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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 283 407
Rank change year-on-year +14 +124 -60
Contract jobs citing OAuth 462 247 126
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.88% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.67% 3.47% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 163 79
10th Percentile £407 £363 £425
25th Percentile £455 £410 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £492 £613
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -19.67% +2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £675
90th Percentile £750 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £555 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +11.05% -16.67% -
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 9,900 7,112 7,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.48% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,509 4,807 5,152
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £449 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 171 159
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.43 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +9.62%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +8 231 £575 +12.75% 178
South East -1 81 £500 - 29
North of England -29 72 £565 +25.56% 39
Yorkshire -8 42 £563 +15.38% 20
Midlands -42 30 £463 +9.01% 13
North West -50 26 £625 +40.13% 16
West Midlands -38 25 £487 -7.28% 12
East of England -10 17 £550 +10.00% 20
South West -31 16 £645 +26.91% 21
East Midlands -21 5 £401 -2.79% 1
North East - 5 £525 - 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 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.03%) Confluence
3 11 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.30%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.08%) Apache
5 5 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.08%) Mule
6 3 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.43%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.65%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.43%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.43%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 258 (55.84%) Azure
2 186 (40.26%) AWS
3 130 (28.14%) Entra ID
4 99 (21.43%) GCP
5 61 (13.20%) GitHub
6 50 (10.82%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (10.17%) Serverless
8 41 (8.87%) GitHub Actions
9 38 (8.23%) SaaS
10 31 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (5.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 26 (5.63%) Boomi
13 25 (5.41%) Azure API Management
14 21 (4.55%) Azure AKS
14 21 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (3.90%) OCI
16 16 (3.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (3.46%) Kong
17 15 (3.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.41%) DNS
2 20 (4.33%) Kerberos
3 14 (3.03%) Firewall
4 11 (2.38%) HTTP
4 11 (2.38%) SSL
5 10 (2.16%) X.509
6 7 (1.52%) DKIM
6 7 (1.52%) DMARC
6 7 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (1.30%) IPsec
7 6 (1.30%) Network Security
7 6 (1.30%) NGFW
8 5 (1.08%) DHCP
9 4 (0.87%) VPN
10 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.43%) SSH
12 1 (0.22%) DMZ
12 1 (0.22%) Internet
12 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (8.44%) Relational Database
3 33 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 33 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 20 (4.33%) MongoDB
5 19 (4.11%) MySQL
6 18 (3.90%) Redis
7 15 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (3.03%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.73%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.52%) Power BI
10 7 (1.52%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.30%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.08%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.08%) Hazelcast
12 5 (1.08%) Metadata
12 5 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.87%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.87%) Flink
14 3 (0.65%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 78 (16.88%) Git
2 33 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.06%) GitLab
4 23 (4.98%) JIRA
5 14 (3.03%) Maven
6 11 (2.38%) JUnit
6 11 (2.38%) Storybook
7 9 (1.95%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.95%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.95%) Mockito
8 8 (1.73%) Gradle
9 5 (1.08%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.08%) MSTest
9 5 (1.08%) NUnit
10 4 (0.87%) git-flow
10 4 (0.87%) Selenium
10 4 (0.87%) Snyk
10 4 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.65%) Postman
11 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 93 (20.13%) Finance
3 64 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.52%) Banking
5 42 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.03%) Military
8 12 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.16%) Retail
10 9 (1.95%) Legal
11 8 (1.73%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Publishing
14 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.65%) Marketing
14 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.43%) Automotive
15 2 (0.43%) Local Government
15 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 136 (29.44%) Developer
2 103 (22.29%) Architect
3 55 (11.90%) Senior
4 36 (7.79%) Java Developer
5 35 (7.58%) Lead
6 30 (6.49%) Technical Architect
7 26 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (4.11%) Senior Developer
9 18 (3.90%) Consultant
9 18 (3.90%) IAM Specialist
