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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 313 398
Rank change year-on-year +36 +85 -25
Contract jobs citing OAuth 364 166 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.69% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.50% 3.07% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 112 102
10th Percentile £404 £400 £429
25th Percentile £464 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -10.46% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £644 £638
90th Percentile £748 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £600
% change year-on-year +2.42% -10.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £36.25 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.06 - -
90th Percentile £84.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 8,085 5,408 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.51% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 3,749 5,408
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.08%
75th Percentile £630 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 100 239
10th Percentile £31.33 £30.13 £22.70
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.19 £66.88
90th Percentile £78.95 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +43 211 £550 - 54
North of England -31 73 £588 +18.45% 12
South East -34 45 £600 -4.76% 18
North West -29 38 £600 +20.00% 11
Yorkshire -36 34 £598 +27.40% 2
South West -22 17 £550 +7.32% 5
Midlands -63 9 £438 +1.74% 5
East Midlands -29 5 £438 +4.17% 1
East of England -29 4 £500 - 4
West Midlands -66 3 £350 -41.96% 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 17 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.30%) Confluence
2 12 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.20%) Appian
4 5 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.27%) CICS
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 185 (50.82%) Azure
2 140 (38.46%) AWS
3 109 (29.95%) Entra ID
4 74 (20.33%) GCP
5 54 (14.84%) Serverless
6 37 (10.16%) GitHub
7 31 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (7.14%) SaaS
10 24 (6.59%) Amazon S3
10 24 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (5.77%) OCI
13 20 (5.49%) Azure AKS
13 20 (5.49%) PaaS
14 19 (5.22%) Kong
15 18 (4.95%) Apigee
15 18 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.16%) DNS
2 34 (9.34%) Kerberos
3 16 (4.40%) DHCP
4 12 (3.30%) Firewall
5 11 (3.02%) HTTP
5 11 (3.02%) SSL
6 7 (1.92%) DKIM
6 7 (1.92%) DMARC
6 7 (1.92%) Network Security
6 7 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (1.65%) IPsec
8 5 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.82%) NGFW
10 2 (0.55%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.55%) RFID
10 2 (0.55%) VPN
11 1 (0.27%) SMS
11 1 (0.27%) WAN
11 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.49%) Relational Database
4 18 (4.95%) Redis
5 15 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.02%) Pinecone
8 9 (2.47%) Metadata
9 8 (2.20%) MySQL
10 7 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.65%) Hazelcast
12 5 (1.37%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.37%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.10%) DocumentDB
14 3 (0.82%) GIS
Development Applications
1 33 (9.07%) Git
2 27 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.87%) GitLab
4 18 (4.95%) JIRA
5 16 (4.40%) Postman
6 10 (2.75%) Browser DevTools
7 8 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.20%) MLflow
7 8 (2.20%) SoapUI
8 7 (1.92%) git-flow
9 5 (1.37%) Gradle
9 5 (1.37%) Maven
9 5 (1.37%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.10%) Snyk
11 3 (0.82%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.82%) JMeter
11 3 (0.82%) JUnit
11 3 (0.82%) Vite
12 2 (0.55%) Moq
12 2 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
General
1 86 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.05%) Finance
3 45 (12.36%) Banking
4 42 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.47%) Military
8 8 (2.20%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.92%) Retail
10 5 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.10%) Publishing
12 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.82%) Legal
13 2 (0.55%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.55%) Law
13 2 (0.55%) Marketing
13 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (24.18%) Developer
2 78 (21.43%) Architect
3 52 (14.29%) Senior
4 25 (6.87%) Lead
5 22 (6.04%) Technical Architect
6 20 (5.49%) Java Developer
7 16 (4.40%) Senior Developer
8 15 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (3.30%) Analyst
9 12 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.02%) Security Architect
11 10 (2.75%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (2.75%) Consultant
11 10 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.47%) Backend Developer
12 9 (2.47%) IAM Specialist
