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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 320 386
Rank change year-on-year +55 +66 +33
Contract jobs citing OAuth 362 158 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 0.64% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.56% 2.87% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 108 109
10th Percentile £358 £409 £428
25th Percentile £447 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +3.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £638
90th Percentile £731 £691 £675
UK median daily rate £527 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -3.74% -0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.13 - -
90th Percentile £55.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 7,933 5,504 7,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.90% 22.38% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,304 3,816 5,356
10th Percentile £358 £368 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £668 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 98 198
10th Percentile £33.75 £29.90 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £82.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 25 April 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
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 25 April 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 +33 205 £534 -9.58% 37
North of England -17 78 £550 +10.89% 12
North West -9 50 £500 - 8
South East -40 38 £573 -10.55% 14
Yorkshire -38 27 £575 +22.60% 4
South West -22 23 £563 +9.76% 7
Midlands -54 10 £442 -23.09% 2
West Midlands -54 6 £400 -31.91% 1
East of England - 4 £500 - 2
East Midlands -33 3 £438 -18.98% 1
North East - 2 £525 -
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 20 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.76%) Confluence
3 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.21%) Appian
5 6 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.83%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.55%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.49%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 180 (49.72%) Azure
2 139 (38.40%) AWS
3 107 (29.56%) Entra ID
4 69 (19.06%) GCP
5 66 (18.23%) Serverless
6 39 (10.77%) GitHub
7 37 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (8.84%) Amazon S3
8 32 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (8.56%) Apigee
10 28 (7.73%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (5.80%) SaaS
13 20 (5.52%) PaaS
14 18 (4.97%) Azure API Management
14 18 (4.97%) IaaS
14 18 (4.97%) Kong
14 18 (4.97%) Power Platform
15 17 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.94%) DNS
2 32 (8.84%) Kerberos
3 20 (5.52%) HTTP
4 16 (4.42%) DHCP
5 13 (3.59%) Firewall
5 13 (3.59%) SSL
6 7 (1.93%) HTTPS
6 7 (1.93%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (1.66%) IPsec
8 5 (1.38%) DKIM
8 5 (1.38%) DMARC
8 5 (1.38%) Network Security
8 5 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.55%) RFID
9 2 (0.55%) VPN
10 1 (0.28%) Extranet
10 1 (0.28%) Internet
10 1 (0.28%) NGFW
10 1 (0.28%) SMS
10 1 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (6.63%) SQL Server
3 19 (5.25%) DynamoDB
4 17 (4.70%) Redis
5 14 (3.87%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.04%) Pinecone
7 10 (2.76%) Metadata
7 10 (2.76%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.76%) MySQL
7 10 (2.76%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.93%) Power BI
9 6 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.38%) Data Vault
10 5 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.10%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.83%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 30 (8.29%) Jenkins
2 25 (6.91%) Git
3 21 (5.80%) GitLab
4 20 (5.52%) Postman
5 15 (4.14%) JIRA
6 8 (2.21%) MLflow
6 8 (2.21%) SoapUI
7 6 (1.66%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.38%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.10%) git-flow
10 3 (0.83%) Vite
11 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.55%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.55%) Gatling
11 2 (0.55%) Gradle
11 2 (0.55%) Maven
11 2 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 99 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.17%) Finance
3 44 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (12.15%) Banking
4 36 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.93%) Military
7 6 (1.66%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.66%) Marketing
7 6 (1.66%) Retail
8 4 (1.10%) Legal
8 4 (1.10%) Publishing
9 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.83%) Games
9 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.55%) Billing
10 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Law
11 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (23.48%) Developer
2 71 (19.61%) Architect
3 46 (12.71%) Senior
4 21 (5.80%) Lead
5 17 (4.70%) Analyst
5 17 (4.70%) Technical Architect
6 16 (4.42%) Java Developer
6 16 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (2.76%) Business Analyst
9 10 (2.76%) IAM Specialist
