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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 312 396
Rank change year-on-year +25 +84 -10
Contract jobs citing OAuth 377 197 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.72% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.49% 3.23% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 127 88
10th Percentile £413 £366 £444
25th Percentile £485 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £519 £606
Median % change year-on-year +10.90% -14.47% +1.04%
75th Percentile £669 £619 £673
90th Percentile £751 £676 £700
UK median daily rate £563 £523 £600
% change year-on-year +7.50% -12.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £37.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £58.75 -
% change year-on-year +27.66% - -

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 8,394 6,108 7,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.72% 22.21% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 4,214 5,117
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 142 232
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £24.02
25th Percentile £50.56 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +11 190 £575 +2.86% 77
South East -3 74 £525 +7.69% 19
North of England -28 74 £625 +31.16% 9
Yorkshire -23 35 £620 +41.23% 5
North West -29 35 £625 +27.03% 5
Midlands -65 11 £438 +5.42% 5
East of England -11 10 £558 +11.50% 7
South West -34 10 £550 +1.85% 5
West Midlands -52 9 £531 -11.94% 5
North East - 6 £563 -
East Midlands -25 2 £401 -2.79%
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 (4.51%) Confluence
2 15 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.86%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.33%) Mule
6 3 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.53%) Appian
8 1 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.53%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 212 (56.23%) Azure
2 152 (40.32%) AWS
3 111 (29.44%) Entra ID
4 82 (21.75%) GCP
5 44 (11.67%) Serverless
6 40 (10.61%) GitHub
7 39 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (9.02%) SaaS
9 30 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (7.16%) Azure AKS
11 26 (6.90%) Azure API Management
12 22 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (5.04%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (4.77%) Apigee
14 18 (4.77%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (4.51%) Amazon S3
16 16 (4.24%) Kong
17 14 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (3.45%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.51%) Kerberos
2 16 (4.24%) DNS
3 14 (3.71%) SSL
4 11 (2.92%) HTTP
5 10 (2.65%) Firewall
6 7 (1.86%) DKIM
6 7 (1.86%) DMARC
7 5 (1.33%) IPsec
7 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.06%) Network Security
9 3 (0.80%) NGFW
10 2 (0.53%) DHCP
10 2 (0.53%) X.509
11 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.27%) SSH
11 1 (0.27%) VPN
11 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 25 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.37%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.98%) Redis
5 14 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (3.71%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.18%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.65%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.39%) MySQL
9 8 (2.12%) Metadata
10 5 (1.33%) Data Vault
10 5 (1.33%) Power BI
10 5 (1.33%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.06%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (11.94%) Git
2 24 (6.37%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.57%) JIRA
4 20 (5.31%) GitLab
5 10 (2.65%) Browser DevTools
6 7 (1.86%) git-flow
7 6 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.59%) Postman
8 5 (1.33%) Gradle
8 5 (1.33%) Maven
8 5 (1.33%) Storybook
9 4 (1.06%) Snyk
10 3 (0.80%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.80%) JMeter
10 3 (0.80%) MLflow
11 2 (0.53%) Mockito
11 2 (0.53%) Moq
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 85 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.95%) Finance
3 52 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.28%) Banking
5 28 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.71%) Retail
8 12 (3.18%) Military
9 10 (2.65%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.86%) Legal
11 6 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.33%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.06%) Publishing
14 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.53%) Automotive
15 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.53%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.53%) Law
15 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (27.59%) Developer
2 94 (24.93%) Architect
3 49 (13.00%) Senior
4 29 (7.69%) Lead
5 27 (7.16%) Technical Architect
6 25 (6.63%) Java Developer
7 23 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (4.77%) Senior Developer
9 17 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (3.98%) IAM Specialist
