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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 402 341
Rank change year-on-year +85 -61 +132
Contract jobs citing OAuth 214 184 394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.43% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.27% 2.04% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 142 280
10th Percentile £400 £432 £430
25th Percentile £460 £494 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +6.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £651
90th Percentile £678 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% +3.81%
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 6,540 9,007 12,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.03% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,496 6,267 9,434
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 251 146
10th Percentile £28.29 £21.73 £27.88
25th Percentile £39.84 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.64 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.18 £74.50 £80.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +34.21% -25.49% +18.99%

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 29 May 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 29 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
England +92 165 £538 -10.42% 679
London +75 93 £550 -2.65% 85
Work from Home +51 93 £519 -10.14% 366
UK excluding London +56 67 £500 -9.09% 684
North of England +17 27 £496 -2.17% 143
North West +20 21 £500 -19.35% 69
South East +51 15 £630 +26.00% 208
Midlands -2 12 £430 -30.87% 128
East Midlands +2 11 £420 -32.26% 53
Scotland +6 8 £500 +0.86% 29
Yorkshire +3 6 £469 -7.13% 57
South West +42 4 £513 -6.82% 77
East of England +32 2 £500 -42.86% 97
West Midlands +7 1 £603 -7.23% 67
Wales 0 1 - - 18
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 9

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 9 (4.21%) Confluence
2 7 (3.27%) Apache
3 5 (2.34%) nginx
3 5 (2.34%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.87%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.87%) Mule
5 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.40%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.47%) CICS
7 1 (0.47%) CMS
7 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.47%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (2.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (46.26%) Azure
2 80 (37.38%) AWS
3 61 (28.50%) Entra ID
4 32 (14.95%) GitHub
5 28 (13.08%) GCP
6 27 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (11.68%) Serverless
8 19 (8.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 18 (8.41%) Azure AKS
10 16 (7.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 16 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (6.54%) SaaS
12 13 (6.07%) OCI
13 12 (5.61%) Azure API Management
14 11 (5.14%) Power Platform
15 9 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (4.21%) Amazon S3
15 9 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (3.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.61%) SSL
2 11 (5.14%) HTTP
2 11 (5.14%) HTTPS
2 11 (5.14%) Kerberos
3 10 (4.67%) DNS
4 5 (2.34%) Firewall
5 4 (1.87%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.40%) IPsec
7 2 (0.93%) Network Security
8 1 (0.47%) FTP
8 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.15%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.81%) MongoDB
3 19 (8.88%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.61%) MySQL
6 9 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.27%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.34%) Redis
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.40%) Metadata
9 3 (1.40%) SSDT
10 2 (0.93%) Flink
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.47%) NewSQL
11 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.47%) Parquet
11 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (13.08%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.41%) GitLab
3 14 (6.54%) JIRA
4 12 (5.61%) Git
5 10 (4.67%) Maven
6 6 (2.80%) JUnit
6 6 (2.80%) Mockito
7 4 (1.87%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.87%) NUnit
8 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.40%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.40%) Gradle
8 3 (1.40%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.40%) Postman
8 3 (1.40%) TestNG
9 2 (0.93%) Ant
9 2 (0.93%) MLflow
9 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.93%) webpack
10 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
General
1 48 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.55%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.08%) Finance
4 25 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.94%) Banking
6 4 (1.87%) Marketing
7 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.93%) French Language
8 2 (0.93%) Publishing
8 2 (0.93%) Retail
9 1 (0.47%) Advertising
9 1 (0.47%) Automotive
9 1 (0.47%) Billing
