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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 304 419
Rank change year-on-year +27 +115 -30
Contract jobs citing OAuth 374 182 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 0.73% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 3.20% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 121 94
10th Percentile £402 £400 £426
25th Percentile £463 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% -10.50% -
75th Percentile £672 £630 £638
90th Percentile £751 £684 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £577
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.85% +2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £36.25 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.08 - -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +36.36% - -

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 8,282 5,682 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.64% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,471 3,948 5,519
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 116 263
10th Percentile £30.61 £31.78 £22.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.06 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +36 211 £564 -0.79% 47
North of England -38 70 £570 +15.85% 13
South East -24 55 £600 - 26
North West -22 37 £550 +10.00% 7
Yorkshire -36 32 £620 +41.23% 3
South West -36 14 £550 +1.85% 6
Midlands -64 10 £431 +2.19% 2
East of England -21 7 £555 +11.00% 2
East Midlands -26 5 £438 +5.42%
West Midlands -54 4 £388 -35.74% 2
North East - 2 £525 - 3
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 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.94%) Confluence
4 7 (1.87%) Appian
5 5 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.80%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.53%) Mule
8 1 (0.27%) CICS
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.60%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.80%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 204 (54.55%) Azure
2 149 (39.84%) AWS
3 119 (31.82%) Entra ID
4 79 (21.12%) GCP
5 54 (14.44%) Serverless
6 40 (10.70%) GitHub
7 33 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (7.75%) SaaS
10 24 (6.42%) Amazon S3
10 24 (6.42%) Azure AKS
11 23 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (5.08%) Kong
15 18 (4.81%) Apigee
15 18 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (4.81%) Azure API Management
16 17 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (4.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.36%) DNS
2 34 (9.09%) Kerberos
3 15 (4.01%) DHCP
4 11 (2.94%) Firewall
4 11 (2.94%) HTTP
5 10 (2.67%) SSL
6 7 (1.87%) DKIM
6 7 (1.87%) DMARC
6 7 (1.87%) Network Security
7 6 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.34%) IPsec
8 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.80%) NGFW
10 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.27%) RFID
10 1 (0.27%) SSH
10 1 (0.27%) VPN
10 1 (0.27%) WAN
10 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.02%) SQL Server
3 27 (7.22%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.88%) Redis
5 15 (4.01%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.01%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.74%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.21%) MySQL
8 9 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.41%) Metadata
9 8 (2.14%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.34%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.34%) Hazelcast
12 5 (1.34%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.07%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.07%) DocumentDB
14 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (10.16%) Git
2 26 (6.95%) Jenkins
3 23 (6.15%) GitLab
4 19 (5.08%) JIRA
5 10 (2.67%) Browser DevTools
6 9 (2.41%) Postman
7 8 (2.14%) MLflow
8 7 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.87%) git-flow
9 5 (1.34%) Gradle
9 5 (1.34%) Maven
9 5 (1.34%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.07%) Snyk
10 4 (1.07%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.80%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.80%) JMeter
11 3 (0.80%) Vite
12 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.53%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
General
1 85 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 75 (20.05%) Finance
3 48 (12.83%) Banking
4 45 (12.03%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.48%) Retail
7 11 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 11 (2.94%) Military
8 5 (1.34%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.07%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.07%) Publishing
10 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.53%) Japanese Language
11 2 (0.53%) Law
11 2 (0.53%) Marketing
11 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 93 (24.87%) Developer
2 82 (21.93%) Architect
3 54 (14.44%) Senior
4 25 (6.68%) Technical Architect
5 23 (6.15%) Lead
6 20 (5.35%) Java Developer
7 16 (4.28%) Senior Developer
8 14 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (2.94%) Analyst
11 11 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (2.94%) IAM Specialist
11 11 (2.94%) Integration Architect
11 11 (2.94%) Security Architect
11 11 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.67%) Consultant
