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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 301 402
Rank change year-on-year +24 +101 -29
Contract jobs citing OAuth 356 171 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.71% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.44% 3.17% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 117 102
10th Percentile £403 £400 £429
25th Percentile £463 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £749 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £581
% change year-on-year +2.42% -7.57% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £36.25 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.06 - -
90th Percentile £84.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 8,009 5,390 7,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.51% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,292 3,735 5,418
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £636 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 106 242
10th Percentile £30.98 £31.28 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.81 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £79.10 £81.01 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +22 209 £550 - 68
North of England -34 70 £575 +15.00% 16
South East -32 44 £600 -4.76% 25
North West -21 35 £575 +15.00% 12
Yorkshire -32 34 £598 +23.32% 4
South West -16 15 £550 +7.32% 6
Midlands -58 9 £438 +1.74% 7
East Midlands -33 5 £438 +4.17% 3
East of England -28 4 £500 - 6
West Midlands -55 3 £350 -41.96% 4
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 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.37%) Confluence
2 12 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.25%) Appian
4 5 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.84%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.81%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 183 (51.40%) Azure
2 137 (38.48%) AWS
3 108 (30.34%) Entra ID
4 74 (20.79%) GCP
5 54 (15.17%) Serverless
6 37 (10.39%) GitHub
7 31 (8.71%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (7.30%) SaaS
10 24 (6.74%) Amazon S3
10 24 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (5.62%) Azure AKS
12 20 (5.62%) OCI
13 19 (5.34%) Kong
13 19 (5.34%) PaaS
14 18 (5.06%) Apigee
14 18 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.11%) DNS
2 34 (9.55%) Kerberos
3 16 (4.49%) DHCP
4 11 (3.09%) Firewall
4 11 (3.09%) HTTP
4 11 (3.09%) SSL
5 7 (1.97%) DKIM
5 7 (1.97%) DMARC
5 7 (1.97%) Network Security
5 7 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (1.69%) IPsec
7 5 (1.40%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.84%) NGFW
9 2 (0.56%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.56%) RFID
9 2 (0.56%) VPN
10 1 (0.28%) SMS
10 1 (0.28%) WAN
10 1 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.71%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.62%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.78%) Redis
5 15 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.09%) Pinecone
8 9 (2.53%) Metadata
9 8 (2.25%) MySQL
10 7 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.69%) Hazelcast
12 5 (1.40%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.40%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.12%) DocumentDB
14 3 (0.84%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 33 (9.27%) Git
2 27 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.02%) GitLab
4 18 (5.06%) JIRA
5 15 (4.21%) Postman
6 10 (2.81%) Browser DevTools
7 8 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.25%) MLflow
7 8 (2.25%) SoapUI
8 7 (1.97%) git-flow
9 5 (1.40%) Gradle
9 5 (1.40%) Maven
9 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.12%) Snyk
11 3 (0.84%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.84%) JMeter
11 3 (0.84%) JUnit
11 3 (0.84%) Vite
12 2 (0.56%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 85 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 70 (19.66%) Finance
3 44 (12.36%) Banking
4 42 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.53%) Military
8 7 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.97%) Retail
9 5 (1.40%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.12%) Publishing
11 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.84%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (23.88%) Developer
2 78 (21.91%) Architect
3 52 (14.61%) Senior
4 24 (6.74%) Lead
5 22 (6.18%) Technical Architect
6 19 (5.34%) Java Developer
7 16 (4.49%) Senior Developer
8 15 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (3.37%) Analyst
10 11 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.09%) Security Architect
10 11 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.81%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (2.81%) Consultant
11 10 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.53%) IAM Specialist
13 8 (2.25%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.25%) Integration Architect
