OAuth Contracts

OAuth
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 409 365
Rank change year-on-year +107 -44 +92
Contract jobs citing OAuth 254 183 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.42% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% 1.96% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 125 257
10th Percentile £400 £425 £434
25th Percentile £449 £494 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +4.00% -2.17%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £731 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £53.38 - -
25th Percentile £54.69 - -
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £45.00
75th Percentile £62.19 - -
90th Percentile £63.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,122 9,314 12,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 21.42% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,822 6,381 9,223
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 280 155
10th Percentile £28.29 £22.50 £28.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

OAuth
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OAuth as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OAuth in the UK

OAuth
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OAuth.

Daily rate trend for OAuth in the UK

OAuth
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OAuth over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OAuth in the UK

OAuth
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OAuth.

Hourly rate trend for OAuth in the UK

OAuth
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +100 192 £537 -10.50% 172
London +78 103 £568 -0.35% 104
Work from Home +54 99 £519 -15.35% 97
UK excluding London +45 94 £500 -9.09% 96
North of England +21 33 £492 -2.77% 30
North West +21 19 £500 -19.35% 20
Scotland +8 19 £575 +22.15% 12
South East +50 16 £600 +20.00% 21
Midlands -3 16 £415 -33.28% 14
East Midlands +3 15 £415 -33.06% 4
Yorkshire +5 14 £439 -7.58% 10
South West +32 6 £540 +8.00% 5
Wales +4 3 £375 -26.83% 3
East of England +25 2 £500 -42.86% 5
West Midlands -6 1 £603 -7.23% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 6

