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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 358 359
Rank change year-on-year +100 +1 +98
Contract jobs citing OAuth 322 128 190
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.47% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.60% 2.14% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 85 150
10th Percentile £358 £409 £425
25th Percentile £413 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +4.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £664 £650
90th Percentile £680 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -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 6,999 5,982 7,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.18% 21.86% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,673 3,827 5,524
10th Percentile £356 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £671
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 68 161
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +68 162 £511 -9.71% 86
North of England +8 68 £420 -20.00% 34
North West +18 46 £402 -17.54% 21
South West +20 34 £565 -12.06% 26
Midlands -21 26 £525 -8.70% 10
West Midlands -23 24 £531 -7.61% 3
Yorkshire -26 22 £473 -27.31% 9
South East -23 21 £500 -23.08% 57
East of England -21 2 £500 -33.33% 20
East Midlands - 2 £455 - 7
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 20 (6.21%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.97%) Apache
2 16 (4.97%) Confluence
3 11 (3.42%) IIS
3 11 (3.42%) JBoss
3 11 (3.42%) WebSphere
4 10 (3.11%) iPlanet
4 10 (3.11%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (1.86%) nginx
6 5 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.24%) Oracle Service Bus
7 4 (1.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.93%) Appian
9 2 (0.62%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.62%) CICS
9 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.24%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 146 (45.34%) Azure
2 115 (35.71%) AWS
3 70 (21.74%) Entra ID
4 58 (18.01%) GitHub
5 41 (12.73%) Serverless
6 37 (11.49%) GCP
7 32 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (7.76%) Apigee
10 25 (7.76%) SaaS
11 21 (6.52%) Amazon S3
12 20 (6.21%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (6.21%) Power Platform
13 18 (5.59%) Azure Logic Apps
14 16 (4.97%) PaaS
15 15 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (4.35%) OpenShift
17 13 (4.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (10.87%) Kerberos
2 19 (5.90%) DNS
3 18 (5.59%) HTTPS
4 16 (4.97%) SSL
5 15 (4.66%) Firewall
5 15 (4.66%) HTTP
6 5 (1.55%) SSH
7 4 (1.24%) VPN
8 3 (0.93%) Internet
9 2 (0.62%) DHCP
9 2 (0.62%) Extranet
9 2 (0.62%) Network Security
9 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.62%) RFID
9 2 (0.62%) S/MIME
9 2 (0.62%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.31%) IPsec
10 1 (0.31%) SMS
10 1 (0.31%) SMTP
10 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.59%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.66%) Oracle Database
4 13 (4.04%) DynamoDB
5 12 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.42%) Redis
6 11 (3.42%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.80%) Power BI
8 8 (2.48%) MySQL
9 6 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.86%) Metadata
9 6 (1.86%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.86%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.93%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.93%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.62%) GIS
Development Applications
1 39 (12.11%) Git
1 39 (12.11%) Jenkins
2 28 (8.70%) JIRA
3 17 (5.28%) GitLab
3 17 (5.28%) Postman
4 11 (3.42%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (3.42%) CA Release Automation
5 9 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (2.48%) Xcode
7 7 (2.17%) Gradle
7 7 (2.17%) Maven
7 7 (2.17%) Storybook
8 6 (1.86%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.86%) JUnit
8 6 (1.86%) Selenium
9 5 (1.55%) Mockito
10 4 (1.24%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.24%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.24%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.24%) SonarQube
General
1 100 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 70 (21.74%) Finance
3 39 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.07%) Banking
6 21 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.17%) Marketing
9 5 (1.55%) Digital Healthcare
10 4 (1.24%) Legal
10 4 (1.24%) Publishing
11 3 (0.93%) Games
11 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Billing
12 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Military
12 2 (0.62%) Retail
12 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.31%) Electronics
13 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (27.95%) Developer
2 49 (15.22%) Architect
3 36 (11.18%) Senior
4 19 (5.90%) Lead
5 17 (5.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (4.35%) Analyst
6 14 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
6 14 (4.35%) Java Developer
7 12 (3.73%) Consultant
8 11 (3.42%) Senior Developer
9 10 (3.11%) Business Analyst
9 10 (3.11%) React Developer
9 10 (3.11%) Software Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 9 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (2.17%) ForgeRock Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (45.65%) OAuth2
