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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 282 383
Rank change year-on-year +13 +101 -26
Contract jobs citing OAuth 448 247 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.89% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.51% 3.48% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 163 86
10th Percentile £412 £360 £469
25th Percentile £455 £407 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -22.45% +2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £675
90th Percentile £750 £662 £723
UK median daily rate £555 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +11.00% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £38.75 £61.28 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.31 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% - -
75th Percentile £85.54 £64.31 -
90th Percentile £87.56 £64.43 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

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 9,929 7,105 8,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 25.53% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,522 4,828 5,354
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £445 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 169 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.54 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +2.74%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% +2.67%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -9 224 £575 +9.52% 226
South East +2 76 £500 +2.56% 51
North of England -35 75 £573 +28.36% 35
Yorkshire +2 46 £563 +27.26% 13
Midlands -44 27 £464 +11.71% 17
North West -60 26 £625 +40.13% 18
West Midlands -32 22 £525 -6.71% 16
South West -32 18 £550 +9.45% 17
East of England -16 17 £550 +10.00% 12
East Midlands -28 5 £401 -2.79% 1
North East - 4 £600 - 4
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 19 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.90%) Confluence
3 12 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.34%) Anypoint
4 6 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.12%) Apache
5 5 (1.12%) Mule
6 3 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.34%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.67%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.45%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 255 (56.92%) Azure
2 185 (41.29%) AWS
3 124 (27.68%) Entra ID
4 106 (23.66%) GCP
5 60 (13.39%) GitHub
6 44 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (9.60%) Serverless
8 41 (9.15%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (8.04%) SaaS
10 28 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (6.03%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (5.36%) Boomi
13 22 (4.91%) Azure API Management
14 19 (4.24%) Azure AKS
14 19 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (4.02%) Kong
15 18 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (3.57%) Apigee
16 16 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 14 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.69%) DNS
2 19 (4.24%) Kerberos
3 13 (2.90%) SSL
4 12 (2.68%) Firewall
4 12 (2.68%) HTTP
5 7 (1.56%) DKIM
5 7 (1.56%) DMARC
6 6 (1.34%) DHCP
6 6 (1.34%) NGFW
6 6 (1.34%) X.509
7 5 (1.12%) IPsec
7 5 (1.12%) Network Security
7 5 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.67%) VPN
9 2 (0.45%) SSH
9 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.22%) DMZ
10 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (8.48%) Relational Database
3 31 (6.92%) NoSQL
4 29 (6.47%) SQL Server
5 21 (4.69%) MySQL
6 19 (4.24%) Redis
7 18 (4.02%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.46%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.01%) Metadata
10 8 (1.79%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.56%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.34%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.34%) Power BI
13 5 (1.12%) Hazelcast
13 5 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.89%) Flink
14 4 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (14.73%) Git
2 31 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.03%) GitLab
4 22 (4.91%) JIRA
5 14 (3.13%) Maven
6 11 (2.46%) Storybook
7 10 (2.23%) JUnit
8 8 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.79%) Mockito
9 7 (1.56%) Browser DevTools
9 7 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.56%) Gradle
10 5 (1.12%) git-flow
11 4 (0.89%) Postman
11 4 (0.89%) Selenium
11 4 (0.89%) Snyk
12 3 (0.67%) Fiddler
12 3 (0.67%) MSTest
12 3 (0.67%) NUnit
13 2 (0.45%) JMeter
General
1 115 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 91 (20.31%) Finance
3 59 (13.17%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.93%) Banking
5 22 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.68%) Retail
7 11 (2.46%) Military
8 10 (2.23%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.56%) Legal
11 5 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.89%) Publishing
13 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.45%) Automotive
14 2 (0.45%) Law
14 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 131 (29.24%) Developer
2 100 (22.32%) Architect
3 54 (12.05%) Senior
4 37 (8.26%) Java Developer
5 34 (7.59%) Lead
6 30 (6.70%) Technical Architect
7 24 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (4.24%) Consultant
