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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 323 399
Rank change year-on-year +45 +76 -3
Contract jobs citing OAuth 345 155 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.64% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.42% 2.88% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 107 105
10th Percentile £381 £400 £430
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.30% -
75th Percentile £644 £653 £638
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £577
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.93% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.13 - -
90th Percentile £55.95 - -
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 7,812 5,375 7,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.23% 22.29% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,180 3,720 5,298
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 99 226
10th Percentile £32.06 £33.25 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 14 May 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
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 14 May 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 +35 198 £539 -4.31% 57
North of England -15 78 £563 +13.41% 15
North West -11 46 £550 +10.00% 13
South East -37 34 £600 -6.25% 23
Yorkshire -29 31 £575 +22.60% 2
South West -18 18 £563 +9.76% 7
Midlands -58 9 £438 -0.46% 7
West Midlands -51 5 £350 -41.96% 3
East of England - 4 £500 - 5
East Midlands -34 3 £438 -0.46% 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 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.90%) Confluence
4 8 (2.32%) Appian
5 5 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.87%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.87%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.58%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.58%) CICS
8 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.61%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (48.70%) Azure
2 133 (38.55%) AWS
3 100 (28.99%) Entra ID
4 72 (20.87%) GCP
5 53 (15.36%) Serverless
6 26 (7.54%) GitHub
7 24 (6.96%) Amazon S3
7 24 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (6.96%) SaaS
8 23 (6.67%) Apigee
8 23 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (5.80%) PaaS
12 19 (5.51%) Kong
13 18 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (5.22%) IaaS
13 18 (5.22%) OCI
14 17 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (4.93%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (11.01%) DNS
2 35 (10.14%) Kerberos
3 16 (4.64%) DHCP
4 15 (4.35%) HTTP
5 13 (3.77%) Firewall
6 11 (3.19%) SSL
7 7 (2.03%) DKIM
7 7 (2.03%) DMARC
7 7 (2.03%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.74%) IPsec
9 5 (1.45%) Network Security
9 5 (1.45%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.16%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.87%) NGFW
12 2 (0.58%) RFID
12 2 (0.58%) VPN
13 1 (0.29%) SMS
13 1 (0.29%) WAN
13 1 (0.29%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.54%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.51%) Redis
4 14 (4.06%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.19%) Pinecone
7 10 (2.90%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.61%) Metadata
8 9 (2.61%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.03%) MySQL
10 6 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.45%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.45%) Hazelcast
11 5 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.16%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.16%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.87%) GIS
13 3 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (7.25%) Git
2 24 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 22 (6.38%) GitLab
4 19 (5.51%) Postman
5 16 (4.64%) JIRA
6 8 (2.32%) MLflow
6 8 (2.32%) SoapUI
7 7 (2.03%) Browser DevTools
8 6 (1.74%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.16%) git-flow
10 4 (1.16%) Gradle
10 4 (1.16%) Maven
11 3 (0.87%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.87%) Snyk
11 3 (0.87%) Vite
12 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.58%) Moq
12 2 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 85 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 69 (20.00%) Finance
3 40 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 39 (11.30%) Banking
5 32 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.32%) Military
8 6 (1.74%) Retail
9 5 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.16%) Marketing
10 4 (1.16%) Publishing
11 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.87%) Games
11 3 (0.87%) Legal
11 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (23.77%) Developer
2 68 (19.71%) Architect
3 47 (13.62%) Senior
4 20 (5.80%) Lead
5 17 (4.93%) Technical Architect
6 16 (4.64%) Java Developer
7 15 (4.35%) Analyst
8 12 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (3.48%) Senior Developer
9 10 (2.90%) Backend Developer
