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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 288 400
Rank change year-on-year 0 +112 -34
Contract jobs citing OAuth 399 236 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.85% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.06% 3.42% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 160 84
10th Percentile £413 £358 £475
25th Percentile £481 £406 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -18.37% +2.08%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £675
90th Percentile £750 £663 £702
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +4.35%
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 9,819 6,909 8,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.39% 24.90% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,469 4,744 5,564
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 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 166 183
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.43 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -11 202 £575 +4.55% 207
South East -2 74 £500 - 31
North of England -39 72 £625 +50.78% 32
Yorkshire -20 36 £600 +46.70% 16
North West -56 32 £625 +48.81% 11
Midlands -54 17 £585 +40.96% 18
South West -28 16 £550 +8.91% 24
East of England -14 12 £555 +11.00% 6
West Midlands -35 12 £616 +19.84% 13
East Midlands -24 5 £401 -2.79% 5
North East - 5 £563 - 5
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 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.26%) Confluence
2 13 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.75%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.25%) Mule
5 3 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
Business Applications
1 7 (1.75%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.50%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 228 (57.14%) Azure
2 164 (41.10%) AWS
3 118 (29.57%) Entra ID
4 94 (23.56%) GCP
5 55 (13.78%) GitHub
6 41 (10.28%) Serverless
7 40 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (8.77%) SaaS
10 24 (6.02%) Azure API Management
11 23 (5.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 22 (5.51%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (5.26%) Azure AKS
14 20 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (4.76%) Boomi
16 16 (4.01%) Apigee
16 16 (4.01%) Azure Key Vault
17 14 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
18 13 (3.26%) Azure Functions
18 13 (3.26%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.51%) DNS
2 19 (4.76%) Kerberos
3 14 (3.51%) HTTP
4 12 (3.01%) SSL
5 10 (2.51%) Firewall
6 7 (1.75%) DKIM
6 7 (1.75%) DMARC
7 5 (1.25%) DHCP
7 5 (1.25%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.00%) IPsec
8 4 (1.00%) Network Security
8 4 (1.00%) NGFW
8 4 (1.00%) X.509
9 2 (0.50%) SSH
9 2 (0.50%) VPN
10 1 (0.25%) DMZ
10 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.25%) Internet
10 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.27%) Relational Database
2 35 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (6.77%) SQL Server
4 23 (5.76%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.26%) Redis
6 16 (4.01%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.51%) MySQL
8 12 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.75%) Power BI
10 7 (1.75%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.50%) Metadata
11 6 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.25%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.25%) Hazelcast
13 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (12.78%) Git
2 31 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.27%) GitLab
4 20 (5.01%) JIRA
5 10 (2.51%) Browser DevTools
5 10 (2.51%) Maven
6 8 (2.01%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.75%) Gradle
8 6 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.50%) git-flow
8 6 (1.50%) JUnit
8 6 (1.50%) Storybook
9 4 (1.00%) Mockito
9 4 (1.00%) Postman
9 4 (1.00%) Snyk
10 3 (0.75%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.75%) JMeter
10 3 (0.75%) Selenium
11 2 (0.50%) Mocha
11 2 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 99 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 80 (20.05%) Finance
3 57 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.52%) Banking
5 33 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.01%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.01%) Retail
8 11 (2.76%) Military
9 10 (2.51%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.01%) Legal
11 7 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.00%) Publishing
13 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.50%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.50%) Local Government
14 2 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 111 (27.82%) Developer
2 102 (25.56%) Architect
3 48 (12.03%) Senior
4 33 (8.27%) Lead
5 32 (8.02%) Java Developer
6 28 (7.02%) Technical Architect
7 24 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (4.51%) Senior Developer
10 15 (3.76%) IAM Specialist
11 14 (3.51%) Consultant
11 14 (3.51%) Technical Leader
12 13 (3.26%) Security Architect
13 12 (3.01%) Backend Developer
14 10 (2.51%) Azure Developer
