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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 299 391
Rank change year-on-year +10 +92 -31
Contract jobs citing OAuth 392 219 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 0.79% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.99% 3.20% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 146 86
10th Percentile £413 £359 £463
25th Percentile £482 £413 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £503 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -16.25% -
75th Percentile £662 £613 £674
90th Percentile £750 £672 £702
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £38.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £86.08 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.64 - -
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 9,818 6,843 8,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.50% 24.83% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,465 4,702 5,616
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 165 209
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.47% -1.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.61 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +20.37% -4.00% -10.00%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -9 196 £575 +2.86% 44
South East +1 77 £500 - 23
North of England -41 74 £625 +36.02% 7
Yorkshire -18 36 £600 +46.70% 1
North West -34 34 £625 +31.58% 4
South West -39 15 £550 +1.85% 12
East of England -5 12 £555 +11.00% 1
Midlands -60 11 £575 +38.55% 8
West Midlands -50 8 £619 +2.65% 5
North East - 5 £563 - 2
East Midlands -30 3 £400 -3.03% 3
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 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.32%) Confluence
3 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.79%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.28%) Mule
6 3 (0.77%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) Apache
Business Applications
1 7 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.51%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 222 (56.63%) Azure
2 158 (40.31%) AWS
3 113 (28.83%) Entra ID
4 94 (23.98%) GCP
5 52 (13.27%) GitHub
6 38 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (9.69%) Serverless
7 35 (8.93%) SaaS
8 25 (6.38%) Azure API Management
9 23 (5.87%) Azure AKS
10 21 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
11 19 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (4.59%) Apigee
12 18 (4.59%) Boomi
13 16 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
14 15 (3.83%) Kong
15 13 (3.32%) Azure Functions
15 13 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.61%) DNS
2 19 (4.85%) Kerberos
3 13 (3.32%) HTTP
4 12 (3.06%) SSL
5 10 (2.55%) Firewall
6 7 (1.79%) DKIM
6 7 (1.79%) DMARC
7 5 (1.28%) DHCP
7 5 (1.28%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.02%) Network Security
8 4 (1.02%) NGFW
9 2 (0.51%) IPsec
9 2 (0.51%) SSH
9 2 (0.51%) VPN
9 2 (0.51%) X.509
10 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.44%) Relational Database
2 32 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.10%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.34%) Redis
6 14 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.55%) MySQL
9 7 (1.79%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.79%) Metadata
9 7 (1.79%) Power BI
9 7 (1.79%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.28%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.28%) Hazelcast
12 4 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 2 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (12.50%) Git
2 29 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 23 (5.87%) GitLab
4 20 (5.10%) JIRA
5 10 (2.55%) Browser DevTools
6 8 (2.04%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.79%) Gradle
7 7 (1.79%) Maven
8 6 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.53%) git-flow
8 6 (1.53%) Storybook
9 4 (1.02%) Postman
9 4 (1.02%) Snyk
10 3 (0.77%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.77%) JMeter
10 3 (0.77%) JUnit
10 3 (0.77%) Mockito
11 2 (0.51%) Mocha
11 2 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 93 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 80 (20.41%) Finance
3 60 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.44%) Banking
5 30 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.57%) Retail
8 12 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.81%) Military
10 10 (2.55%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.79%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.79%) Legal
12 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.02%) Publishing
13 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.51%) Automotive
14 2 (0.51%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.51%) Law
14 2 (0.51%) Local Government
14 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 108 (27.55%) Developer
2 103 (26.28%) Architect
3 48 (12.24%) Senior
4 34 (8.67%) Lead
5 31 (7.91%) Java Developer
6 27 (6.89%) Technical Architect
7 23 (5.87%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (5.10%) Senior Developer
9 19 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (4.08%) IAM Specialist
