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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 281 390
Rank change year-on-year -2 +109 -29
Contract jobs citing OAuth 408 244 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 0.89% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.18% 3.53% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 163 83
10th Percentile £413 £360 £475
25th Percentile £464 £407 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £492 £613
Median % change year-on-year +14.53% -19.67% +2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £675
90th Percentile £750 £662 £717
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -
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 9,755 6,911 8,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.08% 24.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,401 4,714 5,512
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £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 271 160 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.10%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -14 204 £575 +7.08% 257
South East +11 74 £500 - 52
North of England -53 68 £600 +42.01% 41
Yorkshire -8 39 £573 +39.98% 16
North West -59 26 £625 +47.06% 19
Midlands -49 22 £464 +11.71% 26
West Midlands -39 17 £575 +2.22% 20
South West -41 16 £550 +9.45% 21
East of England -19 14 £555 +11.00% 16
East Midlands -25 5 £401 -2.20% 6
North East - 4 £600 - 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 19 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.19%) Confluence
2 13 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.72%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.23%) Mule
5 3 (0.74%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.47%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.49%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.49%) 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
3 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (56.86%) Azure
2 169 (41.42%) AWS
3 114 (27.94%) Entra ID
4 95 (23.28%) GCP
5 56 (13.73%) GitHub
6 41 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (10.05%) Serverless
7 40 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
8 35 (8.58%) SaaS
9 25 (6.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (5.64%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (5.39%) Azure API Management
12 21 (5.15%) Boomi
13 18 (4.41%) Azure AKS
13 18 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (3.92%) Apigee
14 16 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (3.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (3.43%) Kong
16 13 (3.19%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.90%) DNS
2 18 (4.41%) Kerberos
3 12 (2.94%) SSL
4 11 (2.70%) Firewall
4 11 (2.70%) HTTP
5 7 (1.72%) DKIM
5 7 (1.72%) DMARC
6 5 (1.23%) DHCP
6 5 (1.23%) NGFW
6 5 (1.23%) X.509
7 4 (0.98%) IPsec
7 4 (0.98%) Network Security
8 2 (0.49%) SSH
8 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.49%) VPN
9 1 (0.25%) DMZ
9 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.25%) Internet
9 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.31%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (9.07%) Relational Database
3 29 (7.11%) NoSQL
3 29 (7.11%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.41%) MySQL
5 17 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.17%) Redis
6 11 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.21%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.96%) Metadata
9 7 (1.72%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.47%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.47%) Power BI
10 6 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.23%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.23%) Hazelcast
12 4 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 55 (13.48%) Git
2 30 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.37%) GitLab
4 20 (4.90%) JIRA
5 12 (2.94%) Maven
6 9 (2.21%) Storybook
7 8 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.96%) JUnit
8 7 (1.72%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.72%) Gradle
9 6 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.47%) Mockito
10 5 (1.23%) git-flow
11 4 (0.98%) Selenium
11 4 (0.98%) Snyk
12 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.49%) Mocha
13 2 (0.49%) MSTest
13 2 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
General
1 105 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 83 (20.34%) Finance
3 56 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 32 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.84%) Banking
5 21 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.94%) Retail
7 11 (2.70%) Military
8 9 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.96%) Legal
10 7 (1.72%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Publishing
13 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.49%) Automotive
14 2 (0.49%) Law
14 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 117 (28.68%) Developer
2 98 (24.02%) Architect
3 52 (12.75%) Senior
4 32 (7.84%) Java Developer
5 31 (7.60%) Lead
6 29 (7.11%) Technical Architect
7 23 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (4.66%) Senior Developer
10 17 (4.17%) Consultant
