OAuth Contract Job Trends

OAuth
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OAuth skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 358 394
Rank change year-on-year +85 +36 -6
Contract jobs citing OAuth 423 167 205
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 2.49% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 115 153
10th Percentile £351 £409 £425
25th Percentile £430 £477 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -7.24%
75th Percentile £613 £656 £675
90th Percentile £688 £695 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £563 £498
% change year-on-year -9.07% +13.07% -8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £55.10 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £72.31 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.63 - -

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 9,364 6,695 8,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 22.69% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,242 4,482 6,268
10th Percentile £358 £363 £335
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 96 214
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.75 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.48 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

OAuth
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OAuth job vacancy trend in the UK

OAuth
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OAuth

OAuth
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OAuth over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OAuth in the UK

OAuth
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OAuth.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OAuth

OAuth
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OAuth over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for OAuth in the UK

OAuth
Top 15 Contract Job 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 14 March 2026. 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 +88 364 £525 -8.70% 66
London +47 195 £527 -11.98% 31
UK excluding London +28 171 £512 -9.07% 40
Work from Home +22 121 £527 -4.18% 39
North of England -13 71 £468 -10.86% 14
North West -7 40 £431 -17.86% 11
South East -46 33 £575 -8.00% 14
South West +1 31 £570 +26.67% 4
Yorkshire -30 30 £497 -20.52% 2
Midlands -38 23 £510 -11.30% 2
West Midlands -48 18 £520 -10.54% 2
Scotland +16 12 £394 -21.18% 1
East Midlands -28 4 £442 -20.67%
East of England -25 2 £500 - 5
North East - 2 £525 - 1