9 10 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (2.90%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.61%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (2.61%) IAM Specialist
11 8 (2.32%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (2.32%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (2.32%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.32%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (48.70%) OAuth2
2 158 (45.80%) OpenID
3 150 (43.48%) SAML
4 93 (26.96%) REST
5 74 (21.45%) JWT
6 52 (15.07%) RESTful
7 50 (14.49%) JSON
7 50 (14.49%) LDAP
8 46 (13.33%) SOAP
9 34 (9.86%) Spring
9 34 (9.86%) Spring Boot
9 34 (9.86%) Web Services
10 33 (9.57%) XML
11 32 (9.28%) Node.js
12 30 (8.70%) Kafka
13 29 (8.41%) .NET
14 24 (6.96%) React
15 23 (6.67%) SailPoint
15 23 (6.67%) Swagger
16 22 (6.38%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.62%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.83%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.80%) Mobile App
5 19 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.64%) Replication
7 14 (4.06%) Low-Code
8 13 (3.77%) Management Information System
8 13 (3.77%) Public Cloud
9 12 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.61%) PKI
12 8 (2.32%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
13 6 (1.74%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.45%) CMDB
14 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.54%) Windows
2 20 (5.80%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.61%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.32%) Android
5 6 (1.74%) Linux
6 2 (0.58%) zOS
7 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (37.10%) CI/CD
2 108 (31.30%) DevOps
3 89 (25.80%) Microservices
4 69 (20.00%) RBAC
5 63 (18.26%) Agile
6 62 (17.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 61 (17.68%) Identity Access Management
8 56 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (15.36%) Event-Driven
10 51 (14.78%) Containerisation
11 48 (13.91%) Test Automation
12 46 (13.33%) Observability
13 45 (13.04%) Data Modelling
14 44 (12.75%) Validation
15 41 (11.88%) Integration Patterns
16 39 (11.30%) Design Patterns
16 39 (11.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 38 (11.01%) AI
17 38 (11.01%) Zero Trust
18 37 (10.72%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 75 (21.74%) Java
1 75 (21.74%) Python
2 66 (19.13%) SQL
3 48 (13.91%) PowerShell
4 47 (13.62%) JavaScript
5 32 (9.28%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.83%) C#
7 16 (4.64%) Bicep
8 13 (3.77%) Go
8 13 (3.77%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.03%) Bash
10 4 (1.16%) Groovy
10 4 (1.16%) PHP
11 3 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.87%) Swift
12 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.29%) COBOL
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (24.93%) Security Cleared
2 58 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.54%) Degree
4 18 (5.22%) CISSP
5 17 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.32%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.32%) CISM
9 6 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.16%) GIAC
10 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.58%) MCSE
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.72%) GDPR
2 31 (8.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (7.54%) NIST
4 21 (6.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (4.35%) PCI DSS
6 11 (3.19%) Data Quality
6 11 (3.19%) QA
7 7 (2.03%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.74%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.45%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.87%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.87%) GRC
10 3 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.87%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.87%) NCSC
10 3 (0.87%) SEPA
10 3 (0.87%) WCAG
11 2 (0.58%) NIST 800
System Software
1 80 (23.19%) Active Directory
2 70 (20.29%) Docker
3 6 (1.74%) RACF
4 2 (0.58%) OpenAM
4 2 (0.58%) OpenDJ
4 2 (0.58%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.58%) Squid
4 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (24.35%) Single Sign-On
2 74 (21.45%) Kubernetes
3 66 (19.13%) Terraform
4 37 (10.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (4.35%) Grafana
5 15 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.74%) Ansible
6 6 (1.74%) Argo
6 6 (1.74%) Istio
6 6 (1.74%) linkerd
7 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.16%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.16%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (27.25%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.70%) Google
3 28 (8.12%) Okta
4 25 (7.25%) Oracle
5 20 (5.80%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.64%) CyberArk
7 13 (3.77%) MuleSoft
8 12 (3.48%) SAP
9 10 (2.90%) OpenAI
10 9 (2.61%) Ping Identity
11 8 (2.32%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.32%) ForgeRock
11 8 (2.32%) Splunk
11 8 (2.32%) UiPath
12 7 (2.03%) Workday
13 5 (1.45%) Denodo
13 5 (1.45%) OutSystems
13 5 (1.45%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
14 4 (1.16%) VMware