Hybrid/Remote OAuth Contract Job Trends

OAuth
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OAuth skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 260 271
Rank change year-on-year +44 +11 +84
Contract jobs citing OAuth 102 56 121
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.00% 0.46% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.82% 1.88% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 42 85
10th Percentile £363 £425 £385
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £586 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +17.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £675 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -15.61% +7.73% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,671 2,983 4,341
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.23% 24.59% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,962 3,140
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 28 48
10th Percentile £31.00 £21.78 £40.22
25th Percentile £40.56 £32.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -7.55% +1.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

OAuth
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OAuth and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OAuth job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OAuth
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OAuth.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OAuth

OAuth
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OAuth over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

OAuth daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

OAuth
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OAuth.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OAuth

OAuth
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (5.88%) Apache
1 6 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.90%) nginx
2 5 (4.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (4.90%) WebLogic
3 4 (3.92%) Confluence
3 4 (3.92%) Oracle Service Bus
4 3 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.96%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.98%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.98%) IIS
6 1 (0.98%) iPlanet
6 1 (0.98%) JBoss
6 1 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (45.10%) Azure
2 42 (41.18%) AWS
3 23 (22.55%) GitHub
4 22 (21.57%) Entra ID
4 22 (21.57%) Serverless
5 14 (13.73%) SaaS
6 13 (12.75%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (12.75%) GCP
7 12 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (9.80%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (9.80%) Power Platform
9 8 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (7.84%) Azure Functions
9 8 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (6.86%) Amazon S3
10 7 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.80%) HTTPS
2 9 (8.82%) SSL
3 7 (6.86%) Kerberos
4 5 (4.90%) HTTP
5 1 (0.98%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) Power BI
2 7 (6.86%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.90%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (3.92%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.92%) Metadata
6 3 (2.94%) MySQL
6 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.96%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.98%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.98%) NewSQL
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.98%) Redis
8 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Git
2 9 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.82%) JIRA
3 3 (2.94%) GitLab
3 3 (2.94%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.94%) Postman
4 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.98%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.98%) git-flow
5 1 (0.98%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.98%) JMeter
5 1 (0.98%) Maven
5 1 (0.98%) NUnit
5 1 (0.98%) Selenium
5 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (45.10%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Public Sector
3 16 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (15.69%) Finance
4 9 (8.82%) Banking
5 5 (4.90%) Digital Healthcare
5 5 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Marketing
7 2 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (0.98%) Billing
8 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Local Government
8 1 (0.98%) Military
8 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (43.14%) Developer
2 15 (14.71%) Lead
3 13 (12.75%) Senior
4 8 (7.84%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.86%) Architect
6 6 (5.88%) Analyst
6 6 (5.88%) Consultant
7 5 (4.90%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (4.90%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Integration Developer
8 4 (3.92%) Lead Developer
8 4 (3.92%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (3.92%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) Technical Leader
9 3 (2.94%) Salesforce Developer
9 3 (2.94%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 42 (41.18%) REST
3 36 (35.29%) OpenID
4 33 (32.35%) SAML
5 31 (30.39%) JSON
6 25 (24.51%) SOAP
7 21 (20.59%) XML
8 18 (17.65%) JWT
8 18 (17.65%) RESTful
9 14 (13.73%) HTML
10 12 (11.76%) Spring
11 11 (10.78%) LDAP
12 10 (9.80%) Spring Boot
12 10 (9.80%) Swagger
13 9 (8.82%) Node.js
14 8 (7.84%) .NET
14 8 (7.84%) OpenAPI
15 7 (6.86%) GraphQL
15 7 (6.86%) Kafka
16 6 (5.88%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.86%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.92%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.94%) PKI
6 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.96%) BYOD
7 2 (1.96%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.96%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.98%) FMCG
8 1 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.98%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.78%) Linux
2 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.98%) Unix
3 1 (0.98%) Windows
3 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.02%) DevOps
2 44 (43.14%) CI/CD
3 36 (35.29%) Agile
4 27 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (21.57%) API Management
7 21 (20.59%) Microservices
8 19 (18.63%) Containerisation
9 18 (17.65%) API Development
10 17 (16.67%) API Design
10 17 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 16 (15.69%) Event-Driven
11 16 (15.69%) Identity Access Management
12 15 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
12 15 (14.71%) RBAC
13 14 (13.73%) Computer Science
13 14 (13.73%) Identity Management
14 12 (11.76%) API Integration
14 12 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 12 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (26.47%) Python
2 26 (25.49%) Java
3 17 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 17 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 16 (15.69%) SQL
5 10 (9.80%) C#
6 7 (6.86%) PL/SQL
7 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.92%) Groovy
9 3 (2.94%) Bash
9 3 (2.94%) Bicep
9 3 (2.94%) PHP
9 3 (2.94%) Ruby
10 2 (1.96%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.98%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.98%) Go
11 1 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.98%) Rust
11 1 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.73%) Degree
4 11 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.92%) CISSP
5 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.98%) CISA
7 1 (0.98%) CISM
7 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.98%) GIAC
7 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.73%) GDPR
2 6 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.90%) QA
4 3 (2.94%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.98%) NIST
6 1 (0.98%) PSD2
6 1 (0.98%) SLA
6 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (23.53%) Docker
2 18 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.98%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.98%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.98%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.98%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 22 (21.57%) Terraform
2 19 (18.63%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.88%) Ansible
5 5 (4.90%) Grafana
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.94%) SCCM
7 2 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.98%) Argo
8 1 (0.98%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.98%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.98%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.98%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.98%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 28 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.82%) Oracle
3 7 (6.86%) Axway
3 7 (6.86%) Google
4 6 (5.88%) ForgeRock
4 6 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.88%) Splunk
5 5 (4.90%) CyberArk
5 5 (4.90%) Pega
6 3 (2.94%) IBM
6 3 (2.94%) Okta
6 3 (2.94%) Ping Identity
6 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.96%) Alibaba
7 2 (1.96%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.96%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.98%) Apple
8 1 (0.98%) Intel
8 1 (0.98%) SAP