13 9 (2.41%) AWS Architect
14 8 (2.14%) Applications Engineer
14 8 (2.14%) Low-Code Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 183 (48.93%) OpenID
3 163 (43.58%) SAML
4 114 (30.48%) REST
5 76 (20.32%) JWT
6 62 (16.58%) LDAP
7 61 (16.31%) RESTful
8 50 (13.37%) SOAP
9 42 (11.23%) JSON
10 35 (9.36%) .NET
11 34 (9.09%) Kafka
11 34 (9.09%) React
12 33 (8.82%) Node.js
13 32 (8.56%) Spring
13 32 (8.56%) Spring Boot
13 32 (8.56%) Web Services
14 31 (8.29%) SailPoint
15 27 (7.22%) CSS
16 25 (6.68%) OpenTelemetry
16 25 (6.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 68 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.29%) Onboarding
3 29 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (5.08%) Security Posture
6 17 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 17 (4.55%) Product Ownership
7 16 (4.28%) Low-Code
7 16 (4.28%) Management Information System
8 15 (4.01%) Replication
9 14 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.94%) PKI
11 9 (2.41%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.60%) Freedom of Information
12 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.34%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.34%) CMDB
13 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.42%) Windows
2 20 (5.35%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.67%) Linux
4 9 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.14%) Android
6 5 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) CentOS
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) Unix
7 1 (0.27%) VMS
7 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (43.32%) CI/CD
2 133 (35.56%) DevOps
3 97 (25.94%) Microservices
4 87 (23.26%) Agile
5 82 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (18.98%) Identity Access Management
7 69 (18.45%) RBAC
8 63 (16.84%) Containerisation
9 61 (16.31%) Event-Driven
10 56 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (13.37%) Observability
12 49 (13.10%) Test Automation
13 47 (12.57%) AI
13 47 (12.57%) Integration Patterns
14 46 (12.30%) Zero Trust
15 45 (12.03%) API Integration
16 44 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (11.76%) Validation
17 41 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (10.70%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 91 (24.33%) Python
2 84 (22.46%) Java
3 75 (20.05%) SQL
4 58 (15.51%) PowerShell
5 55 (14.71%) JavaScript
6 35 (9.36%) TypeScript
7 30 (8.02%) C#
8 23 (6.15%) Bicep
9 14 (3.74%) Go
10 9 (2.41%) Bash
10 9 (2.41%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.07%) PHP
12 3 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.80%) Swift
13 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.53%) PromQL
13 2 (0.53%) Scala
14 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 71 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.16%) Degree
4 26 (6.95%) CISSP
5 18 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.28%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.01%) AWS Certification
8 14 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (2.67%) CISM
11 9 (2.41%) DV Cleared
12 8 (2.14%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.34%) CSPO
14 5 (1.34%) GIAC
15 4 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.53%) CEH
17 2 (0.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.43%) GDPR
2 34 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (7.49%) NIST
4 19 (5.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (4.81%) QA
6 14 (3.74%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.94%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.87%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.87%) NCSC
9 6 (1.60%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.07%) GRC
11 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.80%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.80%) WCAG
12 2 (0.53%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.53%) SEPA
System Software
1 90 (24.06%) Active Directory
2 79 (21.12%) Docker
3 5 (1.34%) RACF
4 3 (0.80%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 88 (23.53%) Terraform
2 85 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 79 (21.12%) Single Sign-On
4 40 (10.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (5.08%) Grafana
6 17 (4.55%) Prometheus
7 12 (3.21%) Ansible
8 7 (1.87%) Argo
9 6 (1.60%) Istio
9 6 (1.60%) linkerd
10 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.07%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.07%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.07%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.07%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.53%) Consul
12 2 (0.53%) WMI
12 2 (0.53%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (28.61%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.96%) Okta
3 30 (8.02%) Google
4 27 (7.22%) Oracle
4 27 (7.22%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.28%) Ping Identity
6 15 (4.01%) MuleSoft
6 15 (4.01%) SAP
7 14 (3.74%) CyberArk
8 13 (3.48%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.94%) ForgeRock
10 9 (2.41%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.41%) Workday
11 8 (2.14%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.87%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (1.87%) Splunk
12 7 (1.87%) UiPath
13 5 (1.34%) Denodo
13 5 (1.34%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.07%) Apple