OAuth Contract Job Trends in the North West

OAuth
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 105 121 106
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 +54
Contract jobs citing OAuth 44 2 33
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.76% 0.092% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.63% 0.57% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 2 29
10th Percentile £330 £303 £385
25th Percentile £360 £304 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £308 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% -31.67% -37.93%
75th Percentile £488 £309 £475
90th Percentile £600 £310 £544
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
England median hourly rate £62.75 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 510 353 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.37% 16.29% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 231 449
10th Percentile £325 £356 £367
25th Percentile £381 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £665 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 31
10th Percentile £50.25 - £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +41.84% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £74.98 £78.80 £73.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

OAuth
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OAuth relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

OAuth job vacancy trend in the North West

OAuth
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OAuth.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OAuth

OAuth
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OAuth in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OAuth in the North West

OAuth
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OAuth within the North West 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
Cheshire +4 24 £383 +24.39% 4
Manchester - 17 £471 - 13
Lancashire - 3 £670 - 5
OAuth
England

OAuth
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (25.00%) Apache
1 11 (25.00%) IIS
1 11 (25.00%) JBoss
1 11 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 10 (22.73%) iPlanet
2 10 (22.73%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
4 1 (2.27%) nginx
4 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (61.36%) AWS
2 12 (27.27%) Azure
3 9 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (20.45%) OpenShift
4 8 (18.18%) GitHub
5 7 (15.91%) Apigee
6 6 (13.64%) Figma
7 5 (11.36%) GCP
8 4 (9.09%) Serverless
9 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (6.82%) Kong
10 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
11 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
11 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.73%) Kerberos
2 6 (13.64%) HTTPS
3 4 (9.09%) HTTP
4 2 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) Oracle Database
2 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.09%) Redis
4 2 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.27%) Metadata
5 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (45.45%) Git
2 16 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 11 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (13.64%) Gradle
5 6 (13.64%) Storybook
5 6 (13.64%) Xcode
6 4 (9.09%) JIRA
6 4 (9.09%) Postman
7 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 18 (40.91%) Finance
2 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Games
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.27%) Local Government
5 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Developer
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 6 (13.64%) Java Developer
3 6 (13.64%) React Developer
4 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Apigee Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Backend Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Software Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Java Mobile Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (38.64%) OAuth2
2 15 (34.09%) OpenID
3 13 (29.55%) SAML
4 11 (25.00%) LDAP
4 11 (25.00%) REST
5 10 (22.73%) JSON
5 10 (22.73%) JWT
5 10 (22.73%) XML
6 9 (20.45%) RESTful
6 9 (20.45%) Spring
6 9 (20.45%) Spring Boot
7 6 (13.64%) D3.js
7 6 (13.64%) React Native
7 6 (13.64%) SOAP
7 6 (13.64%) SVG
8 4 (9.09%) Hibernate
8 4 (9.09%) JAX-RS
8 4 (9.09%) Node.js
9 3 (6.82%) React
9 3 (6.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.27%) PMI
3 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Linux
2 11 (25.00%) Windows
3 9 (20.45%) Windows Server
4 8 (18.18%) Unix
5 6 (13.64%) Android
5 6 (13.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) DevOps
2 22 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (34.09%) Microservices
4 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (22.73%) API Design
6 9 (20.45%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (18.18%) Agile
7 8 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 8 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (15.91%) API Testing
8 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
8 7 (15.91%) Design Patterns
8 7 (15.91%) Test Automation
9 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven
9 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 6 (13.64%) Mobile Application Development
9 6 (13.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) Groovy
1 11 (25.00%) Java
1 11 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 8 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 6 (13.64%) SQL
4 5 (11.36%) Kotlin
5 4 (9.09%) C#
6 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.82%) Python
7 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (18.18%) Degree
2 7 (15.91%) AWS Certification
3 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) CBAP
5 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (38.64%) Docker
2 12 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 8 (18.18%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (22.73%) CA Wily
3 9 (20.45%) Progress Chef
4 8 (18.18%) Tivoli
5 7 (15.91%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (31.82%) Splunk
3 11 (25.00%) Broadcom
4 10 (22.73%) AppDynamics
4 10 (22.73%) IBM
4 10 (22.73%) Oracle
5 3 (6.82%) MuleSoft
6 2 (4.55%) Axway
7 1 (2.27%) Gigya
7 1 (2.27%) Google
7 1 (2.27%) Okta
7 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.27%) Pega
7 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow