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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 286 405
Rank change year-on-year +3 +119 -37
Contract jobs citing OAuth 414 245 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 0.88% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.22% 3.52% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 164 84
10th Percentile £413 £360 £475
25th Percentile £465 £407 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £492 £616
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -20.16% +2.71%
75th Percentile £655 £588 £675
90th Percentile £750 £662 £715
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £606
% change year-on-year +12.00% -17.53% +1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £38.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £86.08 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.64 - -
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 9,813 6,959 8,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.08% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,443 4,755 5,537
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 162 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.39% -14.77% -1.83%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -23 204 £575 +7.08% 177
South East +3 74 £500 - 38
North of England -41 74 £625 +47.93% 25
Yorkshire -12 40 £575 +40.59% 11
North West -58 31 £625 +47.06% 12
Midlands -45 22 £464 +11.71% 13
West Midlands -39 17 £575 +2.22% 12
South West -37 16 £550 +9.45% 15
East of England -10 14 £555 +11.00% 12
East Midlands -25 5 £401 -2.20% 1
North East - 4 £600 - 2
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 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.14%) Confluence
2 13 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.69%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.21%) Mule
5 3 (0.72%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.45%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.48%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 237 (57.25%) Azure
2 173 (41.79%) AWS
3 119 (28.74%) Entra ID
4 97 (23.43%) GCP
5 56 (13.53%) GitHub
6 43 (10.39%) Serverless
7 41 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (8.45%) SaaS
10 25 (6.04%) Azure Service Bus
11 23 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
12 22 (5.31%) Azure API Management
13 21 (5.07%) Boomi
14 18 (4.35%) Azure AKS
14 18 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (3.86%) Apigee
15 16 (3.86%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
16 14 (3.38%) Kong
17 13 (3.14%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.83%) DNS
1 20 (4.83%) Kerberos
2 12 (2.90%) SSL
3 11 (2.66%) Firewall
3 11 (2.66%) HTTP
4 7 (1.69%) DKIM
4 7 (1.69%) DMARC
5 5 (1.21%) DHCP
5 5 (1.21%) NGFW
5 5 (1.21%) X.509
6 4 (0.97%) IPsec
6 4 (0.97%) Network Security
7 2 (0.48%) SSH
7 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.48%) VPN
8 1 (0.24%) DMZ
8 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.24%) Internet
8 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.94%) Relational Database
3 29 (7.00%) NoSQL
3 29 (7.00%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.35%) MySQL
5 17 (4.11%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.11%) Redis
6 11 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.17%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.93%) Metadata
9 7 (1.69%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.45%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.45%) Power BI
10 6 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.21%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.21%) Hazelcast
12 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 55 (13.29%) Git
2 30 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.28%) GitLab
4 20 (4.83%) JIRA
5 12 (2.90%) Maven
6 9 (2.17%) Storybook
7 8 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.93%) JUnit
8 7 (1.69%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.69%) Gradle
9 6 (1.45%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.45%) Mockito
10 5 (1.21%) git-flow
11 4 (0.97%) Selenium
11 4 (0.97%) Snyk
12 3 (0.72%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.48%) Mocha
13 2 (0.48%) MSTest
13 2 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
General
1 105 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 84 (20.29%) Finance
3 56 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.97%) Banking
5 32 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.07%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.90%) Retail
8 11 (2.66%) Military
9 9 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.93%) Legal
11 7 (1.69%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.97%) Publishing
14 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.48%) Automotive
15 2 (0.48%) Law
15 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 118 (28.50%) Developer
2 103 (24.88%) Architect
3 52 (12.56%) Senior
4 33 (7.97%) Java Developer
4 33 (7.97%) Lead
5 30 (7.25%) Technical Architect
6 24 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (4.59%) Senior Developer
9 17 (4.11%) Consultant
10 15 (3.62%) IAM Specialist
11 14 (3.38%) Technical Leader
12 13 (3.14%) Security Architect
