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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 307 393
Rank change year-on-year +13 +86 -25
Contract jobs citing OAuth 380 207 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.75% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.49% 3.38% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 136 90
10th Percentile £413 £358 £461
25th Percentile £484 £412 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £668 £600 £670
90th Percentile £750 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 0
10th Percentile £37.75 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £84.34 £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 8,454 6,126 7,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.17% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,206 5,037
10th Percentile £363 £350 £358
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 152 226
10th Percentile £28.72 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £46.39 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -8 191 £575 +4.55% 130
South East -9 76 £513 +7.89% 24
North of England -37 74 £625 +33.26% 17
Yorkshire -24 35 £610 +38.95% 6
North West -25 35 £625 +31.58% 9
South West -30 12 £550 +1.85% 15
East of England -13 10 £558 +11.50% 2
Midlands -65 9 £519 +24.94% 7
West Midlands -53 7 £619 +45.65% 6
North East - 5 £563 - 2
East Midlands -23 2 £401 -2.79% 1
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 15 (3.95%) Confluence
1 15 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.84%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.32%) Mule
5 3 (0.79%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.53%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 215 (56.58%) Azure
2 150 (39.47%) AWS
3 113 (29.74%) Entra ID
4 90 (23.68%) GCP
5 48 (12.63%) GitHub
6 39 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (10.00%) Serverless
8 35 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (8.95%) SaaS
10 25 (6.58%) Azure AKS
10 25 (6.58%) Azure API Management
11 21 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (5.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (4.74%) Apigee
14 17 (4.47%) Azure Key Vault
15 15 (3.95%) Amazon S3
15 15 (3.95%) Boomi
15 15 (3.95%) Kong
16 12 (3.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.74%) DNS
2 15 (3.95%) Kerberos
3 13 (3.42%) HTTP
4 11 (2.89%) SSL
5 10 (2.63%) Firewall
6 7 (1.84%) DKIM
6 7 (1.84%) DMARC
7 5 (1.32%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.05%) Network Security
8 4 (1.05%) NGFW
9 2 (0.53%) DHCP
9 2 (0.53%) IPsec
9 2 (0.53%) SSH
9 2 (0.53%) VPN
9 2 (0.53%) X.509
10 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.16%) Relational Database
2 26 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.53%) SQL Server
4 17 (4.47%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.95%) Redis
6 13 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.16%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.63%) MySQL
9 9 (2.37%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.11%) Metadata
11 6 (1.58%) Power BI
11 6 (1.58%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.32%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.32%) Hazelcast
13 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (12.63%) Git
2 26 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.53%) GitLab
3 21 (5.53%) JIRA
4 10 (2.63%) Browser DevTools
5 8 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.84%) git-flow
7 6 (1.58%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.58%) Gradle
7 6 (1.58%) Maven
7 6 (1.58%) Postman
7 6 (1.58%) Storybook
8 4 (1.05%) Snyk
9 3 (0.79%) Fiddler
9 3 (0.79%) JMeter
10 2 (0.53%) JUnit
10 2 (0.53%) Mockito
10 2 (0.53%) Moq
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 87 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.74%) Finance
3 55 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.95%) Banking
5 30 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.68%) Retail
8 11 (2.89%) Military
9 10 (2.63%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.11%) Legal
11 5 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.05%) Publishing
13 3 (0.79%) 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
1 103 (27.11%) Developer
2 96 (25.26%) Architect
3 48 (12.63%) Senior
4 32 (8.42%) Lead
5 26 (6.84%) Java Developer
6 25 (6.58%) Technical Architect
7 22 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.74%) Senior Developer
9 16 (4.21%) IAM Specialist
10 13 (3.42%) Consultant
10 13 (3.42%) Security Architect
11 12 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (3.16%) Integration Architect
11 12 (3.16%) Technical Leader
12 9 (2.37%) IAM Developer
12 9 (2.37%) Lead Architect
12 9 (2.37%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (2.11%) Backend Developer
