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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 325 392
Rank change year-on-year +51 +67 +51
Contract jobs citing OAuth 368 158 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.65% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.62% 2.88% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 110 109
10th Percentile £359 £408 £425
25th Percentile £447 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +2.95% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £645
90th Percentile £715 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £537 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.42% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.58 - -
25th Percentile £58.69 - -
Median hourly rate £64.63 - -
75th Percentile £69.82 - -
90th Percentile £72.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.63 - -

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 7,970 5,490 7,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.19% 22.42% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,328 3,809 5,324
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.85%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.06% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 91 184
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.07 £20.79
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.83 £82.96 £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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +46 201 £537 -10.13% 48
North of England -21 81 £513 +3.33% 17
North West -14 49 £475 -5.00% 9
South West +2 32 £575 +12.20% 9
South East -31 32 £600 -4.76% 18
Yorkshire -32 31 £545 +16.20% 8
Midlands -59 14 £449 -22.00% 2
West Midlands -54 10 £485 -17.45% 1
East of England - 4 £500 - 3
East Midlands -31 3 £438 -18.98% 1
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 22 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.35%) Confluence
3 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.17%) Appian
5 7 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.54%) CICS
8 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 179 (48.64%) Azure
2 136 (36.96%) AWS
3 97 (26.36%) Entra ID
4 68 (18.48%) GCP
5 63 (17.12%) Serverless
6 42 (11.41%) GitHub
7 39 (10.60%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (8.97%) Amazon S3
9 31 (8.42%) Apigee
9 31 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (5.98%) SaaS
12 20 (5.43%) PaaS
13 19 (5.16%) Power Platform
14 18 (4.89%) Azure API Management
14 18 (4.89%) IaaS
14 18 (4.89%) Kong
14 18 (4.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.23%) DNS
2 33 (8.97%) Kerberos
3 21 (5.71%) Firewall
4 19 (5.16%) HTTP
5 16 (4.35%) DHCP
6 13 (3.53%) SSL
7 7 (1.90%) HTTPS
7 7 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.63%) IPsec
9 5 (1.36%) DKIM
9 5 (1.36%) DMARC
9 5 (1.36%) Network Security
9 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.54%) RFID
10 2 (0.54%) SSH
10 2 (0.54%) VPN
11 1 (0.27%) Extranet
11 1 (0.27%) Internet
11 1 (0.27%) SMS
11 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.89%) DynamoDB
4 17 (4.62%) Redis
5 11 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.99%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.72%) Metadata
6 10 (2.72%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.72%) MySQL
6 10 (2.72%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.90%) Power BI
8 6 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.36%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.09%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.82%) GIS
Development Applications
1 34 (9.24%) Jenkins
2 29 (7.88%) Git
3 23 (6.25%) GitLab
4 22 (5.98%) JIRA
5 20 (5.43%) Postman
6 8 (2.17%) MLflow
6 8 (2.17%) SoapUI
7 7 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.63%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.36%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.09%) git-flow
10 4 (1.09%) Maven
10 4 (1.09%) Selenium
10 4 (1.09%) Vite
11 3 (0.82%) JUnit
12 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.54%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.54%) Gradle
12 2 (0.54%) Mockito
General
1 101 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 73 (19.84%) Finance
3 44 (11.96%) Banking
4 43 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.63%) Marketing
7 6 (1.63%) Military
7 6 (1.63%) Retail
8 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.09%) Legal
9 4 (1.09%) Publishing
10 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.82%) Games
11 2 (0.54%) Billing
11 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (23.10%) Developer
2 69 (18.75%) Architect
3 48 (13.04%) Senior
4 20 (5.43%) Lead
4 20 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.08%) Analyst
5 15 (4.08%) Java Developer
5 15 (4.08%) Technical Architect
6 13 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (2.72%) Business Analyst
10 9 (2.45%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (2.45%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (2.17%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (2.17%) Backend Developer
