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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 298 394
Rank change year-on-year +9 +96 -26
Contract jobs citing OAuth 385 214 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.77% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.53% 3.51% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 140 86
10th Percentile £413 £358 £463
25th Percentile £483 £409 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £665 £601 £674
90th Percentile £750 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £38.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £86.08 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.64 - -
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 8,496 6,100 7,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.04% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,553 4,172 5,028
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 157 226
10th Percentile £28.79 £31.25 £24.59
25th Percentile £46.53 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +2 193 £575 +4.55% 192
South East -1 79 £525 +10.53% 35
North of England -30 73 £625 +39.82% 18
Yorkshire -21 35 £610 +49.14% 5
North West -40 34 £625 +31.58% 11
South West -42 14 £550 +1.85% 15
East of England -12 10 £558 +11.50% 4
Midlands -58 8 £612 +47.47% 14
West Midlands -44 6 £626 +47.29% 10
North East - 5 £563 - 2
East Midlands -28 2 £401 -2.79% 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 16 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.64%) Confluence
3 11 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.82%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.30%) Mule
6 3 (0.78%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (1.56%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.52%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 219 (56.88%) Azure
2 153 (39.74%) AWS
3 112 (29.09%) Entra ID
4 93 (24.16%) GCP
5 48 (12.47%) GitHub
6 39 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (9.61%) Serverless
8 35 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (8.83%) SaaS
10 25 (6.49%) Azure API Management
11 24 (6.23%) Azure AKS
12 21 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (5.19%) Azure Service Bus
13 20 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (4.68%) Apigee
15 17 (4.42%) Boomi
16 15 (3.90%) Azure Key Vault
16 15 (3.90%) Kong
17 14 (3.64%) Amazon S3
18 12 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.45%) DNS
2 17 (4.42%) Kerberos
3 13 (3.38%) HTTP
4 12 (3.12%) SSL
5 10 (2.60%) Firewall
6 7 (1.82%) DKIM
6 7 (1.82%) DMARC
7 5 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.04%) DHCP
8 4 (1.04%) Network Security
8 4 (1.04%) NGFW
9 2 (0.52%) IPsec
9 2 (0.52%) SSH
9 2 (0.52%) VPN
9 2 (0.52%) X.509
10 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.83%) Relational Database
2 29 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.68%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.64%) Redis
6 13 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.12%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.60%) MySQL
9 8 (2.08%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.08%) Metadata
10 7 (1.82%) Power BI
11 6 (1.56%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.30%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.30%) Hazelcast
13 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (12.99%) Git
2 26 (6.75%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.71%) GitLab
4 21 (5.45%) JIRA
5 10 (2.60%) Browser DevTools
6 8 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.56%) git-flow
7 6 (1.56%) Gradle
7 6 (1.56%) Maven
7 6 (1.56%) Postman
7 6 (1.56%) Storybook
8 4 (1.04%) Snyk
9 3 (0.78%) Fiddler
9 3 (0.78%) JMeter
10 2 (0.52%) JUnit
10 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.52%) Mockito
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 91 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.74%) Finance
3 57 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.09%) Banking
5 31 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.64%) Retail
8 12 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.86%) Military
10 10 (2.60%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.08%) Legal
12 6 (1.56%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.04%) Publishing
14 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.52%) Automotive
15 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.52%) Law
15 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (27.27%) Developer
2 100 (25.97%) Architect
3 47 (12.21%) Senior
4 34 (8.83%) Lead
5 27 (7.01%) Java Developer
6 26 (6.75%) Technical Architect
7 23 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (4.68%) Senior Developer
10 16 (4.16%) IAM Specialist
11 14 (3.64%) Technical Leader
12 13 (3.38%) Consultant
12 13 (3.38%) Security Architect
13 11 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.86%) Integration Architect
