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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 388 372
Rank change year-on-year +123 -16 +71
Contract jobs citing OAuth 307 129 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.41% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.47% 1.91% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 81 171
10th Percentile £360 £409 £400
25th Percentile £407 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -14.89% +6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £61.30 - -
25th Percentile £61.38 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £72.31 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.75 - -

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 6,864 6,746 8,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.84% 21.67% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,631 4,305 6,457
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.56%
75th Percentile £635 £666 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 100 182
10th Percentile £31.20 £26.25 £36.31
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.19 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.35 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 +69 145 £505 -15.83% 86
North of England +15 58 £415 -13.65% 19
North West +9 33 £405 +31.71% 17
Midlands -20 32 £430 -21.82% 12
South West +30 31 £545 -12.27% 14
Yorkshire -19 25 £453 -30.38% 2
South East +5 24 £500 -21.57% 27
West Midlands -17 22 £531 -7.61% 12
East Midlands - 10 £415 -
East of England -16 3 £500 -33.33%
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 (5.86%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.54%) Apache
3 15 (4.89%) Confluence
4 14 (4.56%) WebSphere
5 13 (4.23%) WebSphere Application Server
6 11 (3.58%) IIS
6 11 (3.58%) JBoss
7 10 (3.26%) iPlanet
8 7 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.95%) nginx
10 5 (1.63%) Anypoint
10 5 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (1.63%) CMS
10 5 (1.63%) Headless CMS
11 4 (1.30%) Mule
12 3 (0.98%) Oracle Service Bus
12 3 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 153 (49.84%) Azure
2 116 (37.79%) AWS
3 77 (25.08%) Entra ID
4 57 (18.57%) GitHub
5 46 (14.98%) GCP
6 39 (12.70%) SaaS
7 38 (12.38%) Serverless
8 37 (12.05%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (6.19%) Amazon S3
13 19 (6.19%) Apigee
14 16 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (5.21%) Power Platform
15 15 (4.89%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (3.91%) Azure Functions
16 12 (3.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.45%) Kerberos
2 20 (6.51%) SSL
3 17 (5.54%) HTTPS
4 15 (4.89%) DNS
4 15 (4.89%) Firewall
5 11 (3.58%) HTTP
6 5 (1.63%) SSH
7 3 (0.98%) Internet
7 3 (0.98%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.65%) AMQP
8 2 (0.65%) DSL
8 2 (0.65%) Extranet
8 2 (0.65%) Network Security
8 2 (0.65%) S/MIME
8 2 (0.65%) VPN
9 1 (0.33%) DHCP
9 1 (0.33%) DKIM
9 1 (0.33%) SMTP
9 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.21%) Oracle Database
2 14 (4.56%) DynamoDB
3 12 (3.91%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.58%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.61%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.28%) Power BI
7 6 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.63%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.63%) MySQL
9 4 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.30%) Metadata
10 3 (0.98%) Airbyte
10 3 (0.98%) Redis
11 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.33%) DB2
12 1 (0.33%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 40 (13.03%) Git
2 38 (12.38%) Jenkins
3 28 (9.12%) JIRA
4 16 (5.21%) GitLab
5 11 (3.58%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.58%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.61%) Postman
7 8 (2.61%) Xcode
8 7 (2.28%) Gradle
8 7 (2.28%) Maven
8 7 (2.28%) Storybook
9 5 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.63%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.63%) JUnit
9 5 (1.63%) Mockito
9 5 (1.63%) Selenium
10 4 (1.30%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.30%) Fiddler
10 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 111 (36.16%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.89%) Finance
3 40 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.84%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (6.19%) Banking
7 9 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.63%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.30%) Legal
9 4 (1.30%) Marketing
9 4 (1.30%) Retail
10 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.98%) Publishing
11 2 (0.65%) Billing
11 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 80 (26.06%) Developer
2 49 (15.96%) Architect
3 34 (11.07%) Senior
4 23 (7.49%) Lead
5 18 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (4.89%) Consultant
8 12 (3.91%) Analyst
8 12 (3.91%) Business Analyst
8 12 (3.91%) Senior Developer
9 9 (2.93%) Integration Developer
9 9 (2.93%) Java Developer
9 9 (2.93%) React Developer
9 9 (2.93%) Security Engineer
