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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 324 400
Rank change year-on-year +41 +76 -14
Contract jobs citing OAuth 369 194 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.71% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.37% 3.20% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 126 94
10th Percentile £407 £365 £426
25th Percentile £471 £429 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -12.79% -
75th Percentile £668 £610 £660
90th Percentile £752 £681 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £537 £581
% change year-on-year +4.28% -7.57% +5.16%
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 8,450 6,067 7,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.84% 22.26% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,540 4,172 5,263
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £745 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 135 243
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +12 189 £562 +2.14% 76
North of England -30 73 £625 +31.16% 11
South East -19 66 £575 - 25
North West -24 38 £625 +27.03% 6
Yorkshire -36 31 £620 +41.23% 4
South West -31 12 £550 +1.85% 3
Midlands -52 12 £438 +5.42% 4
East of England -15 10 £558 +11.50% 3
West Midlands -46 8 £450 -25.37% 4
North East - 6 £563 - 1
East Midlands -24 4 £420 +1.14%
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 13 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.25%) Confluence
2 12 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.08%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.81%) Appian
5 3 (0.81%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.54%) Mule
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 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 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.54%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 207 (56.10%) Azure
2 154 (41.73%) AWS
3 110 (29.81%) Entra ID
4 81 (21.95%) GCP
5 47 (12.74%) Serverless
6 41 (11.11%) GitHub
7 34 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (8.67%) SaaS
9 30 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (6.50%) Azure AKS
11 22 (5.96%) Azure API Management
11 22 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (4.88%) Amazon S3
12 18 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (4.61%) Apigee
14 15 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (4.07%) Kong
15 14 (3.79%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.42%) Kerberos
2 17 (4.61%) DNS
3 12 (3.25%) SSL
4 11 (2.98%) HTTP
5 10 (2.71%) Firewall
6 7 (1.90%) DKIM
6 7 (1.90%) DMARC
7 6 (1.63%) Network Security
8 5 (1.36%) IPsec
8 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.81%) DHCP
9 3 (0.81%) NGFW
10 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.27%) SSH
11 1 (0.27%) VPN
11 1 (0.27%) WAN
11 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.86%) Relational Database
2 25 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.78%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.34%) Redis
4 13 (3.52%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.71%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.17%) Metadata
7 8 (2.17%) MySQL
8 5 (1.36%) Data Vault
8 5 (1.36%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.08%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.81%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (10.84%) Git
2 23 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 20 (5.42%) JIRA
4 18 (4.88%) GitLab
5 10 (2.71%) Browser DevTools
6 7 (1.90%) git-flow
6 7 (1.90%) Postman
7 6 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.63%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.36%) Gradle
8 5 (1.36%) Maven
8 5 (1.36%) Storybook
9 4 (1.08%) MLflow
9 4 (1.08%) Snyk
10 3 (0.81%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.81%) JMeter
10 3 (0.81%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.54%) Mockito
11 2 (0.54%) Moq
11 2 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
General
1 84 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 79 (21.41%) Finance
3 49 (13.28%) Public Sector
4 40 (10.84%) Banking
5 27 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.34%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.79%) Retail
8 11 (2.98%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.98%) Military
9 5 (1.36%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.36%) Legal
10 4 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.08%) Publishing
11 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.54%) Automotive
12 2 (0.54%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.54%) Law
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (26.29%) Developer
2 91 (24.66%) Architect
3 51 (13.82%) Senior
4 28 (7.59%) Technical Architect
5 26 (7.05%) Java Developer
6 25 (6.78%) Lead
7 18 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 16 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (3.79%) IAM Specialist
10 12 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (3.25%) Integration Architect
10 12 (3.25%) Security Architect
10 12 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (2.98%) Consultant
