OAuth2 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OAuth 2.0
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 310 353
Rank change year-on-year +41 +43 +155
Contract jobs citing OAuth2 35 35 125
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.23% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 0.95% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 97
10th Percentile £433 £409 £430
25th Percentile £472 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £552 £623 £600
90th Percentile £658 £675 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +5.00% -8.26% -5.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
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% +32.65%

OAuth2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OAuth2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OAuth2 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OAuth2
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OAuth2.

OAuth2 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OAuth2
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OAuth2 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OAuth2 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OAuth2
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) NEC Housing
1 1 (2.86%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) GitHub
2 7 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 5 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (8.57%) AWS KMS
5 3 (8.57%) IaaS
5 3 (8.57%) PaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Route 53
5 3 (8.57%) Serverless
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) HTTPS
1 4 (11.43%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (11.43%) SSL
2 3 (8.57%) HTTP
2 3 (8.57%) IPsec
2 3 (8.57%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.86%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) GitLab
2 3 (8.57%) Maven
3 1 (2.86%) Hudson
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Automotive
5 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Advertising
7 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Billing
7 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Architect
1 9 (25.71%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock Developer
5 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (100.00%) OAuth
2 20 (57.14%) OpenID
3 14 (40.00%) REST
4 12 (34.29%) SAML
5 6 (17.14%) Kafka
6 5 (14.29%) LDAP
6 5 (14.29%) NumPy
6 5 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (14.29%) Pandas
7 4 (11.43%) JDBC
7 4 (11.43%) Keycloak
7 4 (11.43%) Node.js
7 4 (11.43%) React
7 4 (11.43%) SOAP
7 4 (11.43%) Web Services
7 4 (11.43%) XACML
8 3 (8.57%) D3.js
8 3 (8.57%) OpenAPI
8 3 (8.57%) Spring
8 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) PKI
2 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Taxonomies
3 3 (8.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.86%) Life Science
5 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.86%) NHS
5 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Agile
2 16 (45.71%) DevOps
3 10 (28.57%) API Integration
3 10 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (28.57%) Scrum
4 8 (22.86%) Event-Driven
4 8 (22.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (22.86%) RBAC
4 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
4 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
5 7 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 6 (17.14%) API Development
6 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.29%) Data Science
7 5 (14.29%) Identity Management
7 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (14.29%) Microservices
7 5 (14.29%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Python
2 13 (37.14%) Java
3 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.43%) C#
4 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.57%) Go
6 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NCSC
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) RACF
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (37.14%) Terraform
3 11 (31.43%) Kubernetes
4 8 (22.86%) Ansible
5 3 (8.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) ForgeRock
2 4 (11.43%) Ping Identity
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.71%) Okta
4 1 (2.86%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.86%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) NEC
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) SAP