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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 352 393
Rank change year-on-year +90 +41 +39
Contract jobs citing OAuth 364 132 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.68% 2.32% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 92 109
10th Percentile £358 £409 £410
25th Percentile £427 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -8.70%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £650
90th Percentile £688 £723 £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 7,781 5,693 7,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.64% 22.62% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,229 3,761 5,411
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £431 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.52% -7.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 78 206
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.92 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.55
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 £65.94
90th Percentile £78.25 £81.34 £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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +53 192 £532 -7.48% 46
North of England -10 66 £453 -13.71% 27
South West +8 38 £563 +25.00% 16
North West -12 37 £424 -19.24% 19
South East -25 33 £575 -8.00% 36
Yorkshire -36 29 £475 -24.00% 5
Midlands -41 24 £520 -9.57% 7
West Midlands -39 19 £523 -10.11% 3
East Midlands -27 4 £442 -23.09% 4
East of England -23 2 £500 - 14
North East -13 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 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.67%) Confluence
3 8 (2.20%) Appian
4 7 (1.92%) Apache
5 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.37%) IIS
6 5 (1.37%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.37%) JBoss
6 5 (1.37%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.82%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.55%) CICS
10 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.20%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 174 (47.80%) Azure
2 129 (35.44%) AWS
3 95 (26.10%) Entra ID
4 54 (14.84%) Serverless
5 49 (13.46%) GCP
6 45 (12.36%) GitHub
7 33 (9.07%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (9.07%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (7.69%) Amazon S3
11 27 (7.42%) SaaS
12 26 (7.14%) Apigee
13 23 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (6.32%) PaaS
14 21 (5.77%) IaaS
14 21 (5.77%) Power Platform
15 18 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (4.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (13.19%) Kerberos
2 35 (9.62%) DNS
3 20 (5.49%) Firewall
4 17 (4.67%) HTTP
5 15 (4.12%) DHCP
6 14 (3.85%) HTTPS
6 14 (3.85%) SSL
7 7 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.37%) IPsec
8 5 (1.37%) Network Security
9 4 (1.10%) SSH
9 4 (1.10%) VPN
10 3 (0.82%) Internet
11 2 (0.55%) Extranet
11 2 (0.55%) RFID
11 2 (0.55%) S/MIME
11 2 (0.55%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.27%) SMS
12 1 (0.27%) SMTP
12 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.04%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.95%) DynamoDB
4 14 (3.85%) Redis
5 12 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.02%) Pinecone
7 9 (2.47%) Power BI
8 8 (2.20%) Metadata
8 8 (2.20%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.20%) MySQL
8 8 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.92%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.10%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.82%) GIS
Development Applications
1 37 (10.16%) Git
1 37 (10.16%) Jenkins
2 21 (5.77%) GitLab
3 20 (5.49%) JIRA
4 18 (4.95%) Postman
5 8 (2.20%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.20%) MLflow
6 7 (1.92%) Maven
6 7 (1.92%) SoapUI
7 6 (1.65%) JUnit
7 6 (1.65%) Selenium
7 6 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (1.37%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (1.37%) Mockito
8 5 (1.37%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.10%) Vite
10 3 (0.82%) git-flow
10 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
General
1 116 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.13%) Finance
3 45 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.71%) Banking
5 26 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.65%) Marketing
8 6 (1.65%) Military
9 5 (1.37%) Legal
9 5 (1.37%) Publishing
10 4 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.10%) Retail
11 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.82%) Games
12 2 (0.55%) Billing
12 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 83 (22.80%) Developer
2 69 (18.96%) Architect
3 48 (13.19%) Senior
4 22 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (5.49%) Lead
6 18 (4.95%) Analyst
7 16 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (3.57%) Java Developer
9 12 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (3.02%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.02%) Consultant
10 11 (3.02%) Security Architect
10 11 (3.02%) Technical Architect
11 10 (2.75%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (2.75%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.47%) Security Engineer