13 12 (2.90%) Azure Developer
13 12 (2.90%) Backend Developer
14 11 (2.66%) IAM Developer
15 10 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (2.42%) Integration Architect
15 10 (2.42%) Senior Java Developer
16 9 (2.17%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (52.42%) OAuth2
2 209 (50.48%) OpenID
3 160 (38.65%) SAML
4 156 (37.68%) REST
5 88 (21.26%) JWT
6 84 (20.29%) Terraform
7 69 (16.67%) SOAP
8 60 (14.49%) RESTful
9 57 (13.77%) LDAP
10 55 (13.29%) JSON
11 52 (12.56%) React
12 50 (12.08%) CSS
13 46 (11.11%) Kafka
14 45 (10.87%) .NET
15 42 (10.14%) HTML
16 38 (9.18%) Swagger
17 36 (8.70%) GraphQL
17 36 (8.70%) OpenAPI
17 36 (8.70%) Spring
18 35 (8.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.05%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 33 (7.97%) Product Ownership
5 32 (7.73%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (4.83%) Security Posture
7 16 (3.86%) PKI
8 15 (3.62%) Management Information System
9 14 (3.38%) CMDB
10 11 (2.66%) AI Agents
11 9 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.93%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.45%) Freedom of Information
14 6 (1.45%) Mobile App
15 5 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (1.21%) Replication
15 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.66%) Windows
2 8 (1.93%) Linux
2 8 (1.93%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.21%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.48%) Android
4 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) CentOS
5 1 (0.24%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (40.82%) CI/CD
2 142 (34.30%) DevOps
3 117 (28.26%) Microservices
4 109 (26.33%) Agile
5 94 (22.71%) Identity Access Management
6 87 (21.01%) Event-Driven
7 75 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (17.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (17.39%) Containerisation
10 63 (15.22%) AI
11 62 (14.98%) Test Automation
12 61 (14.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 60 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
14 59 (14.25%) Technical Leadership
15 55 (13.29%) Mentoring
16 54 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
17 53 (12.80%) API Management
17 53 (12.80%) RBAC
18 50 (12.08%) Observability
19 49 (11.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 111 (26.81%) Java
2 100 (24.15%) Python
3 90 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 79 (19.08%) SQL
5 61 (14.73%) PowerShell
6 51 (12.32%) TypeScript
7 38 (9.18%) C#
8 27 (6.52%) Bicep
9 8 (1.93%) Bash
10 5 (1.21%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.72%) Groovy
12 3 (0.72%) PHP
13 2 (0.48%) Go
13 2 (0.48%) PromQL
14 1 (0.24%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.24%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 82 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.18%) Degree
4 22 (5.31%) CISSP
5 21 (5.07%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.62%) AWS Certification
8 14 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (2.66%) CISM
10 11 (2.66%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.17%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.21%) CSPO
13 4 (0.97%) MCSE
14 3 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.72%) GIAC
14 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 34 (8.21%) NIST
2 31 (7.49%) GDPR
3 26 (6.28%) QA
4 12 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.42%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.93%) NCSC
7 7 (1.69%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.21%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.21%) WCAG
10 3 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.72%) SEPA
11 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.48%) HL7
11 2 (0.48%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.48%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (22.95%) Active Directory
2 77 (18.60%) Docker
3 4 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.72%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.24%) Squid
Systems Management
1 97 (23.43%) Kubernetes
2 66 (15.94%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 23 (5.56%) Grafana
5 19 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.90%) Ansible
7 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.69%) Argo
9 5 (1.21%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.97%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.72%) Kibana
11 3 (0.72%) WMI
12 2 (0.48%) Consul
12 2 (0.48%) Istio
12 2 (0.48%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.48%) SCOM
12 2 (0.48%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.48%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.24%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 123 (29.71%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.14%) Oracle
3 37 (8.94%) Google
4 32 (7.73%) ServiceNow
5 27 (6.52%) Okta
6 25 (6.04%) MuleSoft
7 17 (4.11%) Salesforce
8 16 (3.86%) CyberArk
9 15 (3.62%) SAP
10 14 (3.38%) Ping Identity
11 11 (2.66%) IBM
11 11 (2.66%) Workday
12 10 (2.42%) Databricks
13 9 (2.17%) Informatica
13 9 (2.17%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.93%) ForgeRock
14 8 (1.93%) OutSystems
14 8 (1.93%) TIBCO
14 8 (1.93%) WSO2
15 5 (1.21%) Denodo