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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 371 371
Rank change year-on-year +119 0 +75
Contract jobs citing OAuth 342 123 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.46% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.85% 2.08% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 83 141
10th Percentile £358 £409 £425
25th Percentile £413 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -9.24%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £674
90th Percentile £680 £698 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £55.10 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £72.31 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - -

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 7,048 5,926 7,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.14% 21.99% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,723 3,793 5,554
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 70 168
10th Percentile £32.31 £26.25 £29.36
25th Percentile £44.01 £44.17 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £75.10 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +78 174 £513 -9.49% 85
North of England +13 72 £423 -19.52% 37
North West +22 48 £402 -19.60% 22
South West +20 36 £565 +25.56% 29
Midlands -24 27 £525 -8.70% 12
West Midlands -20 24 £531 -7.61% 3
Yorkshire -30 24 £475 -26.92% 11
South East -21 22 £500 -23.08% 77
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 9
East of England -19 2 £500 -33.33% 31
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 21 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.68%) Apache
2 16 (4.68%) Confluence
3 11 (3.22%) IIS
3 11 (3.22%) JBoss
3 11 (3.22%) WebSphere
4 10 (2.92%) iPlanet
4 10 (2.92%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (1.75%) nginx
6 5 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.17%) Appian
8 3 (0.88%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.58%) CICS
9 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 154 (45.03%) Azure
2 118 (34.50%) AWS
3 76 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 61 (17.84%) GitHub
5 43 (12.57%) Serverless
6 41 (11.99%) GCP
7 34 (9.94%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (7.89%) SaaS
12 26 (7.60%) Apigee
13 22 (6.43%) Amazon S3
14 21 (6.14%) Power Platform
15 20 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
16 18 (5.26%) PaaS
17 16 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (4.39%) OCI
18 15 (4.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (11.70%) Kerberos
2 26 (7.60%) DNS
3 18 (5.26%) HTTPS
4 17 (4.97%) Firewall
5 16 (4.68%) HTTP
6 15 (4.39%) SSL
7 6 (1.75%) DHCP
8 5 (1.46%) SSH
9 4 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.17%) VPN
10 3 (0.88%) Internet
10 3 (0.88%) Network Security
11 2 (0.58%) Extranet
11 2 (0.58%) RFID
11 2 (0.58%) S/MIME
11 2 (0.58%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.29%) IPsec
12 1 (0.29%) SMS
12 1 (0.29%) SMTP
12 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.09%) DynamoDB
4 14 (4.09%) Oracle Database
5 12 (3.51%) Redis
5 12 (3.51%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.92%) MySQL
7 9 (2.63%) Power BI
8 7 (2.05%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.75%) Metadata
9 6 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.17%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.17%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.88%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 41 (11.99%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.40%) Git
3 28 (8.19%) JIRA
4 19 (5.56%) Postman
5 18 (5.26%) GitLab
6 11 (3.22%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.22%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.34%) Xcode
9 7 (2.05%) Gradle
9 7 (2.05%) Maven
9 7 (2.05%) Storybook
10 6 (1.75%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.75%) JUnit
10 6 (1.75%) Selenium
11 5 (1.46%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.46%) Mockito
11 5 (1.46%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.17%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 70 (20.47%) Finance
3 39 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.77%) Banking
4 30 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.43%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.05%) Marketing
8 5 (1.46%) Digital Healthcare
8 5 (1.46%) Publishing
9 4 (1.17%) Legal
9 4 (1.17%) Military
10 3 (0.88%) Games
10 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Billing
11 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.58%) Retail
11 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.29%) Electronics
12 1 (0.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 95 (27.78%) Developer
2 52 (15.20%) Architect
3 38 (11.11%) Senior
4 19 (5.56%) Lead
5 18 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.09%) Analyst
7 14 (4.09%) Integration Engineer
7 14 (4.09%) Java Developer
8 11 (3.22%) Consultant
9 10 (2.92%) Business Analyst
9 10 (2.92%) React Developer
9 10 (2.92%) Senior Developer
9 10 (2.92%) Software Engineer
10 9 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 9 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (2.63%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (2.05%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (45.61%) OAuth2
