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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 378 367
Rank change year-on-year +119 -11 +103
Contract jobs citing OAuth 317 126 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.43% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 1.99% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 80 155
10th Percentile £360 £409 £425
25th Percentile £413 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £672
90th Percentile £680 £739 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -13.98% +5.68% -11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £55.83 - -
25th Percentile £59.31 - -
Median hourly rate £62.75 - -
75th Percentile £66.94 - -
90th Percentile £71.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.75 - -

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 7,011 6,325 8,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.83% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,678 4,051 5,940
10th Percentile £352 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £631 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £770
UK median daily rate £505 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 81 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.77 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +60 152 £511 -14.44% 46
North of England +13 67 £428 -10.94% 32
North West +16 44 £405 +31.71% 21
South West +22 34 £565 -12.06% 25
Midlands -25 29 £520 -9.57% 18
West Midlands -22 24 £531 -7.61% 13
Yorkshire -20 23 £470 -27.69% 10
South East -21 23 £500 -21.57% 38
East Midlands - 5 £415 - 3
East of England -23 1 - - 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 19 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.36%) Confluence
3 16 (5.05%) Apache
4 11 (3.47%) IIS
4 11 (3.47%) JBoss
4 11 (3.47%) WebSphere
5 10 (3.15%) iPlanet
5 10 (3.15%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.89%) nginx
7 5 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (1.26%) Oracle Service Bus
8 4 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.95%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.63%) CICS
10 2 (0.63%) Mule
10 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.32%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 151 (47.63%) Azure
2 108 (34.07%) AWS
3 77 (24.29%) Entra ID
4 57 (17.98%) GitHub
5 40 (12.62%) GCP
6 35 (11.04%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (11.04%) Serverless
7 33 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (9.46%) SaaS
9 26 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (6.94%) Apigee
11 20 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (5.68%) Power Platform
13 15 (4.73%) Amazon S3
13 15 (4.73%) PaaS
14 14 (4.42%) Azure Functions
14 14 (4.42%) OCI
15 12 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.41%) Kerberos
2 19 (5.99%) HTTPS
3 18 (5.68%) DNS
4 16 (5.05%) Firewall
4 16 (5.05%) SSL
5 14 (4.42%) HTTP
6 5 (1.58%) SSH
7 3 (0.95%) Internet
8 2 (0.63%) AMQP
8 2 (0.63%) DHCP
8 2 (0.63%) DSL
8 2 (0.63%) Extranet
8 2 (0.63%) Network Security
8 2 (0.63%) S/MIME
8 2 (0.63%) VPN
8 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.32%) SMS
9 1 (0.32%) SMTP
9 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.05%) Oracle Database
2 14 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.15%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.84%) Power BI
7 7 (2.21%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.89%) Redis
9 5 (1.58%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.58%) MySQL
10 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.26%) Metadata
10 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.95%) Airbyte
12 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.63%) DB2
12 2 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (13.25%) Git
2 36 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.46%) JIRA
4 17 (5.36%) Postman
5 16 (5.05%) GitLab
6 11 (3.47%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.47%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.52%) Xcode
9 7 (2.21%) Gradle
9 7 (2.21%) Maven
9 7 (2.21%) Storybook
10 6 (1.89%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.89%) JUnit
10 6 (1.89%) Selenium
11 5 (1.58%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.58%) Mockito
12 4 (1.26%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.26%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.26%) SonarQube
General
1 108 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.50%) Finance
3 39 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.62%) Banking
5 21 (6.62%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.58%) Digital Healthcare
7 5 (1.58%) Marketing
8 4 (1.26%) Legal
9 3 (0.95%) Games
9 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.95%) Retail
10 2 (0.63%) Billing
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Military
10 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.32%) Electronics
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (29.02%) Developer
2 46 (14.51%) Architect
3 35 (11.04%) Senior
4 22 (6.94%) Lead
5 18 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (4.42%) Integration Engineer
8 13 (4.10%) Analyst
8 13 (4.10%) Senior Developer
9 12 (3.79%) Consultant
9 12 (3.79%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.15%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.15%) React Developer
