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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 367 380
Rank change year-on-year +128 +13 +66
Contract jobs citing OAuth 360 125 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.47% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.02% 2.10% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 84 142
10th Percentile £358 £409 £425
25th Percentile £413 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £652 £674
90th Percentile £680 £696 £700
UK median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.00% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £55.10 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £72.31 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - -

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 7,167 5,947 7,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.08% 22.19% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,807 3,801 5,641
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £657 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £758
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £545
% change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 77 177
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year - +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +76 189 £525 -8.70% 80
North of England +5 73 £425 -19.05% 53
North West +11 48 £402 -21.56% 30
South West +26 36 £565 +25.56% 46
Midlands -27 28 £525 -8.70% 28
Yorkshire -27 25 £473 -27.31% 18
West Midlands -29 24 £531 -7.61% 8
South East -22 23 £500 -23.08% 91
East Midlands - 3 £447 - 20
East of England -23 2 £500 -33.33% 39
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 21 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.17%) Apache
3 14 (3.89%) Confluence
4 11 (3.06%) IIS
4 11 (3.06%) JBoss
4 11 (3.06%) WebSphere
5 10 (2.78%) iPlanet
5 10 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (1.67%) nginx
7 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.39%) Appian
7 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.28%) CICS
10 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 169 (46.94%) Azure
2 126 (35.00%) AWS
3 89 (24.72%) Entra ID
4 63 (17.50%) GitHub
5 47 (13.06%) Serverless
6 46 (12.78%) GCP
7 34 (9.44%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
10 30 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (7.78%) SaaS
12 26 (7.22%) Apigee
13 23 (6.39%) Amazon S3
14 21 (5.83%) Power Platform
15 20 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (5.28%) PaaS
17 18 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
18 17 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
18 17 (4.72%) OpenShift
19 15 (4.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (13.89%) Kerberos
2 35 (9.72%) DNS
3 18 (5.00%) HTTPS
4 17 (4.72%) Firewall
4 17 (4.72%) HTTP
5 15 (4.17%) DHCP
6 14 (3.89%) SSL
7 6 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.39%) SSH
9 4 (1.11%) Network Security
9 4 (1.11%) VPN
10 3 (0.83%) Internet
11 2 (0.56%) Extranet
11 2 (0.56%) RFID
11 2 (0.56%) S/MIME
11 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.28%) IPsec
12 1 (0.28%) SMS
12 1 (0.28%) SMTP
12 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.28%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.72%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.89%) DynamoDB
5 13 (3.61%) Oracle Database
5 13 (3.61%) Redis
5 13 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.50%) MySQL
6 9 (2.50%) Power BI
7 8 (2.22%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.94%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.67%) Metadata
10 5 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.39%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.11%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.83%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 41 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 40 (11.11%) Git
3 26 (7.22%) JIRA
4 19 (5.28%) Postman
5 18 (5.00%) GitLab
6 11 (3.06%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.06%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.22%) Xcode
9 7 (1.94%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.94%) Gradle
9 7 (1.94%) Maven
9 7 (1.94%) Storybook
10 6 (1.67%) JUnit
10 6 (1.67%) Selenium
11 5 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.39%) MLflow
11 5 (1.39%) Mockito
11 5 (1.39%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 106 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.72%) Finance
3 40 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.28%) Banking
5 30 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.94%) Marketing
9 5 (1.39%) Digital Healthcare
9 5 (1.39%) Publishing
10 4 (1.11%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.11%) Legal
10 4 (1.11%) Military
11 3 (0.83%) Games
12 2 (0.56%) Billing
12 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Retail
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 97 (26.94%) Developer
2 58 (16.11%) Architect
3 40 (11.11%) Senior
4 21 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.00%) Lead
6 17 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (3.89%) Integration Engineer
8 13 (3.61%) Analyst
8 13 (3.61%) Java Developer
9 12 (3.33%) Consultant
10 10 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (2.78%) Business Analyst
10 10 (2.78%) React Developer
10 10 (2.78%) Senior Developer
10 10 (2.78%) Software Engineer
