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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 319 397
Rank change year-on-year +18 +78 -23
Contract jobs citing OAuth 381 198 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.72% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.49% 3.24% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 129 88
10th Percentile £413 £367 £444
25th Percentile £485 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £514 £606
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -15.22% +1.04%
75th Percentile £672 £613 £673
90th Percentile £751 £676 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £519 £593
% change year-on-year +8.00% -12.49% +5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £37.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £58.75 -
% change year-on-year +27.66% - -

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 8,492 6,113 7,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.21% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,562 4,223 5,101
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +4.48% -8.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 145 233
10th Percentile £28.93 £31.25 £24.04
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.47 £79.48 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +5 192 £569 +3.50% 86
North of England -27 75 £625 +31.58% 10
South East -2 73 £538 +10.26% 20
Yorkshire -30 36 £620 +41.23% 6
North West -35 35 £625 +27.03% 5
South West -35 12 £550 +1.85% 6
Midlands -58 11 £438 +5.42% 4
East of England -12 10 £558 +11.50% 6
West Midlands -54 9 £531 -11.94% 4
North East - 6 £563 -
East Midlands -25 2 £401 -2.79%
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 (4.46%) Confluence
2 16 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.84%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.31%) Mule
6 3 (0.79%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.52%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) Apache
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.52%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 213 (55.91%) Azure
2 151 (39.63%) AWS
3 112 (29.40%) Entra ID
4 82 (21.52%) GCP
5 44 (11.55%) Serverless
6 41 (10.76%) GitHub
7 40 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (9.19%) SaaS
9 30 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (6.82%) Azure AKS
11 25 (6.56%) Azure API Management
12 22 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (4.99%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (4.99%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (4.46%) Amazon S3
15 17 (4.46%) Apigee
16 15 (3.94%) Kong
17 14 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (3.41%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.46%) DNS
1 17 (4.46%) Kerberos
2 14 (3.67%) SSL
3 11 (2.89%) HTTP
4 10 (2.62%) Firewall
5 7 (1.84%) DKIM
5 7 (1.84%) DMARC
6 5 (1.31%) IPsec
6 5 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.05%) Network Security
8 3 (0.79%) NGFW
9 2 (0.52%) DHCP
9 2 (0.52%) X.509
10 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.26%) SSH
10 1 (0.26%) VPN
10 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.61%) Relational Database
2 25 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.30%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.20%) Redis
5 15 (3.94%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.15%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.62%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.36%) MySQL
10 8 (2.10%) Metadata
11 6 (1.57%) Power BI
12 5 (1.31%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.31%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.05%) Hazelcast
14 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 46 (12.07%) Git
2 25 (6.56%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.51%) GitLab
3 21 (5.51%) JIRA
4 10 (2.62%) Browser DevTools
5 7 (1.84%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.84%) git-flow
6 6 (1.57%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.57%) Postman
7 5 (1.31%) Gradle
7 5 (1.31%) Maven
7 5 (1.31%) Storybook
8 4 (1.05%) Snyk
9 3 (0.79%) Fiddler
9 3 (0.79%) JMeter
9 3 (0.79%) MLflow
10 2 (0.52%) Mockito
10 2 (0.52%) Moq
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 87 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.73%) Finance
3 53 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 36 (9.45%) Banking
5 29 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.67%) Retail
8 12 (3.15%) Military
9 10 (2.62%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.84%) Legal
11 6 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.05%) Publishing
14 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.52%) Automotive
15 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.52%) Law
15 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (27.56%) Developer
2 97 (25.46%) Architect
3 49 (12.86%) Senior
4 31 (8.14%) Lead
5 28 (7.35%) Technical Architect
6 25 (6.56%) Java Developer
7 23 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (4.99%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.72%) Senior Developer
