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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 325 402
Rank change year-on-year +49 +77 +25
Contract jobs citing OAuth 355 147 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 0.61% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.53% 2.68% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 104 106
10th Percentile £358 £409 £425
25th Percentile £438 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £624 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £696 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -6.25%
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 7,832 5,477 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.88% 22.56% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,762 5,367
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 86 178
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +32 190 £537 -10.50% 31
North of England -15 73 £475 -9.52% 18
North West -4 43 £465 -11.43% 11
South East -45 31 £585 -6.40% 18
South West +6 30 £570 +26.67% 5
Yorkshire -38 29 £475 -11.13% 7
Midlands -51 22 £500 -13.04% 2
West Midlands -37 18 £520 -10.54% 2
East Midlands -32 3 £438 -21.52%
East of England -32 2 £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 16 (4.51%) Confluence
1 16 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.25%) Appian
3 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.56%) CICS
5 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
5 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 6 (1.69%) 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
1 174 (49.01%) Azure
2 131 (36.90%) AWS
3 95 (26.76%) Entra ID
4 58 (16.34%) Serverless
5 51 (14.37%) GCP
6 40 (11.27%) GitHub
7 35 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (8.45%) Amazon S3
8 30 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (7.61%) Apigee
10 24 (6.76%) PaaS
11 23 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (6.20%) IaaS
12 22 (6.20%) SaaS
13 19 (5.35%) Power Platform
14 18 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (5.07%) Power Automate
15 17 (4.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (11.27%) Kerberos
2 37 (10.42%) DNS
3 20 (5.63%) Firewall
4 19 (5.35%) HTTP
5 14 (3.94%) DHCP
6 11 (3.10%) SSL
7 7 (1.97%) HTTPS
7 7 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.41%) IPsec
8 5 (1.41%) Network Security
9 4 (1.13%) SSH
10 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.56%) Internet
11 2 (0.56%) RFID
11 2 (0.56%) S/MIME
11 2 (0.56%) VPN
12 1 (0.28%) Extranet
12 1 (0.28%) SMS
12 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.92%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.07%) DynamoDB
4 14 (3.94%) Redis
5 11 (3.10%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.82%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.25%) MySQL
7 8 (2.25%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.97%) Power BI
9 5 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.41%) Metadata
10 4 (1.13%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.13%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.85%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 32 (9.01%) Jenkins
2 30 (8.45%) Git
3 21 (5.92%) GitLab
4 20 (5.63%) Postman
5 19 (5.35%) JIRA
6 10 (2.82%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.25%) MLflow
7 8 (2.25%) SoapUI
8 7 (1.97%) Selenium
9 6 (1.69%) JUnit
10 5 (1.41%) Maven
10 5 (1.41%) Mockito
10 5 (1.41%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.13%) Vite
12 3 (0.85%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.85%) git-flow
13 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.56%) Gatling
13 2 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 106 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 71 (20.00%) Finance
3 44 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.27%) Banking
5 27 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.07%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.69%) Marketing
8 6 (1.69%) Military
9 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.13%) Publishing
10 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.85%) Games
10 3 (0.85%) Legal
10 3 (0.85%) Retail
11 2 (0.56%) Billing
11 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Law
12 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 87 (24.51%) Developer
2 72 (20.28%) Architect
3 45 (12.68%) Senior
4 23 (6.48%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (5.35%) Lead
6 16 (4.51%) Analyst
7 15 (4.23%) Java Developer
8 13 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (3.10%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.10%) Security Architect
10 11 (3.10%) Technical Architect
11 10 (2.82%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (2.54%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (2.54%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.25%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (2.25%) Consultant
