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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 286 400
Rank change year-on-year +23 +114 -34
Contract jobs citing OAuth 447 243 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.88% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.51% 3.45% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 161 86
10th Percentile £412 £360 £469
25th Percentile £455 £406 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -22.45% +2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £582 £675
90th Percentile £750 £663 £723
UK median daily rate £553 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.50% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 0
10th Percentile £38.75 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.54 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.56 - -
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 9,915 7,035 7,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.30% 25.48% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,512 4,783 5,317
10th Percentile £381 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £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 279 168 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.88 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -6 222 £569 +8.43% 234
South East +3 76 £500 +2.56% 51
North of England -47 76 £570 +27.80% 36
Yorkshire -9 46 £563 +27.26% 13
Midlands -47 27 £464 +11.71% 18
North West -57 27 £625 +40.13% 19
West Midlands -28 22 £525 -6.71% 17
South West -30 18 £550 +9.45% 17
East of England -15 17 £550 +10.00% 14
East Midlands -29 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 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.91%) Confluence
2 13 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.34%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.12%) Apache
4 5 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.12%) Mule
5 3 (0.67%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
6 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
1 256 (57.27%) Azure
2 184 (41.16%) AWS
3 126 (28.19%) Entra ID
4 106 (23.71%) GCP
5 60 (13.42%) GitHub
6 44 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (9.62%) Serverless
8 41 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (8.05%) SaaS
10 28 (6.26%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (6.04%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (5.37%) Boomi
13 23 (5.15%) Azure API Management
14 19 (4.25%) Azure AKS
14 19 (4.25%) Azure Key Vault
14 19 (4.25%) Kong
14 19 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (3.80%) Apigee
16 16 (3.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 14 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.92%) DNS
2 20 (4.47%) Kerberos
3 13 (2.91%) Firewall
3 13 (2.91%) SSL
4 12 (2.68%) HTTP
5 7 (1.57%) DKIM
5 7 (1.57%) 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 41 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (8.50%) Relational Database
3 30 (6.71%) NoSQL
4 29 (6.49%) SQL Server
5 20 (4.47%) MySQL
6 18 (4.03%) Redis
7 17 (3.80%) 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 (1.57%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.34%) Power BI
13 5 (1.12%) Data Vault
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 65 (14.54%) Git
2 31 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.04%) GitLab
4 22 (4.92%) JIRA
5 14 (3.13%) Maven
6 11 (2.46%) Storybook
7 10 (2.24%) JUnit
8 8 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.79%) Mockito
9 7 (1.57%) Browser DevTools
9 7 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.57%) 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
1 114 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.91%) Finance
3 58 (12.98%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.72%) Banking
5 22 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.68%) Retail
7 11 (2.46%) Military
8 10 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.79%) Legal
10 5 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.89%) Publishing
12 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.45%) Automotive
13 2 (0.45%) Law
13 2 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 130 (29.08%) Developer
2 100 (22.37%) Architect
3 53 (11.86%) Senior
4 37 (8.28%) Java Developer
5 34 (7.61%) Lead
6 30 (6.71%) Technical Architect
7 24 (5.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (4.25%) Consultant
9 19 (4.25%) Senior Developer
10 15 (3.36%) IAM Specialist
10 15 (3.36%) Technical Leader
11 13 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (2.91%) Security Architect
12 12 (2.68%) Azure Developer
12 12 (2.68%) IAM Developer
13 11 (2.46%) Backend Developer
14 10 (2.24%) Java Engineer
14 10 (2.24%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (2.24%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (53.02%) OAuth2
2 230 (51.45%) OpenID
3 166 (37.14%) SAML
4 164 (36.69%) REST
5 102 (22.82%) JWT
5 102 (22.82%) Terraform
6 70 (15.66%) SOAP
7 67 (14.99%) RESTful
8 60 (13.42%) React
9 58 (12.98%) JSON
10 55 (12.30%) LDAP
11 52 (11.63%) CSS
12 51 (11.41%) Kafka
13 46 (10.29%) Swagger
14 44 (9.84%) .NET
14 44 (9.84%) HTML
14 44 (9.84%) OpenAPI
15 43 (9.62%) Node.js
16 40 (8.95%) Spring
17 39 (8.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 97 (21.70%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (8.50%) Onboarding
4 36 (8.05%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (7.61%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.25%) Security Posture
7 18 (4.03%) PKI
8 15 (3.36%) CMDB
8 15 (3.36%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.68%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.01%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.57%) Replication
12 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.34%) Freedom of Information
14 5 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 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
1 189 (42.28%) CI/CD
2 156 (34.90%) DevOps
3 132 (29.53%) Microservices
4 122 (27.29%) Agile
5 101 (22.60%) Identity Access Management
6 92 (20.58%) Event-Driven
7 84 (18.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 78 (17.45%) Test Automation
9 77 (17.23%) Containerisation
9 77 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (14.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 64 (14.32%) AI
11 64 (14.32%) RBAC
12 63 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 62 (13.87%) Observability
13 62 (13.87%) Technical Leadership
14 57 (12.75%) API Management
14 57 (12.75%) Software Engineering
15 56 (12.53%) Mentoring
16 53 (11.86%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 123 (27.52%) Java
2 110 (24.61%) Python
3 94 (21.03%) JavaScript
4 79 (17.67%) SQL
5 68 (15.21%) PowerShell
6 57 (12.75%) TypeScript
7 41 (9.17%) C#
8 30 (6.71%) Bicep
9 12 (2.68%) Go
10 8 (1.79%) Bash
11 5 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.67%) Groovy
12 3 (0.67%) PHP
13 2 (0.45%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.45%) C++
13 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.45%) Lua
13 2 (0.45%) PromQL
13 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 114 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 86 (19.24%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.84%) Degree
4 22 (4.92%) Azure Certification
4 22 (4.92%) CISSP
5 21 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (3.36%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.91%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.01%) CISM
10 9 (2.01%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.12%) CSPO
11 5 (1.12%) MCSE
12 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.67%) GIAC
14 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (7.38%) NIST
3 28 (6.26%) GDPR
3 28 (6.26%) QA
4 14 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.46%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.79%) NCSC
6 8 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.57%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.57%) 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%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.45%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 100 (22.37%) Active Directory
2 83 (18.57%) 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
1 112 (25.06%) Kubernetes
2 72 (16.11%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (5.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (5.59%) Grafana
4 21 (4.70%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.91%) Ansible
6 10 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.79%) Argo
8 5 (1.12%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.89%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.67%) Kibana
10 3 (0.67%) WMI
11 2 (0.45%) Consul
11 2 (0.45%) Istio
11 2 (0.45%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.45%) Puppet
11 2 (0.45%) SCOM
11 2 (0.45%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 135 (30.20%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.07%) Oracle
3 44 (9.84%) Google
4 38 (8.50%) ServiceNow
5 31 (6.94%) Okta
6 28 (6.26%) MuleSoft
7 18 (4.03%) CyberArk
7 18 (4.03%) Ping Identity
8 17 (3.80%) Salesforce
9 15 (3.36%) SAP
10 12 (2.68%) Databricks
10 12 (2.68%) IBM
11 10 (2.24%) Informatica
11 10 (2.24%) OpenAI
12 9 (2.01%) TIBCO
12 9 (2.01%) Workday
12 9 (2.01%) WSO2
13 8 (1.79%) ForgeRock
13 8 (1.79%) OutSystems
14 7 (1.57%) Dell