14 10 (2.51%) IAM Developer
14 10 (2.51%) Integration Architect
14 10 (2.51%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (2.26%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (2.26%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (51.13%) OAuth2
2 195 (48.87%) OpenID
3 155 (38.85%) SAML
4 144 (36.09%) REST
5 86 (21.55%) JWT
6 80 (20.05%) Terraform
7 67 (16.79%) SOAP
8 60 (15.04%) RESTful
9 57 (14.29%) LDAP
10 50 (12.53%) JSON
11 45 (11.28%) CSS
12 44 (11.03%) React
13 42 (10.53%) Kafka
14 40 (10.03%) .NET
15 37 (9.27%) Spring
16 35 (8.77%) HTML
16 35 (8.77%) SailPoint
17 33 (8.27%) XML
18 32 (8.02%) GraphQL
18 32 (8.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 82 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.52%) Onboarding
4 29 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (7.27%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.01%) Security Posture
6 15 (3.76%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.51%) PKI
8 13 (3.26%) CMDB
8 13 (3.26%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.26%) Low-Code
10 8 (2.01%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.50%) Freedom of Information
12 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.25%) Replication
12 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.76%) Windows
2 8 (2.01%) Linux
2 8 (2.01%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.00%) Android
4 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) CentOS
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (39.85%) CI/CD
2 138 (34.59%) DevOps
3 109 (27.32%) Microservices
4 101 (25.31%) Agile
5 87 (21.80%) Identity Access Management
6 77 (19.30%) Event-Driven
6 77 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (18.80%) Containerisation
8 69 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 61 (15.29%) AI
10 58 (14.54%) Test Automation
11 55 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
12 53 (13.28%) Integration Patterns
12 53 (13.28%) RBAC
13 52 (13.03%) API Management
13 52 (13.03%) Mentoring
14 51 (12.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 51 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 47 (11.78%) API Integration
16 45 (11.28%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 101 (25.31%) Java
2 91 (22.81%) Python
3 81 (20.30%) JavaScript
4 75 (18.80%) SQL
5 58 (14.54%) PowerShell
6 41 (10.28%) TypeScript
7 36 (9.02%) C#
8 24 (6.02%) Bicep
9 11 (2.76%) Bash
10 8 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.75%) Groovy
12 3 (0.75%) PHP
13 2 (0.50%) Go
13 2 (0.50%) PromQL
13 2 (0.50%) Scala
13 2 (0.50%) Swift
14 1 (0.25%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.25%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 109 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 83 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.27%) Degree
4 21 (5.26%) CISSP
5 19 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.76%) AWS Certification
8 14 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.76%) CISM
9 11 (2.76%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.26%) Master's Degree
11 8 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.25%) CSPO
13 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.75%) GIAC
13 3 (0.75%) MCSE
13 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 34 (8.52%) NIST
2 31 (7.77%) GDPR
3 25 (6.27%) QA
4 9 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.01%) NCSC
6 7 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.25%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.75%) SEPA
10 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.50%) HL7
10 2 (0.50%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.50%) SLA
10 2 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 92 (23.06%) Active Directory
2 80 (20.05%) Docker
3 3 (0.75%) OpenAM
3 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) RACF
5 1 (0.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 90 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 59 (14.79%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (6.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 24 (6.02%) Grafana
5 22 (5.51%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.01%) Ansible
7 7 (1.75%) Argo
7 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.25%) Istio
8 5 (1.25%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.25%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.00%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.00%) linkerd
9 4 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.75%) WMI
11 2 (0.50%) Consul
11 2 (0.50%) SCOM
11 2 (0.50%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.50%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 119 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.03%) Oracle
3 37 (9.27%) Google
4 32 (8.02%) ServiceNow
5 26 (6.52%) Okta
6 23 (5.76%) MuleSoft
7 17 (4.26%) Salesforce
8 16 (4.01%) CyberArk
8 16 (4.01%) SAP
9 14 (3.51%) Ping Identity
10 11 (2.76%) Workday
11 10 (2.51%) IBM
11 10 (2.51%) OpenAI
12 8 (2.01%) Informatica
12 8 (2.01%) OutSystems
13 7 (1.75%) ForgeRock
13 7 (1.75%) TIBCO
13 7 (1.75%) WSO2
14 6 (1.50%) Databricks
14 6 (1.50%) Zscaler