OAuth Contracts in the UK excluding London

OAuth
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OAuth skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OAuth over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 325 283
Rank change year-on-year +50 -42 +71
Contract jobs citing OAuth 68 72 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.35% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.80% 2.17% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 62 110
10th Percentile £358 £432 £437
25th Percentile £437 £484 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -1.38% +3.81%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £597
90th Percentile £675 £675 £709
UK median daily rate £537 £581 £563
% change year-on-year -7.57% +3.29% -2.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,425 3,325 4,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.61% 16.05% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,176 3,071
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £571 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 217 86
10th Percentile £33.59 £22.65 £22.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -25.49% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +30.30% -26.21% +23.81%

OAuth
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OAuth as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OAuth in the UK excluding London

OAuth
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OAuth in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OAuth in the UK excluding London

OAuth
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OAuth in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OAuth in the UK excluding London

OAuth
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OAuth in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OAuth in the UK excluding London

OAuth
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OAuth within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
North of England +28 28 £500 -1.19% 18
North West +25 21 £500 -19.35% 15
South East +53 15 £630 +26.00% 27
Midlands -1 12 £430 -30.87% 23
East Midlands +4 11 £420 -32.26% 11
Scotland +1 8 £500 +3.95% 6
Yorkshire +9 7 £485 -1.12% 2
South West +44 4 £513 -6.82% 14
East of England +25 2 £500 -42.86% 13
West Midlands +5 1 £603 -7.23% 12
Wales -1 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 2
OAuth
UK

OAuth
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.35%) Confluence
2 4 (5.88%) Apache
2 4 (5.88%) nginx
2 4 (5.88%) Tomcat
3 3 (4.41%) Anypoint
3 3 (4.41%) Mule
4 2 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.94%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.47%) JBoss
5 1 (1.47%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.47%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.47%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 29 (42.65%) AWS
2 20 (29.41%) Azure
3 13 (19.12%) Entra ID
3 13 (19.12%) GCP
4 8 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 8 (11.76%) Azure API Management
5 7 (10.29%) GitHub
6 6 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (8.82%) Serverless
7 5 (7.35%) Apigee
7 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.88%) IaaS
8 4 (5.88%) Lucidchart
8 4 (5.88%) OCI
8 4 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) Kerberos
2 5 (7.35%) SSL
3 3 (4.41%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.47%) Firewall
4 1 (1.47%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 9 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.35%) MySQL
4 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.41%) SSDT
6 1 (1.47%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.47%) NewSQL
6 1 (1.47%) OLTP
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.71%) JIRA
3 7 (10.29%) GitLab
4 4 (5.88%) CircleCI
5 3 (4.41%) Git
5 3 (4.41%) Maven
5 3 (4.41%) Mockito
6 2 (2.94%) Ant
6 2 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.94%) JUnit
6 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.94%) webpack
7 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.47%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.47%) Log4j
7 1 (1.47%) Metasploit
7 1 (1.47%) Toad
General
1 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Banking
4 7 (10.29%) Finance
5 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (29.41%) Architect
2 10 (14.71%) Developer
3 8 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Senior
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Lead
7 4 (5.88%) Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) React Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) AWS Developer
8 3 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Identity Management Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (47.06%) OpenID
2 30 (44.12%) SAML
3 16 (23.53%) OAuth2
4 14 (20.59%) REST
5 12 (17.65%) SOAP
6 11 (16.18%) Kafka
6 11 (16.18%) LDAP
6 11 (16.18%) Spring
7 10 (14.71%) RESTful
8 8 (11.76%) Hibernate
8 8 (11.76%) Node.js
8 8 (11.76%) React
9 6 (8.82%) JSON
9 6 (8.82%) JWT
9 6 (8.82%) Swagger
10 5 (7.35%) .NET
11 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
11 4 (5.88%) JDBC
11 4 (5.88%) Spring Boot
11 4 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.88%) PKI
4 3 (4.41%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.94%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.94%) EMV
5 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.47%) NHS
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Android
2 3 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (55.88%) CI/CD
2 26 (38.24%) RBAC
3 24 (35.29%) DevOps
4 22 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (30.88%) Containerisation
5 21 (30.88%) Identity Access Management
6 15 (22.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (20.59%) Agile
7 14 (20.59%) Identity Management
8 13 (19.12%) Migration
9 12 (17.65%) API Development
10 11 (16.18%) API Management
11 10 (14.71%) DevSecOps
11 10 (14.71%) ETL
11 10 (14.71%) Microservices
12 8 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 8 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 7 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 30 (44.12%) Java
2 14 (20.59%) SQL
3 11 (16.18%) Python
4 8 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.88%) Bash
6 4 (5.88%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.41%) C#
7 3 (4.41%) DataWeave
8 2 (2.94%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.47%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.47%) Bicep
9 1 (1.47%) C
9 1 (1.47%) C++
9 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.82%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) GPEN
5 1 (1.47%) GWAPT
5 1 (1.47%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.47%) OCP
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.47%) OSCE
5 1 (1.47%) OSCP
5 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) GDPR
2 7 (10.29%) HIPAA
3 4 (5.88%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.41%) NIST
5 2 (2.94%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.94%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.94%) PSD2
5 2 (2.94%) SEPA
5 2 (2.94%) SLA
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.47%) NCSC
6 1 (1.47%) QA
6 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (20.59%) Docker
2 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.47%) LXC
Systems Management
1 20 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 16 (23.53%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (22.06%) Terraform
4 8 (11.76%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 3 (4.41%) Kibana
5 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.94%) CloudHub
6 2 (2.94%) Grafana
7 1 (1.47%) Ansible
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) Ping Identity
3 10 (14.71%) IBM
4 8 (11.76%) MuleSoft
4 8 (11.76%) Oracle
5 5 (7.35%) ForgeRock
5 5 (7.35%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.88%) Google
7 3 (4.41%) AppDynamics
7 3 (4.41%) UiPath
8 2 (2.94%) Okta
8 2 (2.94%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.94%) Splunk
9 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.47%) NEC
9 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.47%) Talend
9 1 (1.47%) TIBCO