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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 356 408
Rank change year-on-year +97 +52 +39
Contract jobs citing OAuth 359 134 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.69% 2.31% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 93 110
10th Percentile £358 £409 £411
25th Percentile £425 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £650
90th Percentile £688 £720 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%
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 7,655 5,800 7,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.71% 22.67% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,155 3,795 5,444
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £418 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 80 208
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.04 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.31 £43.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.85 £80.10 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +52 193 £525 -8.70% 45
North of England -13 65 £450 -14.29% 18
South West +10 38 £563 +25.00% 8
North West -12 36 £390 -25.71% 13
Yorkshire -34 29 £475 -24.00% 2
South East -37 27 £563 -10.00% 22
Midlands -38 24 £520 -10.54% 5
West Midlands -38 19 £523 -11.06% 5
East Midlands -25 4 £442 -23.09%
East of England -20 2 £500 - 3
North East -15 1 - - 3
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 20 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.74%) Confluence
3 8 (2.23%) Appian
4 7 (1.95%) Apache
5 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.39%) IIS
6 5 (1.39%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.39%) JBoss
6 5 (1.39%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.39%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.84%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.84%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.56%) CICS
10 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.23%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 175 (48.75%) Azure
2 124 (34.54%) AWS
3 95 (26.46%) Entra ID
4 48 (13.37%) Serverless
5 47 (13.09%) GitHub
6 46 (12.81%) GCP
7 33 (9.19%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (9.19%) SaaS
8 32 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (7.52%) Amazon S3
9 27 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (7.52%) PaaS
10 24 (6.69%) Apigee
11 22 (6.13%) IaaS
12 21 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (5.85%) Power Platform
13 17 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (4.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (13.37%) Kerberos
2 35 (9.75%) DNS
3 20 (5.57%) Firewall
4 17 (4.74%) HTTP
5 15 (4.18%) DHCP
5 15 (4.18%) HTTPS
5 15 (4.18%) SSL
6 7 (1.95%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.39%) IPsec
7 5 (1.39%) Network Security
8 4 (1.11%) SSH
8 4 (1.11%) VPN
9 3 (0.84%) Internet
10 2 (0.56%) Extranet
10 2 (0.56%) RFID
10 2 (0.56%) S/MIME
10 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.28%) SMS
11 1 (0.28%) SMTP
11 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
1 23 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.46%) DynamoDB
3 14 (3.90%) Redis
4 12 (3.34%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.06%) Pinecone
6 9 (2.51%) Power BI
7 8 (2.23%) Metadata
7 8 (2.23%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.23%) MySQL
7 8 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.95%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.11%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 36 (10.03%) Jenkins
2 35 (9.75%) Git
3 21 (5.85%) JIRA
3 21 (5.85%) Postman
4 20 (5.57%) GitLab
5 8 (2.23%) MLflow
6 7 (1.95%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.95%) Maven
6 7 (1.95%) SoapUI
7 6 (1.67%) JUnit
7 6 (1.67%) Selenium
7 6 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.39%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (1.39%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (1.39%) Mockito
8 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.11%) Vite
10 3 (0.84%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.84%) SonarQube
General
1 113 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.66%) Finance
3 45 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.03%) Banking
5 26 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.85%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.67%) Marketing
8 6 (1.67%) Military
9 5 (1.39%) Legal
9 5 (1.39%) Publishing
10 4 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.84%) Games
12 2 (0.56%) Billing
12 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
13 1 (0.28%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 88 (24.51%) Developer
2 63 (17.55%) Architect
3 47 (13.09%) Senior
4 22 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.85%) Lead
6 18 (5.01%) Analyst
7 16 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (3.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 13 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (3.62%) Java Developer
9 11 (3.06%) Business Analyst
9 11 (3.06%) Consultant
10 10 (2.79%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (2.79%) Senior Developer
10 10 (2.79%) Technical Architect
11 9 (2.51%) Security Architect
11 9 (2.51%) Security Engineer
11 9 (2.51%) Software Engineer