10 15 (3.94%) IAM Specialist
11 13 (3.41%) Consultant
11 13 (3.41%) Security Architect
12 12 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.15%) Integration Architect
13 10 (2.62%) Technical Leader
14 9 (2.36%) .NET Developer
14 9 (2.36%) IAM Developer
14 9 (2.36%) Lead Architect
14 9 (2.36%) Senior Java Developer
15 8 (2.10%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (52.76%) OAuth2
2 192 (50.39%) OpenID
3 157 (41.21%) SAML
4 132 (34.65%) REST
5 79 (20.73%) JWT
6 65 (17.06%) SOAP
7 58 (15.22%) RESTful
8 53 (13.91%) LDAP
9 48 (12.60%) JSON
10 37 (9.71%) .NET
10 37 (9.71%) SailPoint
11 36 (9.45%) Kafka
12 35 (9.19%) React
13 34 (8.92%) CSS
14 31 (8.14%) Spring
15 30 (7.87%) XML
16 27 (7.09%) HTML
16 27 (7.09%) Node.js
16 27 (7.09%) Web Services
17 26 (6.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 74 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 34 (8.92%) Onboarding
3 33 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (6.82%) Product Ownership
6 21 (5.51%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.20%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.20%) PKI
8 13 (3.41%) Mobile App
9 12 (3.15%) CMDB
10 11 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.89%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.57%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.57%) Freedom of Information
13 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.31%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.05%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.62%) Windows
2 8 (2.10%) Linux
3 6 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.05%) Android
5 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (41.21%) CI/CD
2 140 (36.75%) DevOps
3 97 (25.46%) Microservices
4 95 (24.93%) Agile
5 82 (21.52%) Identity Access Management
6 72 (18.90%) Containerisation
7 70 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (17.32%) Event-Driven
9 60 (15.75%) RBAC
10 56 (14.70%) AI
11 55 (14.44%) Test Automation
12 53 (13.91%) Integration Patterns
13 49 (12.86%) Zero Trust
14 48 (12.60%) API Integration
15 45 (11.81%) Mentoring
16 44 (11.55%) Roadmaps
17 43 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
18 42 (11.02%) API Management
18 42 (11.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (22.83%) Java
2 83 (21.78%) Python
3 73 (19.16%) SQL
4 72 (18.90%) JavaScript
5 52 (13.65%) PowerShell
6 38 (9.97%) TypeScript
7 37 (9.71%) C#
8 23 (6.04%) Bicep
9 9 (2.36%) Bash
9 9 (2.36%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.31%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.05%) Groovy
12 3 (0.79%) Go
12 3 (0.79%) PHP
13 2 (0.52%) PromQL
13 2 (0.52%) Scala
13 2 (0.52%) Swift
14 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 103 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 77 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.71%) Degree
4 24 (6.30%) CISSP
5 20 (5.25%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.94%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.15%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.62%) CISM
10 8 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.84%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.31%) CSPO
13 5 (1.31%) GIAC
14 4 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.52%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 30 (7.87%) NIST
2 27 (7.09%) GDPR
3 20 (5.25%) QA
4 10 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.84%) NCSC
5 7 (1.84%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.31%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.52%) HL7
9 2 (0.52%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 89 (23.36%) Active Directory
2 77 (20.21%) Docker
3 4 (1.05%) RACF
4 3 (0.79%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.26%) Squid
6 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 78 (20.47%) Kubernetes
2 76 (19.95%) Terraform
3 61 (16.01%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (6.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 22 (5.77%) Grafana
6 20 (5.25%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.41%) Ansible
8 7 (1.84%) Argo
9 5 (1.31%) Istio
9 5 (1.31%) linkerd
9 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.05%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.05%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.05%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.79%) WMI
12 2 (0.52%) Consul
12 2 (0.52%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (28.08%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.66%) Oracle
2 33 (8.66%) ServiceNow
3 30 (7.87%) Google
4 27 (7.09%) Okta
5 22 (5.77%) MuleSoft
6 16 (4.20%) CyberArk
7 15 (3.94%) Ping Identity
7 15 (3.94%) SAP
8 13 (3.41%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.62%) ForgeRock
9 10 (2.62%) Workday
10 9 (2.36%) OpenAI
11 8 (2.10%) OutSystems
12 6 (1.57%) IBM
13 5 (1.31%) Denodo
13 5 (1.31%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.05%) BeyondTrust
14 4 (1.05%) Informatica
15 3 (0.79%) TIBCO