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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 311 402
Rank change year-on-year +27 +91 -19
Contract jobs citing OAuth 360 165 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 0.69% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.48% 3.08% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 111 103
10th Percentile £403 £400 £429
25th Percentile £463 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £646 £638
90th Percentile £741 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £600
% change year-on-year +2.42% -10.50% +6.67%
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 8,035 5,357 7,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.39% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,715 5,407
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% -1.26%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 96 236
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.66 £22.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.90 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.01 £75.00
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 29 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OAuth in England over the 6 months to 29 May 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 29 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 +35 209 £550 - 57
North of England -27 73 £588 +18.45% 12
South East -23 43 £600 -4.76% 20
North West -16 38 £600 +20.00% 11
Yorkshire -26 34 £598 +27.40% 2
South West -17 17 £550 +7.32% 5
Midlands -61 9 £438 +1.74% 5
East Midlands -32 5 £438 +4.17% 1
East of England -26 4 £500 - 4
West Midlands -58 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 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.06%) Confluence
4 8 (2.22%) Appian
5 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.83%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.28%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) 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 9 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.83%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 182 (50.56%) Azure
2 137 (38.06%) AWS
3 109 (30.28%) Entra ID
4 73 (20.28%) GCP
5 53 (14.72%) Serverless
6 36 (10.00%) GitHub
7 30 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (7.22%) SaaS
10 24 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 24 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (5.83%) OCI
13 20 (5.56%) Azure AKS
13 20 (5.56%) PaaS
14 19 (5.28%) Kong
15 18 (5.00%) Apigee
15 18 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.28%) DNS
2 34 (9.44%) Kerberos
3 16 (4.44%) DHCP
4 12 (3.33%) Firewall
5 11 (3.06%) HTTP
5 11 (3.06%) SSL
6 7 (1.94%) DKIM
6 7 (1.94%) DMARC
6 7 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (1.67%) IPsec
7 6 (1.67%) Network Security
8 5 (1.39%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.83%) NGFW
10 2 (0.56%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.56%) RFID
10 2 (0.56%) VPN
11 1 (0.28%) SMS
11 1 (0.28%) WAN
11 1 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.28%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.00%) Redis
5 15 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.06%) Pinecone
8 9 (2.50%) Metadata
9 8 (2.22%) MySQL
10 7 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.67%) Hazelcast
12 5 (1.39%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.39%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.11%) DocumentDB
14 3 (0.83%) GIS
Development Applications
1 31 (8.61%) Git
2 27 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.94%) GitLab
4 17 (4.72%) JIRA
5 16 (4.44%) Postman
6 10 (2.78%) Browser DevTools
7 8 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.22%) MLflow
7 8 (2.22%) SoapUI
8 7 (1.94%) git-flow
9 5 (1.39%) Gradle
9 5 (1.39%) Maven
9 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.11%) Snyk
11 3 (0.83%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.83%) JMeter
11 3 (0.83%) JUnit
11 3 (0.83%) Vite
12 2 (0.56%) Moq
12 2 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 84 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.00%) Finance
3 45 (12.50%) Banking
4 41 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.50%) Military
8 8 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.94%) Retail
10 5 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.11%) Publishing
12 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.83%) Legal
13 2 (0.56%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.56%) Law
13 2 (0.56%) Marketing
13 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.28%) Games
14 1 (0.28%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (24.44%) Developer
2 75 (20.83%) Architect
3 52 (14.44%) Senior
4 24 (6.67%) Lead
5 20 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 20 (5.56%) Technical Architect
6 16 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 15 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (3.33%) Analyst
8 12 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (3.06%) Security Architect
10 10 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (2.78%) Consultant
10 10 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.50%) Backend Developer
11 9 (2.50%) IAM Specialist
12 8 (2.22%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (2.22%) Low-Code Developer
12 8 (2.22%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (49.72%) OAuth2
2 172 (47.78%) OpenID
3 158 (43.89%) SAML
4 103 (28.61%) REST
5 72 (20.00%) JWT
6 58 (16.11%) RESTful
7 52 (14.44%) LDAP
8 51 (14.17%) SOAP
9 44 (12.22%) JSON
10 35 (9.72%) Spring
10 35 (9.72%) Spring Boot
11 33 (9.17%) Kafka
11 33 (9.17%) Web Services
12 31 (8.61%) .NET
13 30 (8.33%) Node.js
14 28 (7.78%) CSS
14 28 (7.78%) XML
15 27 (7.50%) React
16 25 (6.94%) SailPoint
17 24 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 28 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.28%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (5.28%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.72%) Low-Code
6 16 (4.44%) Replication
7 13 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.61%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.50%) PKI
11 8 (2.22%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
13 5 (1.39%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.39%) CMDB
13 5 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.67%) Windows
2 19 (5.28%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.22%) Android
5 6 (1.67%) Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 121 (33.61%) DevOps
3 90 (25.00%) Microservices
4 74 (20.56%) Agile
5 71 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (19.44%) RBAC
7 64 (17.78%) Identity Access Management
8 58 (16.11%) Event-Driven
9 56 (15.56%) Containerisation
10 52 (14.44%) Observability
11 51 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (12.50%) Test Automation
13 44 (12.22%) Data Modelling
14 43 (11.94%) Validation
15 42 (11.67%) AI
15 42 (11.67%) API Integration
16 40 (11.11%) Design Patterns
16 40 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
16 40 (11.11%) Zero Trust
17 39 (10.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 76 (21.11%) Java
1 76 (21.11%) Python
1 76 (21.11%) SQL
2 53 (14.72%) JavaScript
2 53 (14.72%) PowerShell
3 31 (8.61%) TypeScript
4 28 (7.78%) C#
5 21 (5.83%) Bicep
6 15 (4.17%) Go
7 10 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.22%) Bash
9 4 (1.11%) PHP
10 3 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.83%) Swift
11 2 (0.56%) Groovy
11 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.56%) PromQL
11 2 (0.56%) Scala
12 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 63 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.50%) Degree
4 22 (6.11%) CISSP
5 14 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.78%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.50%) CISM
10 6 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.11%) CSPO
11 4 (1.11%) GIAC
11 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.56%) CEH
12 2 (0.56%) MCSE
12 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.83%) GDPR
2 31 (8.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (6.94%) NIST
4 20 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (4.44%) QA
6 15 (4.17%) PCI DSS
7 11 (3.06%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.94%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.67%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.11%) ISO 20022
10 4 (1.11%) NCSC
11 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.83%) GRC
11 3 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.83%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.83%) SEPA
11 3 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 73 (20.28%) Docker
3 6 (1.67%) RACF
4 2 (0.56%) Squid
4 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (24.17%) Single Sign-On
2 79 (21.94%) Kubernetes
3 75 (20.83%) Terraform
4 37 (10.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (5.28%) Grafana
5 19 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.22%) Argo
7 6 (1.67%) Ansible
7 6 (1.67%) Istio
7 6 (1.67%) linkerd
8 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.11%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.11%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.11%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.83%) 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 96 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.72%) Okta
3 32 (8.89%) Oracle
4 29 (8.06%) Google
5 23 (6.39%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.72%) CyberArk
7 13 (3.61%) OpenAI
7 13 (3.61%) Ping Identity
7 13 (3.61%) SAP
8 12 (3.33%) MuleSoft
9 10 (2.78%) ForgeRock
10 8 (2.22%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (2.22%) OutSystems
10 8 (2.22%) UiPath
11 7 (1.94%) Workday
12 6 (1.67%) Splunk
13 5 (1.39%) Denodo
13 5 (1.39%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.11%) Apple
14 4 (1.11%) BeyondTrust