9 10 (2.76%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (2.49%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (2.49%) Lead Architect
11 8 (2.21%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (2.21%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (47.79%) OAuth2
2 155 (42.82%) OpenID
2 155 (42.82%) SAML
3 99 (27.35%) REST
4 80 (22.10%) JWT
5 56 (15.47%) JSON
6 50 (13.81%) LDAP
7 49 (13.54%) RESTful
7 49 (13.54%) SOAP
8 42 (11.60%) Node.js
9 37 (10.22%) XML
10 34 (9.39%) Spring
10 34 (9.39%) Spring Boot
11 33 (9.12%) Web Services
12 31 (8.56%) .NET
12 31 (8.56%) Kafka
13 26 (7.18%) React
14 24 (6.63%) SailPoint
14 24 (6.63%) Swagger
15 23 (6.35%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.08%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.80%) Mobile App
5 18 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.42%) Replication
7 13 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.59%) Low-Code
7 13 (3.59%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.31%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.49%) PKI
11 7 (1.93%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.66%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (1.10%) Clustering
14 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.10%) Freedom of Information
14 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.73%) Windows
2 22 (6.08%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.66%) Android
4 6 (1.66%) Linux
5 2 (0.55%) zOS
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (38.40%) CI/CD
2 116 (32.04%) DevOps
3 89 (24.59%) Microservices
4 73 (20.17%) RBAC
5 69 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (18.51%) Identity Access Management
6 67 (18.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 64 (17.68%) Agile
8 50 (13.81%) Containerisation
9 49 (13.54%) Event-Driven
9 49 (13.54%) Test Automation
10 46 (12.71%) Data Modelling
11 44 (12.15%) AI
11 44 (12.15%) Observability
12 42 (11.60%) API Management
12 42 (11.60%) Design Patterns
12 42 (11.60%) Integration Patterns
13 41 (11.33%) Validation
14 38 (10.50%) API Integration
14 38 (10.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 89 (24.59%) Python
2 78 (21.55%) Java
3 67 (18.51%) SQL
4 53 (14.64%) JavaScript
4 53 (14.64%) PowerShell
5 35 (9.67%) TypeScript
6 30 (8.29%) C#
7 14 (3.87%) Go
8 13 (3.59%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.76%) Bash
10 9 (2.49%) Bicep
11 7 (1.93%) PHP
12 5 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.10%) Groovy
14 3 (0.83%) Swift
15 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.28%) Assembly Language
16 1 (0.28%) JCL
16 1 (0.28%) REXX
16 1 (0.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 87 (24.03%) Security Cleared
2 60 (16.57%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.39%) Degree
4 23 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (5.25%) CISSP
6 18 (4.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (3.59%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.21%) CISM
10 7 (1.93%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.10%) GIAC
12 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.28%) HND
14 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.50%) GDPR
2 32 (8.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (7.18%) NIST
4 22 (6.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (4.42%) PCI DSS
6 15 (4.14%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.76%) QA
8 7 (1.93%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.66%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.38%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.83%) GRC
11 3 (0.83%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.83%) SEPA
11 3 (0.83%) WCAG
12 2 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.55%) PSD2
System Software
1 83 (22.93%) Active Directory
2 71 (19.61%) Docker
3 6 (1.66%) RACF
4 2 (0.55%) OpenAM
4 2 (0.55%) OpenDJ
4 2 (0.55%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.55%) Squid
4 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (22.65%) Single Sign-On
2 71 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 71 (19.61%) Terraform
3 38 (10.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (3.87%) Grafana
5 13 (3.59%) Ansible
5 13 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.66%) Istio
6 6 (1.66%) linkerd
7 5 (1.38%) Argo
8 4 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.10%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.10%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Identity Manager
11 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (28.73%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.73%) Google
3 26 (7.18%) Okta
4 25 (6.91%) Oracle
5 23 (6.35%) ServiceNow
6 18 (4.97%) CyberArk
7 14 (3.87%) SAP
8 13 (3.59%) MuleSoft
8 13 (3.59%) OpenAI
9 11 (3.04%) Splunk
10 9 (2.49%) Ping Identity
11 8 (2.21%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.21%) ForgeRock
11 8 (2.21%) UiPath
12 7 (1.93%) Workday
13 6 (1.66%) Denodo
14 5 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (1.38%) IBM
14 5 (1.38%) Zscaler
15 4 (1.10%) Apple