11 14 (3.57%) Security Architect
11 14 (3.57%) Technical Leader
12 13 (3.32%) Consultant
13 11 (2.81%) Integration Architect
14 10 (2.55%) Backend Developer
14 10 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (2.55%) IAM Developer
14 10 (2.55%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (2.30%) Lead Architect
16 8 (2.04%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (52.55%) OAuth2
2 191 (48.72%) OpenID
3 155 (39.54%) SAML
4 139 (35.46%) REST
5 87 (22.19%) JWT
6 77 (19.64%) Terraform
7 69 (17.60%) SOAP
8 60 (15.31%) RESTful
9 57 (14.54%) LDAP
10 49 (12.50%) JSON
11 43 (10.97%) Kafka
12 40 (10.20%) CSS
13 39 (9.95%) React
14 36 (9.18%) SailPoint
15 34 (8.67%) Spring
16 33 (8.42%) .NET
16 33 (8.42%) XML
17 30 (7.65%) HTML
17 30 (7.65%) Middleware
18 29 (7.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 79 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (8.93%) Onboarding
3 28 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (6.89%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.10%) Security Posture
6 15 (3.83%) CMDB
6 15 (3.83%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.57%) PKI
8 13 (3.32%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.30%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.30%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.53%) Freedom of Information
11 5 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.28%) Replication
11 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.30%) Windows
2 8 (2.04%) Linux
3 7 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.28%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.02%) Android
5 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (40.31%) CI/CD
2 138 (35.20%) DevOps
3 105 (26.79%) Microservices
4 95 (24.23%) Agile
5 80 (20.41%) Identity Access Management
6 75 (19.13%) Containerisation
7 73 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (18.11%) Event-Driven
9 67 (17.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 61 (15.56%) AI
11 57 (14.54%) Test Automation
12 56 (14.29%) RBAC
13 53 (13.52%) Technical Leadership
14 52 (13.27%) Integration Patterns
15 51 (13.01%) API Management
16 50 (12.76%) Mentoring
17 49 (12.50%) API Integration
18 48 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
19 45 (11.48%) Zero Trust
20 44 (11.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 93 (23.72%) Java
2 88 (22.45%) Python
3 79 (20.15%) JavaScript
4 71 (18.11%) SQL
5 56 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 38 (9.69%) TypeScript
7 34 (8.67%) C#
8 21 (5.36%) Bicep
9 11 (2.81%) Bash
10 8 (2.04%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.28%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.77%) Groovy
12 3 (0.77%) PHP
13 2 (0.51%) Go
13 2 (0.51%) PromQL
13 2 (0.51%) Scala
13 2 (0.51%) Swift
14 1 (0.26%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 108 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 79 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.69%) Degree
4 23 (5.87%) CISSP
5 20 (5.10%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.83%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.06%) DV Cleared
9 11 (2.81%) CISM
10 10 (2.55%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.28%) CSPO
12 5 (1.28%) GIAC
13 3 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.77%) MCSE
13 3 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 31 (7.91%) NIST
2 30 (7.65%) GDPR
3 25 (6.38%) QA
4 8 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.04%) NCSC
5 6 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.28%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.77%) SEPA
8 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.51%) HL7
8 2 (0.51%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.51%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 91 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 79 (20.15%) Docker
3 3 (0.77%) OpenAM
3 3 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.26%) RACF
4 1 (0.26%) Squid
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 86 (21.94%) Kubernetes
2 59 (15.05%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (6.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (5.36%) Grafana
5 19 (4.85%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.06%) Ansible
7 7 (1.79%) Argo
8 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.28%) Istio
9 5 (1.28%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.02%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.02%) linkerd
10 4 (1.02%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.77%) WMI
12 2 (0.51%) Consul
12 2 (0.51%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.26%) Puppet
13 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 115 (29.34%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.95%) Oracle
3 36 (9.18%) Google
4 33 (8.42%) ServiceNow
5 26 (6.63%) Okta
6 24 (6.12%) MuleSoft
7 17 (4.34%) Salesforce
8 16 (4.08%) SAP
9 15 (3.83%) CyberArk
9 15 (3.83%) Ping Identity
10 11 (2.81%) Workday
11 10 (2.55%) OpenAI
12 9 (2.30%) ForgeRock
12 9 (2.30%) IBM
13 8 (2.04%) OutSystems
14 7 (1.79%) Informatica
15 6 (1.53%) TIBCO
15 6 (1.53%) WSO2
16 5 (1.28%) Dell
16 5 (1.28%) Zscaler