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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 403 369
Rank change year-on-year +78 -34 +120
Contract jobs citing OAuth 201 199 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.46% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.03% 2.22% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 154 264
10th Percentile £410 £430 £430
25th Percentile £475 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -5.78%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £683 £750 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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 30 April 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 15 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 30 April 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 +70 156 £568 +3.27% 120
London +57 97 £583 +7.13% 68
Work from Home +49 88 £537 -0.09% 82
UK excluding London +26 55 £525 - 54
North of England +26 26 £496 +10.22% 20
North West +15 20 £500 +11.11% 14
South East +47 14 £640 +28.00% 10
Yorkshire +9 6 £469 -10.67% 4
Midlands +5 6 £575 -7.56% 9
Scotland 0 6 £500 +1.99% 4
South West +48 4 £513 -18.00% 5
West Midlands +10 3 £588 -9.62% 4
East Midlands -3 3 £540 -12.90% 5
Wales +1 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 2

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 10 (4.98%) Confluence
2 5 (2.49%) Apache
2 5 (2.49%) nginx
2 5 (2.49%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.49%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.00%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.00%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.00%) Mule
5 1 (0.50%) Appian
5 1 (0.50%) CICS
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.50%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (2.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 96 (47.76%) Azure
2 65 (32.34%) Entra ID
3 60 (29.85%) AWS
4 31 (15.42%) GitHub
5 26 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (12.44%) Serverless
7 18 (8.96%) Azure AKS
7 18 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (8.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (8.46%) GCP
9 16 (7.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 13 (6.47%) Azure API Management
11 11 (5.47%) OCI
11 11 (5.47%) Power Platform
12 10 (4.98%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (4.98%) SaaS
13 9 (4.48%) Amazon S3
13 9 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (3.98%) IaaS
14 8 (3.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.47%) HTTP
2 12 (5.97%) HTTPS
3 10 (4.98%) DNS
3 10 (4.98%) SSL
4 9 (4.48%) Kerberos
5 5 (2.49%) Firewall
5 5 (2.49%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.49%) IPsec
7 1 (0.50%) FTP
7 1 (0.50%) Network Security
7 1 (0.50%) VPN
7 1 (0.50%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.93%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.96%) MongoDB
2 18 (8.96%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.47%) MySQL
4 9 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.99%) Redis
7 5 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.49%) Metadata
8 3 (1.49%) SSDT
9 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.50%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.50%) Parquet
9 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (9.95%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.97%) GitLab
2 14 (6.97%) JIRA
3 12 (5.97%) Git
4 8 (3.98%) Maven
5 4 (1.99%) Mockito
5 4 (1.99%) NUnit
5 4 (1.99%) Postman
6 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.49%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.49%) Gradle
6 3 (1.49%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.49%) JUnit
6 3 (1.49%) TestNG
7 2 (1.00%) Ant
7 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.00%) MLflow
7 2 (1.00%) webpack
8 1 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (18.41%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.93%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.94%) Finance
4 23 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.96%) Banking
6 4 (1.99%) Automotive
6 4 (1.99%) Marketing
7 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.49%) Retail
8 2 (1.00%) French Language
8 2 (1.00%) Publishing
8 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.50%) Advertising
9 1 (0.50%) Billing
9 1 (0.50%) Front Office
9 1 (0.50%) German Language
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (27.36%) Developer
2 47 (23.38%) Architect
3 24 (11.94%) Senior
4 22 (10.95%) Lead
5 20 (9.95%) Software Engineer
6 15 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (6.47%) Python Engineer
8 11 (5.47%) .NET Developer
8 11 (5.47%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.98%) Lead Developer
10 9 (4.48%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.98%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.48%) AWS Specialist
12 7 (3.48%) IAM Specialist
13 6 (2.99%) Analyst
13 6 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.99%) Java Developer
14 5 (2.49%) Senior DevOps
14 5 (2.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (49.75%) OpenID
2 89 (44.28%) SAML
3 65 (32.34%) OAuth2
4 50 (24.88%) REST
5 40 (19.90%) RESTful
6 30 (14.93%) JWT
7 29 (14.43%) Kafka
7 29 (14.43%) SOAP
8 27 (13.43%) LDAP
9 23 (11.44%) JSON
10 22 (10.95%) .NET
11 19 (9.45%) Node.js
12 18 (8.96%) React
13 17 (8.46%) Swagger
14 15 (7.46%) OpenAPI
14 15 (7.46%) Spring
14 15 (7.46%) Spring Boot
15 14 (6.97%) .NET Core
15 14 (6.97%) SailPoint
16 11 (5.47%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.46%) Cloud Native
1 17 (8.46%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (5.47%) PKI
3 9 (4.48%) Taxonomies
4 8 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.48%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.49%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.49%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.00%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.00%) EMV
8 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.00%) Wiki
9 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.99%) Linux
2 4 (1.99%) Android
2 4 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (37.81%) DevOps
2 66 (32.84%) Agile
2 66 (32.84%) Identity Access Management
3 62 (30.85%) CI/CD
4 52 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (21.89%) RBAC
6 37 (18.41%) Containerisation
6 37 (18.41%) Microservices
7 33 (16.42%) Identity Management
8 31 (15.42%) API Integration
8 31 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (14.43%) Migration
10 28 (13.93%) API Management
11 26 (12.94%) API Development
12 24 (11.94%) Test Automation
13 22 (10.95%) Software Engineering
14 21 (10.45%) Event-Driven
14 21 (10.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 20 (9.95%) Mentoring
15 20 (9.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.34%) Python
2 62 (30.85%) Java
3 36 (17.91%) JavaScript
4 34 (16.92%) C#
5 32 (15.92%) PowerShell
6 31 (15.42%) SQL
7 17 (8.46%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.48%) Groovy
9 6 (2.99%) Go
10 5 (2.49%) Bash
11 4 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.49%) Ruby
13 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 2 (1.00%) DataWeave
13 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.00%) XPath
14 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.46%) Degree
4 11 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.48%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.48%) OCP
6 7 (3.48%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (2.99%) CISSP
8 5 (2.49%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.50%) CISM
11 1 (0.50%) GPEN
11 1 (0.50%) GWAPT
11 1 (0.50%) OSCE
11 1 (0.50%) OSCP
11 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 17 (8.46%) GDPR
3 14 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.97%) HIPAA
4 12 (5.97%) NIST
5 7 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 7 (3.48%) QA
6 6 (2.99%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.99%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.00%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.00%) NCSC
7 2 (1.00%) PSD2
7 2 (1.00%) SEPA
7 2 (1.00%) SLA
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (20.40%) Active Directory
2 31 (15.42%) Docker
3 9 (4.48%) OpenAM
4 6 (2.99%) OpenDJ
4 6 (2.99%) OpenIDM
5 3 (1.49%) RACF
6 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.50%) LXC
Systems Management
1 67 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (24.38%) Kubernetes
2 49 (24.38%) Terraform
3 15 (7.46%) Ansible
4 4 (1.99%) Grafana
4 4 (1.99%) Kibana
4 4 (1.99%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.49%) Packer
5 3 (1.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.50%) Argo
6 1 (0.50%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.50%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.50%) Istio
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 42 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.94%) Okta
3 18 (8.96%) ForgeRock
3 18 (8.96%) Oracle
4 17 (8.46%) Ping Identity
5 13 (6.47%) Google
6 9 (4.48%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.99%) IBM
7 6 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.49%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.99%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.99%) SAP
10 3 (1.49%) UiPath
11 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.00%) Confluent
11 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.00%) Splunk
12 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.50%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.50%) Talend