13 8 (2.20%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (2.20%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.20%) Low-Code Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 175 (48.08%) OpenID
3 160 (43.96%) SAML
4 105 (28.85%) REST
5 72 (19.78%) JWT
6 59 (16.21%) RESTful
7 53 (14.56%) LDAP
8 52 (14.29%) SOAP
9 46 (12.64%) JSON
10 35 (9.62%) Spring
10 35 (9.62%) Spring Boot
11 34 (9.34%) Web Services
12 33 (9.07%) Kafka
13 32 (8.79%) .NET
14 30 (8.24%) Node.js
15 29 (7.97%) CSS
16 28 (7.69%) React
16 28 (7.69%) XML
17 25 (6.87%) SailPoint
18 24 (6.59%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.97%) Onboarding
3 28 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (5.22%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.67%) Low-Code
6 16 (4.40%) Replication
7 14 (3.85%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.57%) Management Information System
9 12 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (3.30%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.47%) PKI
12 8 (2.20%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.65%) Freedom of Information
14 5 (1.37%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.37%) CMDB
14 5 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.59%) Windows
2 19 (5.22%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.47%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.20%) Android
5 6 (1.65%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (40.38%) CI/CD
2 124 (34.07%) DevOps
3 92 (25.27%) Microservices
4 76 (20.88%) Agile
5 72 (19.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (19.23%) RBAC
7 65 (17.86%) Identity Access Management
8 58 (15.93%) Containerisation
8 58 (15.93%) Event-Driven
9 53 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (14.29%) Observability
11 46 (12.64%) Test Automation
12 44 (12.09%) Data Modelling
13 43 (11.81%) Validation
14 42 (11.54%) AI
14 42 (11.54%) API Integration
15 41 (11.26%) Integration Patterns
16 40 (10.99%) Design Patterns
16 40 (10.99%) Zero Trust
17 39 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (21.43%) Python
2 77 (21.15%) Java
3 76 (20.88%) SQL
4 54 (14.84%) JavaScript
4 54 (14.84%) PowerShell
5 31 (8.52%) TypeScript
6 28 (7.69%) C#
7 21 (5.77%) Bicep
8 15 (4.12%) Go
9 10 (2.75%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.47%) Bash
11 4 (1.10%) PHP
12 3 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.82%) Swift
13 2 (0.55%) Groovy
13 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.55%) PromQL
13 2 (0.55%) Scala
14 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 65 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.69%) Degree
4 22 (6.04%) CISSP
5 15 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.02%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.75%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.47%) CISM
11 6 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.37%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.10%) CSPO
13 4 (1.10%) GIAC
13 4 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.55%) CEH
14 2 (0.55%) MCSE
14 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.99%) GDPR
2 31 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (6.87%) NIST
4 20 (5.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (4.67%) QA
6 15 (4.12%) PCI DSS
7 11 (3.02%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.92%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.65%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.37%) NCSC
11 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.82%) GRC
12 3 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.82%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.82%) SEPA
12 3 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (22.53%) Active Directory
2 74 (20.33%) Docker
3 6 (1.65%) RACF
4 2 (0.55%) Squid
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (23.90%) Single Sign-On
2 80 (21.98%) Kubernetes
3 76 (20.88%) Terraform
4 38 (10.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (5.22%) Grafana
5 19 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.20%) Argo
7 6 (1.65%) Ansible
7 6 (1.65%) Istio
7 6 (1.65%) linkerd
8 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.10%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.10%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.55%) Consul
11 2 (0.55%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 97 (26.65%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.62%) Okta
3 32 (8.79%) Oracle
4 29 (7.97%) Google
5 24 (6.59%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.67%) CyberArk
7 14 (3.85%) SAP
8 13 (3.57%) MuleSoft
8 13 (3.57%) OpenAI
8 13 (3.57%) Ping Identity
9 10 (2.75%) ForgeRock
10 8 (2.20%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (2.20%) OutSystems
10 8 (2.20%) UiPath
11 7 (1.92%) Workday
12 6 (1.65%) Splunk
13 5 (1.37%) Denodo
13 5 (1.37%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.10%) Apple
14 4 (1.10%) BeyondTrust