13 8 (2.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (47.32%) OAuth2
2 163 (45.92%) SAML
3 143 (40.28%) OpenID
4 94 (26.48%) REST
5 78 (21.97%) JWT
6 58 (16.34%) JSON
7 57 (16.06%) RESTful
8 41 (11.55%) SOAP
9 36 (10.14%) .NET
9 36 (10.14%) LDAP
9 36 (10.14%) Node.js
9 36 (10.14%) XML
10 35 (9.86%) Spring
10 35 (9.86%) Spring Boot
11 32 (9.01%) React
12 29 (8.17%) Web Services
13 25 (7.04%) Kafka
14 24 (6.76%) HTML
15 22 (6.20%) OpenAPI
16 21 (5.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.04%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.92%) Mobile App
5 20 (5.63%) Replication
6 16 (4.51%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (3.94%) Public Cloud
9 13 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.54%) Low-Code
10 9 (2.54%) Private Cloud
11 8 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.69%) PKI
12 6 (1.69%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.41%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (1.13%) Mainframe
14 4 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.11%) Windows
2 32 (9.01%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.82%) Linux
4 7 (1.97%) Android
4 7 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.13%) AIX
5 4 (1.13%) Solaris
6 2 (0.56%) zOS
7 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (38.31%) CI/CD
2 110 (30.99%) DevOps
3 91 (25.63%) Microservices
4 76 (21.41%) RBAC
5 73 (20.56%) Identity Access Management
6 69 (19.44%) Agile
6 69 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (14.37%) Test Automation
9 49 (13.80%) Validation
10 48 (13.52%) Containerisation
10 48 (13.52%) Event-Driven
11 46 (12.96%) AI
12 43 (12.11%) Integration Patterns
13 42 (11.83%) Data Modelling
13 42 (11.83%) Design Patterns
13 42 (11.83%) Identity Management
14 41 (11.55%) Observability
15 40 (11.27%) API Management
16 38 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (25.07%) Python
2 66 (18.59%) Java
3 57 (16.06%) PowerShell
4 54 (15.21%) JavaScript
4 54 (15.21%) SQL
5 31 (8.73%) C#
5 31 (8.73%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.94%) Go
7 13 (3.66%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.54%) Bash
8 9 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (2.25%) Bicep
10 5 (1.41%) Groovy
11 4 (1.13%) PHP
12 3 (0.85%) Swift
13 2 (0.56%) C++
14 1 (0.28%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.28%) C
14 1 (0.28%) COBOL
14 1 (0.28%) JCL
Qualifications
1 95 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 62 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.58%) Degree
4 27 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.32%) DV Cleared
6 25 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (5.92%) CISSP
8 10 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.25%) CISM
9 8 (2.25%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.85%) GIAC
11 3 (0.85%) PhD
12 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.56%) CCSP
12 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.99%) GDPR
2 30 (8.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (6.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 18 (5.07%) NIST
5 17 (4.79%) PCI DSS
6 13 (3.66%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.82%) QA
7 10 (2.82%) SOC 2
8 9 (2.54%) WCAG
9 8 (2.25%) HIPAA
10 7 (1.97%) PSD2
11 6 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (1.13%) Accessibility
13 4 (1.13%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.85%) GRC
14 3 (0.85%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.85%) SLA
15 2 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 82 (23.10%) Active Directory
2 66 (18.59%) Docker
3 6 (1.69%) RACF
4 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.56%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.56%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.56%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 99 (27.89%) Single Sign-On
2 72 (20.28%) Kubernetes
3 63 (17.75%) Terraform
4 46 (12.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (4.79%) Grafana
6 13 (3.66%) Ansible
7 11 (3.10%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.41%) Argo
8 5 (1.41%) Istio
8 5 (1.41%) Kibana
8 5 (1.41%) linkerd
9 3 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 110 (30.99%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.48%) Okta
2 23 (6.48%) Oracle
3 21 (5.92%) Google
4 19 (5.35%) CyberArk
5 16 (4.51%) OpenAI
5 16 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.51%) Splunk
6 14 (3.94%) ForgeRock
7 13 (3.66%) MuleSoft
8 11 (3.10%) Ping Identity
8 11 (3.10%) SAP
9 10 (2.82%) VMware
10 9 (2.54%) BeyondTrust
11 8 (2.25%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.25%) UiPath
12 6 (1.69%) Adobe
12 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.41%) IBM
14 4 (1.13%) Apple