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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 364 400
Rank change year-on-year +113 +36 +49
Contract jobs citing OAuth 370 127 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.89% 2.19% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 89 117
10th Percentile £358 £409 £420
25th Percentile £413 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £613 £660 £650
90th Percentile £688 £705 £700
UK median daily rate £523 £575 £535
% change year-on-year -9.04% +7.48% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £55.10 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £72.31 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - -

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 7,566 5,809 7,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.50% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,080 3,770 5,493
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £534
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.50% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 74 189
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.56 £43.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year +2.40% +14.55% -16.06%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +70 197 £525 -8.70% 38
North of England 0 71 £448 -14.67% 17
North West +4 42 £402 -23.43% 10
South West +16 38 £563 +25.00% 9
Yorkshire -27 29 £475 -24.00% 5
Midlands -32 28 £523 -10.11% 4
South East -30 24 £538 -14.68% 20
West Midlands -29 23 £525 -10.64% 3
East Midlands -20 4 £442 -23.09% 1
East of England -24 2 £500 - 2
North East -12 1 - - 2
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 21 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.59%) Confluence
3 9 (2.43%) Apache
4 8 (2.16%) Appian
5 7 (1.89%) IIS
5 7 (1.89%) iPlanet
5 7 (1.89%) JBoss
5 7 (1.89%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.89%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.81%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.81%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.54%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.54%) CICS
10 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.16%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 181 (48.92%) Azure
2 126 (34.05%) AWS
3 97 (26.22%) Entra ID
4 51 (13.78%) GitHub
5 49 (13.24%) GCP
5 49 (13.24%) Serverless
6 35 (9.46%) SaaS
7 34 (9.19%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (7.30%) Apigee
10 26 (7.03%) Amazon S3
10 26 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (7.03%) PaaS
11 21 (5.68%) IaaS
11 21 (5.68%) Power Platform
12 20 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (4.59%) OCI
14 17 (4.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (13.51%) Kerberos
2 35 (9.46%) DNS
3 20 (5.41%) Firewall
4 18 (4.86%) HTTPS
4 18 (4.86%) SSL
5 17 (4.59%) HTTP
6 15 (4.05%) DHCP
7 7 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.35%) IPsec
8 5 (1.35%) Network Security
9 4 (1.08%) SSH
9 4 (1.08%) VPN
10 3 (0.81%) Internet
11 2 (0.54%) Extranet
11 2 (0.54%) RFID
11 2 (0.54%) S/MIME
11 2 (0.54%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.27%) SMS
12 1 (0.27%) SMTP
12 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.95%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.05%) DynamoDB
3 15 (4.05%) Redis
4 14 (3.78%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.97%) Pinecone
6 9 (2.43%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.43%) Power BI
7 8 (2.16%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.16%) MySQL
7 8 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.89%) Metadata
9 6 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.08%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.81%) GIS
Development Applications
1 38 (10.27%) Git
1 38 (10.27%) Jenkins
2 21 (5.68%) JIRA
2 21 (5.68%) Postman
3 18 (4.86%) GitLab
4 8 (2.16%) MLflow
5 7 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
5 7 (1.89%) CA Release Automation
5 7 (1.89%) Cucumber
5 7 (1.89%) Maven
5 7 (1.89%) SoapUI
5 7 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.62%) JUnit
6 6 (1.62%) Selenium
7 5 (1.35%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.35%) Mockito
7 5 (1.35%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.35%) Xcode
8 4 (1.08%) Gradle
8 4 (1.08%) SonarQube
General
1 115 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.65%) Finance
3 43 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.73%) Banking
5 27 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.62%) Marketing
8 6 (1.62%) Military
9 5 (1.35%) Publishing
10 4 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.08%) Legal
11 3 (0.81%) Games
12 2 (0.54%) Billing
12 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Retail
13 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 93 (25.14%) Developer
2 65 (17.57%) Architect
3 45 (12.16%) Senior
4 23 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.68%) Lead
6 18 (4.86%) Analyst
7 16 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (3.78%) Java Developer
9 13 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (2.97%) Business Analyst
10 11 (2.97%) Consultant
10 11 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (2.70%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (2.70%) Technical Architect
12 9 (2.43%) React Developer
