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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 324 400
Rank change year-on-year +44 +76 +5
Contract jobs citing OAuth 353 160 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.66% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.46% 2.93% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 109 106
10th Percentile £383 £410 £427
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -1.33% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £730 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £565
% change year-on-year +1.85% -4.42% +0.89%
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 7,919 5,465 7,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.48% 22.40% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,270 3,787 5,310
10th Percentile £363 £368 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 102 223
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.55 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.25 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +46 199 £543 -6.87% 49
North of England -9 78 £563 +13.41% 17
North West -17 46 £550 +10.00% 13
South East -29 36 £595 -7.03% 14
Yorkshire -32 31 £575 +22.60% 4
South West -16 22 £550 +7.32% 8
Midlands -69 9 £438 -21.52% 3
West Midlands -54 5 £350 -40.43% 2
East of England - 4 £500 - 4
East Midlands -31 3 £438 -0.46% 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 18 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.83%) Confluence
2 10 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.27%) Appian
4 5 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.57%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.55%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 170 (48.16%) Azure
2 133 (37.68%) AWS
3 105 (29.75%) Entra ID
4 68 (19.26%) GCP
5 55 (15.58%) Serverless
6 30 (8.50%) GitHub
7 28 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (6.80%) Amazon S3
11 23 (6.52%) Apigee
11 23 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (5.95%) SaaS
13 20 (5.67%) PaaS
14 19 (5.38%) Kong
15 18 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (5.10%) IaaS
15 18 (5.10%) OCI
16 17 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.48%) DNS
2 35 (9.92%) Kerberos
3 17 (4.82%) HTTP
4 16 (4.53%) DHCP
5 13 (3.68%) Firewall
6 11 (3.12%) SSL
7 7 (1.98%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.70%) IPsec
9 5 (1.42%) DKIM
9 5 (1.42%) DMARC
9 5 (1.42%) Network Security
9 5 (1.42%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.13%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.57%) NGFW
11 2 (0.57%) RFID
11 2 (0.57%) VPN
12 1 (0.28%) Extranet
12 1 (0.28%) SMS
12 1 (0.28%) WAN
12 1 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.37%) SQL Server
2 25 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.10%) Redis
4 16 (4.53%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.40%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.12%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.12%) Pinecone
7 10 (2.83%) MySQL
8 9 (2.55%) Metadata
8 9 (2.55%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.70%) Power BI
11 5 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.42%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.13%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.13%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.13%) Hazelcast
12 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (7.08%) Git
1 25 (7.08%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.23%) GitLab
3 19 (5.38%) Postman
4 15 (4.25%) JIRA
5 8 (2.27%) MLflow
5 8 (2.27%) SoapUI
6 7 (1.98%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (1.70%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.13%) git-flow
10 3 (0.85%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.85%) Gradle
10 3 (0.85%) Maven
10 3 (0.85%) Vite
11 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.57%) Gatling
11 2 (0.57%) Moq
11 2 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 92 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.40%) Finance
3 42 (11.90%) Banking
4 38 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 36 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.98%) Military
8 5 (1.42%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.42%) Marketing
8 5 (1.42%) Retail
9 4 (1.13%) Publishing
10 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.85%) Games
10 3 (0.85%) Legal
10 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 87 (24.65%) Developer
2 67 (18.98%) Architect
3 47 (13.31%) Senior
4 19 (5.38%) Lead
5 17 (4.82%) Analyst
6 16 (4.53%) Java Developer
7 15 (4.25%) Technical Architect
8 13 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (3.12%) Senior Developer
11 10 (2.83%) Business Analyst
11 10 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (2.83%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.55%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (2.55%) Backend Developer
12 9 (2.55%) IAM Specialist
