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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 330 398
Rank change year-on-year +59 +68 +21
Contract jobs citing OAuth 366 157 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.64% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.62% 2.85% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 108 109
10th Percentile £363 £406 £425
25th Percentile £447 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +0.86% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £638
90th Percentile £725 £691 £678
UK median daily rate £529 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £51.70 - -
25th Percentile £52.38 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.38 - -
90th Percentile £70.71 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 7,918 5,500 7,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.94% 22.38% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,280 3,809 5,358
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.34%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 94 194
10th Percentile £34.25 £29.42 £20.95
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £82.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +46 207 £537 -8.98% 39
North of England -11 80 £550 +10.89% 13
North West -5 51 £500 - 8
South East -31 36 £573 -9.13% 14
Yorkshire -31 28 £575 +22.60% 4
South West -12 23 £563 +9.76% 8
Midlands -55 12 £449 -22.00% 2
West Midlands -55 8 £485 -17.45% 1
East of England - 4 £500 - 2
East Midlands -33 3 £438 -18.98% 1
North East - 2 £525 - 1
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 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.28%) Confluence
3 9 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.19%) Appian
5 6 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.55%) CICS
8 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.46%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 182 (49.73%) Azure
2 141 (38.52%) AWS
3 105 (28.69%) Entra ID
4 69 (18.85%) GCP
5 66 (18.03%) Serverless
6 40 (10.93%) GitHub
7 39 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (9.02%) Amazon S3
9 32 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (8.47%) Apigee
11 29 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (6.28%) SaaS
14 20 (5.46%) PaaS
15 18 (4.92%) Azure API Management
15 18 (4.92%) IaaS
15 18 (4.92%) Kong
15 18 (4.92%) Power Platform
16 17 (4.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.11%) DNS
2 32 (8.74%) Kerberos
3 19 (5.19%) HTTP
4 16 (4.37%) DHCP
5 14 (3.83%) Firewall
6 13 (3.55%) SSL
7 7 (1.91%) HTTPS
7 7 (1.91%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.64%) IPsec
9 5 (1.37%) DKIM
9 5 (1.37%) DMARC
9 5 (1.37%) Network Security
9 5 (1.37%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.55%) RFID
10 2 (0.55%) VPN
11 1 (0.27%) Extranet
11 1 (0.27%) Internet
11 1 (0.27%) SMS
11 1 (0.27%) WAN
11 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (6.83%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.19%) DynamoDB
3 17 (4.64%) Redis
4 14 (3.83%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.01%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.01%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.73%) Metadata
6 10 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.73%) MySQL
7 7 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.91%) Power BI
8 6 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.37%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.09%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.82%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 31 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 30 (8.20%) Git
3 23 (6.28%) GitLab
4 20 (5.46%) Postman
5 17 (4.64%) JIRA
6 8 (2.19%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.19%) MLflow
6 8 (2.19%) SoapUI
7 6 (1.64%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (1.37%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.09%) git-flow
9 4 (1.09%) Maven
9 4 (1.09%) Selenium
9 4 (1.09%) Vite
10 3 (0.82%) JUnit
11 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.55%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.55%) Mockito
11 2 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
General
1 102 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 73 (19.95%) Finance
3 45 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.02%) Banking
5 36 (9.84%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.91%) Military
8 6 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.64%) Marketing
8 6 (1.64%) Retail
9 4 (1.09%) Legal
9 4 (1.09%) Publishing
10 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.82%) Games
10 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Billing
11 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 89 (24.32%) Developer
2 70 (19.13%) Architect
3 49 (13.39%) Senior
4 21 (5.74%) Lead
5 16 (4.37%) Analyst
5 16 (4.37%) Java Developer
5 16 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.37%) Technical Architect
6 13 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 10 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (2.73%) Business Analyst
