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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 327 393
Rank change year-on-year +30 +66 -11
Contract jobs citing OAuth 377 196 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.71% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.42% 3.20% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 127 89
10th Percentile £407 £366 £460
25th Percentile £470 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -13.58% -
75th Percentile £668 £603 £672
90th Percentile £751 £676 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £36.75 - -
25th Percentile £48.75 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.54 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
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 8,530 6,125 7,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.21% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,592 4,224 5,184
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £809
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 139 235
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -16.00%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +4 190 £560 +1.82% 74
North of England -33 74 £625 +31.16% 9
South East -15 73 £525 -2.33% 21
North West -25 37 £625 +27.03% 5
Yorkshire -27 33 £620 +41.23% 5
Midlands -56 12 £438 +5.42% 5
South West -31 11 £550 +1.85% 7
East of England -18 10 £558 +11.50% 6
West Midlands -46 9 £531 -11.94% 5
North East - 6 £563 -
East Midlands -26 3 £402 -3.13%
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 17 (4.51%) Confluence
2 15 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.06%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.80%) Appian
6 3 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.53%) Mule
8 1 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) NetSuite
1 4 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.53%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 213 (56.50%) Azure
2 156 (41.38%) AWS
3 112 (29.71%) Entra ID
4 81 (21.49%) GCP
5 46 (12.20%) Serverless
6 40 (10.61%) GitHub
7 39 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (9.02%) SaaS
9 30 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (7.43%) Azure AKS
11 26 (6.90%) Azure API Management
12 22 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (5.04%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (4.77%) Amazon S3
14 18 (4.77%) Apigee
14 18 (4.77%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (4.24%) Kong
16 15 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (3.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.77%) Kerberos
2 16 (4.24%) DNS
3 15 (3.98%) SSL
4 11 (2.92%) HTTP
5 10 (2.65%) Firewall
6 7 (1.86%) DKIM
6 7 (1.86%) DMARC
7 6 (1.59%) IPsec
8 5 (1.33%) Network Security
8 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.80%) NGFW
10 2 (0.53%) DHCP
10 2 (0.53%) X.509
11 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.27%) SSH
11 1 (0.27%) VPN
11 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 26 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.63%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.24%) Redis
5 14 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (3.71%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.65%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.39%) MySQL
9 8 (2.12%) Metadata
10 5 (1.33%) Data Vault
10 5 (1.33%) Power BI
10 5 (1.33%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.06%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.80%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 46 (12.20%) Git
2 24 (6.37%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.57%) JIRA
4 20 (5.31%) GitLab
5 10 (2.65%) Browser DevTools
6 7 (1.86%) git-flow
6 7 (1.86%) Postman
7 6 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.33%) Gradle
8 5 (1.33%) Maven
8 5 (1.33%) Storybook
9 4 (1.06%) MLflow
9 4 (1.06%) Snyk
10 3 (0.80%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.80%) JMeter
10 3 (0.80%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.53%) Mockito
11 2 (0.53%) Moq
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
General
1 86 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.95%) Finance
3 52 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.28%) Banking
5 27 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.71%) Retail
8 12 (3.18%) Military
9 10 (2.65%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.59%) Legal
11 5 (1.33%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.06%) Publishing
13 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.53%) Automotive
14 2 (0.53%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.53%) Law
14 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (27.59%) Developer
2 90 (23.87%) Architect
3 51 (13.53%) Senior
4 29 (7.69%) Lead
5 28 (7.43%) Technical Architect
6 25 (6.63%) Java Developer
7 23 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (4.77%) Senior Developer
9 14 (3.71%) IAM Specialist
10 13 (3.45%) Consultant
10 13 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (3.18%) Integration Architect
