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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 287 417
Rank change year-on-year +17 +130 -54
Contract jobs citing OAuth 440 252 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 0.91% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.50% 3.57% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 169 70
10th Percentile £411 £360 £424
25th Percentile £455 £408 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £485 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -19.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £575 £675
90th Percentile £750 £661 £739
UK median daily rate £556 £499 £600
% change year-on-year +11.38% -16.88% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £38.75 £61.28 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.31 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% - -
75th Percentile £85.54 £64.31 -
90th Percentile £87.56 £64.43 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

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 9,771 7,063 8,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.18% 25.46% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,433 4,796 5,307
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 170 178
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.57 £27.53
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -8 219 £575 +9.89% 177
South East +3 75 £500 - 39
North of England -41 72 £581 +30.33% 34
Yorkshire -5 45 £563 +27.26% 14
Midlands -41 27 £464 +11.71% 15
North West -66 24 £625 +40.13% 17
West Midlands -33 22 £525 -6.71% 14
South West -32 18 £550 +8.91% 13
East of England -7 17 £550 +10.00% 13
East Midlands -25 5 £401 -2.79% 1
North East - 4 £600 - 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 19 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.50%) Confluence
4 6 (1.36%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.14%) Apache
5 5 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.14%) Mule
6 3 (0.68%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.68%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.45%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 247 (56.14%) Azure
2 181 (41.14%) AWS
3 118 (26.82%) Entra ID
4 102 (23.18%) GCP
5 59 (13.41%) GitHub
6 43 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (9.55%) Serverless
8 41 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (8.18%) SaaS
10 28 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (5.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (5.68%) Boomi
13 21 (4.77%) Azure API Management
14 19 (4.32%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (4.09%) Azure AKS
15 18 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (3.86%) Kong
17 15 (3.41%) Apigee
17 15 (3.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 14 (3.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.55%) DNS
2 19 (4.32%) Kerberos
3 12 (2.73%) Firewall
4 11 (2.50%) HTTP
5 10 (2.27%) SSL
6 7 (1.59%) DKIM
6 7 (1.59%) DMARC
6 7 (1.59%) X.509
7 6 (1.36%) NGFW
8 5 (1.14%) DHCP
8 5 (1.14%) IPsec
8 5 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.91%) Network Security
10 3 (0.68%) VPN
11 2 (0.45%) SSH
11 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.23%) DMZ
12 1 (0.23%) Internet
12 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.41%) Relational Database
3 30 (6.82%) NoSQL
4 29 (6.59%) SQL Server
5 20 (4.55%) MySQL
6 19 (4.32%) MongoDB
7 18 (4.09%) Redis
8 11 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.50%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.82%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.59%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.36%) Metadata
11 6 (1.36%) Power BI
12 5 (1.14%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.14%) Hazelcast
13 4 (0.91%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.91%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (15.00%) Git
2 32 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.14%) GitLab
4 19 (4.32%) JIRA
5 14 (3.18%) Maven
6 11 (2.50%) Storybook
7 10 (2.27%) JUnit
8 9 (2.05%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.05%) Gradle
9 8 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.82%) Mockito
10 6 (1.36%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.91%) git-flow
11 4 (0.91%) Postman
11 4 (0.91%) Selenium
11 4 (0.91%) Snyk
12 3 (0.68%) Fiddler
12 3 (0.68%) MSTest
12 3 (0.68%) NUnit
13 2 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 115 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.77%) Finance
3 58 (13.18%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.55%) Banking
5 40 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.73%) Military
8 11 (2.50%) Retail
9 10 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.82%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.59%) Legal
12 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.91%) Publishing
14 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.68%) Marketing
14 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.45%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 131 (29.77%) Developer
2 100 (22.73%) Architect
3 54 (12.27%) Senior
4 37 (8.41%) Java Developer
5 34 (7.73%) Lead
6 30 (6.82%) Technical Architect
7 24 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (4.32%) Consultant
8 19 (4.32%) Senior Developer
9 15 (3.41%) IAM Specialist
9 15 (3.41%) Technical Leader
10 13 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (2.73%) Azure Developer