13 8 (2.25%) Low-Code Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (49.44%) OAuth2
2 169 (47.47%) OpenID
3 155 (43.54%) SAML
4 104 (29.21%) REST
5 72 (20.22%) JWT
6 59 (16.57%) RESTful
7 53 (14.89%) LDAP
8 51 (14.33%) SOAP
9 45 (12.64%) JSON
10 33 (9.27%) Kafka
10 33 (9.27%) Spring
10 33 (9.27%) Spring Boot
10 33 (9.27%) Web Services
11 32 (8.99%) .NET
12 29 (8.15%) CSS
12 29 (8.15%) Node.js
13 28 (7.87%) React
14 27 (7.58%) XML
15 25 (7.02%) SailPoint
16 24 (6.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.73%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.15%) Onboarding
3 28 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (4.78%) Low-Code
5 17 (4.78%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.49%) Replication
7 13 (3.65%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.65%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (3.37%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.25%) PKI
10 8 (2.25%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
12 5 (1.40%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.40%) CMDB
12 5 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.18%) Windows
2 18 (5.06%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.53%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.25%) Android
5 6 (1.69%) Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (41.01%) CI/CD
2 123 (34.55%) DevOps
3 90 (25.28%) Microservices
4 76 (21.35%) Agile
5 72 (20.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 68 (19.10%) RBAC
7 62 (17.42%) Identity Access Management
8 58 (16.29%) Containerisation
9 56 (15.73%) Event-Driven
10 51 (14.33%) Observability
11 50 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (12.36%) Test Automation
13 43 (12.08%) Data Modelling
13 43 (12.08%) Validation
14 42 (11.80%) AI
14 42 (11.80%) API Integration
14 42 (11.80%) Integration Patterns
15 40 (11.24%) Zero Trust
16 39 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (10.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 78 (21.91%) Python
2 76 (21.35%) SQL
3 74 (20.79%) Java
4 54 (15.17%) JavaScript
5 53 (14.89%) PowerShell
6 30 (8.43%) TypeScript
7 28 (7.87%) C#
8 21 (5.90%) Bicep
9 14 (3.93%) Go
10 9 (2.53%) Bash
11 8 (2.25%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.12%) PHP
13 3 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.84%) Swift
14 2 (0.56%) Groovy
14 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.56%) PromQL
14 2 (0.56%) Scala
15 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 88 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 63 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.87%) Degree
4 22 (6.18%) CISSP
5 15 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.09%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.53%) CISM
9 8 (2.25%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.12%) CSPO
12 4 (1.12%) GIAC
12 4 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.56%) CEH
13 2 (0.56%) MCSE
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.96%) GDPR
2 30 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (6.74%) NIST
4 20 (5.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (4.78%) QA
6 14 (3.93%) PCI DSS
7 11 (3.09%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.97%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.69%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.40%) NCSC
11 4 (1.12%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.12%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.84%) GRC
12 3 (0.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.84%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.84%) SEPA
12 3 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (22.19%) Active Directory
2 74 (20.79%) Docker
3 6 (1.69%) RACF
4 2 (0.56%) Squid
4 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (23.88%) Single Sign-On
2 80 (22.47%) Kubernetes
3 76 (21.35%) Terraform
4 35 (9.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (5.34%) Grafana
5 19 (5.34%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.25%) Argo
7 6 (1.69%) Ansible
7 6 (1.69%) Istio
7 6 (1.69%) linkerd
8 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.12%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.12%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.84%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.56%) Consul
11 2 (0.56%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 95 (26.69%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.83%) Okta
3 32 (8.99%) Oracle
4 29 (8.15%) Google
5 24 (6.74%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.21%) CyberArk
7 14 (3.93%) SAP
8 13 (3.65%) MuleSoft
8 13 (3.65%) OpenAI
8 13 (3.65%) Ping Identity
9 10 (2.81%) ForgeRock
10 8 (2.25%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (2.25%) OutSystems
10 8 (2.25%) UiPath
11 7 (1.97%) Workday
12 6 (1.69%) Splunk
13 5 (1.40%) Denodo
13 5 (1.40%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.12%) Apple
14 4 (1.12%) Salesforce