11 9 (2.51%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (2.23%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (46.80%) SAML
2 159 (44.29%) OAuth2
3 148 (41.23%) OpenID
4 99 (27.58%) REST
5 76 (21.17%) JWT
6 61 (16.99%) JSON
7 57 (15.88%) RESTful
8 48 (13.37%) LDAP
8 48 (13.37%) SOAP
9 41 (11.42%) XML
10 36 (10.03%) Node.js
10 36 (10.03%) React
11 33 (9.19%) .NET
11 33 (9.19%) Spring
12 32 (8.91%) Spring Boot
13 31 (8.64%) Web Services
14 28 (7.80%) HTML
15 22 (6.13%) GraphQL
15 22 (6.13%) Kafka
15 22 (6.13%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.69%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.13%) Replication
5 19 (5.29%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (4.18%) Mobile App
8 14 (3.90%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.06%) PKI
10 10 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.51%) Low-Code
11 9 (2.51%) Private Cloud
12 8 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.23%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.95%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.39%) BYOD
14 5 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.39%) Mobile Banking
15 4 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 50 (13.93%) Windows
2 36 (10.03%) Windows Server
3 19 (5.29%) Linux
4 7 (1.95%) Android
4 7 (1.95%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.39%) Unix
6 4 (1.11%) AIX
6 4 (1.11%) Solaris
7 2 (0.56%) zOS
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (40.95%) CI/CD
2 118 (32.87%) DevOps
3 82 (22.84%) Identity Access Management
4 81 (22.56%) Microservices
5 75 (20.89%) Agile
6 72 (20.06%) RBAC
7 65 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 51 (14.21%) Identity Management
9 51 (14.21%) Test Automation
10 47 (13.09%) AI
10 47 (13.09%) Validation
11 43 (11.98%) Event-Driven
12 42 (11.70%) Containerisation
13 40 (11.14%) API Management
14 36 (10.03%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (9.75%) Data Modelling
15 35 (9.75%) Observability
16 34 (9.47%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 86 (23.96%) Python
2 65 (18.11%) Java
2 65 (18.11%) PowerShell
3 59 (16.43%) JavaScript
4 52 (14.48%) SQL
5 35 (9.75%) TypeScript
6 29 (8.08%) C#
7 14 (3.90%) Go
8 11 (3.06%) Bicep
8 11 (3.06%) Groovy
9 9 (2.51%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (2.23%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.95%) Bash
12 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.11%) PHP
14 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.56%) C++
14 2 (0.56%) Swift
15 1 (0.28%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 93 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 66 (18.38%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.75%) Degree
4 32 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.24%) DV Cleared
6 24 (6.69%) CISSP
6 24 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.06%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (2.51%) CISM
10 8 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.95%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.11%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.84%) PhD
14 2 (0.56%) CCSP
15 1 (0.28%) HND
15 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.48%) GDPR
2 34 (9.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (6.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 18 (5.01%) NIST
5 17 (4.74%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.90%) SOC 2
7 12 (3.34%) Data Quality
8 10 (2.79%) QA
8 10 (2.79%) WCAG
9 8 (2.23%) PSD2
10 7 (1.95%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.95%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (1.11%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.84%) GRC
13 3 (0.84%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.84%) SLA
14 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 95 (26.46%) Active Directory
2 68 (18.94%) Docker
3 5 (1.39%) RACF
3 5 (1.39%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.56%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.56%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.56%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 114 (31.75%) Single Sign-On
2 69 (19.22%) Terraform
3 66 (18.38%) Kubernetes
4 44 (12.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 14 (3.90%) Grafana
6 13 (3.62%) Ansible
7 8 (2.23%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.39%) Argo
8 5 (1.39%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.39%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.39%) Kibana
8 5 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.39%) Tivoli
9 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.84%) SCCM
11 2 (0.56%) Istio
11 2 (0.56%) linkerd
11 2 (0.56%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 125 (34.82%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.80%) Oracle
3 25 (6.96%) Okta
4 24 (6.69%) Google
5 21 (5.85%) Splunk
6 19 (5.29%) OpenAI
7 17 (4.74%) CyberArk
7 17 (4.74%) ForgeRock
8 12 (3.34%) Ping Identity
9 11 (3.06%) Salesforce
9 11 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 10 (2.79%) IBM
10 10 (2.79%) VMware
11 9 (2.51%) MuleSoft
11 9 (2.51%) SAP
12 8 (2.23%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (2.23%) UiPath
13 7 (1.95%) Adobe
13 7 (1.95%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (1.67%) AppDynamics