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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 378 356
Rank change year-on-year +104 -22 +92
Contract jobs citing OAuth 305 131 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.42% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.42% 1.94% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 81 168
10th Percentile £360 £409 £400
25th Percentile £406 £511 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £61.30 - -
25th Percentile £61.38 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £72.31 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.75 - -

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 6,900 6,750 8,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.85% 21.76% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,657 4,304 6,350
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £666 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 97 181
10th Percentile £30.75 £26.40 £36.84
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%

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 13 November 2025.

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
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 13 November 2025. 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 +73 146 £500 -16.67% 108
North of England +8 56 £415 -18.08% 22
Midlands -20 33 £430 -21.91% 12
North West +8 32 £405 +31.71% 17
South West +24 31 £545 -12.27% 14
Yorkshire -18 24 £430 -15.19% 5
South East +1 22 £500 -21.57% 31
West Midlands -21 22 £531 -7.61% 12
East Midlands - 11 £413 -
East of England -18 3 £500 -33.33%
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 18 (5.90%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.57%) Apache
3 15 (4.92%) Confluence
4 14 (4.59%) WebSphere
5 13 (4.26%) WebSphere Application Server
6 11 (3.61%) IIS
6 11 (3.61%) JBoss
7 10 (3.28%) iPlanet
8 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (1.97%) nginx
10 5 (1.64%) Anypoint
10 5 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (1.64%) CMS
10 5 (1.64%) Headless CMS
11 4 (1.31%) Mule
12 3 (0.98%) Oracle Service Bus
12 3 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 153 (50.16%) Azure
2 115 (37.70%) AWS
3 77 (25.25%) Entra ID
4 55 (18.03%) GitHub
5 47 (15.41%) GCP
6 40 (13.11%) SaaS
7 37 (12.13%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (11.80%) Serverless
9 31 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (6.89%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (5.90%) Amazon S3
14 17 (5.57%) Apigee
15 16 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (4.92%) Power Platform
17 14 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
18 12 (3.93%) OpenShift
19 11 (3.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.51%) Kerberos
2 20 (6.56%) SSL
3 17 (5.57%) HTTPS
4 15 (4.92%) DNS
4 15 (4.92%) Firewall
5 10 (3.28%) HTTP
6 5 (1.64%) SSH
7 3 (0.98%) Internet
7 3 (0.98%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.66%) AMQP
8 2 (0.66%) DSL
8 2 (0.66%) Extranet
8 2 (0.66%) Network Security
8 2 (0.66%) S/MIME
8 2 (0.66%) VPN
9 1 (0.33%) DKIM
9 1 (0.33%) DMARC
9 1 (0.33%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.25%) Oracle Database
2 13 (4.26%) DynamoDB
3 12 (3.93%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.62%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (1.97%) Power BI
7 4 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.31%) Metadata
7 4 (1.31%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.31%) MySQL
8 3 (0.98%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.98%) Redis
9 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (12.79%) Git
2 38 (12.46%) Jenkins
3 28 (9.18%) JIRA
4 16 (5.25%) GitLab
5 11 (3.61%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.61%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.62%) Xcode
8 7 (2.30%) Gradle
8 7 (2.30%) Maven
8 7 (2.30%) Postman
8 7 (2.30%) Storybook
9 5 (1.64%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.64%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.64%) JUnit
9 5 (1.64%) Mockito
9 5 (1.64%) Selenium
10 4 (1.31%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.31%) Fiddler
10 4 (1.31%) SonarQube
General
1 108 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 60 (19.67%) Finance
3 39 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.89%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (5.90%) Banking
7 8 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.31%) Legal
9 4 (1.31%) Retail
10 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.98%) Marketing
10 3 (0.98%) Publishing
11 2 (0.66%) Billing
11 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 77 (25.25%) Developer
2 50 (16.39%) Architect
3 34 (11.15%) Senior
4 22 (7.21%) Lead
5 19 (6.23%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (4.92%) Consultant
8 12 (3.93%) Analyst
8 12 (3.93%) Business Analyst
8 12 (3.93%) Senior Developer
9 9 (2.95%) Integration Developer
9 9 (2.95%) React Developer
9 9 (2.95%) Security Engineer
10 8 (2.62%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (2.62%) Java Developer
10 8 (2.62%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (2.30%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (2.30%) Java Engineer
