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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 293 400
Rank change year-on-year +18 +107 -35
Contract jobs citing OAuth 432 238 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.86% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.42% 3.39% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 157 87
10th Percentile £412 £360 £470
25th Percentile £459 £406 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -22.45% +2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £675
90th Percentile £750 £654 £722
UK median daily rate £555 £492 £600
% change year-on-year +12.80% -18.00% +3.00%
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 9,779 7,022 8,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.46% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,428 4,778 5,448
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £667
90th Percentile £738 £749 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 168 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -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% -1.44%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -10 213 £563 +8.95% 291
South East +2 75 £500 +2.56% 59
North of England -38 73 £575 +32.03% 37
Yorkshire -4 44 £565 +38.14% 14
Midlands -44 27 £464 +11.71% 18
North West -58 26 £625 +40.13% 19
West Midlands -34 22 £525 -6.71% 17
South West -33 17 £550 +9.45% 19
East of England -14 16 £553 +10.50% 15
East Midlands -24 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 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.01%) Confluence
2 13 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.39%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.16%) Mule
5 3 (0.69%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.46%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (56.71%) Azure
2 180 (41.67%) AWS
3 119 (27.55%) Entra ID
4 102 (23.61%) GCP
5 57 (13.19%) GitHub
6 43 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (9.95%) Serverless
7 41 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (8.33%) SaaS
9 28 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
10 27 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
11 24 (5.56%) Boomi
12 23 (5.32%) Azure API Management
13 19 (4.40%) Azure AKS
13 19 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (4.17%) Kong
15 16 (3.70%) Apigee
16 14 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
16 14 (3.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.63%) DNS
2 19 (4.40%) Kerberos
3 12 (2.78%) Firewall
3 12 (2.78%) HTTP
3 12 (2.78%) SSL
4 7 (1.62%) DKIM
4 7 (1.62%) DMARC
5 6 (1.39%) NGFW
5 6 (1.39%) X.509
6 5 (1.16%) DHCP
6 5 (1.16%) IPsec
6 5 (1.16%) Network Security
7 3 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.46%) SSH
8 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.46%) VPN
9 1 (0.23%) DMZ
9 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.23%) Internet
9 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.56%) Relational Database
3 30 (6.94%) NoSQL
4 29 (6.71%) SQL Server
5 18 (4.17%) MySQL
6 17 (3.94%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.94%) Redis
7 11 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.55%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.08%) Metadata
9 8 (1.85%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.62%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.39%) Power BI
12 5 (1.16%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.16%) Hazelcast
12 5 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.93%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 64 (14.81%) Git
2 30 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.02%) GitLab
4 22 (5.09%) JIRA
5 14 (3.24%) Maven
6 11 (2.55%) Storybook
7 10 (2.31%) JUnit
8 8 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.85%) Mockito
9 7 (1.62%) Browser DevTools
9 7 (1.62%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.62%) Gradle
10 5 (1.16%) git-flow
11 4 (0.93%) Postman
11 4 (0.93%) Selenium
11 4 (0.93%) Snyk
12 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.46%) Mocha
13 2 (0.46%) MSTest
13 2 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
General
1 111 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 87 (20.14%) Finance
3 58 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 36 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (8.10%) Banking
6 22 (5.09%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.78%) Retail
8 11 (2.55%) Military
9 9 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.85%) Legal
11 7 (1.62%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.93%) Publishing
14 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.46%) Automotive
15 2 (0.46%) Law
15 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (28.70%) Developer
2 100 (23.15%) Architect
3 51 (11.81%) Senior
4 34 (7.87%) Java Developer
4 34 (7.87%) Lead
5 30 (6.94%) Technical Architect
6 24 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (4.40%) Consultant
8 19 (4.40%) Senior Developer
9 15 (3.47%) IAM Specialist
9 15 (3.47%) Technical Leader
10 13 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.01%) Security Architect