14 9 (2.34%) Backend Developer
14 9 (2.34%) IAM Developer
14 9 (2.34%) Lead Architect
14 9 (2.34%) Senior Java Developer
15 8 (2.08%) Low-Code Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (52.73%) OAuth2
2 190 (49.35%) OpenID
3 155 (40.26%) SAML
4 137 (35.58%) REST
5 83 (21.56%) JWT
6 68 (17.66%) SOAP
7 58 (15.06%) RESTful
8 56 (14.55%) LDAP
9 49 (12.73%) JSON
10 41 (10.65%) Kafka
11 39 (10.13%) React
12 37 (9.61%) CSS
13 35 (9.09%) SailPoint
14 33 (8.57%) .NET
14 33 (8.57%) Spring
15 32 (8.31%) XML
16 30 (7.79%) HTML
17 29 (7.53%) Middleware
18 28 (7.27%) Spring Boot
19 26 (6.75%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 77 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 30 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (6.49%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.19%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.16%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.64%) PKI
8 13 (3.38%) CMDB
8 13 (3.38%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.34%) Low-Code
10 8 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
12 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.34%) Windows
2 8 (2.08%) Linux
3 7 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.04%) Android
5 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 138 (35.84%) DevOps
3 100 (25.97%) Microservices
4 94 (24.42%) Agile
5 79 (20.52%) Identity Access Management
6 73 (18.96%) Containerisation
7 72 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (17.92%) Event-Driven
9 68 (17.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 59 (15.32%) AI
11 57 (14.81%) Test Automation
12 56 (14.55%) RBAC
13 52 (13.51%) Integration Patterns
14 50 (12.99%) API Management
15 48 (12.47%) Mentoring
15 48 (12.47%) Technical Leadership
16 47 (12.21%) API Integration
17 46 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 45 (11.69%) Zero Trust
19 43 (11.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 89 (23.12%) Java
2 87 (22.60%) Python
3 78 (20.26%) JavaScript
4 69 (17.92%) SQL
5 57 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 36 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 34 (8.83%) C#
8 21 (5.45%) Bicep
9 11 (2.86%) Bash
10 8 (2.08%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.04%) Groovy
13 3 (0.78%) PHP
14 2 (0.52%) Go
14 2 (0.52%) PromQL
14 2 (0.52%) Scala
14 2 (0.52%) Swift
15 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.26%) C++
15 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 105 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 78 (20.26%) SC Cleared
3 39 (10.13%) Degree
4 24 (6.23%) CISSP
5 20 (5.19%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.90%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.38%) DV Cleared
9 11 (2.86%) CISM
10 10 (2.60%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.30%) CSPO
12 5 (1.30%) GIAC
13 3 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.78%) MCSE
13 3 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.05%) NIST
2 30 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (7.53%) GDPR
4 24 (6.23%) QA
5 9 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.08%) NCSC
7 6 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.30%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.30%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.52%) HL7
10 2 (0.52%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.52%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.52%) SEPA
10 2 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (23.64%) Active Directory
2 75 (19.48%) Docker
3 3 (0.78%) OpenAM
3 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.26%) RACF
4 1 (0.26%) Squid
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (21.56%) Kubernetes
2 78 (20.26%) Terraform
3 56 (14.55%) Single Sign-On
4 26 (6.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (5.45%) Grafana
6 19 (4.94%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.38%) Ansible
8 7 (1.82%) Argo
9 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.30%) Istio
10 5 (1.30%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.04%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.04%) linkerd
11 4 (1.04%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.78%) WMI
13 2 (0.52%) Consul
13 2 (0.52%) Zipkin
14 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (29.35%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.61%) Oracle
3 35 (9.09%) Google
4 34 (8.83%) ServiceNow
5 25 (6.49%) Okta
6 24 (6.23%) MuleSoft
7 16 (4.16%) SAP
8 15 (3.90%) CyberArk
8 15 (3.90%) Ping Identity
8 15 (3.90%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.86%) Workday
10 9 (2.34%) ForgeRock
10 9 (2.34%) IBM
11 8 (2.08%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.82%) Informatica
12 7 (1.82%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.56%) TIBCO
13 6 (1.56%) WSO2
14 5 (1.30%) Denodo
14 5 (1.30%) Zscaler