OAuth
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 20 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.02%) Confluence
3 8 (1.89%) Appian
4 4 (0.95%) Apache
4 4 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.71%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.47%) CICS
6 2 (0.47%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.47%) WordPress
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.24%) iPlanet
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.60%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 208 (49.17%) Azure
2 152 (35.93%) AWS
3 107 (25.30%) Entra ID
4 81 (19.15%) Serverless
5 68 (16.08%) GitHub
6 55 (13.00%) GCP
7 52 (12.29%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (9.22%) Amazon S3
11 36 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (6.86%) SaaS
13 28 (6.62%) Apigee
13 28 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (6.62%) PaaS
14 26 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (6.15%) Power Platform
15 24 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (5.67%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.64%) Kerberos
2 41 (9.69%) DNS
3 23 (5.44%) HTTP
4 20 (4.73%) Firewall
5 17 (4.02%) DHCP
6 14 (3.31%) SSL
7 12 (2.84%) HTTPS
8 7 (1.65%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.18%) IPsec
9 5 (1.18%) Network Security
10 4 (0.95%) SSH
10 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.71%) Internet
12 2 (0.47%) Extranet
12 2 (0.47%) RFID
12 2 (0.47%) S/MIME
12 2 (0.47%) VPN
12 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
13 1 (0.24%) SMS
13 1 (0.24%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.33%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.15%) DynamoDB
4 15 (3.55%) MySQL
4 15 (3.55%) Redis
5 14 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (3.07%) Power BI
6 13 (3.07%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (2.84%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 11 (2.60%) Pinecone
9 8 (1.89%) Metadata
10 6 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.18%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.18%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.95%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (10.87%) Git
2 41 (9.69%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.38%) GitLab
4 23 (5.44%) Postman
5 21 (4.96%) JIRA
6 11 (2.60%) SoapUI
7 10 (2.36%) MLflow
8 9 (2.13%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.89%) Selenium
10 7 (1.65%) JUnit
10 7 (1.65%) Maven
11 6 (1.42%) NUnit
12 5 (1.18%) Mockito
12 5 (1.18%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.95%) Storybook
13 4 (0.95%) Vite
14 3 (0.71%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
14 3 (0.71%) git-flow
General
1 131 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 76 (17.97%) Finance
3 50 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.40%) Banking
5 35 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.42%) Marketing
8 6 (1.42%) Military
9 5 (1.18%) Legal
9 5 (1.18%) Publishing
10 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.95%) Retail
11 3 (0.71%) Games
11 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Billing
12 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.47%) Wearables
13 1 (0.24%) Law
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 118 (27.90%) Developer
2 77 (18.20%) Architect
3 51 (12.06%) Senior
4 31 (7.33%) Lead
5 26 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (4.26%) Analyst
6 18 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (4.26%) Java Developer
7 17 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (3.07%) C# Developer
9 11 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 11 (2.60%) Business Analyst
9 11 (2.60%) Integration Engineer
9 11 (2.60%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (2.60%) Security Architect
9 11 (2.60%) Senior Developer
9 11 (2.60%) Technical Architect
10 10 (2.36%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (2.13%) Cloud Specialist
11 9 (2.13%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (46.57%) OAuth2
2 178 (42.08%) SAML
3 165 (39.01%) OpenID
4 127 (30.02%) REST
5 106 (25.06%) JWT
6 66 (15.60%) RESTful
7 65 (15.37%) JSON
8 57 (13.48%) .NET
9 49 (11.58%) Node.js
10 46 (10.87%) SOAP
11 45 (10.64%) React
12 43 (10.17%) LDAP
13 42 (9.93%) XML
14 40 (9.46%) Spring
14 40 (9.46%) Spring Boot
15 31 (7.33%) HTML
16 30 (7.09%) Web Services
17 29 (6.86%) Kafka
18 27 (6.38%) GraphQL
19 24 (5.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.44%) Mobile App
4 23 (5.44%) Replication
5 18 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (3.78%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.60%) PKI
9 10 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.13%) Low-Code
10 9 (2.13%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.89%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.65%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.18%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.18%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 48 (11.35%) Windows
2 34 (8.04%) Windows Server
3 14 (3.31%) Linux
4 8 (1.89%) Android
4 8 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.95%) AIX
5 4 (0.95%) Solaris
6 2 (0.47%) zOS
7 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.24%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (42.08%) CI/CD
2 155 (36.64%) DevOps
3 110 (26.00%) Microservices
4 88 (20.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (19.86%) Identity Access Management
5 84 (19.86%) RBAC
6 82 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (18.91%) Agile
8 70 (16.55%) Containerisation
9 64 (15.13%) Test Automation
10 60 (14.18%) Event-Driven
11 58 (13.71%) Observability
12 54 (12.77%) AI
13 52 (12.29%) API Management
13 52 (12.29%) Identity Management
13 52 (12.29%) Integration Patterns
13 52 (12.29%) Validation
14 48 (11.35%) Analytics
15 46 (10.87%) Data Modelling
16 45 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (24.59%) Python
2 71 (16.78%) Java
3 70 (16.55%) PowerShell
4 66 (15.60%) JavaScript
5 62 (14.66%) SQL
6 46 (10.87%) C#
7 43 (10.17%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.02%) Bicep
9 14 (3.31%) Go
10 13 (3.07%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (2.13%) Bash
13 6 (1.42%) Groovy
14 5 (1.18%) PHP
15 4 (0.95%) Swift
16 2 (0.47%) C++
17 1 (0.24%) C
17 1 (0.24%) COBOL
17 1 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
17 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 111 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.73%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.51%) Degree
4 31 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 25 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (5.44%) CISSP
8 12 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (2.36%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.89%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.65%) CISM
13 5 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.71%) GIAC
14 3 (0.71%) PhD
15 2 (0.47%) CCSP
15 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.24%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.17%) GDPR
2 32 (7.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 19 (4.49%) NIST
5 18 (4.26%) PCI DSS
6 16 (3.78%) QA
7 15 (3.55%) Data Quality
8 14 (3.31%) Accessibility
9 10 (2.36%) SOC 2
9 10 (2.36%) WCAG
10 7 (1.65%) HIPAA
10 7 (1.65%) PSD2
11 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.95%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.71%) GRC
13 3 (0.71%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.71%) SLA
14 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 96 (22.70%) Active Directory
2 92 (21.75%) Docker
3 6 (1.42%) RACF
4 4 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.47%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.47%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.47%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.24%) Squid
6 1 (0.24%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 106 (25.06%) Single Sign-On
2 90 (21.28%) Kubernetes
3 88 (20.80%) Terraform
4 47 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 29 (6.86%) Grafana
6 17 (4.02%) Prometheus
7 16 (3.78%) Ansible
8 6 (1.42%) Kibana
9 5 (1.18%) Argo
9 5 (1.18%) Istio
9 5 (1.18%) linkerd
9 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.71%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.24%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.24%) SCCM
11 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 127 (30.02%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.15%) Oracle
3 24 (5.67%) Google
3 24 (5.67%) Okta
4 17 (4.02%) CyberArk
4 17 (4.02%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.02%) Splunk
5 15 (3.55%) ForgeRock
5 15 (3.55%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.84%) Adobe
6 12 (2.84%) Ping Identity
7 11 (2.60%) MuleSoft
8 10 (2.36%) SAP
8 10 (2.36%) VMware
9 8 (1.89%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.89%) UiPath
10 7 (1.65%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (1.65%) IBM
11 6 (1.42%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.18%) Apple