8 19 (4.24%) Senior Developer
9 15 (3.35%) IAM Specialist
9 15 (3.35%) Technical Leader
10 13 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (2.68%) Azure Developer
11 12 (2.68%) IAM Developer
11 12 (2.68%) Security Architect
12 11 (2.46%) Backend Developer
13 10 (2.23%) Integration Architect
13 10 (2.23%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (2.23%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (52.90%) OAuth2
2 230 (51.34%) OpenID
3 165 (36.83%) SAML
4 164 (36.61%) REST
5 104 (23.21%) Terraform
6 102 (22.77%) JWT
7 70 (15.63%) SOAP
8 68 (15.18%) RESTful
9 60 (13.39%) React
10 58 (12.95%) JSON
11 55 (12.28%) LDAP
12 53 (11.83%) Kafka
13 52 (11.61%) CSS
14 46 (10.27%) Swagger
15 45 (10.04%) .NET
16 44 (9.82%) HTML
16 44 (9.82%) OpenAPI
17 43 (9.60%) Node.js
18 40 (8.93%) Spring
19 39 (8.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 98 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (8.48%) Onboarding
4 36 (8.04%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (8.04%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.24%) Security Posture
6 18 (4.02%) PKI
7 15 (3.35%) CMDB
7 15 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.68%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.01%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.56%) Replication
11 7 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.34%) Freedom of Information
13 5 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.68%) Windows
2 11 (2.46%) Linux
3 8 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.12%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.45%) Android
5 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.22%) CentOS
6 1 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (42.41%) CI/CD
2 158 (35.27%) DevOps
3 133 (29.69%) Microservices
4 124 (27.68%) Agile
5 101 (22.54%) Identity Access Management
6 93 (20.76%) Event-Driven
7 86 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 80 (17.86%) Test Automation
9 77 (17.19%) Containerisation
10 75 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
11 67 (14.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 67 (14.96%) RBAC
12 64 (14.29%) AI
13 63 (14.06%) Observability
13 63 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 62 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
15 58 (12.95%) Software Engineering
16 56 (12.50%) API Management
16 56 (12.50%) Mentoring
17 53 (11.83%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 123 (27.46%) Java
2 111 (24.78%) Python
3 94 (20.98%) JavaScript
4 80 (17.86%) SQL
5 67 (14.96%) PowerShell
6 57 (12.72%) TypeScript
7 42 (9.38%) C#
8 30 (6.70%) Bicep
9 13 (2.90%) Go
10 8 (1.79%) Bash
11 5 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.89%) PHP
13 3 (0.67%) Groovy
14 2 (0.45%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.45%) C++
14 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.45%) Lua
14 2 (0.45%) PromQL
14 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 115 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 87 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.60%) Degree
4 22 (4.91%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.69%) CISSP
6 20 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (3.35%) AWS Certification
10 13 (2.90%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.01%) CISM
11 9 (2.01%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.12%) CSPO
12 5 (1.12%) MCSE
13 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (7.37%) NIST
3 28 (6.25%) GDPR
3 28 (6.25%) QA
4 14 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.68%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.79%) NCSC
6 8 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.56%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.56%) WCAG
8 6 (1.34%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.67%) SEPA
9 3 (0.67%) SLA
10 2 (0.45%) HL7
10 2 (0.45%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.45%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.45%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 100 (22.32%) Active Directory
2 84 (18.75%) Docker
3 6 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.67%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 113 (25.22%) Kubernetes
2 72 (16.07%) Single Sign-On
3 26 (5.80%) Grafana
4 25 (5.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 22 (4.91%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.90%) Ansible
7 10 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.79%) Argo
9 5 (1.12%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.89%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.67%) Kibana
11 3 (0.67%) WMI
12 2 (0.45%) Consul
12 2 (0.45%) Istio
12 2 (0.45%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.45%) SCOM
12 2 (0.45%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.45%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 134 (29.91%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.04%) Google
2 45 (10.04%) Oracle
3 38 (8.48%) ServiceNow
4 30 (6.70%) Okta
5 27 (6.03%) MuleSoft
6 18 (4.02%) Ping Identity
7 17 (3.79%) CyberArk
7 17 (3.79%) Salesforce
8 15 (3.35%) SAP
9 12 (2.68%) Databricks
9 12 (2.68%) IBM
10 10 (2.23%) Informatica
10 10 (2.23%) OpenAI
11 9 (2.01%) TIBCO
11 9 (2.01%) Workday
11 9 (2.01%) WSO2
12 8 (1.79%) ForgeRock
12 8 (1.79%) OutSystems
13 7 (1.56%) Dell