10 10 (3.15%) Software Engineer
11 9 (2.84%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 9 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (2.84%) Integration Developer
11 9 (2.84%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.52%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.21%) ForgeRock Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (45.11%) OAuth2
2 137 (43.22%) SAML
3 125 (39.43%) OpenID
4 84 (26.50%) REST
5 64 (20.19%) JSON
6 59 (18.61%) JWT
7 56 (17.67%) RESTful
8 49 (15.46%) LDAP
8 49 (15.46%) SOAP
9 45 (14.20%) XML
10 33 (10.41%) Spring
11 28 (8.83%) GraphQL
11 28 (8.83%) HTML
11 28 (8.83%) Spring Boot
12 27 (8.52%) Node.js
13 24 (7.57%) React
14 23 (7.26%) .NET
15 16 (5.05%) Kafka
16 15 (4.73%) Swagger
16 15 (4.73%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 18 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (5.36%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.15%) PKI
7 8 (2.52%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.52%) Replication
8 7 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.58%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.26%) BYOD
11 4 (1.26%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.95%) DataPower
12 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.99%) Windows
2 28 (8.83%) Linux
3 26 (8.20%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.15%) Android
5 9 (2.84%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.52%) Unix
7 5 (1.58%) AIX
7 5 (1.58%) Solaris
8 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.63%) zOS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (35.33%) CI/CD
2 109 (34.38%) DevOps
3 69 (21.77%) Agile
4 68 (21.45%) Identity Access Management
4 68 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (19.87%) Microservices
6 56 (17.67%) RBAC
7 49 (15.46%) Identity Management
8 43 (13.56%) API Management
8 43 (13.56%) Containerisation
9 41 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (11.04%) AI
11 34 (10.73%) Test Automation
12 33 (10.41%) API Design
12 33 (10.41%) Computer Science
13 32 (10.09%) Event-Driven
14 31 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 30 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
17 28 (8.83%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 72 (22.71%) Python
2 67 (21.14%) Java
3 56 (17.67%) PowerShell
4 50 (15.77%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.09%) SQL
6 31 (9.78%) TypeScript
7 20 (6.31%) C#
8 15 (4.73%) Groovy
9 10 (3.15%) Bash
10 8 (2.52%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.52%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.95%) Bicep
12 3 (0.95%) PHP
12 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.63%) C++
13 2 (0.63%) Go
13 2 (0.63%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.36%) Degree
4 30 (9.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (6.31%) CISSP
6 20 (6.31%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.15%) CISM
8 9 (2.84%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.95%) PhD
11 2 (0.63%) CBAP
11 2 (0.63%) CCSP
11 2 (0.63%) MCP
12 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.25%) GDPR
2 25 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.79%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.79%) NIST
4 11 (3.47%) HIPAA
4 11 (3.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.15%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.15%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.84%) QA
7 8 (2.52%) WCAG
8 6 (1.89%) PSD2
9 5 (1.58%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.63%) SLA
12 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.32%) NCSC
12 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 94 (29.65%) Active Directory
2 60 (18.93%) Docker
3 8 (2.52%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.63%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.63%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.63%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Squid
Systems Management
1 87 (27.44%) Single Sign-On
2 50 (15.77%) Terraform
3 40 (12.62%) Kubernetes
4 29 (9.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (6.31%) Ansible
6 11 (3.47%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.47%) Grafana
7 10 (3.15%) CA Wily
8 9 (2.84%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.52%) Tivoli
10 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.58%) Kibana
12 4 (1.26%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 3 (0.95%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.95%) SCCM
14 2 (0.63%) Argo
14 2 (0.63%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.63%) Puppet
15 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
15 1 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 117 (36.91%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.78%) Oracle
3 24 (7.57%) Splunk
4 20 (6.31%) CyberArk
4 20 (6.31%) Google
5 19 (5.99%) IBM
6 16 (5.05%) OpenAI
7 14 (4.42%) Ping Identity
8 13 (4.10%) ForgeRock
8 13 (4.10%) MuleSoft
9 12 (3.79%) Salesforce
10 11 (3.47%) AppDynamics
10 11 (3.47%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.47%) Okta
11 10 (3.15%) SAP
11 10 (3.15%) VMware
12 8 (2.52%) Axway
12 8 (2.52%) ServiceNow
13 7 (2.21%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (1.89%) Databricks