Hybrid/Remote OAuth2 Contract Job Trends

OAuth 2.0
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OAuth2 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 267 293 354
Rank change year-on-year +26 +61 +121
Contract jobs citing OAuth2 51 23 37
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 0.77% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 25
10th Percentile £363 £422 £406
25th Percentile £406 £442 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +5.26% -24.00%
75th Percentile £583 £650 £506
90th Percentile £642 £690 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -13.04% +11.65% -17.60%

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 2,671 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%

OAuth2
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OAuth2 and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OAuth2 job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OAuth2
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OAuth2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OAuth2

OAuth2
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OAuth2 over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

OAuth2 daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

OAuth2
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 5 (9.80%) nginx
1 5 (9.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (7.84%) Apache
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle Service Bus
2 4 (7.84%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) AWS
2 22 (43.14%) Azure
3 17 (33.33%) GitHub
4 13 (25.49%) Serverless
5 10 (19.61%) GCP
6 9 (17.65%) Entra ID
6 9 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (13.73%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (11.76%) SaaS
9 5 (9.80%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
9 5 (9.80%) Azure Functions
9 5 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (7.84%) Power Automate
10 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
10 4 (7.84%) PowerApps
11 3 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.84%) Power BI
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.96%) Airbyte
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.96%) Looker
6 1 (1.96%) MySQL
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Git
2 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.80%) JIRA
3 3 (5.88%) GitLab
3 3 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (3.92%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.96%) git-flow
5 1 (1.96%) JMeter
5 1 (1.96%) Maven
5 1 (1.96%) NUnit
5 1 (1.96%) Postman
5 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Public Sector
3 8 (15.69%) Finance
4 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.73%) Banking
5 5 (9.80%) Digital Healthcare
6 3 (5.88%) Marketing
7 1 (1.96%) Billing
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (49.02%) Developer
2 6 (11.76%) Lead
2 6 (11.76%) Senior
3 5 (9.80%) Architect
3 5 (9.80%) Consultant
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle Consultant
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Middleware Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Technical Leader
6 2 (3.92%) Backend Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Data Integration Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Lead Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (100.00%) OAuth
2 22 (43.14%) REST
3 19 (37.25%) JSON
3 19 (37.25%) OpenID
4 16 (31.37%) RESTful
5 13 (25.49%) HTML
5 13 (25.49%) SOAP
6 11 (21.57%) SAML
6 11 (21.57%) Spring
6 11 (21.57%) XML
7 10 (19.61%) Spring Boot
8 9 (17.65%) Swagger
9 8 (15.69%) .NET
10 7 (13.73%) JWT
10 7 (13.73%) OpenAPI
11 6 (11.76%) Ajax
11 6 (11.76%) Kafka
12 5 (9.80%) CSS
13 4 (7.84%) Middleware
13 4 (7.84%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.84%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.88%) PKI
4 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
1 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (62.75%) DevOps
2 27 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 26 (50.98%) Agile
4 17 (33.33%) Microservices
4 17 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (29.41%) API Design
5 15 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (21.57%) Event-Driven
8 10 (19.61%) API Development
8 10 (19.61%) Computer Science
8 10 (19.61%) Mentoring
9 9 (17.65%) API Management
10 8 (15.69%) DevSecOps
10 8 (15.69%) RBAC
10 8 (15.69%) Scrum
10 8 (15.69%) SDLC
10 8 (15.69%) User Stories
11 7 (13.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (13.73%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) Java
2 16 (31.37%) Python
3 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 12 (23.53%) SQL
4 7 (13.73%) C#
4 7 (13.73%) PL/SQL
5 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.88%) Bash
8 2 (3.92%) Apex Code
8 2 (3.92%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.92%) PHP
9 1 (1.96%) Go
9 1 (1.96%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (1.96%) Groovy
9 1 (1.96%) Rust
9 1 (1.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (19.61%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) GDPR
1 5 (9.80%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.96%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.96%) PSD2
4 1 (1.96%) SLA
4 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) Docker
2 7 (13.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Terraform
2 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.69%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Grafana
5 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.96%) Argo
5 1 (1.96%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
1 8 (15.69%) Oracle
2 5 (9.80%) Pega
3 4 (7.84%) ForgeRock
3 4 (7.84%) Google
4 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.92%) Alibaba
5 2 (3.92%) Okta
5 2 (3.92%) Ping Identity
5 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.92%) Splunk
6 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.96%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.96%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.96%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.96%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.96%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.96%) Veracode