11 12 (3.18%) Security Architect
12 9 (2.39%) .NET Developer
12 9 (2.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (2.39%) IAM Developer
12 9 (2.39%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (2.39%) Technical Leader
13 8 (2.12%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (51.46%) OAuth2
2 188 (49.87%) OpenID
3 154 (40.85%) SAML
4 131 (34.75%) REST
5 78 (20.69%) JWT
6 64 (16.98%) SOAP
7 61 (16.18%) RESTful
8 52 (13.79%) LDAP
9 47 (12.47%) JSON
10 37 (9.81%) .NET
10 37 (9.81%) Kafka
11 36 (9.55%) React
11 36 (9.55%) SailPoint
12 34 (9.02%) CSS
13 32 (8.49%) Spring
14 31 (8.22%) Web Services
15 29 (7.69%) XML
16 27 (7.16%) HTML
16 27 (7.16%) Node.js
16 27 (7.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 72 (19.10%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.81%) Onboarding
3 34 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.84%) Product Ownership
6 21 (5.57%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.24%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.71%) Mobile App
9 12 (3.18%) CMDB
9 12 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (3.18%) Low-Code
9 12 (3.18%) PKI
10 8 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.59%) Freedom of Information
11 6 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.65%) Windows
2 8 (2.12%) Linux
3 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.06%) Android
4 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) CentOS
5 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (41.38%) CI/CD
2 139 (36.87%) DevOps
3 100 (26.53%) Microservices
4 97 (25.73%) Agile
5 75 (19.89%) Identity Access Management
6 73 (19.36%) Containerisation
6 73 (19.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 67 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (16.45%) Event-Driven
9 58 (15.38%) RBAC
10 57 (15.12%) Test Automation
11 55 (14.59%) AI
12 49 (13.00%) API Integration
13 46 (12.20%) Integration Patterns
13 46 (12.20%) Zero Trust
14 42 (11.14%) API Management
14 42 (11.14%) Mentoring
15 41 (10.88%) Data Modelling
15 41 (10.88%) Migration
15 41 (10.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 85 (22.55%) Java
2 84 (22.28%) Python
3 74 (19.63%) SQL
4 72 (19.10%) JavaScript
5 50 (13.26%) PowerShell
6 37 (9.81%) TypeScript
7 36 (9.55%) C#
8 25 (6.63%) Bicep
9 9 (2.39%) Bash
9 9 (2.39%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.33%) Go
10 5 (1.33%) Groovy
10 5 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.80%) PHP
12 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.53%) PromQL
12 2 (0.53%) Scala
12 2 (0.53%) Swift
13 1 (0.27%) C++
13 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 98 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 73 (19.36%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.81%) Degree
4 25 (6.63%) CISSP
5 20 (5.31%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.98%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.65%) CISM
8 10 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.12%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.33%) CSPO
12 5 (1.33%) GIAC
13 4 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.53%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (7.69%) NIST
3 27 (7.16%) GDPR
4 19 (5.04%) QA
5 10 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.39%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.86%) NCSC
8 6 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.33%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.33%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.53%) GRC
11 2 (0.53%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.53%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (22.55%) Active Directory
2 79 (20.95%) Docker
3 5 (1.33%) RACF
4 3 (0.80%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.27%) Squid
6 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 79 (20.95%) Kubernetes
1 79 (20.95%) Terraform
2 64 (16.98%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (6.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 23 (6.10%) Grafana
5 21 (5.57%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.45%) Ansible
7 7 (1.86%) Argo
8 6 (1.59%) Istio
8 6 (1.59%) linkerd
9 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.06%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.06%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.06%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.80%) WMI
12 2 (0.53%) Consul
12 2 (0.53%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.27%) Puppet
13 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (27.85%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.02%) Oracle
3 33 (8.75%) ServiceNow
4 27 (7.16%) Google
4 27 (7.16%) Okta
5 19 (5.04%) MuleSoft
6 16 (4.24%) CyberArk
7 15 (3.98%) Ping Identity
7 15 (3.98%) SAP
8 11 (2.92%) Workday
9 10 (2.65%) ForgeRock
9 10 (2.65%) OpenAI
9 10 (2.65%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.12%) OutSystems
11 6 (1.59%) IBM
12 5 (1.33%) Denodo
12 5 (1.33%) Splunk
12 5 (1.33%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.06%) Informatica