2 144 (42.11%) SAML
3 134 (39.18%) OpenID
4 98 (28.65%) REST
5 69 (20.18%) JSON
6 68 (19.88%) JWT
7 57 (16.67%) RESTful
8 51 (14.91%) SOAP
9 49 (14.33%) LDAP
10 47 (13.74%) XML
11 36 (10.53%) Spring
12 34 (9.94%) HTML
12 34 (9.94%) Spring Boot
13 32 (9.36%) Node.js
14 29 (8.48%) GraphQL
15 28 (8.19%) React
16 26 (7.60%) .NET
17 22 (6.43%) Kafka
18 20 (5.85%) Swagger
19 19 (5.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.36%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.97%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.68%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (4.68%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.80%) Replication
7 11 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.22%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.92%) PKI
9 9 (2.63%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.46%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.46%) Mobile Banking
12 4 (1.17%) BYOD
12 4 (1.17%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.17%) Taxonomies
13 3 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.87%) Windows
2 32 (9.36%) Windows Server
3 30 (8.77%) Linux
4 13 (3.80%) Android
4 13 (3.80%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.34%) Unix
6 5 (1.46%) AIX
6 5 (1.46%) Solaris
7 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.58%) zOS
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (39.77%) CI/CD
2 118 (34.50%) DevOps
3 74 (21.64%) Microservices
4 71 (20.76%) Identity Access Management
5 70 (20.47%) Agile
6 64 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (17.25%) RBAC
8 49 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (13.74%) Identity Management
10 46 (13.45%) API Management
11 43 (12.57%) AI
11 43 (12.57%) Containerisation
12 42 (12.28%) Event-Driven
12 42 (12.28%) Test Automation
13 37 (10.82%) Computer Science
14 35 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 35 (10.23%) Validation
15 34 (9.94%) Observability
16 31 (9.06%) API Design
16 31 (9.06%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 85 (24.85%) Python
2 72 (21.05%) Java
3 58 (16.96%) PowerShell
4 56 (16.37%) JavaScript
5 43 (12.57%) SQL
6 34 (9.94%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.73%) C#
8 15 (4.39%) Groovy
9 10 (2.92%) Bash
10 8 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.05%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.17%) Bicep
12 4 (1.17%) Go
12 4 (1.17%) PHP
13 2 (0.58%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.58%) C++
13 2 (0.58%) Swift
14 1 (0.29%) COBOL
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (24.85%) Security Cleared
2 59 (17.25%) SC Cleared
3 40 (11.70%) Degree
4 32 (9.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (6.43%) DV Cleared
7 20 (5.85%) CISSP
8 10 (2.92%) CISM
9 9 (2.63%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.46%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.46%) MCP
12 3 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.88%) PhD
13 2 (0.58%) CCSP
14 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.16%) GDPR
2 31 (9.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.97%) NIST
4 15 (4.39%) PCI DSS
5 14 (4.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (3.80%) Accessibility
6 13 (3.80%) QA
7 12 (3.51%) SOC 2
8 10 (2.92%) WCAG
9 8 (2.34%) Data Quality
9 8 (2.34%) HIPAA
9 8 (2.34%) PSD2
10 3 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.88%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.58%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.58%) SEPA
11 2 (0.58%) SLA
12 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 92 (26.90%) Active Directory
2 66 (19.30%) Docker
3 8 (2.34%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.58%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.58%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.58%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) RACF
6 1 (0.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 91 (26.61%) Single Sign-On
2 58 (16.96%) Terraform
3 49 (14.33%) Kubernetes
4 35 (10.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (5.56%) Ansible
6 13 (3.80%) Grafana
7 11 (3.22%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.92%) CA Wily
9 9 (2.63%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.34%) Tivoli
11 5 (1.46%) Kibana
11 5 (1.46%) Prometheus
12 4 (1.17%) Argo
12 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.88%) SCCM
14 2 (0.58%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.58%) Puppet
15 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
15 1 (0.29%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.29%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 115 (33.63%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.36%) Oracle
3 25 (7.31%) Google
3 25 (7.31%) Splunk
4 19 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 17 (4.97%) CyberArk
6 16 (4.68%) IBM
6 16 (4.68%) Okta
7 15 (4.39%) ForgeRock
8 13 (3.80%) MuleSoft
9 12 (3.51%) Ping Identity
9 12 (3.51%) Salesforce
10 11 (3.22%) AppDynamics
10 11 (3.22%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.22%) SAP
10 11 (3.22%) VMware
11 8 (2.34%) Axway
11 8 (2.34%) ServiceNow
12 7 (2.05%) Adobe
12 7 (2.05%) BeyondTrust