) Network Security
10 4 (1.10%) SSH
10 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.55%) RFID
11 2 (0.55%) VPN
12 1 (0.28%) Extranet
12 1 (0.28%) Internet
12 1 (0.28%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.97%) DynamoDB
4 16 (4.42%) Redis
5 11 (3.04%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.04%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.76%) Metadata
6 10 (2.76%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.76%) MySQL
7 8 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.93%) Power BI
9 6 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.10%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.83%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.83%) GIS
12 3 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (9.12%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.01%) Git
3 24 (6.63%) GitLab
4 21 (5.80%) Postman
5 19 (5.25%) JIRA
6 10 (2.76%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.21%) MLflow
7 8 (2.21%) SoapUI
8 7 (1.93%) Selenium
9 6 (1.66%) JUnit
9 6 (1.66%) Maven
10 5 (1.38%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.38%) Mockito
10 5 (1.38%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.10%) git-flow
11 4 (1.10%) Vite
12 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.55%) Gatling
13 1 (0.28%) Appium
General
1 104 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 70 (19.34%) Finance
3 44 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.60%) Banking
5 27 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.66%) Marketing
8 6 (1.66%) Military
9 5 (1.38%) Retail
10 4 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.10%) Publishing
11 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.83%) Games
11 3 (0.83%) Legal
12 2 (0.55%) Billing
12 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 83 (22.93%) Developer
2 68 (18.78%) Architect
3 48 (13.26%) Senior
4 22 (6.08%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (5.25%) Lead
6 16 (4.42%) Analyst
6 16 (4.42%) Java Developer
7 13 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 11 (3.04%) Business Analyst
8 11 (3.04%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (3.04%) Technical Architect
9 10 (2.76%) Consultant
9 10 (2.76%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (2.49%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (2.21%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (2.21%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (2.21%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (46.96%) OAuth2
2 161 (44.48%) SAML
3 150 (41.44%) OpenID
4 92 (25.41%) REST
5 85 (23.48%) JWT
6 59 (16.30%) JSON
7 54 (14.92%) RESTful
8 44 (12.15%) LDAP
9 42 (11.60%) SOAP
10 38 (10.50%) Node.js
10 38 (10.50%) XML
11 37 (10.22%) Spring
11 37 (10.22%) Spring Boot
12 34 (9.39%) .NET
13 33 (9.12%) React
14 29 (8.01%) Kafka
14 29 (8.01%) Web Services
15 23 (6.35%) HTML
15 23 (6.35%) OpenAPI
15 23 (6.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.50%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.08%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.80%) Mobile App
4 21 (5.80%) Replication
5 16 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.87%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.49%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.49%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.21%) PKI
10 7 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.93%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.66%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.10%) Clustering
13 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.33%) Windows
2 31 (8.56%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.49%) Linux
4 7 (1.93%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.66%) Android
6 4 (1.10%) AIX
6 4 (1.10%) Solaris
7 2 (0.55%) zOS
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (38.40%) CI/CD
2 117 (32.32%) DevOps
3 93 (25.69%) Microservices
4 75 (20.72%) RBAC
5 70 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (18.78%) Agile
6 68 (18.78%) Identity Access Management
7 63 (17.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (14.09%) Event-Driven
8 51 (14.09%) Test Automation
9 50 (13.81%) Validation
10 48 (13.26%) Containerisation
11 46 (12.71%) Data Modelling
12 45 (12.43%) AI
12 45 (12.43%) Integration Patterns
13 43 (11.88%) Observability
14 41 (11.33%) API Management
15 40 (11.05%) Design Patterns
16 39 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
17 37 (10.22%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (24.59%) Python
2 74 (20.44%) Java
3 57 (15.75%) SQL
4 55 (15.19%) JavaScript
5 54 (14.92%) PowerShell
6 32 (8.84%) C#
7 31 (8.56%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.87%) Go
9 13 (3.59%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.04%) Bash
11 9 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (2.21%) Bicep
13 6 (1.66%) PHP
14 5 (1.38%) Groovy
15 3 (0.83%) Swift
16 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.28%) Assembly Language
16 1 (0.28%) JCL
16 1 (0.28%) REXX
16 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.01%) Degree
4 26 (7.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (6.91%) DV Cleared
6 22 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (4.97%) CISSP
8 9 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.66%) CISM
11 5 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.83%) GIAC
14 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.28%) CBAP
15 1 (0.28%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.94%) GDPR
2 30 (8.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (5.80%) NIST
4 19 (5.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (4.42%) PCI DSS
6 13 (3.59%) Data Quality
7 11 (3.04%) QA
8 10 (2.76%) SOC 2
9 9 (2.49%) WCAG
10 6 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.66%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.38%) ISO 20022
12 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.83%) GRC
13 3 (0.83%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.83%) SEPA
14 2 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.55%) PSD2
System Software
1 85 (23.48%) Active Directory
2 69 (19.06%) Docker
3 6 (1.66%) RACF
4 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.55%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.55%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 93 (25.69%) Single Sign-On
2 75 (20.72%) Kubernetes
3 68 (18.78%) Terraform
4 49 (13.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (4.70%) Grafana
6 13 (3.59%) Ansible
7 11 (3.04%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.38%) Istio
8 5 (1.38%) Kibana
8 5 (1.38%) linkerd
9 4 (1.10%) Argo
9 4 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.10%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.83%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Identity Manager
11 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 112 (30.94%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.91%) Okta
3 22 (6.08%) Oracle
4 21 (5.80%) Google
5 20 (5.52%) ServiceNow
6 19 (5.25%) CyberArk
7 16 (4.42%) Splunk
8 15 (4.14%) OpenAI
9 13 (3.59%) MuleSoft
10 11 (3.04%) SAP
11 10 (2.76%) Ping Identity
11 10 (2.76%) VMware
12 9 (2.49%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (2.49%) ForgeRock
13 8 (2.21%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (2.21%) UiPath
14 6 (1.66%) Adobe
14 6 (1.66%) Salesforce
15 5 (1.38%) Denodo
15 5 (1.38%) IBM