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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 303 402
Rank change year-on-year +23 +99 -27
Contract jobs citing OAuth 368 176 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.72% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 3.20% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 117 98
10th Percentile £404 £400 £428
25th Percentile £466 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -10.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.61% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £36.25 - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 - -
75th Percentile £84.34 - -
90th Percentile £87.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.75 - -

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 8,143 5,498 7,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.20% 22.56% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,370 3,803 5,451
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £633 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 108 247
10th Percentile £32.50 £31.69 £22.65
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.34 £68.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £80.90 £81.11 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +29 215 £550 - 39
North of England -29 71 £575 +15.00% 11
South East -24 49 £600 -4.76% 22
North West -21 35 £575 +15.00% 10
Yorkshire -31 35 £598 +23.32% 1
South West -19 15 £550 +8.91% 4
Midlands -63 9 £438 +1.74% 5
East Midlands -34 5 £438 +4.17% 2
East of England -29 4 £500 - 5
West Midlands -56 3 £350 -41.96% 3
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 17 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.26%) Confluence
2 12 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.17%) Appian
4 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.27%) CICS
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.72%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 195 (52.99%) Azure
2 142 (38.59%) AWS
3 116 (31.52%) Entra ID
4 78 (21.20%) GCP
5 54 (14.67%) Serverless
6 37 (10.05%) GitHub
7 31 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (7.88%) SaaS
9 28 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (6.52%) Amazon S3
12 22 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (5.43%) Azure AKS
13 20 (5.43%) OCI
14 19 (5.16%) Kong
14 19 (5.16%) PaaS
15 18 (4.89%) Apigee
15 18 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.05%) Kerberos
2 36 (9.78%) DNS
3 16 (4.35%) DHCP
4 12 (3.26%) HTTP
5 11 (2.99%) Firewall
5 11 (2.99%) SSL
6 7 (1.90%) DKIM
6 7 (1.90%) DMARC
6 7 (1.90%) Network Security
6 7 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (1.63%) IPsec
8 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.82%) NGFW
10 2 (0.54%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.54%) RFID
10 2 (0.54%) VPN
11 1 (0.27%) SMS
11 1 (0.27%) WAN
11 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.43%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.62%) Redis
5 15 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.99%) Pinecone
8 9 (2.45%) Metadata
9 8 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.17%) MySQL
10 6 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.63%) Hazelcast
11 5 (1.36%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.36%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.09%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.82%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 34 (9.24%) Git
2 27 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.79%) GitLab
4 18 (4.89%) JIRA
5 15 (4.08%) Postman
6 10 (2.72%) Browser DevTools
7 8 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.17%) MLflow
7 8 (2.17%) SoapUI
8 7 (1.90%) git-flow
9 5 (1.36%) Gradle
9 5 (1.36%) Maven
9 5 (1.36%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.09%) Snyk
11 3 (0.82%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.82%) JMeter
11 3 (0.82%) JUnit
11 3 (0.82%) Vite
12 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.54%) Moq
General
1 91 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.29%) Finance
3 45 (12.23%) Banking
4 44 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.72%) Military
8 8 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.90%) Retail
10 5 (1.36%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.09%) Publishing
12 3 (0.82%) Legal
13 2 (0.54%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.54%) Law
13 2 (0.54%) Marketing
13 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.27%) International Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 86 (23.37%) Developer
2 82 (22.28%) Architect
3 52 (14.13%) Senior
4 27 (7.34%) Lead
5 23 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 19 (5.16%) Java Developer
7 16 (4.35%) Senior Developer
8 15 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (3.26%) Analyst
9 12 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (2.99%) IAM Specialist
10 11 (2.99%) Security Architect
11 10 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (2.72%) Consultant
