OAuth Contract Job Trends in the South West

OAuth
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South 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 99 121 127
Rank change year-on-year +22 +6 +49
Contract jobs citing OAuth 34 5 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.46% 0.24% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.06% 1.23% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 4 18
10th Percentile £418 £484 £565
25th Percentile £506 £572 £671
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £643 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.06% -4.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £669 £700
90th Percentile £715 £679 -
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
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.75 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 338 408 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.51% 19.32% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 240 378
10th Percentile £335 £400 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 44
10th Percentile £61.55 £61.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.40 £75.60
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 South West

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

OAuth job vacancy trend in the South West

OAuth
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

OAuth
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for OAuth in the South West

OAuth
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire -1 16 £688 +52.78% 4
Bristol - 6 £517 - 2
Dorset - 3 £500 - 3
Gloucestershire - 3 £425 - 1
Somerset - 3 £425 -
OAuth
England

OAuth
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Entra ID
3 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.82%) SaaS
5 3 (8.82%) ShareGate
6 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.94%) OCI
7 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (35.29%) DNS
1 12 (35.29%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) Kerberos
3 2 (5.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.94%) HTTP
4 1 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Metadata
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Mocha
2 1 (2.94%) NUnit
2 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) ForgeRock Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Technical Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Integration Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Java Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Technical Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (82.35%) OAuth2
2 26 (76.47%) SAML
3 25 (73.53%) OpenID
4 7 (20.59%) RESTful
5 5 (14.71%) LDAP
6 4 (11.76%) REST
7 3 (8.82%) JWT
7 3 (8.82%) SOAP
8 2 (5.88%) .NET
8 2 (5.88%) JSON
8 2 (5.88%) Middleware
8 2 (5.88%) Node.js
8 2 (5.88%) Spring
8 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
8 2 (5.88%) Spring Security
8 2 (5.88%) Web Services
9 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.94%) Ajax
9 1 (2.94%) Kafka
9 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Private Cloud
2 4 (11.76%) Replication
3 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Contactless
4 1 (2.94%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.94%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Windows
2 13 (38.24%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) RBAC
2 10 (29.41%) Load Balancing
3 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
3 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 9 (26.47%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (20.59%) Identity Management
5 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.71%) Change Management
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 4 (11.76%) Agile
7 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 4 (11.76%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.82%) Data Analysis
8 3 (8.82%) Digital Identity
8 3 (8.82%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.76%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) C#
4 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) C
5 1 (2.94%) C++
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 17 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 14 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.82%) CISM
4 3 (8.82%) CISSP
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) GDPR
2 6 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.82%) PSD2
3 3 (8.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.94%) JSP 440
5 1 (2.94%) NCSC
5 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (73.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (67.65%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (47.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (8.82%) SCCM
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) PingFederate
4 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (67.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) VMware
3 5 (14.71%) Ping Identity
4 3 (8.82%) ForgeRock
5 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.94%) IBM
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle
6 1 (2.94%) Xamarin