10 8 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (2.61%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (2.28%) Lead Architect
11 7 (2.28%) Technical Architect
12 6 (1.95%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (46.58%) SAML
2 141 (45.93%) OAuth2
3 131 (42.67%) OpenID
4 74 (24.10%) REST
5 59 (19.22%) RESTful
6 53 (17.26%) JSON
7 52 (16.94%) LDAP
8 49 (15.96%) JWT
9 43 (14.01%) SOAP
10 36 (11.73%) Spring
11 29 (9.45%) GraphQL
11 29 (9.45%) XML
12 25 (8.14%) HTML
12 25 (8.14%) React
12 25 (8.14%) Spring Boot
13 23 (7.49%) Node.js
14 21 (6.84%) .NET
15 19 (6.19%) Kafka
16 14 (4.56%) Microsoft Graph
17 13 (4.23%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.03%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.86%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.86%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.56%) Mobile App
5 13 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.26%) PKI
7 7 (2.28%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.28%) Replication
7 7 (2.28%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.30%) BYOD
9 4 (1.30%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.65%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.65%) DataPower
11 2 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.07%) Windows
2 29 (9.45%) Linux
3 24 (7.82%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.26%) Android
5 9 (2.93%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.61%) Unix
7 5 (1.63%) AIX
7 5 (1.63%) Solaris
8 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.33%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (39.09%) CI/CD
2 108 (35.18%) DevOps
3 75 (24.43%) Identity Access Management
4 71 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (22.80%) Agile
6 66 (21.50%) RBAC
7 57 (18.57%) Identity Management
8 53 (17.26%) Microservices
9 47 (15.31%) Containerisation
10 46 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (13.03%) API Management
12 34 (11.07%) AI
13 32 (10.42%) Mentoring
14 31 (10.10%) API Design
14 31 (10.10%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 29 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (9.12%) Analytics
16 28 (9.12%) Computer Science
16 28 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
17 27 (8.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (22.15%) Python
2 65 (21.17%) Java
3 52 (16.94%) PowerShell
4 47 (15.31%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.42%) SQL
6 26 (8.47%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.86%) C#
8 14 (4.56%) Groovy
9 10 (3.26%) Bash
10 8 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.30%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.98%) Bicep
14 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.98%) PHP
15 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.65%) Go
15 2 (0.65%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 65 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.10%) Degree
4 25 (8.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (6.51%) CISSP
7 15 (4.89%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.56%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.26%) Azure Certification
9 10 (3.26%) CISM
10 9 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.63%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.98%) PhD
13 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.65%) CCSP
13 2 (0.65%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.01%) GDPR
2 25 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.89%) HIPAA
4 12 (3.91%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.58%) NIST
6 10 (3.26%) QA
6 10 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (3.26%) SOC 2
7 8 (2.61%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.61%) WCAG
8 6 (1.95%) PSD2
9 4 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.30%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.65%) SLA
12 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 97 (31.60%) Active Directory
2 64 (20.85%) Docker
3 8 (2.61%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (30.94%) Single Sign-On
2 56 (18.24%) Terraform
3 48 (15.64%) Kubernetes
4 21 (6.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (6.51%) Ansible
6 11 (3.58%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.58%) Grafana
7 10 (3.26%) CA Wily
8 9 (2.93%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.93%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.61%) Tivoli
10 6 (1.95%) Kibana
10 6 (1.95%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.98%) SCCM
12 2 (0.65%) Argo
12 2 (0.65%) CloudHub
12 2 (0.65%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.65%) Puppet
13 1 (0.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 111 (36.16%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.79%) IBM
3 26 (8.47%) Splunk
4 24 (7.82%) Oracle
5 19 (6.19%) Ping Identity
6 17 (5.54%) Google
7 16 (5.21%) CyberArk
7 16 (5.21%) ForgeRock
8 15 (4.89%) OpenAI
9 14 (4.56%) Salesforce
10 13 (4.23%) Okta
11 12 (3.91%) MuleSoft
12 11 (3.58%) AppDynamics
12 11 (3.58%) Broadcom
13 10 (3.26%) SAP
13 10 (3.26%) ServiceNow
14 8 (2.61%) Alibaba
14 8 (2.61%) Axway
14 8 (2.61%) VMware
15 6 (1.95%) Databricks