12 9 (2.43%) Security Architect
12 9 (2.43%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.43%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.43%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (2.16%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (45.95%) SAML
2 163 (44.05%) OAuth2
3 149 (40.27%) OpenID
4 102 (27.57%) REST
5 76 (20.54%) JWT
6 64 (17.30%) JSON
7 61 (16.49%) RESTful
8 51 (13.78%) LDAP
9 49 (13.24%) SOAP
10 45 (12.16%) XML
11 35 (9.46%) Spring
12 34 (9.19%) Node.js
12 34 (9.19%) React
12 34 (9.19%) Spring Boot
13 31 (8.38%) .NET
13 31 (8.38%) Web Services
14 28 (7.57%) HTML
15 26 (7.03%) GraphQL
16 25 (6.76%) Kafka
17 24 (6.49%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.92%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.95%) Replication
4 18 (4.86%) Management Information System
4 18 (4.86%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.78%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.97%) PKI
8 10 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.43%) Low-Code
9 9 (2.43%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.89%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.89%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.35%) Mobile Banking
13 4 (1.08%) BYOD
13 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (14.05%) Windows
2 38 (10.27%) Windows Server
3 24 (6.49%) Linux
4 10 (2.70%) Android
4 10 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.62%) Unix
6 4 (1.08%) AIX
6 4 (1.08%) Solaris
7 2 (0.54%) zOS
8 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (40.27%) CI/CD
2 123 (33.24%) DevOps
3 82 (22.16%) Identity Access Management
4 81 (21.89%) Microservices
5 74 (20.00%) Agile
6 72 (19.46%) RBAC
7 66 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (14.05%) Test Automation
10 50 (13.51%) Identity Management
11 48 (12.97%) AI
12 47 (12.70%) Validation
13 46 (12.43%) API Management
14 45 (12.16%) Event-Driven
15 43 (11.62%) Containerisation
16 36 (9.73%) Integration Patterns
16 36 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
18 34 (9.19%) Computer Science
18 34 (9.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 88 (23.78%) Python
2 68 (18.38%) Java
3 65 (17.57%) PowerShell
4 57 (15.41%) JavaScript
5 53 (14.32%) SQL
6 36 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.30%) C#
8 14 (3.78%) Go
9 13 (3.51%) Groovy
10 10 (2.70%) Bicep
11 9 (2.43%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (2.16%) Bash
13 7 (1.89%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.62%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.08%) PHP
16 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.54%) C++
16 2 (0.54%) Swift
17 1 (0.27%) Assembly Language
17 1 (0.27%) REXX
Qualifications
1 94 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 67 (18.11%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.73%) Degree
4 31 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (6.49%) DV Cleared
7 23 (6.22%) CISSP
8 10 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.43%) CISM
10 7 (1.89%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.62%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.81%) PhD
13 2 (0.54%) CCSP
14 1 (0.27%) HND
14 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (14.59%) GDPR
2 36 (9.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (6.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 18 (4.86%) NIST
4 18 (4.86%) PCI DSS
5 14 (3.78%) SOC 2
6 12 (3.24%) Data Quality
7 11 (2.97%) QA
8 10 (2.70%) Accessibility
8 10 (2.70%) WCAG
9 8 (2.16%) HIPAA
9 8 (2.16%) PSD2
10 5 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.08%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.81%) GRC
12 3 (0.81%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.81%) SLA
13 2 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 97 (26.22%) Active Directory
2 69 (18.65%) Docker
3 6 (1.62%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 5 (1.35%) RACF
5 4 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.54%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.54%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.54%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 116 (31.35%) Single Sign-On
2 67 (18.11%) Kubernetes
2 67 (18.11%) Terraform
3 44 (11.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (4.32%) Grafana
5 13 (3.51%) Ansible
6 9 (2.43%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.89%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.89%) CA Wily
8 6 (1.62%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.62%) Tivoli
9 5 (1.35%) Argo
9 5 (1.35%) Kibana
10 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.81%) SCCM
12 2 (0.54%) Istio
12 2 (0.54%) linkerd
12 2 (0.54%) PingFederate
13 1 (0.27%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 127 (34.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.11%) Oracle
3 27 (7.30%) Okta
4 26 (7.03%) Google
5 23 (6.22%) Splunk
6 19 (5.14%) OpenAI
7 17 (4.59%) CyberArk
7 17 (4.59%) ForgeRock
8 12 (3.24%) IBM
8 12 (3.24%) MuleSoft
8 12 (3.24%) Ping Identity
8 12 (3.24%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.70%) VMware
10 9 (2.43%) SAP
10 9 (2.43%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.16%) AppDynamics
11 8 (2.16%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.16%) Axway
11 8 (2.16%) UiPath
12 7 (1.89%) BeyondTrust