11 12 (2.73%) IAM Developer
12 11 (2.50%) Backend Developer
12 11 (2.50%) Security Architect
13 10 (2.27%) Java Engineer
13 10 (2.27%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (2.27%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (53.41%) OAuth2
2 226 (51.36%) OpenID
3 167 (37.95%) REST
4 160 (36.36%) SAML
5 102 (23.18%) Terraform
6 99 (22.50%) JWT
7 71 (16.14%) SOAP
8 67 (15.23%) RESTful
9 59 (13.41%) React
10 58 (13.18%) JSON
11 52 (11.82%) CSS
11 52 (11.82%) Kafka
11 52 (11.82%) LDAP
12 47 (10.68%) Swagger
13 45 (10.23%) OpenAPI
14 44 (10.00%) .NET
14 44 (10.00%) HTML
15 42 (9.55%) Node.js
16 40 (9.09%) Middleware
16 40 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 98 (22.27%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (8.64%) Onboarding
4 37 (8.41%) Enterprise Software
5 36 (8.18%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.32%) Security Posture
7 17 (3.86%) PKI
8 15 (3.41%) CMDB
8 15 (3.41%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.73%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.05%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.36%) Freedom of Information
13 6 (1.36%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.36%) Replication
14 4 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.73%) Linux
1 12 (2.73%) Windows
2 8 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.91%) Android
4 4 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) CentOS
5 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (43.18%) CI/CD
2 154 (35.00%) DevOps
3 133 (30.23%) Microservices
4 126 (28.64%) Agile
5 101 (22.95%) Identity Access Management
6 92 (20.91%) Event-Driven
7 86 (19.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 81 (18.41%) Test Automation
9 76 (17.27%) Containerisation
10 75 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
11 67 (15.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 65 (14.77%) AI
12 65 (14.77%) Observability
12 65 (14.77%) RBAC
13 64 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 62 (14.09%) Technical Leadership
15 59 (13.41%) Software Engineering
16 57 (12.95%) Mentoring
17 55 (12.50%) API Management
18 52 (11.82%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 120 (27.27%) Java
2 108 (24.55%) Python
3 94 (21.36%) JavaScript
4 78 (17.73%) SQL
5 65 (14.77%) PowerShell
6 58 (13.18%) TypeScript
7 41 (9.32%) C#
8 30 (6.82%) Bicep
9 14 (3.18%) Go
10 7 (1.59%) Bash
11 5 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.91%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.68%) Groovy
13 3 (0.68%) PHP
13 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.45%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.45%) Lua
14 2 (0.45%) PromQL
14 2 (0.45%) Swift
14 2 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 115 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 88 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.77%) Degree
4 22 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (4.32%) CISSP
6 19 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (3.41%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.95%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.05%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.59%) CISM
12 5 (1.14%) CSPO
12 5 (1.14%) MCSE
13 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.45%) CEH
14 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.45%) CRISC
14 2 (0.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (6.82%) NIST
3 29 (6.59%) QA
4 24 (5.45%) GDPR
5 16 (3.64%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.73%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.82%) NCSC
7 8 (1.82%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.59%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.59%) WCAG
9 6 (1.36%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.68%) SEPA
10 3 (0.68%) SLA
11 2 (0.45%) HL7
11 2 (0.45%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.45%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.45%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.45%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 95 (21.59%) Active Directory
2 83 (18.86%) Docker
3 6 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.68%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Squid
6 1 (0.23%) zsh
Systems Management
1 113 (25.68%) Kubernetes
2 68 (15.45%) Single Sign-On
3 28 (6.36%) Grafana
4 23 (5.23%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 14 (3.18%) Ansible
7 10 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.82%) Argo
9 4 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.68%) Kibana
10 3 (0.68%) WMI
11 2 (0.45%) Consul
11 2 (0.45%) Istio
11 2 (0.45%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.45%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.45%) Puppet
11 2 (0.45%) SCOM
11 2 (0.45%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.45%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 129 (29.32%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.23%) Google
2 45 (10.23%) Oracle
3 35 (7.95%) ServiceNow
4 30 (6.82%) Okta
5 28 (6.36%) MuleSoft
6 17 (3.86%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.41%) CyberArk
7 15 (3.41%) Ping Identity
7 15 (3.41%) SAP
8 12 (2.73%) Databricks
8 12 (2.73%) IBM
9 10 (2.27%) Informatica
9 10 (2.27%) OpenAI
9 10 (2.27%) Workday
10 9 (2.05%) TIBCO
10 9 (2.05%) WSO2
11 8 (1.82%) ForgeRock
11 8 (1.82%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.59%) Splunk