11 15 (3.68%) IAM Specialist
12 14 (3.43%) Technical Leader
13 13 (3.19%) Security Architect
14 12 (2.94%) Azure Developer
15 11 (2.70%) Backend Developer
15 11 (2.70%) IAM Developer
16 10 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
16 10 (2.45%) Integration Architect
16 10 (2.45%) Senior Java Developer
17 9 (2.21%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (52.70%) OAuth2
2 208 (50.98%) OpenID
3 157 (38.48%) SAML
4 154 (37.75%) REST
5 88 (21.57%) JWT
6 84 (20.59%) Terraform
7 69 (16.91%) SOAP
8 60 (14.71%) RESTful
9 55 (13.48%) JSON
9 55 (13.48%) LDAP
10 52 (12.75%) React
11 50 (12.25%) CSS
12 46 (11.27%) Kafka
13 45 (11.03%) .NET
14 42 (10.29%) HTML
15 38 (9.31%) Swagger
16 36 (8.82%) OpenAPI
17 35 (8.58%) Node.js
17 35 (8.58%) Spring
17 35 (8.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 33 (8.09%) Product Ownership
5 32 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (4.90%) Security Posture
7 16 (3.92%) PKI
8 15 (3.68%) Management Information System
9 14 (3.43%) CMDB
10 11 (2.70%) AI Agents
11 9 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.96%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
15 5 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (1.23%) Mobile App
15 5 (1.23%) Replication
15 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.70%) Windows
2 8 (1.96%) Linux
2 8 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.49%) Android
4 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) CentOS
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (40.69%) CI/CD
2 140 (34.31%) DevOps
3 114 (27.94%) Microservices
4 109 (26.72%) Agile
5 93 (22.79%) Identity Access Management
6 84 (20.59%) Event-Driven
7 74 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 70 (17.16%) Containerisation
10 63 (15.44%) AI
11 61 (14.95%) Test Automation
12 60 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 59 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
14 58 (14.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 54 (13.24%) Mentoring
16 53 (12.99%) API Management
16 53 (12.99%) RBAC
17 50 (12.25%) Integration Patterns
17 50 (12.25%) Observability
18 49 (12.01%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 110 (26.96%) Java
2 100 (24.51%) Python
3 90 (22.06%) JavaScript
4 79 (19.36%) SQL
5 61 (14.95%) PowerShell
6 51 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 38 (9.31%) C#
8 27 (6.62%) Bicep
9 8 (1.96%) Bash
10 5 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.74%) Groovy
11 3 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.74%) PHP
12 2 (0.49%) Go
12 2 (0.49%) PromQL
13 1 (0.25%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.25%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.25%) C++
13 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (25.98%) Security Cleared
2 82 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.31%) Degree
4 22 (5.39%) CISSP
5 21 (5.15%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.68%) AWS Certification
8 14 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (2.70%) CISM
10 11 (2.70%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.21%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.23%) CSPO
13 4 (0.98%) MCSE
14 3 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.74%) GIAC
14 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 32 (7.84%) NIST
2 31 (7.60%) GDPR
3 26 (6.37%) QA
4 12 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.45%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.96%) NCSC
7 7 (1.72%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.23%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.23%) WCAG
10 3 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.74%) SEPA
11 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.49%) HL7
11 2 (0.49%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.49%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (22.79%) Active Directory
2 75 (18.38%) Docker
3 4 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.74%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 95 (23.28%) Kubernetes
2 64 (15.69%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (6.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 23 (5.64%) Grafana
5 19 (4.66%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.94%) Ansible
7 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.72%) Argo
9 5 (1.23%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.98%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.74%) Kibana
11 3 (0.74%) WMI
12 2 (0.49%) Consul
12 2 (0.49%) Istio
12 2 (0.49%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.49%) SCOM
12 2 (0.49%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.49%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 121 (29.66%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.29%) Oracle
3 37 (9.07%) Google
4 32 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 27 (6.62%) Okta
6 25 (6.13%) MuleSoft
7 17 (4.17%) Salesforce
8 16 (3.92%) CyberArk
9 15 (3.68%) SAP
10 14 (3.43%) Ping Identity
11 11 (2.70%) IBM
11 11 (2.70%) Workday
12 10 (2.45%) Databricks
13 9 (2.21%) Informatica
13 9 (2.21%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.96%) ForgeRock
14 8 (1.96%) OutSystems
14 8 (1.96%) TIBCO
14 8 (1.96%) WSO2
15 5 (1.23%) Denodo