9 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (26.17%) Developer
2 51 (23.83%) Architect
3 23 (10.75%) Lead
4 20 (9.35%) Senior
4 20 (9.35%) Software Engineer
5 14 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (5.61%) Python Engineer
6 12 (5.61%) Security Architect
7 11 (5.14%) .NET Developer
8 10 (4.67%) AWS Specialist
8 10 (4.67%) IAM Specialist
8 10 (4.67%) Java Developer
8 10 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.21%) Lead Developer
10 8 (3.74%) Analyst
10 8 (3.74%) Java Engineer
10 8 (3.74%) Python Software Engineer
10 8 (3.74%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (52.80%) OpenID
2 91 (42.52%) SAML
3 68 (31.78%) OAuth2
4 54 (25.23%) REST
5 42 (19.63%) RESTful
6 35 (16.36%) JWT
7 30 (14.02%) Kafka
7 30 (14.02%) SOAP
8 26 (12.15%) LDAP
9 24 (11.21%) Spring
10 21 (9.81%) .NET
10 21 (9.81%) JSON
10 21 (9.81%) Node.js
11 17 (7.94%) React
11 17 (7.94%) Spring Boot
11 17 (7.94%) Swagger
12 16 (7.48%) SailPoint
13 15 (7.01%) OpenAPI
14 13 (6.07%) GraphQL
14 13 (6.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.28%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (9.81%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.61%) PKI
4 9 (4.21%) Taxonomies
5 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.40%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.93%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (0.93%) EMV
10 2 (0.93%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.27%) Linux
2 5 (2.34%) Android
3 4 (1.87%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
4 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (39.72%) DevOps
2 76 (35.51%) CI/CD
3 65 (30.37%) Agile
3 65 (30.37%) Identity Access Management
4 59 (27.57%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (20.56%) RBAC
6 43 (20.09%) Containerisation
7 40 (18.69%) Microservices
8 39 (18.22%) Identity Management
9 32 (14.95%) API Integration
9 32 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (14.02%) API Development
10 30 (14.02%) Migration
11 29 (13.55%) API Management
11 29 (13.55%) Test Automation
12 25 (11.68%) Event-Driven
13 24 (11.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 24 (11.21%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.28%) Software Engineering
15 21 (9.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 75 (35.05%) Java
2 65 (30.37%) Python
3 35 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 32 (14.95%) SQL
5 31 (14.49%) C#
6 24 (11.21%) PowerShell
7 16 (7.48%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.74%) Go
9 7 (3.27%) Bash
9 7 (3.27%) Groovy
10 6 (2.80%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.87%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.40%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.40%) C
12 3 (1.40%) Ruby
13 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.93%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.94%) Degree
4 11 (5.14%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.21%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.27%) CISSP
6 7 (3.27%) OCP
6 7 (3.27%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.93%) CISM
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.47%) GPEN
10 1 (0.47%) GWAPT
10 1 (0.47%) OSCE
10 1 (0.47%) OSCP
10 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 26 (12.15%) GDPR
3 19 (8.88%) HIPAA
3 19 (8.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (6.54%) NIST
5 8 (3.74%) QA
6 7 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.80%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.93%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.93%) NCSC
9 2 (0.93%) PSD2
9 2 (0.93%) SEPA
9 2 (0.93%) SLA
9 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.47%) GRC
System Software
1 40 (18.69%) Docker
2 37 (17.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.74%) OpenAM
4 5 (2.34%) OpenDJ
4 5 (2.34%) OpenIDM
5 3 (1.40%) RACF
5 3 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.47%) LXC
6 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (31.78%) Single Sign-On
2 60 (28.04%) Kubernetes
3 51 (23.83%) Terraform
4 15 (7.01%) Ansible
5 8 (3.74%) Grafana
5 8 (3.74%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.74%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 7 (3.27%) Kibana
7 3 (1.40%) CloudHub
7 3 (1.40%) Packer
7 3 (1.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
8 1 (0.47%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 45 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.62%) Ping Identity
3 22 (10.28%) Okta
4 21 (9.81%) Oracle
5 19 (8.88%) ForgeRock
6 14 (6.54%) Google
6 14 (6.54%) IBM
7 11 (5.14%) MuleSoft
8 8 (3.74%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.27%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.87%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.87%) SAP
11 3 (1.40%) UiPath
12 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.93%) Confluent
12 2 (0.93%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.93%) Splunk
13 1 (0.47%) Pega
13 1 (0.47%) Talend