OAuth2 Contract Job Trends

OAuth 2.0
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OAuth2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 452 518
Rank change year-on-year +40 +66 -15
Contract jobs citing OAuth2 213 70 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.25% 1.05% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 41 52
10th Percentile £344 £425 £425
25th Percentile £438 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £662 £656 £604
90th Percentile £715 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £542 £525 £480
% change year-on-year +3.14% +9.38% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - -

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 9,451 6,681 8,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.43% 22.69% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,290 4,581 6,209
10th Percentile £358 £363 £337
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 103 203
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.18 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.53 £37.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

OAuth2
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OAuth2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OAuth2 job vacancy trend in the UK

OAuth2
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OAuth2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OAuth2

OAuth2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OAuth2 over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OAuth2 in the UK

OAuth2
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OAuth2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OAuth2

OAuth2
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 OAuth2 within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 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 -5 177 £546 +3.95% 41
UK excluding London -12 103 £542 +3.14% 24
London -9 80 £526 -3.40% 21
Work from Home -17 52 £485 -3.00% 26
North of England -33 43 £600 +14.29% 11
South West -5 24 £675 +1.89%
North West -34 23 £600 +14.29% 5
Yorkshire -39 19 £625 - 6
South East -40 16 £550 +2.90% 11
Midlands - 10 £449 -
Scotland - 6 £306 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £485 -
East of England - 4 £500 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
North East - 2 £525 -

OAuth2
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 7 (3.29%) Confluence
2 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.41%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.94%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.47%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.47%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 93 (43.66%) Azure
2 87 (40.85%) AWS
3 50 (23.47%) Serverless
4 44 (20.66%) GCP
5 43 (20.19%) Entra ID
6 38 (17.84%) GitHub
7 37 (17.37%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (10.33%) Azure API Management
9 22 (10.33%) Azure Functions
10 21 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (9.39%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (9.39%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (8.92%) Azure AKS
13 17 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (7.98%) Amazon S3
13 17 (7.98%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (7.98%) SaaS
14 16 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (7.51%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.86%) DNS
2 20 (9.39%) Firewall
3 12 (5.63%) SSL
4 11 (5.16%) HTTP
5 6 (2.82%) HTTPS
5 6 (2.82%) Kerberos
6 5 (2.35%) IPsec
6 5 (2.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.41%) Network Security
8 1 (0.47%) DHCP
8 1 (0.47%) SMS
8 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.04%) Redis
2 14 (6.57%) DynamoDB
2 14 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.57%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.69%) MySQL
4 10 (4.69%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.29%) Metadata
7 5 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.35%) Power BI
8 4 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.88%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.41%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (15.02%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.92%) Git
3 18 (8.45%) GitLab
4 8 (3.76%) JIRA
4 8 (3.76%) Postman
5 5 (2.35%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.35%) Maven
5 5 (2.35%) NUnit
6 4 (1.88%) JUnit
6 4 (1.88%) Selenium
7 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.94%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.94%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.94%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.94%) Gatling
8 2 (0.94%) git-flow
8 2 (0.94%) Gradle
8 2 (0.94%) Mockito
8 2 (0.94%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.43%) Finance
3 34 (15.96%) Banking
4 20 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.82%) Marketing
6 6 (2.82%) Retail
7 5 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.88%) Publishing
9 3 (1.41%) Games
10 2 (0.94%) Billing
10 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (32.39%) Developer
2 51 (23.94%) Architect
3 36 (16.90%) Senior
4 18 (8.45%) Java Developer
4 18 (8.45%) Lead
5 14 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (6.10%) Technical Architect
7 11 (5.16%) C# Developer
8 10 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.23%) Security Architect
10 8 (3.76%) Backend Developer
11 7 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.82%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 6 (2.82%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (2.82%) Mobile Developer
12 6 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (100.00%) OAuth
2 118 (55.40%) OpenID
3 75 (35.21%) SAML
4 56 (26.29%) JWT
5 54 (25.35%) REST
6 38 (17.84%) Spring
6 38 (17.84%) Spring Boot
7 37 (17.37%) RESTful
8 33 (15.49%) .NET
9 30 (14.08%) Kafka
10 27 (12.68%) JSON
11 25 (11.74%) Node.js
12 18 (8.45%) .NET Core
12 18 (8.45%) OpenTelemetry
13 17 (7.98%) HTML
14 16 (7.51%) XML
15 12 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (5.63%) React
16 11 (5.16%) JPA
17 10 (4.69%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.47%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.15%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.51%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.29%) PKI
5 7 (3.29%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.82%) Replication
7 5 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.88%) Clustering
8 4 (1.88%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.39%) Windows
2 18 (8.45%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.82%) Android
3 6 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.94%) Linux
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (52.11%) CI/CD
2 85 (39.91%) Microservices
3 84 (39.44%) DevOps
4 60 (28.17%) Observability
5 59 (27.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (25.35%) Event-Driven
7 49 (23.00%) Containerisation
8 42 (19.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 39 (18.31%) Agile
10 38 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (17.37%) RBAC
12 35 (16.43%) Test Automation
13 31 (14.55%) API Management
13 31 (14.55%) Data Modelling
14 30 (14.08%) Design Patterns
14 30 (14.08%) Mentoring
15 26 (12.21%) Identity Access Management
15 26 (12.21%) Validation
16 25 (11.74%) Zero Trust
17 24 (11.27%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 61 (28.64%) Java
2 40 (18.78%) Python
3 36 (16.90%) SQL
4 32 (15.02%) C#
5 25 (11.74%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.74%) PowerShell
6 24 (11.27%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.51%) Bicep
8 13 (6.10%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.29%) Go
10 5 (2.35%) Bash
11 3 (1.41%) PHP
12 2 (0.94%) Swift
13 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.47%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.47%) COBOL
13 1 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.47%) REXX
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
13 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.80%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.45%) DV Cleared
3 18 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (7.04%) Degree
5 11 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.76%) CISSP
7 6 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.41%) CISM
9 3 (1.41%) GIAC
10 2 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (6.57%) GDPR
3 13 (6.10%) NIST
3 13 (6.10%) QA
4 12 (5.63%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.82%) WCAG
6 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.35%) ISO 20022
6 5 (2.35%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.41%) GRC
8 3 (1.41%) ISO 8583
8 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.41%) SEPA
9 2 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.94%) PSD2
10 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.47%) NCSC
10 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 60 (28.17%) Docker
2 42 (19.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.35%) RACF
3 5 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 60 (28.17%) Kubernetes
2 57 (26.76%) Terraform
3 44 (20.66%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (11.74%) Grafana
5 22 (10.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (8.45%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.82%) Istio
7 6 (2.82%) linkerd
8 5 (2.35%) Ansible
8 5 (2.35%) Argo
9 4 (1.88%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.88%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.88%) PingFederate
10 3 (1.41%) Kibana
11 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 60 (28.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.16%) Google
2 11 (5.16%) Splunk
3 10 (4.69%) Okta
4 9 (4.23%) Ping Identity
5 8 (3.76%) ForgeRock
5 8 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.76%) VMware
6 6 (2.82%) Adobe
6 6 (2.82%) CyberArk
6 6 (2.82%) Oracle
7 5 (2.35%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.88%) Apple
8 4 (1.88%) IBM
8 4 (1.88%) SAP
9 3 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (0.94%) Braze
10 2 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.94%) OneTrust