12 9 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.27%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (2.27%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (49.01%) OAuth2
2 158 (44.76%) OpenID
3 154 (43.63%) SAML
4 94 (26.63%) REST
5 76 (21.53%) JWT
6 52 (14.73%) JSON
7 50 (14.16%) RESTful
8 49 (13.88%) LDAP
9 48 (13.60%) SOAP
10 35 (9.92%) Node.js
11 34 (9.63%) Spring
11 34 (9.63%) Spring Boot
11 34 (9.63%) XML
12 33 (9.35%) Web Services
13 29 (8.22%) Kafka
14 28 (7.93%) .NET
15 27 (7.65%) React
16 24 (6.80%) SailPoint
16 24 (6.80%) Swagger
17 23 (6.52%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.31%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.65%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.95%) Mobile App
5 19 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.53%) Replication
7 14 (3.97%) Low-Code
8 13 (3.68%) Public Cloud
9 12 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.83%) Management Information System
11 9 (2.55%) PKI
12 7 (1.98%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.70%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.42%) CMDB
14 5 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (1.13%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.65%) Windows
2 21 (5.95%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.55%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.27%) Android
5 6 (1.70%) Linux
6 2 (0.57%) zOS
7 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (37.11%) CI/CD
2 110 (31.16%) DevOps
3 89 (25.21%) Microservices
4 71 (20.11%) RBAC
5 65 (18.41%) Agile
6 62 (17.56%) Identity Access Management
6 62 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 60 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (14.73%) Event-Driven
9 51 (14.45%) Containerisation
10 49 (13.88%) Test Automation
11 46 (13.03%) Data Modelling
12 45 (12.75%) Observability
13 43 (12.18%) Integration Patterns
13 43 (12.18%) Validation
14 40 (11.33%) AI
15 39 (11.05%) API Integration
15 39 (11.05%) Design Patterns
16 38 (10.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 37 (10.48%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.66%) Python
2 76 (21.53%) Java
3 68 (19.26%) SQL
4 50 (14.16%) JavaScript
4 50 (14.16%) PowerShell
5 34 (9.63%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.65%) C#
7 14 (3.97%) Bicep
7 14 (3.97%) Go
8 13 (3.68%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.98%) Bash
10 4 (1.13%) Groovy
10 4 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.13%) PHP
11 3 (0.85%) Swift
12 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.28%) C++
13 1 (0.28%) COBOL
13 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 54 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.65%) Degree
4 19 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.10%) CISSP
6 16 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.40%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.27%) CISM
10 7 (1.98%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.13%) GIAC
12 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.57%) MCSE
13 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.20%) GDPR
2 31 (8.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (7.08%) NIST
4 21 (5.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (4.53%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.40%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.83%) QA
8 7 (1.98%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.70%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.42%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.85%) GRC
11 3 (0.85%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.85%) SEPA
11 3 (0.85%) WCAG
12 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.57%) PSD2
System Software
1 81 (22.95%) Active Directory
2 67 (18.98%) Docker
3 6 (1.70%) RACF
4 2 (0.57%) OpenAM
4 2 (0.57%) OpenDJ
4 2 (0.57%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.57%) Squid
4 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 86 (24.36%) Single Sign-On
2 75 (21.25%) Kubernetes
3 66 (18.70%) Terraform
4 37 (10.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (4.25%) Grafana
6 14 (3.97%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.98%) Ansible
8 6 (1.70%) Argo
8 6 (1.70%) Istio
8 6 (1.70%) linkerd
9 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.13%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.13%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.13%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 100 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.93%) Google
2 28 (7.93%) Okta
3 25 (7.08%) Oracle
4 22 (6.23%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.82%) CyberArk
6 13 (3.68%) MuleSoft
6 13 (3.68%) SAP
7 12 (3.40%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.55%) Ping Identity
8 9 (2.55%) Splunk
9 8 (2.27%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.27%) ForgeRock
9 8 (2.27%) UiPath
10 7 (1.98%) Workday
11 5 (1.42%) Denodo
11 5 (1.42%) OutSystems
12 4 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.13%) VMware
12 4 (1.13%) Zscaler