11 13 (3.45%) Consultant
11 13 (3.45%) Security Architect
12 12 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.18%) Integration Architect
13 9 (2.39%) .NET Developer
13 9 (2.39%) IAM Developer
13 9 (2.39%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (2.39%) Technical Leader
14 8 (2.12%) Lead Architect
14 8 (2.12%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (52.79%) OAuth2
2 189 (50.13%) OpenID
3 154 (40.85%) SAML
4 132 (35.01%) REST
5 78 (20.69%) JWT
6 65 (17.24%) SOAP
7 57 (15.12%) RESTful
8 53 (14.06%) LDAP
9 48 (12.73%) JSON
10 37 (9.81%) .NET
10 37 (9.81%) Kafka
10 37 (9.81%) SailPoint
11 35 (9.28%) React
12 34 (9.02%) CSS
13 31 (8.22%) Spring
14 30 (7.96%) XML
15 27 (7.16%) HTML
15 27 (7.16%) Web Services
16 26 (6.90%) Node.js
16 26 (6.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 74 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.28%) Onboarding
3 34 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (7.16%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (6.63%) Product Ownership
6 21 (5.57%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.24%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.98%) PKI
9 13 (3.45%) Mobile App
10 12 (3.18%) CMDB
11 11 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (2.92%) Low-Code
12 8 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.59%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.59%) Freedom of Information
14 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
15 4 (1.06%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.65%) Windows
2 8 (2.12%) Linux
3 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.06%) Android
4 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) CentOS
5 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (41.38%) CI/CD
2 138 (36.60%) DevOps
3 98 (25.99%) Microservices
4 95 (25.20%) Agile
5 79 (20.95%) Identity Access Management
6 72 (19.10%) Containerisation
7 71 (18.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (17.24%) Event-Driven
10 59 (15.65%) RBAC
11 55 (14.59%) AI
11 55 (14.59%) Test Automation
12 51 (13.53%) Integration Patterns
13 48 (12.73%) API Integration
14 47 (12.47%) Zero Trust
15 42 (11.14%) API Management
15 42 (11.14%) Mentoring
15 42 (11.14%) Roadmaps
16 41 (10.88%) Observability
16 41 (10.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 87 (23.08%) Java
2 83 (22.02%) Python
3 71 (18.83%) SQL
4 70 (18.57%) JavaScript
5 51 (13.53%) PowerShell
6 37 (9.81%) TypeScript
7 36 (9.55%) C#
8 24 (6.37%) Bicep
9 9 (2.39%) Bash
9 9 (2.39%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.06%) Groovy
12 3 (0.80%) Go
12 3 (0.80%) PHP
13 2 (0.53%) PromQL
13 2 (0.53%) Scala
13 2 (0.53%) Swift
14 1 (0.27%) C++
14 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 101 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 76 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.81%) Degree
4 24 (6.37%) CISSP
5 20 (5.31%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.98%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.92%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.65%) CISM
10 8 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.33%) CSPO
13 5 (1.33%) GIAC
14 4 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.53%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 30 (7.96%) NIST
2 27 (7.16%) GDPR
3 19 (5.04%) QA
4 10 (2.65%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.12%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.86%) NCSC
7 6 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.33%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.53%) HL7
10 2 (0.53%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 76 (20.16%) Docker
3 4 (1.06%) RACF
4 3 (0.80%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.27%) Squid
6 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 78 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 77 (20.42%) Terraform
3 60 (15.92%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (6.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 23 (6.10%) Grafana
6 21 (5.57%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.45%) Ansible
8 7 (1.86%) Argo
9 6 (1.59%) Istio
9 6 (1.59%) linkerd
10 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.06%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.06%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.06%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.80%) WMI
13 2 (0.53%) Consul
13 2 (0.53%) Zipkin
14 1 (0.27%) Puppet
14 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.75%) Oracle
2 33 (8.75%) ServiceNow
3 29 (7.69%) Google
4 27 (7.16%) Okta
5 22 (5.84%) MuleSoft
6 16 (4.24%) CyberArk
7 15 (3.98%) Ping Identity
7 15 (3.98%) SAP
8 13 (3.45%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.65%) ForgeRock
9 10 (2.65%) Workday
10 9 (2.39%) OpenAI
11 8 (2.12%) OutSystems
12 6 (1.59%) IBM
13 5 (1.33%) Denodo
13 5 (1.33%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
14 4 (1.06%) Informatica
14 4 (1.06%) Splunk