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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 358 399
Rank change year-on-year +114 +41 +62
Contract jobs citing OAuth 363 130 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.96% 2.21% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 89 124
10th Percentile £358 £409 £416
25th Percentile £413 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £548
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +5.02% -8.75%
75th Percentile £613 £660 £650
90th Percentile £688 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £519 £575 £535
% change year-on-year -9.83% +7.48% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £55.10 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £72.31 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - -

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 7,318 5,878 7,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.91% 22.37% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,896 3,750 5,557
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £659 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 77 179
10th Percentile £34.80 £26.40 £25.22
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £46.03
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.30 £65.75 £67.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £76.72
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +64 189 £525 -8.70% 44
North of England +2 75 £438 -16.57% 23
North West +11 46 £402 -21.56% 12
South West +21 38 £563 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire -29 29 £475 -26.92% 9
Midlands -35 26 £525 -8.70% 6
South East -29 23 £500 -21.88% 20
West Midlands -24 21 £540 -7.18% 5
East Midlands -20 4 £442 -23.09% 1
East of England -22 2 £500 -33.33% 4
North East -12 1 - - 2
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 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.13%) Confluence
3 12 (3.31%) Apache
4 9 (2.48%) IIS
4 9 (2.48%) JBoss
4 9 (2.48%) WebSphere
5 8 (2.20%) iPlanet
5 8 (2.20%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (1.93%) Appian
7 5 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.55%) CICS
10 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.28%) nginx
10 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.93%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 175 (48.21%) Azure
2 125 (34.44%) AWS
3 92 (25.34%) Entra ID
4 53 (14.60%) GitHub
5 50 (13.77%) GCP
6 47 (12.95%) Serverless
7 33 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (9.09%) SaaS
8 32 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (7.44%) Apigee
10 26 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (6.89%) PaaS
12 23 (6.34%) Amazon S3
13 22 (6.06%) Power Platform
14 20 (5.51%) IaaS
15 19 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (4.96%) Azure Logic Apps
17 17 (4.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.05%) Kerberos
2 35 (9.64%) DNS
3 20 (5.51%) Firewall
4 18 (4.96%) HTTPS
4 18 (4.96%) SSL
5 16 (4.41%) HTTP
6 15 (4.13%) DHCP
7 7 (1.93%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.38%) IPsec
8 5 (1.38%) Network Security
9 4 (1.10%) SSH
9 4 (1.10%) VPN
10 3 (0.83%) Internet
11 2 (0.55%) Extranet
11 2 (0.55%) RFID
11 2 (0.55%) S/MIME
11 2 (0.55%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.28%) SMS
12 1 (0.28%) SMTP
12 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (5.51%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.68%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.86%) DynamoDB
5 12 (3.31%) Redis
6 10 (2.75%) Oracle Database
6 10 (2.75%) Pinecone
7 9 (2.48%) Power BI
8 8 (2.20%) MySQL
8 8 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.65%) Metadata
11 5 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.38%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.10%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.83%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 40 (11.02%) Jenkins
2 39 (10.74%) Git
3 20 (5.51%) JIRA
3 20 (5.51%) Postman
4 18 (4.96%) GitLab
5 9 (2.48%) Bitbucket Server
5 9 (2.48%) CA Release Automation
6 8 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.93%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.93%) Maven
7 7 (1.93%) MLflow
8 6 (1.65%) JUnit
8 6 (1.65%) Selenium
8 6 (1.65%) SoapUI
8 6 (1.65%) Xcode
9 5 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.38%) Gradle
9 5 (1.38%) Mockito
9 5 (1.38%) Storybook
9 5 (1.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 69 (19.01%) Finance
3 41 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.64%) Banking
5 29 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.93%) Marketing
9 6 (1.65%) Military
10 5 (1.38%) Publishing
11 4 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.10%) Legal
12 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.83%) Games
13 2 (0.55%) Billing
13 2 (0.55%) Retail
14 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Electronics
14 1 (0.28%) Law
14 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 93 (25.62%) Developer
2 63 (17.36%) Architect
3 42 (11.57%) Senior
4 22 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (5.23%) Lead
6 16 (4.41%) Analyst
6 16 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (3.86%) Java Developer
8 12 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (3.31%) Integration Engineer
9 11 (3.03%) Consultant
9 11 (3.03%) Technical Architect
10 10 (2.75%) Business Analyst