OAuth
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.15%) Apache
1 8 (3.15%) Confluence
2 7 (2.76%) Anypoint
2 7 (2.76%) Mule
3 6 (2.36%) CMS
3 6 (2.36%) Headless CMS
4 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.97%) nginx
4 5 (1.97%) Oracle Service Bus
4 5 (1.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.97%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.97%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.57%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.57%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.39%) CICS
8 1 (0.39%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (1.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.79%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (46.06%) Azure
2 110 (43.31%) AWS
3 68 (26.77%) Entra ID
4 46 (18.11%) GCP
5 34 (13.39%) GitHub
6 29 (11.42%) Serverless
7 25 (9.84%) SaaS
8 22 (8.66%) Azure AKS
9 20 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (7.48%) OCI
11 17 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (6.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (4.72%) Amazon S3
13 12 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (4.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (4.33%) Azure Functions
15 10 (3.94%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.33%) HTTPS
1 11 (4.33%) Kerberos
1 11 (4.33%) SSL
2 10 (3.94%) HTTP
3 9 (3.54%) DNS
4 6 (2.36%) Firewall
5 4 (1.57%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.18%) AMQP
6 3 (1.18%) DSL
7 2 (0.79%) Network Security
8 1 (0.39%) DKIM
8 1 (0.39%) DMARC
8 1 (0.39%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.39%) FTP
8 1 (0.39%) VPN
8 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.66%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.09%) MongoDB
2 18 (7.09%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.94%) MySQL
5 6 (2.36%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.36%) Redis
6 5 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.57%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.18%) Airbyte
8 3 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.18%) Big Data
8 3 (1.18%) CockroachDB
8 3 (1.18%) Flink
8 3 (1.18%) Metadata
8 3 (1.18%) NewSQL
8 3 (1.18%) OLTP
9 1 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (14.17%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.48%) GitLab
3 17 (6.69%) Git
4 16 (6.30%) JIRA
5 7 (2.76%) Maven
6 6 (2.36%) JUnit
6 6 (2.36%) Mockito
7 5 (1.97%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.57%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.57%) NUnit
9 3 (1.18%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.18%) Gradle
9 3 (1.18%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.18%) Log4j
9 3 (1.18%) TestNG
10 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.79%) MLflow
10 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.39%) Postman
11 1 (0.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 78 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.39%) Finance
4 31 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.69%) Banking
6 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.18%) Marketing
6 3 (1.18%) Retail
6 3 (1.18%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.79%) French Language
7 2 (0.79%) Publishing
8 1 (0.39%) Advertising
8 1 (0.39%) Billing
8 1 (0.39%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 58 (22.83%) Developer
2 51 (20.08%) Architect
3 34 (13.39%) Lead
4 29 (11.42%) Senior
5 18 (7.09%) Software Engineer
6 12 (4.72%) Analyst
6 12 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (4.72%) Security Architect
7 11 (4.33%) IAM Specialist
7 11 (4.33%) Java Developer
7 11 (4.33%) Python Engineer
7 11 (4.33%) Senior Developer
8 10 (3.94%) .NET Developer
8 10 (3.94%) AWS Specialist
8 10 (3.94%) Java Engineer
9 9 (3.54%) Business Analyst
9 9 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (3.54%) Lead Developer
10 8 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (52.76%) OpenID
2 119 (46.85%) SAML
3 89 (35.04%) OAuth2
4 55 (21.65%) REST
5 51 (20.08%) RESTful
6 40 (15.75%) JWT
7 36 (14.17%) SOAP
8 35 (13.78%) LDAP
9 33 (12.99%) Kafka
10 31 (12.20%) Spring
11 25 (9.84%) JSON
12 23 (9.06%) .NET
13 22 (8.66%) SailPoint
14 19 (7.48%) Spring Boot
15 17 (6.69%) React
16 16 (6.30%) Swagger
17 15 (5.91%) GraphQL
17 15 (5.91%) Hibernate
18 14 (5.51%) .NET Core
18 14 (5.51%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.84%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.51%) PKI
4 9 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.15%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.15%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.76%) Taxonomies
7 6 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.97%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.79%) EMV
10 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.33%) Linux
2 5 (1.97%) Android
3 4 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.39%) VMS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (41.73%) DevOps
2 86 (33.86%) CI/CD
3 82 (32.28%) Identity Access Management
4 78 (30.71%) Agile
5 70 (27.56%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (20.47%) Containerisation
6 52 (20.47%) RBAC
7 51 (20.08%) Identity Management
8 47 (18.50%) Microservices
9 46 (18.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (15.75%) API Integration
11 35 (13.78%) Mentoring
12 32 (12.60%) API Development
12 32 (12.60%) Scrum
13 30 (11.81%) Migration
14 29 (11.42%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 28 (11.02%) Test Automation
16 27 (10.63%) API Management
17 26 (10.24%) API Design
17 26 (10.24%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 86 (33.86%) Java
2 68 (26.77%) Python
3 37 (14.57%) SQL
4 30 (11.81%) C#
4 30 (11.81%) JavaScript
5 28 (11.02%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.12%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.33%) Go
8 8 (3.15%) Bash
8 8 (3.15%) Groovy
8 8 (3.15%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.76%) DataWeave
10 6 (2.36%) Ruby
11 3 (1.18%) ANSI SQL
11 3 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.18%) C
12 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 43 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.48%) Degree
4 13 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.72%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.15%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.76%) OCP
7 7 (2.76%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.97%) CISSP
9 5 (1.97%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.79%) CISM
10 2 (0.79%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.39%) CBAP
11 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.81%) GDPR
2 28 (11.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 22 (8.66%) HIPAA
4 18 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (5.91%) NIST
6 10 (3.94%) QA
7 7 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (2.36%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.36%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.18%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.79%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.79%) NCSC
11 2 (0.79%) PSD2
11 2 (0.79%) SEPA
11 2 (0.79%) SLA
12 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.39%) GRC
12 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 57 (22.44%) Active Directory
2 52 (20.47%) Docker
3 7 (2.76%) OpenAM
4 4 (1.57%) OpenDJ
4 4 (1.57%) OpenIDM
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.39%) LXC
6 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (34.65%) Single Sign-On
2 84 (33.07%) Kubernetes
3 59 (23.23%) Terraform
4 14 (5.51%) Ansible
4 14 (5.51%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.72%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 11 (4.33%) Grafana
7 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (3.15%) Kibana
9 3 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.18%) CloudHub
9 3 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.79%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.39%) Argo
11 1 (0.39%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.39%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 54 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.81%) Ping Identity
3 24 (9.45%) Oracle
4 23 (9.06%) IBM
5 21 (8.27%) ForgeRock
5 21 (8.27%) Okta
6 16 (6.30%) Google
7 14 (5.51%) CyberArk
7 14 (5.51%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.54%) Salesforce
9 8 (3.15%) Alibaba
10 5 (1.97%) SAP
10 5 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.97%) Splunk
11 4 (1.57%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.57%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.79%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.79%) TIBCO