OAuth Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OAuth
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 256 267
Rank change year-on-year +49 +11 +120
Contract jobs citing OAuth 94 88 214
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 0.58% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.64% 2.41% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 70 155
10th Percentile £411 £424 £430
25th Percentile £472 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £538 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -4.02% -2.61%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £650
90th Percentile £653 £676 £750
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -0.95% -1.79% -4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK median hourly rate - - £45.00

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 2,580 3,647 6,489
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.07% 23.91% 25.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,881 2,547 4,823
10th Percentile £368 £331 £394
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.92%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £657
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 81
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £43.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -31.20% +27.55%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +31.31%

OAuth
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OAuth as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OAuth trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OAuth
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OAuth.

OAuth daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OAuth
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OAuth over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

OAuth daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OAuth
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OAuth.

OAuth hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OAuth
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) Appian
2 1 (1.06%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.06%) CMS
2 1 (1.06%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.06%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (45.74%) Azure
2 31 (32.98%) AWS
3 26 (27.66%) Entra ID
4 16 (17.02%) GCP
5 13 (13.83%) GitHub
5 13 (13.83%) Serverless
6 12 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.45%) SaaS
8 6 (6.38%) Azure AKS
8 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.32%) Azure API Management
9 5 (5.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.26%) Apigee
10 4 (4.26%) AWS KMS
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) HTTP
1 7 (7.45%) SSL
2 6 (6.38%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.26%) Kerberos
3 4 (4.26%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (3.19%) Firewall
4 3 (3.19%) IPsec
5 1 (1.06%) DNS
5 1 (1.06%) FTP
5 1 (1.06%) Network Security
5 1 (1.06%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.96%) NoSQL
2 13 (13.83%) MongoDB
3 12 (12.77%) SQL Server
4 10 (10.64%) MySQL
5 7 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.38%) Redis
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.19%) Metadata
7 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.06%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) GitLab
2 10 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.45%) JIRA
4 6 (6.38%) Maven
5 4 (4.26%) Mockito
5 4 (4.26%) NUnit
6 3 (3.19%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.19%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.19%) Git
6 3 (3.19%) Gradle
6 3 (3.19%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.19%) JUnit
6 3 (3.19%) TestNG
7 1 (1.06%) Ant
7 1 (1.06%) MLflow
7 1 (1.06%) Postman
7 1 (1.06%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (1.06%) Toad
7 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 17 (18.09%) Public Sector
2 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Finance
4 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Automotive
7 3 (3.19%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.19%) Marketing
8 2 (2.13%) Retail
9 1 (1.06%) Advertising
9 1 (1.06%) Billing
9 1 (1.06%) Front Office
9 1 (1.06%) German Language
9 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.06%) Publishing
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (32.98%) Developer
2 18 (19.15%) Senior
3 17 (18.09%) Architect
4 13 (13.83%) Lead
5 11 (11.70%) .NET Developer
6 9 (9.57%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Java Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) IT Security Officer
9 5 (5.32%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Security Officer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (5.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Node.js Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Security Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (44.68%) OpenID
2 35 (37.23%) OAuth2
2 35 (37.23%) SAML
3 26 (27.66%) REST
4 20 (21.28%) RESTful
5 15 (15.96%) JWT
5 15 (15.96%) Kafka
5 15 (15.96%) LDAP
6 14 (14.89%) Node.js
6 14 (14.89%) Spring
7 13 (13.83%) .NET
8 12 (12.77%) Spring Boot
9 11 (11.70%) React
9 11 (11.70%) SOAP
10 9 (9.57%) .NET Core
11 8 (8.51%) OpenAPI
11 8 (8.51%) Swagger
12 7 (7.45%) ASP.NET
12 7 (7.45%) Web Services
13 6 (6.38%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.70%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.38%) PKI
5 4 (4.26%) Taxonomies
6 3 (3.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Life Science
8 1 (1.06%) NHS
8 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Android
1 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (44.68%) DevOps
2 41 (43.62%) Agile
3 33 (35.11%) CI/CD
4 28 (29.79%) Identity Access Management
4 28 (29.79%) Microservices
5 24 (25.53%) Containerisation
6 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (22.34%) RBAC
8 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (19.15%) API Integration
10 16 (17.02%) API Development
11 14 (14.89%) Scrum
12 13 (13.83%) Event-Driven
12 13 (13.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (13.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (12.77%) DevSecOps
13 12 (12.77%) Identity Management
13 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
13 12 (12.77%) Test Automation
13 12 (12.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.30%) Java
2 26 (27.66%) Python
3 20 (21.28%) SQL
4 18 (19.15%) JavaScript
5 14 (14.89%) C#
6 12 (12.77%) PowerShell
7 10 (10.64%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.19%) Bash
8 3 (3.19%) Go
8 3 (3.19%) Groovy
9 2 (2.13%) C
9 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.06%) Bicep
10 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.06%) Scala
10 1 (1.06%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.51%) Degree
2 8 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) OCP
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.06%) CISM
6 1 (1.06%) CISSP
6 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 9 (9.57%) GDPR
3 6 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.38%) QA
4 5 (5.32%) HIPAA
5 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.26%) NIST
6 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.06%) NCSC
7 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.06%) SLA
7 1 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (27.66%) Docker
2 16 (17.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.19%) RACF
4 2 (2.13%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.13%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.13%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 34 (36.17%) Single Sign-On
2 30 (31.91%) Kubernetes
3 26 (27.66%) Terraform
4 9 (9.57%) Ansible
5 5 (5.32%) Grafana
5 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.19%) Packer
7 2 (2.13%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 1 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.06%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.64%) Google
3 9 (9.57%) Ping Identity
4 8 (8.51%) Oracle
5 7 (7.45%) ForgeRock
5 7 (7.45%) Okta
6 5 (5.32%) IBM
7 4 (4.26%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.13%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.13%) SAP
9 1 (1.06%) Axway
9 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.06%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.06%) HubSpot
9 1 (1.06%) NEC
9 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.06%) Splunk
9 1 (1.06%) Talend