10 15 (3.25%) Technical Leader
11 14 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (2.60%) Azure Developer
13 11 (2.38%) Backend Developer
13 11 (2.38%) Security Architect
13 11 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (2.38%) Technical Consultant
14 10 (2.16%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.16%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (52.16%) OAuth2
2 236 (51.08%) OpenID
3 178 (38.53%) REST
4 169 (36.58%) SAML
5 111 (24.03%) Terraform
6 102 (22.08%) JWT
7 73 (15.80%) SOAP
8 70 (15.15%) RESTful
9 65 (14.07%) JSON
10 63 (13.64%) React
11 52 (11.26%) CSS
11 52 (11.26%) Kafka
11 52 (11.26%) LDAP
12 48 (10.39%) .NET
13 46 (9.96%) Swagger
14 45 (9.74%) OpenAPI
15 44 (9.52%) HTML
16 43 (9.31%) Node.js
17 40 (8.66%) Middleware
18 39 (8.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 101 (21.86%) Cloud Native
2 47 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (9.31%) Enterprise Software
4 38 (8.23%) Onboarding
5 36 (7.79%) Product Ownership
6 22 (4.76%) PKI
7 18 (3.90%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.90%) Security Posture
8 16 (3.46%) AI Agents
9 15 (3.25%) CMDB
10 10 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.95%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
13 6 (1.30%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.30%) Replication
14 4 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
14 4 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.46%) Linux
2 15 (3.25%) Windows
3 8 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.87%) Android
5 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.22%) CentOS
6 1 (0.22%) macOS
6 1 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (43.51%) CI/CD
2 169 (36.58%) DevOps
3 133 (28.79%) Agile
4 132 (28.57%) Microservices
5 109 (23.59%) Identity Access Management
6 96 (20.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 94 (20.35%) Event-Driven
8 92 (19.91%) Test Automation
9 78 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
10 76 (16.45%) Containerisation
11 73 (15.80%) RBAC
12 69 (14.94%) AI
12 69 (14.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 68 (14.72%) Software Engineering
13 68 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 67 (14.50%) Observability
15 63 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
16 59 (12.77%) API Management
16 59 (12.77%) Mentoring
17 54 (11.69%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 115 (24.89%) Java
1 115 (24.89%) Python
2 98 (21.21%) JavaScript
3 87 (18.83%) SQL
4 75 (16.23%) PowerShell
5 63 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 47 (10.17%) C#
7 35 (7.58%) Bicep
8 15 (3.25%) Go
9 10 (2.16%) Bash
10 5 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.87%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.65%) C++
12 3 (0.65%) Groovy
12 3 (0.65%) Lua
13 2 (0.43%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.43%) PHP
13 2 (0.43%) Swift
13 2 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 126 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 96 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.74%) Degree
4 26 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.33%) CISSP
5 20 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (3.25%) AWS Certification
9 14 (3.03%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.95%) CISM
10 9 (1.95%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.08%) CSPO
12 5 (1.08%) MCSE
12 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.43%) CRISC
13 2 (0.43%) GIAC
14 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (6.93%) NIST
3 31 (6.71%) QA
4 23 (4.98%) GDPR
5 17 (3.68%) Accessibility
6 16 (3.46%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.73%) NCSC
7 8 (1.73%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.52%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.52%) WCAG
9 6 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.65%) SLA
11 2 (0.43%) HL7
11 2 (0.43%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.43%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.43%) SEPA
11 2 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 108 (23.38%) Active Directory
2 80 (17.32%) Docker
3 6 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.08%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Squid
6 1 (0.22%) zsh
Systems Management
1 116 (25.11%) Kubernetes
2 76 (16.45%) Single Sign-On
3 29 (6.28%) Grafana
4 22 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 19 (4.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (3.68%) Ansible
7 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (1.95%) Argo
9 3 (0.65%) Kibana
9 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.65%) Puppet
9 3 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.65%) WMI
10 2 (0.43%) Consul
10 2 (0.43%) FreeIPA
10 2 (0.43%) Istio
10 2 (0.43%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.43%) SCOM
10 2 (0.43%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.43%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 151 (32.68%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.82%) Oracle
3 46 (9.96%) Google
4 34 (7.36%) ServiceNow
5 29 (6.28%) Okta
6 28 (6.06%) MuleSoft
7 17 (3.68%) Salesforce
8 15 (3.25%) Ping Identity
8 15 (3.25%) SAP
9 13 (2.81%) CyberArk
10 12 (2.60%) Databricks
10 12 (2.60%) IBM
10 12 (2.60%) OpenAI
11 11 (2.38%) Informatica
12 10 (2.16%) Workday
13 9 (1.95%) ForgeRock
13 9 (1.95%) TIBCO
13 9 (1.95%) WSO2
14 8 (1.73%) Dell
14 8 (1.73%) OutSystems