11 9 (2.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 9 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (2.50%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (2.22%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (2.22%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (44.17%) OAuth2
1 159 (44.17%) SAML
2 139 (38.61%) OpenID
3 103 (28.61%) REST
4 68 (18.89%) JWT
5 67 (18.61%) JSON
6 58 (16.11%) RESTful
7 57 (15.83%) LDAP
8 50 (13.89%) SOAP
9 47 (13.06%) XML
10 34 (9.44%) Node.js
10 34 (9.44%) Spring
11 33 (9.17%) Spring Boot
12 32 (8.89%) HTML
13 29 (8.06%) GraphQL
13 29 (8.06%) React
14 27 (7.50%) .NET
15 22 (6.11%) Kafka
16 21 (5.83%) OpenAPI
16 21 (5.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.11%) Replication
4 19 (5.28%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 17 (4.72%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (3.33%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.78%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.50%) PKI
11 8 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.67%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.67%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.39%) Mobile Banking
13 5 (1.39%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.11%) BYOD
14 4 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.00%) Windows
2 42 (11.67%) Windows Server
3 30 (8.33%) Linux
4 13 (3.61%) Android
4 13 (3.61%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.22%) Unix
6 5 (1.39%) AIX
6 5 (1.39%) Solaris
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Embedded Compact
7 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (39.44%) CI/CD
2 122 (33.89%) DevOps
3 82 (22.78%) Identity Access Management
4 78 (21.67%) Microservices
5 71 (19.72%) Agile
6 68 (18.89%) RBAC
7 64 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (13.89%) Identity Management
10 49 (13.61%) Containerisation
11 47 (13.06%) Event-Driven
12 46 (12.78%) API Management
13 45 (12.50%) AI
13 45 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 38 (10.56%) Computer Science
14 38 (10.56%) Validation
15 36 (10.00%) Observability
16 35 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 33 (9.17%) API Design
17 33 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (25.56%) Python
2 72 (20.00%) Java
3 67 (18.61%) PowerShell
4 55 (15.28%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.78%) SQL
6 34 (9.44%) TypeScript
7 24 (6.67%) C#
8 15 (4.17%) Groovy
9 10 (2.78%) Go
10 9 (2.50%) Bash
11 8 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (2.22%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.67%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.39%) Bicep
14 4 (1.11%) PHP
15 3 (0.83%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.56%) C++
16 2 (0.56%) Swift
17 1 (0.28%) COBOL
17 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 67 (18.61%) SC Cleared
3 40 (11.11%) Degree
4 32 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (6.11%) DV Cleared
7 21 (5.83%) CISSP
8 10 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.50%) CISM
9 9 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.67%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.39%) MCP
12 3 (0.83%) PhD
13 2 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.56%) CCSP
13 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (15.00%) GDPR
2 34 (9.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (6.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 17 (4.72%) NIST
5 15 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.89%) SOC 2
7 13 (3.61%) Accessibility
8 12 (3.33%) QA
9 10 (2.78%) WCAG
10 9 (2.50%) Data Quality
11 8 (2.22%) HIPAA
11 8 (2.22%) PSD2
12 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.83%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.56%) GRC
14 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.56%) SEPA
14 2 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 101 (28.06%) Active Directory
2 73 (20.28%) Docker
3 8 (2.22%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.56%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.56%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.56%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.28%) RACF
6 1 (0.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 103 (28.61%) Single Sign-On
2 64 (17.78%) Terraform
3 59 (16.39%) Kubernetes
4 45 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (5.28%) Ansible
6 13 (3.61%) Grafana
7 11 (3.06%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.78%) CA Wily
9 9 (2.50%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.22%) Tivoli
11 5 (1.39%) Kibana
11 5 (1.39%) Prometheus
12 4 (1.11%) Argo
12 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.83%) SCCM
14 2 (0.56%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.56%) Puppet
15 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.28%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 125 (34.72%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.89%) Oracle
3 29 (8.06%) Google
4 26 (7.22%) Okta
4 26 (7.22%) Splunk
5 20 (5.56%) OpenAI
6 17 (4.72%) CyberArk
7 15 (4.17%) ForgeRock
8 14 (3.89%) IBM
9 13 (3.61%) MuleSoft
9 13 (3.61%) Salesforce
10 12 (3.33%) Ping Identity
11 11 (3.06%) AppDynamics
11 11 (3.06%) Broadcom
11 11 (3.06%) SAP
11 11 (3.06%) VMware
12 9 (2.50%) ServiceNow
13 8 (2.22%) Axway
14 7 (1.94%) Adobe
14 7 (1.94%) BeyondTrust