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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 381 370
Rank change year-on-year +121 -11 +92
Contract jobs citing OAuth 312 126 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.42% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 1.91% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 77 156
10th Percentile £360 £409 £425
25th Percentile £407 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £674
90th Percentile £680 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -15.61% +7.73% -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 6,902 6,610 8,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,224 6,131
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 95 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +63 141 £500 -16.67% 40
North of England +21 70 £420 -12.50% 28
North West +27 44 £405 +31.71% 15
South West +17 36 £563 -12.45% 23
Midlands -18 30 £510 -9.33% 20
Yorkshire -18 26 £449 -30.92% 9
West Midlands -17 24 £531 -7.61% 12
South East -12 23 £500 -21.57% 33
East Midlands - 6 £415 - 7
East of England -16 1 - - 12
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 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.13%) Apache
3 15 (4.81%) Confluence
4 11 (3.53%) IIS
4 11 (3.53%) JBoss
4 11 (3.53%) WebSphere
5 10 (3.21%) iPlanet
5 10 (3.21%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.92%) nginx
8 5 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.96%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.64%) CICS
10 2 (0.64%) Mule
10 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 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 5 (1.60%) 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
1 152 (48.72%) Azure
2 114 (36.54%) AWS
3 75 (24.04%) Entra ID
4 57 (18.27%) GitHub
5 46 (14.74%) GCP
6 38 (12.18%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (11.86%) SaaS
8 35 (11.22%) Serverless
9 33 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (7.37%) Apigee
12 20 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (5.45%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (5.45%) Power Platform
14 15 (4.81%) Amazon S3
15 14 (4.49%) Azure Functions
16 12 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (3.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.62%) Kerberos
2 18 (5.77%) HTTPS
3 17 (5.45%) DNS
4 16 (5.13%) Firewall
5 15 (4.81%) SSL
6 14 (4.49%) HTTP
7 5 (1.60%) SSH
8 3 (0.96%) Internet
8 3 (0.96%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.64%) AMQP
9 2 (0.64%) DSL
9 2 (0.64%) Extranet
9 2 (0.64%) Network Security
9 2 (0.64%) S/MIME
9 2 (0.64%) VPN
10 1 (0.32%) DHCP
10 1 (0.32%) DKIM
10 1 (0.32%) SMTP
10 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.13%) Oracle Database
2 14 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.21%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.88%) Power BI
7 7 (2.24%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.92%) Redis
9 5 (1.60%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.60%) MySQL
10 4 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.28%) Metadata
10 4 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.96%) Airbyte
12 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.64%) DB2
12 2 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (13.46%) Git
2 35 (11.22%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.97%) JIRA
4 14 (4.49%) GitLab
5 11 (3.53%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.53%) CA Release Automation
5 11 (3.53%) 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 6 (1.92%) Selenium
10 5 (1.60%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.60%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.60%) JUnit
10 5 (1.60%) Mockito
11 4 (1.28%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.28%) Fiddler
11 4 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 106 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.15%) Finance
3 39 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.05%) Banking
6 21 (6.73%) Documentation Skills
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%) Games
10 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Billing
11 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 90 (28.85%) Developer
2 49 (15.71%) Architect
3 33 (10.58%) Senior
4 21 (6.73%) Lead
5 18 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.49%) Analyst
7 14 (4.49%) Business Analyst
7 14 (4.49%) Integration Engineer
8 13 (4.17%) Consultant
9 12 (3.85%) Java Developer
9 12 (3.85%) Senior Developer
10 9 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (2.88%) Integration Developer
10 9 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (2.88%) React Developer
10 9 (2.88%) Software Engineer
11 8 (2.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 8 (2.56%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.24%) ForgeRock Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (46.79%) OAuth2
2 136 (43.59%) SAML
3 129 (41.35%) OpenID
4 76 (24.36%) REST
5 59 (18.91%) JSON
6 57 (18.27%) RESTful
7 52 (16.67%) JWT
8 47 (15.06%) LDAP
9 43 (13.78%) SOAP
10 38 (12.18%) Spring
11 34 (10.90%) XML
12 32 (10.26%) Spring Boot
13 28 (8.97%) GraphQL
14 27 (8.65%) Node.js
15 25 (8.01%) HTML
16 23 (7.37%) React
17 22 (7.05%) .NET
18 16 (5.13%) Kafka
19 14 (4.49%) Microsoft Graph
19 14 (4.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.22%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 19 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
4 18 (5.77%) Management Information System
5 17 (5.45%) Mobile App
6 13 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.88%) PKI
8 7 (2.24%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.24%) Replication
9 6 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.92%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.28%) BYOD
10 4 (1.28%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.28%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.96%) DataPower
11 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.64%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.18%) Windows
2 27 (8.65%) Linux
3 26 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.21%) 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
8 2 (0.64%) zOS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (36.22%) CI/CD
2 111 (35.58%) DevOps
3 72 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
4 67 (21.47%) Agile
4 67 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (19.87%) Microservices
6 61 (19.55%) RBAC
7 56 (17.95%) Identity Management
8 45 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 43 (13.78%) API Management
10 42 (13.46%) Containerisation
11 34 (10.90%) AI
11 34 (10.90%) API Design
12 33 (10.58%) Computer Science
13 31 (9.94%) Test Automation
14 30 (9.62%) Event-Driven
14 30 (9.62%) Mentoring
15 29 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (9.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 71 (22.76%) Java
2 70 (22.44%) Python
3 54 (17.31%) PowerShell
4 49 (15.71%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.26%) SQL
6 31 (9.94%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.09%) C#
8 15 (4.81%) Groovy
9 9 (2.88%) Bash
10 8 (2.56%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.96%) Bicep
12 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.64%) C++
13 2 (0.64%) Go
13 2 (0.64%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 51 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.54%) Degree
4 29 (9.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (6.41%) CISSP
6 20 (6.41%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.21%) CISM
8 9 (2.88%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.88%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.96%) PhD
11 2 (0.64%) CCSP
11 2 (0.64%) MCP
12 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.46%) GDPR
2 25 (8.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.85%) HIPAA
3 12 (3.85%) NIST
4 11 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (2.88%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.88%) QA
5 9 (2.88%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.56%) WCAG
7 6 (1.92%) PSD2
8 4 (1.28%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.64%) SLA
11 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.32%) NCSC
11 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 99 (31.73%) Active Directory
2 59 (18.91%) 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
Systems Management
1 91 (29.17%) Single Sign-On
2 54 (17.31%) Terraform
3 44 (14.10%) Kubernetes
4 27 (8.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (6.41%) Ansible
6 11 (3.53%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.21%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.21%) Grafana
8 9 (2.88%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.56%) Tivoli
10 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.60%) Kibana
11 5 (1.60%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 3 (0.96%) SCCM
13 2 (0.64%) Argo
13 2 (0.64%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.64%) Puppet
14 1 (0.32%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 114 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.69%) Splunk
3 23 (7.37%) Oracle
4 21 (6.73%) IBM
5 19 (6.09%) Google
6 18 (5.77%) CyberArk
7 15 (4.81%) ForgeRock
7 15 (4.81%) OpenAI
8 14 (4.49%) Ping Identity
9 12 (3.85%) MuleSoft
9 12 (3.85%) Salesforce
10 11 (3.53%) AppDynamics
10 11 (3.53%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.53%) Okta
11 10 (3.21%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.21%) VMware
12 9 (2.88%) SAP
13 8 (2.56%) Alibaba
13 8 (2.56%) Axway
14 7 (2.24%) BeyondTrust