OAuth2 Contracts

OAuth 2.0
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OAuth2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OAuth2 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 454 530 490
Rank change year-on-year +76 -40 +167
Contract jobs citing OAuth2 65 70 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.16% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.78% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 163
10th Percentile £444 £425 £430
25th Percentile £469 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.26% -5.63%
75th Percentile £585 £609 £613
90th Percentile £663 £675 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £480 £496
% change year-on-year +9.38% -3.27% +8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OAuth2 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%

OAuth2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OAuth2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OAuth2 in the UK

OAuth2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OAuth2.

Daily rate trend for OAuth2 in the UK

OAuth2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OAuth2 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OAuth2 in the UK

OAuth2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OAuth2.

Hourly rate trend for OAuth2 in the UK

OAuth2
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OAuth2 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 +60 51 £525 +5.00% 52
Work from Home +50 35 £500 - 39
London +39 34 £541 +8.15% 31
UK excluding London +34 15 £525 +9.38% 21
North of England +30 13 £525 +16.67% 11
North West +12 12 £525 +16.67% 8
South East +44 2 £660 +25.71% 5
South West - 1 £663 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

OAuth2
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 2 (3.08%) Confluence
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.54%) Mule
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.54%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.31%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) GitHub
3 18 (27.69%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (23.08%) Entra ID
5 14 (21.54%) AWS
5 14 (21.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (20.00%) Azure AKS
6 13 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.15%) SaaS
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.62%) GCP
9 3 (4.62%) IaaS
9 3 (4.62%) PaaS
9 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.62%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) DNS
2 6 (9.23%) HTTPS
3 5 (7.69%) HTTP
3 5 (7.69%) OpenLDAP
3 5 (7.69%) SSL
4 3 (4.62%) IPsec
4 3 (4.62%) Kerberos
5 2 (3.08%) Firewall
6 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.54%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) GitLab
1 4 (6.15%) Maven
2 3 (4.62%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) Postman
3 1 (1.54%) Hudson
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (21.54%) Finance
2 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.15%) Automotive
4 4 (6.15%) Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.62%) Marketing
6 1 (1.54%) Advertising
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Billing
6 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Publishing
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Architect
1 16 (24.62%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) Software Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) Python Software Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Senior
6 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Power Platform Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Lead
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (100.00%) OAuth
2 39 (60.00%) OpenID
3 27 (41.54%) REST
4 19 (29.23%) SAML
5 16 (24.62%) Kafka
6 9 (13.85%) NumPy
6 9 (13.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (13.85%) Pandas
7 8 (12.31%) OpenAPI
7 8 (12.31%) SOAP
7 8 (12.31%) Swagger
8 7 (10.77%) RESTful
9 6 (9.23%) JDBC
9 6 (9.23%) JSON
9 6 (9.23%) LDAP
9 6 (9.23%) React
9 6 (9.23%) Web Services
10 5 (7.69%) Keycloak
11 4 (6.15%) Node.js
11 4 (6.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Taxonomies
2 8 (12.31%) PKI
3 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.08%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (3.08%) EMV
5 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.54%) Life Science
6 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.54%) NHS
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Android
1 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) Agile
2 23 (35.38%) DevOps
3 20 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
4 19 (29.23%) Test Automation
5 15 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 15 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 14 (21.54%) API Integration
6 14 (21.54%) RBAC
6 14 (21.54%) Scrum
7 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (16.92%) DevSecOps
8 11 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (16.92%) Quantitative Finance
9 10 (15.38%) API Development
9 10 (15.38%) API Management
9 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 10 (15.38%) Event-Driven
9 10 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (15.38%) Identity Management
10 9 (13.85%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) Python
2 20 (30.77%) Java
3 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
4 12 (18.46%) C#
5 5 (7.69%) Go
5 5 (7.69%) SQL
6 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.54%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) Degree
2 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.08%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.08%) ISO 8583
2 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.08%) PSD2
2 2 (3.08%) SEPA
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) NCSC
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) QA
3 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.23%) Docker
3 3 (4.62%) RACF
Systems Management
1 26 (40.00%) Terraform
2 23 (35.38%) Kubernetes
3 19 (29.23%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (15.38%) Ansible
5 3 (4.62%) Packer
6 1 (1.54%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) ForgeRock
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Ping Identity
3 4 (6.15%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.62%) Okta
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) Dell
6 1 (1.54%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.54%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.54%) IBM
6 1 (1.54%) NEC
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.54%) SAP