11 10 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (2.72%) Integration Architect
12 8 (2.17%) .NET Developer
12 8 (2.17%) Lead Architect
12 8 (2.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (49.46%) OAuth2
2 177 (48.10%) OpenID
3 165 (44.84%) SAML
4 107 (29.08%) REST
5 75 (20.38%) JWT
6 60 (16.30%) LDAP
7 59 (16.03%) RESTful
8 53 (14.40%) SOAP
9 48 (13.04%) JSON
10 35 (9.51%) Web Services
11 34 (9.24%) .NET
12 33 (8.97%) Kafka
12 33 (8.97%) Spring
12 33 (8.97%) Spring Boot
13 30 (8.15%) CSS
14 29 (7.88%) Node.js
14 29 (7.88%) XML
15 28 (7.61%) React
15 28 (7.61%) SailPoint
16 25 (6.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 57 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 28 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (4.62%) Low-Code
5 17 (4.62%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.35%) Replication
7 15 (4.08%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.80%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.53%) Public Cloud
10 12 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.17%) PKI
12 8 (2.17%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.63%) Freedom of Information
14 5 (1.36%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.36%) CMDB
14 5 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.98%) Windows
2 18 (4.89%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.17%) Android
5 6 (1.63%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (40.76%) CI/CD
2 126 (34.24%) DevOps
3 94 (25.54%) Microservices
4 79 (21.47%) Agile
5 73 (19.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (19.02%) RBAC
7 64 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
8 59 (16.03%) Event-Driven
9 58 (15.76%) Containerisation
10 52 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (13.86%) Observability
12 46 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
13 45 (12.23%) API Integration
14 44 (11.96%) Test Automation
14 44 (11.96%) Validation
15 43 (11.68%) Data Modelling
16 42 (11.41%) AI
16 42 (11.41%) Stakeholder Management
16 42 (11.41%) Zero Trust
17 40 (10.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 81 (22.01%) Python
2 77 (20.92%) SQL
3 76 (20.65%) Java
4 55 (14.95%) PowerShell
5 54 (14.67%) JavaScript
6 31 (8.42%) TypeScript
7 29 (7.88%) C#
8 21 (5.71%) Bicep
9 14 (3.80%) Go
10 9 (2.45%) Bash
11 8 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.09%) PHP
13 3 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.82%) Swift
14 2 (0.54%) Groovy
14 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.54%) PromQL
14 2 (0.54%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 67 (18.21%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.42%) Degree
4 23 (6.25%) CISSP
5 16 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (3.80%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.26%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.45%) CISM
10 8 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.36%) CSPO
12 5 (1.36%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.09%) GIAC
13 4 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.54%) CEH
14 2 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.87%) GDPR
2 32 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (7.07%) NIST
4 20 (5.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (4.62%) QA
6 14 (3.80%) PCI DSS
7 12 (3.26%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.90%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.63%) NCSC
9 6 (1.63%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.09%) GRC
10 4 (1.09%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.82%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.82%) SEPA
11 3 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (23.37%) Active Directory
2 74 (20.11%) Docker
3 6 (1.63%) RACF
4 2 (0.54%) Squid
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 86 (23.37%) Single Sign-On
2 80 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 76 (20.65%) Terraform
4 38 (10.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (5.16%) Grafana
5 19 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.17%) Argo
7 6 (1.63%) Ansible
7 6 (1.63%) Istio
7 6 (1.63%) linkerd
8 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.09%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.09%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.09%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.54%) Consul
11 2 (0.54%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.05%) Okta
3 34 (9.24%) Oracle
4 31 (8.42%) Google
5 24 (6.52%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.35%) SAP
7 15 (4.08%) CyberArk
7 15 (4.08%) Ping Identity
8 13 (3.53%) MuleSoft
8 13 (3.53%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.99%) ForgeRock
10 9 (2.45%) Workday
11 8 (2.17%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.17%) OutSystems
11 8 (2.17%) UiPath
12 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.63%) Splunk
13 5 (1.36%) Denodo
13 5 (1.36%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.09%) Apple