12 9 (2.44%) Analyst
12 9 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (2.44%) IAM Developer
12 9 (2.44%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (2.17%) Backend Developer
13 8 (2.17%) Low-Code Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (51.76%) OAuth2
2 183 (49.59%) OpenID
3 151 (40.92%) SAML
4 121 (32.79%) REST
5 75 (20.33%) JWT
6 60 (16.26%) SOAP
7 57 (15.45%) RESTful
8 53 (14.36%) LDAP
9 42 (11.38%) JSON
10 36 (9.76%) SailPoint
11 35 (9.49%) React
12 34 (9.21%) Kafka
13 33 (8.94%) .NET
14 32 (8.67%) Spring
15 30 (8.13%) CSS
15 30 (8.13%) Web Services
16 28 (7.59%) Spring Boot
17 27 (7.32%) Node.js
18 25 (6.78%) XML
19 23 (6.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (18.16%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.30%) Onboarding
3 32 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (6.50%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (5.69%) Product Ownership
5 21 (5.69%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.34%) Management Information System
6 16 (4.34%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.25%) CMDB
7 12 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.25%) Low-Code
8 11 (2.98%) PKI
9 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.63%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.63%) Freedom of Information
11 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.98%) Windows
2 8 (2.17%) Linux
3 7 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.36%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.08%) Android
5 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) CentOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (40.11%) CI/CD
2 133 (36.04%) DevOps
3 97 (26.29%) Microservices
4 94 (25.47%) Agile
5 72 (19.51%) Containerisation
5 72 (19.51%) Identity Access Management
6 71 (19.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 61 (16.53%) Event-Driven
7 61 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (14.63%) AI
8 54 (14.63%) RBAC
9 49 (13.28%) API Integration
10 47 (12.74%) Test Automation
10 47 (12.74%) Zero Trust
11 42 (11.38%) Integration Patterns
12 41 (11.11%) Data Modelling
13 40 (10.84%) Observability
14 38 (10.30%) Migration
14 38 (10.30%) Roadmaps
14 38 (10.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 85 (23.04%) Java
2 79 (21.41%) Python
3 67 (18.16%) SQL
4 65 (17.62%) JavaScript
5 48 (13.01%) PowerShell
6 38 (10.30%) TypeScript
7 29 (7.86%) C#
8 23 (6.23%) Bicep
9 10 (2.71%) Go
10 9 (2.44%) Bash
10 9 (2.44%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.08%) Groovy
12 3 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.81%) PHP
12 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.54%) PromQL
13 2 (0.54%) Scala
13 2 (0.54%) Swift
14 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 94 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 72 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.76%) Degree
4 27 (7.32%) CISSP
5 18 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.34%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.71%) CISM
10 9 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.17%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.90%) DV Cleared
13 6 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.36%) CSPO
14 5 (1.36%) GIAC
15 4 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 2 (0.54%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (7.86%) NIST
3 28 (7.59%) GDPR
4 17 (4.61%) QA
5 9 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.44%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.90%) NCSC
6 7 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.36%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.81%) GRC
9 3 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.54%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
System Software
1 81 (21.95%) Active Directory
1 81 (21.95%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) RACF
3 3 (0.81%) OpenAM
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.27%) Squid
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (22.49%) Kubernetes
2 77 (20.87%) Terraform
3 68 (18.43%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (6.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 23 (6.23%) Grafana
6 21 (5.69%) Prometheus
7 12 (3.25%) Ansible
8 6 (1.63%) Argo
8 6 (1.63%) Istio
8 6 (1.63%) linkerd
9 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.08%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.08%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.08%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.81%) WMI
12 2 (0.54%) Consul
12 2 (0.54%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.94%) ServiceNow
3 30 (8.13%) Oracle
4 28 (7.59%) Google
4 28 (7.59%) Okta
5 18 (4.88%) MuleSoft
6 16 (4.34%) CyberArk
7 15 (4.07%) Ping Identity
8 14 (3.79%) SAP
9 10 (2.71%) ForgeRock
9 10 (2.71%) OpenAI
9 10 (2.71%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.71%) Workday
10 8 (2.17%) OutSystems
11 6 (1.63%) Splunk
12 5 (1.36%) Denodo
12 5 (1.36%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.08%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.08%) IBM
14 3 (0.81%) Dell