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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 392 374
Rank change year-on-year +138 -18 +90
Contract jobs citing OAuth 318 124 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 0.40% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.56% 1.84% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 76 163
10th Percentile £360 £409 £405
25th Percentile £406 £517 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -14.89% +6.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £55.83 - -
25th Percentile £59.31 - -
Median hourly rate £62.75 - -
75th Percentile £66.94 - -
90th Percentile £71.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 6,968 6,730 8,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.69% 21.72% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,693 4,269 6,227
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -5.16%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 105 179
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +22.64% -18.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +19.13% -12.93%

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 29 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OAuth in England over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

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 29 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 +99 150 £500 -16.67% 37
North of England +17 68 £420 -12.50% 8
North West +14 41 £405 +31.71% 5
South West +35 34 £555 -13.62% 14
Midlands -20 30 £510 -7.27% 9
Yorkshire -6 27 £468 -28.00%
West Midlands -16 24 £531 -7.61% 8
South East +5 23 £500 -21.57% 24
East Midlands - 6 £415 - 1
East of England -18 1 - - 4
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 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.35%) Apache
3 15 (4.72%) Confluence
4 14 (4.40%) WebSphere
5 13 (4.09%) WebSphere Application Server
6 11 (3.46%) IIS
6 11 (3.46%) JBoss
7 10 (3.14%) iPlanet
8 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.89%) nginx
10 5 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (1.57%) CMS
10 5 (1.57%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.94%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.63%) CICS
12 2 (0.63%) Mule
12 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
13 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 154 (48.43%) Azure
2 120 (37.74%) AWS
3 77 (24.21%) Entra ID
4 57 (17.92%) GitHub
5 47 (14.78%) GCP
6 41 (12.89%) Serverless
7 38 (11.95%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (11.95%) SaaS
8 33 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (7.23%) Apigee
12 20 (6.29%) Amazon S3
12 20 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (5.66%) Power Platform
14 17 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (5.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (4.40%) Azure Functions
17 13 (4.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.75%) Kerberos
2 18 (5.66%) HTTPS
2 18 (5.66%) SSL
3 16 (5.03%) DNS
3 16 (5.03%) Firewall
4 14 (4.40%) HTTP
5 5 (1.57%) SSH
6 3 (0.94%) Internet
6 3 (0.94%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.63%) AMQP
7 2 (0.63%) DSL
7 2 (0.63%) Extranet
7 2 (0.63%) Network Security
7 2 (0.63%) S/MIME
7 2 (0.63%) VPN
8 1 (0.31%) DKIM
8 1 (0.31%) DMARC
8 1 (0.31%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.03%) Oracle Database
2 15 (4.72%) DynamoDB
3 14 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.83%) Power BI
7 8 (2.52%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.57%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.57%) MySQL
9 5 (1.57%) Redis
10 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.26%) Metadata
10 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.94%) Airbyte
12 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.63%) DB2
12 2 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.31%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 42 (13.21%) Git
2 38 (11.95%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.81%) JIRA
4 15 (4.72%) GitLab
5 11 (3.46%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.46%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (3.14%) Postman
7 9 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.52%) Xcode
9 7 (2.20%) Gradle
9 7 (2.20%) Maven
9 7 (2.20%) Storybook
10 6 (1.89%) Selenium
11 5 (1.57%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.57%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.57%) JUnit
11 5 (1.57%) Mockito
12 4 (1.26%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.26%) Fiddler
12 4 (1.26%) SonarQube
General
1 112 (35.22%) Social Skills
2 63 (19.81%) Finance
3 41 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.60%) Banking
5 21 (6.60%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.89%) Marketing
8 5 (1.57%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.26%) Legal
9 4 (1.26%) Retail
10 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.94%) Publishing
11 2 (0.63%) Billing
11 2 (0.63%) Games
11 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (27.67%) Developer
2 50 (15.72%) Architect
3 35 (11.01%) Senior
4 22 (6.92%) Lead
5 18 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (4.72%) Consultant
8 14 (4.40%) Analyst
8 14 (4.40%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.09%) Senior Developer
10 12 (3.77%) Integration Engineer
11 11 (3.46%) Java Developer