2 132 (40.99%) SAML
3 124 (38.51%) OpenID
4 93 (28.88%) REST
5 68 (21.12%) JSON
6 62 (19.25%) JWT
7 53 (16.46%) RESTful
8 50 (15.53%) SOAP
9 46 (14.29%) XML
10 45 (13.98%) LDAP
11 36 (11.18%) Spring
12 34 (10.56%) Spring Boot
13 32 (9.94%) HTML
14 29 (9.01%) Node.js
15 28 (8.70%) GraphQL
16 26 (8.07%) React
17 24 (7.45%) .NET
18 21 (6.52%) Kafka
19 20 (6.21%) Swagger
20 19 (5.90%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.90%) Mobile App
4 17 (5.28%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.97%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (4.97%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.11%) PKI
7 9 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.48%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Replication
9 6 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.24%) BYOD
10 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.24%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.24%) Mobile Banking
10 4 (1.24%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.24%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.93%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.80%) Windows
2 29 (9.01%) Linux
3 26 (8.07%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.04%) Android
5 12 (3.73%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.48%) Unix
7 5 (1.55%) AIX
7 5 (1.55%) Solaris
8 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.62%) zOS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 111 (34.47%) DevOps
3 72 (22.36%) Microservices
4 69 (21.43%) Agile
5 65 (20.19%) Identity Access Management
6 64 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (15.84%) RBAC
8 46 (14.29%) API Management
8 46 (14.29%) Identity Management
9 44 (13.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (12.73%) AI
10 41 (12.73%) Containerisation
11 38 (11.80%) Event-Driven
11 38 (11.80%) Test Automation
12 36 (11.18%) Computer Science
13 33 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (9.63%) API Design
15 30 (9.32%) Validation
16 29 (9.01%) Analytics
16 29 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (23.91%) Python
2 69 (21.43%) Java
3 55 (17.08%) JavaScript
4 52 (16.15%) PowerShell
5 41 (12.73%) SQL
6 33 (10.25%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.52%) C#
8 15 (4.66%) Groovy
9 10 (3.11%) Bash
10 8 (2.48%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.48%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.93%) Bicep
12 3 (0.93%) PHP
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) C++
13 2 (0.62%) Go
13 2 (0.62%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 53 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.11%) Degree
4 30 (9.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (6.21%) CISSP
6 20 (6.21%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.11%) CISM
8 9 (2.80%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.55%) MCP
10 4 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.93%) PhD
12 2 (0.62%) CCSP
13 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.42%) GDPR
2 28 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.66%) NIST
4 13 (4.04%) PCI DSS
5 12 (3.73%) Accessibility
5 12 (3.73%) QA
6 10 (3.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (3.11%) SOC 2
7 9 (2.80%) WCAG
8 8 (2.48%) PSD2
9 7 (2.17%) Data Quality
9 7 (2.17%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.93%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.62%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.62%) SEPA
11 2 (0.62%) SLA
12 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
System Software
1 86 (26.71%) Active Directory
2 62 (19.25%) Docker
3 8 (2.48%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.62%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.62%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.62%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) RACF
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 84 (26.09%) Single Sign-On
2 52 (16.15%) Terraform
3 41 (12.73%) Kubernetes
4 29 (9.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (5.90%) Ansible
6 13 (4.04%) Grafana
7 11 (3.42%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (3.11%) CA Wily
9 9 (2.80%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.48%) Tivoli
11 5 (1.55%) Kibana
11 5 (1.55%) Prometheus
12 4 (1.24%) Argo
12 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.93%) SCCM
14 2 (0.62%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.62%) Puppet
15 1 (0.31%) CA Endevor
15 1 (0.31%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.31%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 107 (33.23%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.32%) Oracle
3 24 (7.45%) Splunk
4 21 (6.52%) Google
5 18 (5.59%) OpenAI
6 17 (5.28%) CyberArk
7 16 (4.97%) IBM
8 15 (4.66%) ForgeRock
9 14 (4.35%) MuleSoft
10 11 (3.42%) AppDynamics
10 11 (3.42%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.42%) Ping Identity
10 11 (3.42%) Salesforce
10 11 (3.42%) SAP
11 10 (3.11%) Okta
11 10 (3.11%) VMware
12 8 (2.48%) Axway
13 7 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
13 7 (2.17%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.86%) Databricks