12 9 (2.47%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (47.25%) SAML
2 171 (46.98%) OAuth2
3 156 (42.86%) OpenID
4 92 (25.27%) REST
5 78 (21.43%) JWT
6 59 (16.21%) RESTful
7 58 (15.93%) JSON
8 48 (13.19%) LDAP
9 47 (12.91%) SOAP
10 38 (10.44%) Node.js
10 38 (10.44%) XML
11 35 (9.62%) React
12 34 (9.34%) Spring
13 33 (9.07%) .NET
13 33 (9.07%) Spring Boot
14 30 (8.24%) Web Services
15 27 (7.42%) HTML
16 23 (6.32%) Kafka
17 21 (5.77%) GraphQL
17 21 (5.77%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.16%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.04%) Replication
5 19 (5.22%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.67%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.57%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.02%) PKI
10 10 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.47%) Private Cloud
12 8 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.20%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.92%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.92%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.37%) BYOD
14 5 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.37%) Mobile Banking
14 5 (1.37%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 50 (13.74%) Windows
2 36 (9.89%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.95%) Linux
4 6 (1.65%) Android
4 6 (1.65%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.37%) Unix
6 4 (1.10%) AIX
6 4 (1.10%) Solaris
7 2 (0.55%) zOS
8 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (40.11%) CI/CD
2 120 (32.97%) DevOps
3 85 (23.35%) Microservices
4 82 (22.53%) Identity Access Management
5 76 (20.88%) RBAC
6 73 (20.05%) Agile
7 67 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (16.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (13.46%) AI
10 48 (13.19%) Identity Management
10 48 (13.19%) Test Automation
11 47 (12.91%) Containerisation
11 47 (12.91%) Validation
12 42 (11.54%) API Management
13 41 (11.26%) Event-Driven
14 39 (10.71%) Observability
15 37 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (9.89%) Data Modelling
16 36 (9.89%) Design Patterns
16 36 (9.89%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 87 (23.90%) Python
2 66 (18.13%) Java
3 64 (17.58%) PowerShell
4 61 (16.76%) JavaScript
5 53 (14.56%) SQL
6 33 (9.07%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.42%) C#
8 14 (3.85%) Go
9 11 (3.02%) Groovy
10 10 (2.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (2.20%) Bicep
11 8 (2.20%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.92%) Bash
13 5 (1.37%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.10%) PHP
15 2 (0.55%) C++
15 2 (0.55%) Swift
16 1 (0.27%) C
16 1 (0.27%) COBOL
16 1 (0.27%) JCL
Qualifications
1 98 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.89%) Degree
4 30 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.14%) CISSP
5 26 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 25 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (2.47%) CISM
9 8 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.20%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.82%) GIAC
12 3 (0.82%) PhD
13 2 (0.55%) CCSP
14 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.19%) GDPR
2 33 (9.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (6.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 17 (4.67%) PCI DSS
5 16 (4.40%) NIST
6 12 (3.30%) Data Quality
6 12 (3.30%) SOC 2
7 10 (2.75%) QA
7 10 (2.75%) WCAG
8 8 (2.20%) PSD2
9 7 (1.92%) HIPAA
10 6 (1.65%) Accessibility
11 5 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.82%) GRC
13 3 (0.82%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.82%) SLA
14 2 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 95 (26.10%) Active Directory
2 71 (19.51%) Docker
3 5 (1.37%) RACF
3 5 (1.37%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.55%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.55%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 109 (29.95%) Single Sign-On
2 70 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 66 (18.13%) Terraform
4 44 (12.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (4.67%) Grafana
6 13 (3.57%) Ansible
7 11 (3.02%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.37%) Argo
8 5 (1.37%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.37%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.37%) Istio
8 5 (1.37%) Kibana
8 5 (1.37%) linkerd
8 5 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.37%) Tivoli
9 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.82%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.82%) SCCM
11 2 (0.55%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.27%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 121 (33.24%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.42%) Oracle
3 24 (6.59%) Okta
4 23 (6.32%) Google
5 21 (5.77%) Splunk
6 19 (5.22%) ForgeRock
7 18 (4.95%) OpenAI
8 17 (4.67%) CyberArk
9 14 (3.85%) Ping Identity
9 14 (3.85%) ServiceNow
10 11 (3.02%) MuleSoft
11 10 (2.75%) IBM
11 10 (2.75%) VMware
12 9 (2.47%) SAP
13 8 (2.20%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (2.20%) UiPath
14 7 (1.92%) Adobe
14 7 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
14 7 (1.92%) Salesforce
15 6 (1.65%) AppDynamics