12 9 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.83%) Integration Developer
12 9 (2.83%) React Developer
12 9 (2.83%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 8 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.20%) Lead Architect
14 7 (2.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (46.54%) OAuth2
2 143 (44.97%) SAML
3 131 (41.19%) OpenID
4 75 (23.58%) REST
5 59 (18.55%) JSON
5 59 (18.55%) RESTful
6 53 (16.67%) JWT
7 52 (16.35%) LDAP
8 42 (13.21%) SOAP
9 37 (11.64%) Spring
10 33 (10.38%) XML
11 30 (9.43%) Spring Boot
12 29 (9.12%) GraphQL
13 27 (8.49%) HTML
14 26 (8.18%) Node.js
15 25 (7.86%) React
16 23 (7.23%) .NET
17 18 (5.66%) Kafka
18 14 (4.40%) Microsoft Graph
18 14 (4.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.89%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.29%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.97%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.66%) Management Information System
5 16 (5.03%) Mobile App
6 13 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.14%) PKI
8 7 (2.20%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.20%) Replication
8 7 (2.20%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.26%) BYOD
10 4 (1.26%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.94%) DataPower
11 3 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.94%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.32%) Windows
2 29 (9.12%) Linux
3 25 (7.86%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.14%) Android
5 9 (2.83%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.52%) Unix
7 5 (1.57%) AIX
7 5 (1.57%) Solaris
8 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.63%) zOS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (36.79%) CI/CD
2 114 (35.85%) DevOps
3 76 (23.90%) Identity Access Management
4 70 (22.01%) Agile
4 70 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (20.13%) RBAC
6 61 (19.18%) Microservices
7 56 (17.61%) Identity Management
8 47 (14.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (14.47%) Containerisation
10 43 (13.52%) API Management
11 35 (11.01%) Mentoring
12 34 (10.69%) AI
13 33 (10.38%) Computer Science
14 32 (10.06%) API Design
15 30 (9.43%) Multi-Factor Authentication
16 29 (9.12%) Analytics
16 29 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
16 29 (9.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 29 (9.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (22.33%) Python
2 69 (21.70%) Java
3 54 (16.98%) PowerShell
4 51 (16.04%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.06%) SQL
6 30 (9.43%) TypeScript
7 20 (6.29%) C#
8 15 (4.72%) Groovy
9 10 (3.14%) Bash
10 8 (2.52%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.89%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.94%) Bicep
13 3 (0.94%) PHP
13 3 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.63%) C++
14 2 (0.63%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.63%) Go
14 2 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.32%) Degree
4 28 (8.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (6.29%) CISSP
7 18 (5.66%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.40%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.14%) CISM
10 9 (2.83%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.94%) PhD
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.63%) CCSP
13 2 (0.63%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.89%) GDPR
2 25 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.77%) HIPAA
3 12 (3.77%) NIST
4 11 (3.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.14%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.83%) QA
7 8 (2.52%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.52%) WCAG
8 6 (1.89%) PSD2
9 4 (1.26%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.63%) SLA
12 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.31%) NCSC
12 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 99 (31.13%) Active Directory
2 63 (19.81%) Docker
3 8 (2.52%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.63%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.63%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.63%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 95 (29.87%) Single Sign-On
2 56 (17.61%) Terraform
3 49 (15.41%) Kubernetes
4 25 (7.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (6.29%) Ansible
6 11 (3.46%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.46%) Grafana
7 10 (3.14%) CA Wily
8 9 (2.83%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.52%) Tivoli
10 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.89%) Kibana
11 6 (1.89%) Prometheus
12 5 (1.57%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 3 (0.94%) SCCM
14 2 (0.63%) Argo
14 2 (0.63%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.63%) Puppet
15 1 (0.31%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.31%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 114 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.49%) Splunk
3 24 (7.55%) IBM
4 23 (7.23%) Oracle
5 19 (5.97%) Google
6 17 (5.35%) CyberArk
7 16 (5.03%) ForgeRock
8 15 (4.72%) OpenAI
9 14 (4.40%) Ping Identity
10 13 (4.09%) Okta
11 12 (3.77%) MuleSoft
11 12 (3.77%) Salesforce
12 11 (3.46%) AppDynamics
12 11 (3.46%) Broadcom
13 10 (3.14%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.83%) SAP
14 9 (2.83%) VMware
15 8 (2.52%) Alibaba
15 8 (2.52%) Axway
16 6 (1.89%) Databricks