WebAuthn Contract Job Trends

WebAuthn
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WebAuthn skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 534 -
Rank change year-on-year -98 - -
Contract jobs citing WebAuthn 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.013% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.010% 0.059% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £633 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WebAuthn 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 9,851 6,815 9,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.85% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,652 6,374
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.22% -2.43%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 126 276
10th Percentile £30.50 £29.16 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% -13.46%

WebAuthn
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WebAuthn job vacancy trend in the UK

WebAuthn
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

WebAuthn
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebAuthn within the UK over the 6 months to 19 June 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 -113 1 £565 -10.74% 1
UK excluding London - 1 £565 - 1
North of England - 1 £565 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £565 - 1

WebAuthn
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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FIDO
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Okta