11 9 (2.48%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 9 (2.48%) Security Architect
11 9 (2.48%) Senior Developer
11 9 (2.48%) Software Engineer
11 9 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (2.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.20%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (46.01%) SAML
2 156 (42.98%) OAuth2
3 140 (38.57%) OpenID
4 100 (27.55%) REST
5 74 (20.39%) JWT
6 64 (17.63%) JSON
7 58 (15.98%) RESTful
8 54 (14.88%) LDAP
9 48 (13.22%) SOAP
10 44 (12.12%) XML
11 35 (9.64%) Spring
12 34 (9.37%) Spring Boot
13 32 (8.82%) Node.js
14 30 (8.26%) React
15 29 (7.99%) Web Services
16 28 (7.71%) .NET
17 27 (7.44%) GraphQL
18 26 (7.16%) HTML
19 22 (6.06%) Kafka
20 21 (5.79%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.34%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.06%) Replication
5 19 (5.23%) Mobile App
6 18 (4.96%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.58%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.75%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.48%) PKI
12 8 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.20%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.93%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.65%) Product Ownership
15 5 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 5 (1.38%) Mobile Banking
16 4 (1.10%) BYOD
16 4 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 53 (14.60%) Windows
2 40 (11.02%) Windows Server
3 26 (7.16%) Linux
4 11 (3.03%) Android
4 11 (3.03%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.93%) Unix
6 4 (1.10%) AIX
6 4 (1.10%) Solaris
7 2 (0.55%) zOS
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (39.94%) CI/CD
2 118 (32.51%) DevOps
3 80 (22.04%) Identity Access Management
4 78 (21.49%) Microservices
5 71 (19.56%) Agile
6 67 (18.46%) RBAC
7 64 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (13.77%) Identity Management
10 48 (13.22%) Test Automation
11 46 (12.67%) AI
12 45 (12.40%) API Management
12 45 (12.40%) Validation
13 44 (12.12%) Containerisation
13 44 (12.12%) Event-Driven
14 36 (9.92%) Computer Science
14 36 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (9.64%) Observability
16 34 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
17 33 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 87 (23.97%) Python
2 69 (19.01%) Java
3 66 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 53 (14.60%) JavaScript
5 51 (14.05%) SQL
6 31 (8.54%) TypeScript
7 25 (6.89%) C#
8 14 (3.86%) Groovy
9 13 (3.58%) Go
10 9 (2.48%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (2.20%) Bash
11 8 (2.20%) Bicep
12 7 (1.93%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.93%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.10%) PHP
14 3 (0.83%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.55%) C++
15 2 (0.55%) Swift
16 1 (0.28%) COBOL
16 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.73%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.47%) Degree
4 32 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (7.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (6.06%) CISSP
6 22 (6.06%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.48%) CISM
8 9 (2.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.93%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.83%) PhD
12 2 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.55%) CCSP
12 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.15%) GDPR
2 35 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (6.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 18 (4.96%) PCI DSS
5 17 (4.68%) NIST
6 14 (3.86%) SOC 2
7 11 (3.03%) Accessibility
7 11 (3.03%) Data Quality
8 10 (2.75%) WCAG
9 9 (2.48%) QA
10 8 (2.20%) HIPAA
10 8 (2.20%) PSD2
11 5 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.83%) GRC
13 3 (0.83%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.83%) SLA
14 2 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 99 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 66 (18.18%) Docker
3 7 (1.93%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 5 (1.38%) RACF
5 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.55%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.55%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.55%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 112 (30.85%) Single Sign-On
2 66 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 65 (17.91%) Terraform
4 45 (12.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 14 (3.86%) Ansible
5 14 (3.86%) Grafana
6 9 (2.48%) CA Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.20%) CA Wily
7 8 (2.20%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.93%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.93%) Tivoli
9 5 (1.38%) Kibana
10 4 (1.10%) Argo
10 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.83%) SCCM
12 2 (0.55%) Istio
12 2 (0.55%) linkerd
12 2 (0.55%) PingFederate
13 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 128 (35.26%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.26%) Oracle
3 27 (7.44%) Google
3 27 (7.44%) Okta
4 25 (6.89%) Splunk
5 21 (5.79%) OpenAI
6 16 (4.41%) CyberArk
6 16 (4.41%) ForgeRock
7 13 (3.58%) IBM
7 13 (3.58%) Salesforce
8 12 (3.31%) MuleSoft
8 12 (3.31%) Ping Identity
9 11 (3.03%) SAP
9 11 (3.03%) VMware
10 9 (2.48%) AppDynamics
10 9 (2.48%) Broadcom
10 9 (2.48%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.20%) Axway
12 7 (1.93%) Adobe
12 7 (1.93%) Automation Anywhere