11 12 (2.78%) Azure Developer
11 12 (2.78%) IAM Developer
12 11 (2.55%) Backend Developer
13 10 (2.31%) Integration Architect
13 10 (2.31%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (2.31%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (53.24%) OAuth2
2 222 (51.39%) OpenID
3 161 (37.27%) REST
3 161 (37.27%) SAML
4 97 (22.45%) JWT
5 94 (21.76%) Terraform
6 70 (16.20%) SOAP
7 64 (14.81%) RESTful
8 58 (13.43%) React
9 57 (13.19%) JSON
10 54 (12.50%) LDAP
11 52 (12.04%) CSS
12 46 (10.65%) Kafka
13 45 (10.42%) Swagger
14 44 (10.19%) .NET
14 44 (10.19%) HTML
15 43 (9.95%) OpenAPI
16 41 (9.49%) Node.js
17 37 (8.56%) Middleware
18 36 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (21.06%) Cloud Native
2 42 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (8.80%) Onboarding
4 34 (7.87%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (7.87%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.40%) Security Posture
6 16 (3.70%) PKI
7 15 (3.47%) CMDB
7 15 (3.47%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.78%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.08%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.39%) Freedom of Information
13 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.16%) Replication
14 4 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.55%) Windows
2 10 (2.31%) Linux
3 8 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.16%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.46%) Android
5 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 152 (35.19%) DevOps
3 124 (28.70%) Microservices
4 118 (27.31%) Agile
5 96 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
6 88 (20.37%) Event-Driven
7 81 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 76 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (17.13%) Containerisation
10 70 (16.20%) Test Automation
11 63 (14.58%) AI
11 63 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 62 (14.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 62 (14.35%) RBAC
13 61 (14.12%) Technical Leadership
14 59 (13.66%) Observability
15 56 (12.96%) API Management
15 56 (12.96%) Mentoring
16 54 (12.50%) Software Engineering
17 53 (12.27%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 116 (26.85%) Java
2 107 (24.77%) Python
3 92 (21.30%) JavaScript
4 78 (18.06%) SQL
5 65 (15.05%) PowerShell
6 56 (12.96%) TypeScript
7 39 (9.03%) C#
8 30 (6.94%) Bicep
9 8 (1.85%) Bash
9 8 (1.85%) Go
10 5 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.69%) Groovy
11 3 (0.69%) PHP
12 2 (0.46%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.46%) PromQL
12 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.23%) C++
13 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 86 (19.91%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.72%) Degree
4 22 (5.09%) Azure Certification
4 22 (5.09%) CISSP
5 20 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.47%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.55%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.08%) CISM
9 9 (2.08%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.16%) CSPO
10 5 (1.16%) MCSE
11 3 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.69%) GIAC
11 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 33 (7.64%) NIST
2 28 (6.48%) GDPR
2 28 (6.48%) QA
3 14 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.85%) NCSC
5 8 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.62%) WCAG
7 5 (1.16%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.93%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.69%) SEPA
10 2 (0.46%) HL7
10 2 (0.46%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.46%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.46%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.46%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 97 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 79 (18.29%) Docker
3 6 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.69%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 103 (23.84%) Kubernetes
2 69 (15.97%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 24 (5.56%) Grafana
4 20 (4.63%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.78%) Ansible
6 10 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.62%) Argo
8 5 (1.16%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.93%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.69%) Kibana
10 3 (0.69%) WMI
11 2 (0.46%) Consul
11 2 (0.46%) Istio
11 2 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.46%) SCOM
11 2 (0.46%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.46%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.23%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 129 (29.86%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.42%) Oracle
3 42 (9.72%) Google
4 35 (8.10%) ServiceNow
5 29 (6.71%) Okta
6 27 (6.25%) MuleSoft
7 18 (4.17%) CyberArk
8 17 (3.94%) Salesforce
9 16 (3.70%) Ping Identity
10 15 (3.47%) SAP
11 12 (2.78%) Databricks
11 12 (2.78%) IBM
12 10 (2.31%) Informatica
12 10 (2.31%) OpenAI
13 9 (2.08%) TIBCO
13 9 (2.08%) Workday
13 9 (2.08%) WSO2
14 8 (1.85%) ForgeRock
14 8 (1.85%) OutSystems
15 7 (1.62%) Dell