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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 320 382
Rank change year-on-year +37 +62 +41
Contract jobs citing OAuth 356 157 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.44% 2.86% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 111 111
10th Percentile £358 £409 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +1.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £711 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £527 £545 £565
% change year-on-year -3.30% -3.54% +2.73%
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 8,019 5,488 7,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.45% 22.52% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,364 3,808 5,356
10th Percentile £358 £366 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -2.86% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 89 170
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +1.56% +38.59% -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +25 194 £530 -9.01% 39
North of England -24 76 £488 -2.50% 18
North West -9 45 £475 -5.00% 12
South East -40 31 £598 +3.91% 18
Yorkshire -34 30 £539 +14.82% 6
South West +2 29 £570 +11.22% 6
Midlands -53 17 £449 -22.00% 3
West Midlands -55 13 £485 -17.45% 2
East Midlands -33 3 £438 -21.52% 1
East of England - 3 £500 - 2
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%) Confluence
2 16 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.25%) Appian
4 6 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.84%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.56%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.53%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 175 (49.16%) Azure
2 131 (36.80%) AWS
3 96 (26.97%) Entra ID
4 61 (17.13%) GCP
5 60 (16.85%) Serverless
6 41 (11.52%) GitHub
7 36 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (8.99%) Amazon S3
9 31 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (8.43%) Apigee
10 30 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (6.18%) PaaS
12 20 (5.62%) IaaS
13 19 (5.34%) Power Platform
13 19 (5.34%) SaaS
14 18 (5.06%) Azure API Management
14 18 (5.06%) Power Automate
15 17 (4.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (10.96%) DNS
2 36 (10.11%) Kerberos
3 20 (5.62%) Firewall
4 19 (5.34%) HTTP
5 15 (4.21%) DHCP
6 13 (3.65%) SSL
7 7 (1.97%) HTTPS
7 7 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.40%) IPsec
9 4 (1.12%) Network Security
9 4 (1.12%) SSH
9 4 (1.12%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.56%) RFID
10 2 (0.56%) VPN
11 1 (0.28%) Extranet
11 1 (0.28%) Internet
11 1 (0.28%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.06%) DynamoDB
4 16 (4.49%) Redis
5 11 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.09%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.81%) Metadata
6 10 (2.81%) MySQL
7 9 (2.53%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.97%) Power BI
10 6 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.12%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.12%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.84%) GIS
Development Applications
1 33 (9.27%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.30%) Git
3 21 (5.90%) GitLab
3 21 (5.90%) Postman
4 19 (5.34%) JIRA
5 8 (2.25%) MLflow
5 8 (2.25%) SoapUI
6 7 (1.97%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.40%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.12%) git-flow
8 4 (1.12%) Selenium
8 4 (1.12%) Vite
9 3 (0.84%) JUnit
9 3 (0.84%) Maven
10 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.56%) Gatling
10 2 (0.56%) Mockito
11 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 98 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.22%) Finance
3 44 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.80%) Banking
5 25 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.69%) Marketing
9 5 (1.40%) Military
9 5 (1.40%) Retail
10 4 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.12%) Publishing
11 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.84%) Games
11 3 (0.84%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Billing
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 80 (22.47%) Developer
2 68 (19.10%) Architect
3 46 (12.92%) Senior
4 22 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.06%) Lead
6 15 (4.21%) Analyst
7 14 (3.93%) Java Developer
8 13 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (3.09%) Technical Architect
11 10 (2.81%) Business Analyst
11 10 (2.81%) Consultant
11 10 (2.81%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (2.53%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (2.25%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (47.47%) OAuth2
2 160 (44.94%) SAML
3 148 (41.57%) OpenID
4 90 (25.28%) REST
5 86 (24.16%) JWT
6 54 (15.17%) JSON
7 53 (14.89%) RESTful
8 44 (12.36%) LDAP
9 41 (11.52%) SOAP
10 39 (10.96%) Node.js
11 37 (10.39%) XML
12 34 (9.55%) .NET
12 34 (9.55%) Spring
12 34 (9.55%) Spring Boot
13 30 (8.43%) Kafka
13 30 (8.43%) React
14 29 (8.15%) Web Services
15 23 (6.46%) OpenAPI
15 23 (6.46%) Swagger
16 20 (5.62%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.27%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.90%) Mobile App
3 21 (5.90%) Replication
4 20 (5.62%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.93%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.53%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.53%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.25%) PKI
10 7 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.97%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.69%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.12%) Mobile Banking
13 4 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.52%) Windows
2 31 (8.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.25%) Linux
4 7 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.69%) Android
6 4 (1.12%) AIX
6 4 (1.12%) Solaris
7 2 (0.56%) zOS
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (39.04%) CI/CD
2 114 (32.02%) DevOps
3 90 (25.28%) Microservices
4 76 (21.35%) RBAC
5 70 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (18.82%) Identity Access Management
7 63 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 62 (17.42%) Agile
9 50 (14.04%) Containerisation
9 50 (14.04%) Event-Driven
10 48 (13.48%) Test Automation
10 48 (13.48%) Validation
11 46 (12.92%) Data Modelling
12 44 (12.36%) AI
12 44 (12.36%) Integration Patterns
12 44 (12.36%) Observability
13 41 (11.52%) API Management
14 40 (11.24%) Design Patterns
15 36 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (9.83%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (25.56%) Python
2 73 (20.51%) Java
3 58 (16.29%) SQL
4 54 (15.17%) PowerShell
5 53 (14.89%) JavaScript
6 32 (8.99%) C#
7 31 (8.71%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.93%) Go
9 13 (3.65%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.09%) Bash
11 8 (2.25%) Bicep
12 7 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (1.69%) PHP
14 4 (1.12%) Groovy
15 3 (0.84%) Swift
16 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.28%) Assembly Language
16 1 (0.28%) JCL
16 1 (0.28%) REXX
16 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 58 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.15%) Degree
4 25 (7.02%) DV Cleared
4 25 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.49%) CISSP
7 9 (2.53%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.69%) CISM
10 5 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.84%) GIAC
13 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.28%) CBAP
14 1 (0.28%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.83%) GDPR
2 28 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (5.90%) NIST
4 19 (5.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (4.49%) PCI DSS
6 13 (3.65%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.81%) QA
8 9 (2.53%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.69%) WCAG
10 5 (1.40%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.40%) ISO 20022
11 4 (1.12%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.84%) GRC
12 3 (0.84%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.84%) SEPA
13 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 84 (23.60%) Active Directory
2 70 (19.66%) Docker
3 6 (1.69%) RACF
4 4 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.56%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.56%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.56%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 89 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 71 (19.94%) Kubernetes
3 68 (19.10%) Terraform
4 49 (13.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (4.21%) Grafana
6 12 (3.37%) Ansible
6 12 (3.37%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.69%) Istio
7 6 (1.69%) linkerd
8 4 (1.12%) Argo
8 4 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.12%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.12%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.56%) Kibana
10 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Identity Manager
10 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 108 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.30%) Okta
3 21 (5.90%) Google
4 20 (5.62%) CyberArk
4 20 (5.62%) Oracle
4 20 (5.62%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.49%) Splunk
6 15 (4.21%) OpenAI
7 13 (3.65%) MuleSoft
8 11 (3.09%) SAP
9 10 (2.81%) VMware
10 9 (2.53%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (2.53%) Ping Identity
11 8 (2.25%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.25%) ForgeRock
11 8 (2.25%) UiPath
12 6 (1.69%) Adobe
12 6 (1.69%) Denodo
12 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.40%) IBM