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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 287 399
Rank change year-on-year -3 +112 -37
Contract jobs citing OAuth 402 236 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 0.86% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.12% 3.43% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 160 83
10th Percentile £413 £358 £475
25th Percentile £473 £406 £515
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 9,753 6,874 8,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.93% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,422 4,723 5,577
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 263 166 182
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £50.38 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.59 £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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -16 203 £575 +4.55% 201
North of England -38 73 £625 +50.78% 28
South East +1 72 £500 - 30
Yorkshire -12 37 £594 +45.17% 14
North West -53 32 £625 +48.81% 9
Midlands -58 20 £510 +22.89% 17
South West -27 16 £550 +8.91% 22
West Midlands -43 15 £595 +15.76% 13
East of England -13 12 £555 +11.00% 6
East Midlands -24 5 £401 -2.79% 4
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 18 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.23%) Confluence
2 13 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.74%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.24%) Mule
5 3 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
Business Applications
1 7 (1.74%) 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
1 229 (56.97%) Azure
2 165 (41.04%) AWS
3 115 (28.61%) Entra ID
4 94 (23.38%) GCP
5 56 (13.93%) GitHub
6 41 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (9.95%) Serverless
8 35 (8.71%) SaaS
9 21 (5.22%) Azure API Management
9 21 (5.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 20 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (4.73%) Boomi
12 18 (4.48%) Azure AKS
13 16 (3.98%) Apigee
13 16 (3.98%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (3.23%) Kong
15 13 (3.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.47%) DNS
2 19 (4.73%) Kerberos
3 14 (3.48%) HTTP
4 12 (2.99%) SSL
5 10 (2.49%) Firewall
6 7 (1.74%) DKIM
6 7 (1.74%) DMARC
7 5 (1.24%) DHCP
7 5 (1.24%) 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 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
1 37 (9.20%) Relational Database
2 29 (7.21%) SQL Server
3 26 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.23%) MySQL
4 17 (4.23%) Redis
5 12 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.24%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.74%) Power BI
7 7 (1.74%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.49%) Metadata
8 6 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.24%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.24%) Hazelcast
10 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 55 (13.68%) Git
2 32 (7.96%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.22%) GitLab
4 20 (4.98%) JIRA
5 10 (2.49%) Browser DevTools
5 10 (2.49%) Maven
6 9 (2.24%) Storybook
7 8 (1.99%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.74%) Gradle
9 6 (1.49%) JUnit
10 5 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.24%) git-flow
11 4 (1.00%) Mockito
11 4 (1.00%) Postman
11 4 (1.00%) Snyk
12 3 (0.75%) Fiddler
12 3 (0.75%) JMeter
12 3 (0.75%) Selenium
13 2 (0.50%) Mocha
13 2 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 100 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 82 (20.40%) Finance
3 57 (14.18%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.46%) Banking
5 20 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.99%) Retail
7 11 (2.74%) Military
8 10 (2.49%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.99%) Legal
10 7 (1.74%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.00%) Publishing
12 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Automotive
13 2 (0.50%) Law
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 116 (28.86%) Developer
2 101 (25.12%) Architect
3 49 (12.19%) Senior
4 33 (8.21%) Lead
5 32 (7.96%) Java Developer
6 28 (6.97%) Technical Architect
7 24 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (4.48%) Senior Developer
10 15 (3.73%) IAM Specialist
11 14 (3.48%) Consultant
11 14 (3.48%) Technical Leader
12 13 (3.23%) Backend Developer
12 13 (3.23%) Security Architect
13 11 (2.74%) Azure Developer
14 10 (2.49%) IAM Developer
14 10 (2.49%) Integration Architect
14 10 (2.49%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (2.24%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (2.24%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (51.74%) OAuth2
2 198 (49.25%) OpenID
3 155 (38.56%) SAML
4 150 (37.31%) REST
5 87 (21.64%) JWT
6 81 (20.15%) Terraform
7 66 (16.42%) SOAP
8 61 (15.17%) RESTful
9 57 (14.18%) LDAP
10 51 (12.69%) JSON
11 50 (12.44%) CSS
12 49 (12.19%) React
13 43 (10.70%) .NET
14 42 (10.45%) Kafka
15 40 (9.95%) HTML
16 36 (8.96%) Spring
17 34 (8.46%) SailPoint
17 34 (8.46%) Swagger
18 33 (8.21%) GraphQL
18 33 (8.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.46%) Onboarding
4 31 (7.71%) Product Ownership
5 30 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (4.98%) Security Posture
7 15 (3.73%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.48%) PKI
9 13 (3.23%) CMDB
10 10 (2.49%) Mobile App
11 9 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.24%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.99%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
14 5 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.24%) Replication
14 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.74%) Windows
2 8 (1.99%) Linux
2 8 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.24%) 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
1 164 (40.80%) CI/CD
2 137 (34.08%) DevOps
3 111 (27.61%) Microservices
4 104 (25.87%) Agile
5 89 (22.14%) Identity Access Management
6 81 (20.15%) Event-Driven
7 78 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (17.91%) Containerisation
8 72 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 62 (15.42%) Test Automation
10 61 (15.17%) AI
11 55 (13.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 55 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
12 54 (13.43%) Mentoring
13 53 (13.18%) Integration Patterns
14 52 (12.94%) RBAC
14 52 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 50 (12.44%) API Integration
15 50 (12.44%) API Management
16 44 (10.95%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 103 (25.62%) Java
2 95 (23.63%) Python
3 85 (21.14%) JavaScript
4 77 (19.15%) SQL
5 58 (14.43%) PowerShell
6 46 (11.44%) TypeScript
7 37 (9.20%) C#
8 25 (6.22%) Bicep
9 11 (2.74%) Bash
10 8 (1.99%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.24%) 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
1 104 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 79 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.20%) Degree
4 21 (5.22%) CISSP
5 19 (4.73%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.73%) AWS Certification
8 14 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.74%) CISM
9 11 (2.74%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.24%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.24%) CSPO
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
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%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 34 (8.46%) NIST
2 31 (7.71%) GDPR
3 25 (6.22%) QA
4 11 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.49%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.99%) NCSC
7 7 (1.74%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.24%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.75%) SEPA
10 3 (0.75%) WCAG
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.50%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.50%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (22.64%) Active Directory
2 78 (19.40%) 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 91 (22.64%) Kubernetes
2 59 (14.68%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (6.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (5.22%) Grafana
5 19 (4.73%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.99%) Ansible
7 7 (1.74%) Argo
7 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.24%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.00%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.75%) WMI
11 2 (0.50%) Consul
11 2 (0.50%) Istio
11 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.50%) SCOM
11 2 (0.50%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.50%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.25%) linkerd
12 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 119 (29.60%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.95%) Oracle
3 37 (9.20%) Google
4 32 (7.96%) ServiceNow
5 26 (6.47%) Okta
6 23 (5.72%) MuleSoft
7 17 (4.23%) Salesforce
8 16 (3.98%) CyberArk
8 16 (3.98%) SAP
9 14 (3.48%) Ping Identity
10 11 (2.74%) Workday
11 10 (2.49%) IBM
11 10 (2.49%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.99%) Databricks
12 8 (1.99%) Informatica
12 8 (1.99%) OutSystems
13 7 (1.74%) ForgeRock
13 7 (1.74%) TIBCO
13 7 (1.74%) WSO2
14 6 (1.49%) Zscaler