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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 325 396
Rank change year-on-year +46 +71 +8
Contract jobs citing OAuth 355 156 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 0.64% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.48% 2.86% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 107 110
10th Percentile £363 £408 £425
25th Percentile £450 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +3.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £625
90th Percentile £727 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £539 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -0.91% -
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 7,932 5,452 7,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.67% 22.41% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,285 3,781 5,352
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.76% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 100 216
10th Percentile £34.75 £30.13 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £42.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £82.19 £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 30 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
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 30 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 +42 199 £543 -6.87% 37
North of England -22 80 £550 +10.89% 15
North West -8 50 £500 - 10
South East -28 36 £595 -7.03% 15
Yorkshire -34 29 £575 +22.60% 5
South West -13 22 £550 +7.32% 6
Midlands -65 10 £442 -23.09% 2
West Midlands -56 6 £400 -31.91% 1
East of England - 4 £500 - 3
East Midlands -28 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 19 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.82%) Confluence
3 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.25%) Appian
5 5 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.56%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) 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 (2.54%) 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
1 173 (48.73%) Azure
2 134 (37.75%) AWS
3 104 (29.30%) Entra ID
4 71 (20.00%) GCP
5 57 (16.06%) Serverless
6 31 (8.73%) GitHub
7 28 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (7.61%) Apigee
9 26 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (7.04%) Amazon S3
11 24 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (5.63%) PaaS
12 20 (5.63%) SaaS
13 19 (5.35%) Kong
14 18 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (5.07%) IaaS
15 17 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (4.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.86%) DNS
2 32 (9.01%) Kerberos
3 20 (5.63%) HTTP
4 16 (4.51%) DHCP
5 13 (3.66%) Firewall
6 11 (3.10%) SSL
7 7 (1.97%) HTTPS
7 7 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.69%) IPsec
9 5 (1.41%) DKIM
9 5 (1.41%) DMARC
9 5 (1.41%) Network Security
9 5 (1.41%) 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
11 1 (0.28%) WAN
11 1 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.07%) Redis
4 15 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.66%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.10%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.10%) Pinecone
7 10 (2.82%) Metadata
7 10 (2.82%) MySQL
8 9 (2.54%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.97%) Power BI
10 6 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.41%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.13%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.13%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.13%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 28 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.61%) Git
3 22 (6.20%) GitLab
4 20 (5.63%) Postman
5 14 (3.94%) JIRA
6 8 (2.25%) MLflow
6 8 (2.25%) SoapUI
7 6 (1.69%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.41%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.13%) git-flow
10 3 (0.85%) Gradle
10 3 (0.85%) Maven
10 3 (0.85%) Vite
11 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.56%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.56%) Selenium
11 2 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 95 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 74 (20.85%) Finance
3 44 (12.39%) Banking
4 38 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.97%) Military
8 6 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.69%) Marketing
9 5 (1.41%) Retail
10 4 (1.13%) Legal
10 4 (1.13%) Publishing
11 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.85%) Games
11 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 86 (24.23%) Developer
2 71 (20.00%) Architect
3 46 (12.96%) Senior
4 22 (6.20%) Lead
5 18 (5.07%) Java Developer
6 17 (4.79%) Analyst
7 16 (4.51%) Technical Architect
8 15 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (2.82%) Business Analyst
11 10 (2.82%) IAM Specialist
11 10 (2.82%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (2.82%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.54%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (2.54%) Backend Developer
12 9 (2.54%) Lead Architect
12 9 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (49.01%) OAuth2
2 155 (43.66%) OpenID
3 152 (42.82%) SAML
4 95 (26.76%) REST
5 77 (21.69%) JWT
6 56 (15.77%) JSON
7 51 (14.37%) RESTful
8 49 (13.80%) LDAP
8 49 (13.80%) SOAP
9 37 (10.42%) XML
10 36 (10.14%) Node.js
11 35 (9.86%) Spring
11 35 (9.86%) Spring Boot
12 33 (9.30%) Web Services
13 31 (8.73%) Kafka
14 27 (7.61%) .NET
14 27 (7.61%) React
15 24 (6.76%) Swagger
16 23 (6.48%) OpenAPI
16 23 (6.48%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.20%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.92%) Mobile App
5 16 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.51%) Replication
6 13 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.66%) Low-Code
6 13 (3.66%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.38%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.54%) PKI
10 8 (2.25%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.69%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.13%) Clustering
13 4 (1.13%) CMDB
13 4 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
13 4 (1.13%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.61%) Windows
2 21 (5.92%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.25%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.97%) Android
5 6 (1.69%) Linux
6 2 (0.56%) zOS
7 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (37.46%) CI/CD
2 109 (30.70%) DevOps
3 88 (24.79%) Microservices
4 70 (19.72%) RBAC
5 65 (18.31%) Agile
5 65 (18.31%) Identity Access Management
6 64 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (14.08%) Containerisation
8 50 (14.08%) Event-Driven
9 48 (13.52%) Test Automation
10 47 (13.24%) Data Modelling
11 43 (12.11%) Observability
12 42 (11.83%) Integration Patterns
13 40 (11.27%) AI
13 40 (11.27%) Validation
14 39 (10.99%) Zero Trust
15 38 (10.70%) API Integration
15 38 (10.70%) Design Patterns
16 37 (10.42%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.54%) Python
2 77 (21.69%) Java
3 66 (18.59%) SQL
4 50 (14.08%) PowerShell
5 49 (13.80%) JavaScript
6 34 (9.58%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.61%) C#
8 14 (3.94%) Go
9 13 (3.66%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.10%) Bicep
11 7 (1.97%) Bash
12 4 (1.13%) Groovy
12 4 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.13%) PHP
13 3 (0.85%) Swift
14 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.28%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.28%) C++
15 1 (0.28%) COBOL
15 1 (0.28%) JCL
Qualifications
1 82 (23.10%) Security Cleared
2 56 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.58%) Degree
4 23 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (5.35%) CISSP
6 17 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.38%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.25%) CISM
10 7 (1.97%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.13%) GIAC
12 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.28%) HND
14 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.42%) GDPR
2 32 (9.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (7.32%) NIST
4 21 (5.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (4.51%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.38%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.82%) QA
8 7 (1.97%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.69%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.41%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.85%) GRC
11 3 (0.85%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.85%) SEPA
11 3 (0.85%) WCAG
12 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 80 (22.54%) Active Directory
2 68 (19.15%) Docker
3 6 (1.69%) RACF
4 2 (0.56%) OpenAM
4 2 (0.56%) OpenDJ
4 2 (0.56%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.56%) Squid
4 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 81 (22.82%) Single Sign-On
2 75 (21.13%) Kubernetes
3 66 (18.59%) Terraform
4 37 (10.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (4.23%) Grafana
6 14 (3.94%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.25%) Ansible
8 6 (1.69%) Argo
8 6 (1.69%) Istio
8 6 (1.69%) linkerd
9 4 (1.13%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.13%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.13%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 102 (28.73%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.89%) Google
3 27 (7.61%) Okta
4 24 (6.76%) Oracle
5 21 (5.92%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.79%) CyberArk
7 14 (3.94%) SAP
8 13 (3.66%) MuleSoft
9 12 (3.38%) OpenAI
10 11 (3.10%) Splunk
11 9 (2.54%) Ping Identity
12 8 (2.25%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (2.25%) ForgeRock
12 8 (2.25%) UiPath
13 7 (1.97%) Workday
14 5 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (1.41%) Denodo
14 5 (1.41%) IBM
14 5 (1.41%) Zscaler
15 4 (1.13%) Apple