11 8 (2.17%) Data Engineer
11 8 (2.17%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (48.10%) OAuth2
2 160 (43.48%) SAML
3 153 (41.58%) OpenID
4 91 (24.73%) REST
5 86 (23.37%) JWT
6 54 (14.67%) JSON
7 52 (14.13%) RESTful
8 43 (11.68%) LDAP
9 42 (11.41%) Node.js
10 41 (11.14%) SOAP
11 36 (9.78%) XML
12 35 (9.51%) Spring
12 35 (9.51%) Spring Boot
13 33 (8.97%) .NET
14 32 (8.70%) Kafka
15 29 (7.88%) React
16 28 (7.61%) Web Services
17 23 (6.25%) HTML
17 23 (6.25%) OpenAPI
17 23 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.71%) Mobile App
3 21 (5.71%) Replication
4 20 (5.43%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.53%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.72%) Low-Code
9 9 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.45%) PKI
9 9 (2.45%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.90%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.90%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.09%) Clustering
12 4 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
12 4 (1.09%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.14%) Windows
2 32 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.17%) Linux
4 7 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.63%) Android
6 2 (0.54%) AIX
6 2 (0.54%) Solaris
6 2 (0.54%) zOS
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (38.59%) CI/CD
2 117 (31.79%) DevOps
3 89 (24.18%) Microservices
4 75 (20.38%) RBAC
5 70 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (17.93%) Agile
7 66 (17.93%) Identity Access Management
8 50 (13.59%) Containerisation
9 49 (13.32%) Event-Driven
9 49 (13.32%) Validation
10 48 (13.04%) Test Automation
11 47 (12.77%) Data Modelling
12 45 (12.23%) Observability
13 44 (11.96%) AI
13 44 (11.96%) Integration Patterns
14 41 (11.14%) API Management
15 40 (10.87%) Design Patterns
16 36 (9.78%) Migration
16 36 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (25.00%) Python
2 75 (20.38%) Java
3 63 (17.12%) SQL
4 56 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 54 (14.67%) PowerShell
6 36 (9.78%) TypeScript
7 31 (8.42%) C#
8 14 (3.80%) Go
9 13 (3.53%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.72%) Bash
11 8 (2.17%) Bicep
12 6 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.63%) PHP
13 4 (1.09%) Groovy
14 3 (0.82%) Swift
15 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.27%) C++
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 100 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.88%) Degree
4 25 (6.79%) DV Cleared
4 25 (6.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.35%) CISSP
7 8 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.36%) CISM
9 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.09%) GIAC
10 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.27%) HND
12 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.51%) GDPR
2 26 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.43%) NIST
4 19 (5.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (4.08%) PCI DSS
6 13 (3.53%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.72%) QA
8 6 (1.63%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.63%) WCAG
9 5 (1.36%) ISO 20022
10 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.09%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.82%) GRC
11 3 (0.82%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.82%) SEPA
12 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.54%) PSD2
System Software
1 88 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 71 (19.29%) Docker
3 6 (1.63%) RACF
4 5 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.54%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.54%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.54%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 92 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 72 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 72 (19.57%) Terraform
3 49 (13.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (4.35%) Grafana
5 13 (3.53%) Ansible
5 13 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.63%) Istio
6 6 (1.63%) linkerd
7 5 (1.36%) Argo
8 4 (1.09%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.09%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.09%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.54%) Kibana
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.27%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Manager
10 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (29.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.34%) Google
3 25 (6.79%) Okta
4 21 (5.71%) Oracle
5 20 (5.43%) CyberArk
5 20 (5.43%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.35%) Splunk
7 15 (4.08%) OpenAI
8 13 (3.53%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.99%) SAP
9 11 (2.99%) VMware
10 9 (2.45%) Ping Identity
11 8 (2.17%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.17%) ForgeRock
11 8 (2.17%) UiPath
12 7 (1.90%) BeyondTrust
12 7 (1.90%) Denodo
13 6 (1.63%) Adobe
13 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.36%) IBM