11 7 (2.30%) Lead Architect
11 7 (2.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (47.54%) SAML
2 139 (45.57%) OAuth2
3 133 (43.61%) OpenID
4 74 (24.26%) REST
5 58 (19.02%) RESTful
6 53 (17.38%) LDAP
7 51 (16.72%) JSON
8 47 (15.41%) JWT
9 43 (14.10%) SOAP
10 36 (11.80%) Spring
11 28 (9.18%) GraphQL
11 28 (9.18%) XML
12 24 (7.87%) HTML
12 24 (7.87%) React
12 24 (7.87%) Spring Boot
13 21 (6.89%) Node.js
14 20 (6.56%) .NET
15 19 (6.23%) Kafka
16 14 (4.59%) Microsoft Graph
17 13 (4.26%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.23%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.90%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (5.90%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.59%) Mobile App
6 13 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.28%) PKI
8 7 (2.30%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.30%) Replication
9 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.97%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.97%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.31%) BYOD
10 4 (1.31%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.66%) DataPower
12 2 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.15%) Windows
2 29 (9.51%) Linux
3 24 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.28%) Android
5 9 (2.95%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.62%) Unix
7 5 (1.64%) AIX
7 5 (1.64%) Solaris
8 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.33%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (38.69%) CI/CD
2 107 (35.08%) DevOps
3 76 (24.92%) Identity Access Management
4 71 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (22.30%) Agile
6 67 (21.97%) RBAC
7 57 (18.69%) Identity Management
8 50 (16.39%) Microservices
9 47 (15.41%) Containerisation
10 44 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (12.13%) API Management
12 35 (11.48%) AI
13 31 (10.16%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 30 (9.84%) Mentoring
15 29 (9.51%) API Design
15 29 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
17 27 (8.85%) Analytics
17 27 (8.85%) API Development
17 27 (8.85%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 67 (21.97%) Python
2 65 (21.31%) Java
3 52 (17.05%) PowerShell
4 47 (15.41%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.49%) SQL
6 25 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.57%) C#
8 15 (4.92%) Groovy
9 10 (3.28%) Bash
10 8 (2.62%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.64%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.31%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.98%) Bicep
14 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.98%) PHP
15 2 (0.66%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.66%) Go
15 2 (0.66%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.84%) Degree
4 25 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (6.89%) CISSP
6 20 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.92%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.59%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.61%) CISM
10 10 (3.28%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.97%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.98%) PhD
14 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.66%) CCSP
14 2 (0.66%) IBM Certification
15 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.43%) GDPR
2 26 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.25%) HIPAA
4 12 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.93%) NIST
5 11 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (3.28%) QA
6 10 (3.28%) SOC 2
7 8 (2.62%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.62%) WCAG
8 6 (1.97%) PSD2
9 4 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.31%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.66%) SLA
12 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 97 (31.80%) Active Directory
2 62 (20.33%) Docker
3 8 (2.62%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.33%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.33%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (31.48%) Single Sign-On
2 55 (18.03%) Terraform
3 47 (15.41%) Kubernetes
4 21 (6.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (6.23%) Ansible
6 11 (3.61%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.61%) Grafana
7 10 (3.28%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.28%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 9 (2.95%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.62%) Tivoli
10 6 (1.97%) Kibana
10 6 (1.97%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.98%) SCCM
12 2 (0.66%) Argo
12 2 (0.66%) CloudHub
12 2 (0.66%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.66%) Puppet
13 1 (0.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 111 (36.39%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.18%) IBM
3 25 (8.20%) Splunk
4 24 (7.87%) Oracle
5 20 (6.56%) Ping Identity
6 17 (5.57%) CyberArk
6 17 (5.57%) ForgeRock
6 17 (5.57%) Google
7 15 (4.92%) OpenAI
8 14 (4.59%) Salesforce
9 13 (4.26%) Okta
10 12 (3.93%) MuleSoft
11 11 (3.61%) AppDynamics
11 11 (3.61%) Broadcom
12 10 (3.28%) ServiceNow
13 9 (2.95%) SAP
14 8 (2.62%) Alibaba
14 8 (2.62%) Axway
14 8 (2.62%) VMware
15 6 (1.97%) Databricks