13 8 (2.11%) Low-Code Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (53.42%) OAuth2
2 191 (50.26%) OpenID
3 152 (40.00%) SAML
4 134 (35.26%) REST
5 82 (21.58%) JWT
6 66 (17.37%) SOAP
7 57 (15.00%) RESTful
8 54 (14.21%) LDAP
9 49 (12.89%) JSON
10 41 (10.79%) Kafka
11 38 (10.00%) React
12 36 (9.47%) SailPoint
13 35 (9.21%) .NET
13 35 (9.21%) CSS
14 32 (8.42%) Spring
14 32 (8.42%) XML
15 28 (7.37%) HTML
16 27 (7.11%) Spring Boot
17 26 (6.84%) Middleware
18 25 (6.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 75 (19.74%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.74%) Onboarding
3 34 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (7.63%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (6.58%) Product Ownership
6 20 (5.26%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.21%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.95%) PKI
9 13 (3.42%) CMDB
9 13 (3.42%) Mobile App
10 9 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.37%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.84%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.58%) Freedom of Information
13 5 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.11%) Linux
1 8 (2.11%) Windows
2 6 (1.58%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.32%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.05%) Android
4 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) CentOS
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (40.26%) CI/CD
2 137 (36.05%) DevOps
3 99 (26.05%) Microservices
4 92 (24.21%) Agile
5 79 (20.79%) Identity Access Management
6 72 (18.95%) Containerisation
7 70 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (18.16%) Event-Driven
9 59 (15.53%) AI
9 59 (15.53%) RBAC
10 56 (14.74%) Test Automation
11 51 (13.42%) Integration Patterns
12 49 (12.89%) API Management
13 47 (12.37%) API Integration
13 47 (12.37%) Mentoring
13 47 (12.37%) Zero Trust
14 45 (11.84%) Technical Leadership
15 43 (11.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 43 (11.32%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 88 (23.16%) Java
2 84 (22.11%) Python
3 74 (19.47%) JavaScript
4 68 (17.89%) SQL
5 55 (14.47%) PowerShell
6 37 (9.74%) TypeScript
7 35 (9.21%) C#
8 23 (6.05%) Bicep
9 11 (2.89%) Bash
10 8 (2.11%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.05%) Groovy
13 3 (0.79%) PHP
14 2 (0.53%) Go
14 2 (0.53%) PromQL
14 2 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.53%) Swift
15 1 (0.26%) C++
15 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 77 (20.26%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.00%) Degree
4 23 (6.05%) CISSP
5 21 (5.53%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.95%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.89%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.63%) CISM
11 8 (2.11%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.32%) CSPO
13 5 (1.32%) GIAC
14 3 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.79%) MCSE
14 3 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.16%) NIST
2 30 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (7.63%) GDPR
4 23 (6.05%) QA
5 8 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.84%) NCSC
7 6 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.32%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.53%) HL7
10 2 (0.53%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.26%) PMO
11 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (23.16%) Active Directory
2 75 (19.74%) Docker
3 3 (0.79%) OpenAM
3 3 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.26%) RACF
4 1 (0.26%) Squid
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 78 (20.53%) Terraform
3 57 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (6.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (5.53%) Grafana
6 19 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.42%) Ansible
8 7 (1.84%) Argo
9 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.32%) Istio
10 5 (1.32%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.05%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.05%) linkerd
11 4 (1.05%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.79%) WMI
13 2 (0.53%) Consul
13 2 (0.53%) Zipkin
14 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (28.16%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.21%) Oracle
3 34 (8.95%) ServiceNow
4 33 (8.68%) Google
5 25 (6.58%) Okta
6 24 (6.32%) MuleSoft
7 15 (3.95%) CyberArk
7 15 (3.95%) Ping Identity
7 15 (3.95%) SAP
8 13 (3.42%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.63%) Workday
10 9 (2.37%) ForgeRock
11 8 (2.11%) IBM
11 8 (2.11%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.84%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.58%) Informatica
14 5 (1.32%) Denodo
14 5 (1.32%) TIBCO
14 5 (1.32%) WSO2
14 5 (1.32%) Zscaler