8 10 (2.73%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (2.46%) Applications Engineer
9 9 (2.46%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (2.46%) Lead Architect
10 8 (2.19%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (2.19%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (48.63%) OAuth2
2 155 (42.35%) OpenID
3 153 (41.80%) SAML
4 99 (27.05%) REST
5 85 (23.22%) JWT
6 59 (16.12%) JSON
7 54 (14.75%) RESTful
8 48 (13.11%) LDAP
8 48 (13.11%) SOAP
9 44 (12.02%) Node.js
10 37 (10.11%) XML
11 36 (9.84%) Spring
11 36 (9.84%) Spring Boot
12 33 (9.02%) .NET
13 32 (8.74%) Web Services
14 31 (8.47%) Kafka
15 29 (7.92%) React
16 24 (6.56%) HTML
17 23 (6.28%) OpenAPI
17 23 (6.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.56%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.01%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.74%) Mobile App
5 18 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (4.64%) Replication
7 13 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.55%) Low-Code
7 13 (3.55%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.55%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.46%) PKI
9 7 (1.91%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.91%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.09%) Clustering
11 4 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.92%) Windows
2 23 (6.28%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.64%) Android
4 6 (1.64%) Linux
5 2 (0.55%) zOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (38.80%) CI/CD
2 118 (32.24%) DevOps
3 91 (24.86%) Microservices
4 72 (19.67%) RBAC
5 71 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (18.58%) Agile
7 67 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 64 (17.49%) Identity Access Management
9 52 (14.21%) Containerisation
9 52 (14.21%) Event-Driven
10 49 (13.39%) Test Automation
11 47 (12.84%) Data Modelling
12 45 (12.30%) AI
12 45 (12.30%) Integration Patterns
13 44 (12.02%) Observability
14 43 (11.75%) Design Patterns
14 43 (11.75%) Validation
15 42 (11.48%) API Management
16 40 (10.93%) API Integration
17 38 (10.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 93 (25.41%) Python
2 79 (21.58%) Java
3 69 (18.85%) SQL
4 56 (15.30%) JavaScript
5 53 (14.48%) PowerShell
6 37 (10.11%) TypeScript
7 32 (8.74%) C#
8 14 (3.83%) Go
9 13 (3.55%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.73%) Bash
11 9 (2.46%) Bicep
12 6 (1.64%) PHP
13 5 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (1.09%) Groovy
15 3 (0.82%) Swift
16 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.27%) Assembly Language
17 1 (0.27%) C++
17 1 (0.27%) COBOL
17 1 (0.27%) JCL
Qualifications
1 91 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 63 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.02%) Degree
4 23 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (5.19%) CISSP
7 15 (4.10%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.19%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.19%) CISM
10 5 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.09%) GIAC
12 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.27%) HND
14 1 (0.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.38%) GDPR
2 30 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (6.56%) NIST
4 22 (6.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (4.10%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.83%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.73%) QA
8 7 (1.91%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.64%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.64%) WCAG
10 5 (1.37%) ISO 20022
11 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.82%) GRC
12 3 (0.82%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.82%) SEPA
13 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.55%) PSD2
System Software
1 83 (22.68%) Active Directory
2 73 (19.95%) Docker
3 6 (1.64%) RACF
4 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.55%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.55%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.55%) Squid
Systems Management
1 83 (22.68%) Single Sign-On
2 74 (20.22%) Kubernetes
3 71 (19.40%) Terraform
4 39 (10.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (4.37%) Grafana
6 13 (3.55%) Ansible
6 13 (3.55%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.64%) Istio
7 6 (1.64%) linkerd
8 5 (1.37%) Argo
9 4 (1.09%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.09%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.09%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.55%) Kibana
11 2 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.27%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Manager
12 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.38%) Google
3 26 (7.10%) Okta
4 25 (6.83%) Oracle
5 22 (6.01%) ServiceNow
6 18 (4.92%) CyberArk
7 14 (3.83%) OpenAI
7 14 (3.83%) SAP
8 13 (3.55%) MuleSoft
9 12 (3.28%) Splunk
10 9 (2.46%) Ping Identity
11 8 (2.19%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.19%) ForgeRock
11 8 (2.19%) UiPath
12 7 (1.91%) Workday
13 6 (1.64%) Adobe
13 6 (1.64%) Denodo
13 6 (1.64%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.37%) IBM
14 5 (1.37%) VMware