OAuth
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring OAuth skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 497 589
Rank change year-on-year -20 +92 0
Permanent jobs citing OAuth 298 173 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 2.07% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 186 119 85
10th Percentile £55,625 £42,500 £46,900
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -7.90%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £95,625 £105,000 £101,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OAuth falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,830 8,338 15,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 16.87% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,357 5,307 9,772
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +6.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

OAuth
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OAuth job vacancy trend in the UK

OAuth
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OAuth.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OAuth

OAuth
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OAuth over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for OAuth in the UK

OAuth
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OAuth within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 249 £75,000 +3.45% 356
UK excluding London -88 135 £65,000 -5.45% 162
London +12 131 £77,500 - 212
Work from Home -22 102 £68,500 -5.52% 177
South East -25 44 £72,500 +22.88% 41
North of England -39 34 £67,500 +31.71% 42
North West -7 25 £85,000 +47.83% 18
Wales - 21 £60,000 - 1
Midlands -47 18 - - 15
South West -74 10 £35,000 -63.16% 17
East Midlands -27 9 - - 3
West Midlands -60 9 - - 12
Yorkshire -30 5 £54,222 +44.59% 20
Scotland -15 4 £85,000 - 23
East of England -35 4 - - 19
North East - 4 £49,222 - 4

OAuth
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 17 (5.70%) Anypoint
2 14 (4.70%) Mule
3 7 (2.35%) Camunda
4 5 (1.68%) Apache
4 5 (1.68%) JBoss
4 5 (1.68%) nginx
4 5 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.34%) Confluence
5 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.01%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.01%) IIS
6 3 (1.01%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.34%) Magento
3 1 (0.34%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 182 (61.07%) Azure
2 128 (42.95%) AWS
3 67 (22.48%) Entra ID
4 50 (16.78%) SaaS
5 49 (16.44%) GCP
6 43 (14.43%) GitHub
7 35 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (11.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 31 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (9.06%) Azure Monitor
10 27 (9.06%) Serverless
11 23 (7.72%) Azure Key Vault
11 23 (7.72%) iPaaS
12 22 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (5.70%) Amazon S3
13 17 (5.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (5.70%) Azure Storage
14 14 (4.70%) Azure Functions
15 13 (4.36%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.73%) SSL
2 26 (8.72%) Kerberos
2 26 (8.72%) Network Security
3 21 (7.05%) DNS
4 19 (6.38%) HTTP
5 18 (6.04%) Firewall
6 15 (5.03%) DMARC
7 13 (4.36%) AMQP
7 13 (4.36%) SMS
8 12 (4.03%) DHCP
9 10 (3.36%) BGP
9 10 (3.36%) FTP
9 10 (3.36%) ICMP
9 10 (3.36%) IPsec
9 10 (3.36%) MPLS
9 10 (3.36%) SNMP
9 10 (3.36%) SSH
9 10 (3.36%) VLAN
9 10 (3.36%) VPN
9 10 (3.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.37%) Relational Database
2 16 (5.37%) SQL Server
3 13 (4.36%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.03%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.02%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.02%) MySQL
6 8 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.34%) Metadata
7 4 (1.34%) Power BI
8 3 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.01%) Redis
9 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.34%) Flink
10 1 (0.34%) GIS
10 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 37 (12.42%) Git
2 10 (3.36%) JIRA
3 8 (2.68%) GitLab
4 5 (1.68%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.68%) JUnit
4 5 (1.68%) Mockito
5 4 (1.34%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.34%) Subversion
6 3 (1.01%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.67%) Maven
7 2 (0.67%) Mocha
7 2 (0.67%) NUnit
7 2 (0.67%) Snyk
7 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.34%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.34%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 79 (26.51%) Finance
3 27 (9.06%) Law
4 26 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.05%) Marketing
6 16 (5.37%) Aerospace
7 13 (4.36%) Banking
7 13 (4.36%) Health Technology
7 13 (4.36%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.36%) Tech for Good
8 11 (3.69%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.36%) Legal
10 8 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.01%) Police
12 3 (1.01%) Publishing
13 2 (0.67%) Aviation
13 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (29.87%) Developer
2 69 (23.15%) Architect
3 68 (22.82%) Senior
4 48 (16.11%) Lead
5 39 (13.09%) Senior Developer
6 32 (10.74%) Software Engineer
7 26 (8.72%) Consultant
8 22 (7.38%) Technical Consultant
9 17 (5.70%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.70%) MuleSoft Developer
10 16 (5.37%) Security Architect
11 15 (5.03%) Security Engineer
11 15 (5.03%) Technical Leader
12 14 (4.70%) Lead Developer
13 13 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (4.36%) Senior Java Developer
14 12 (4.03%) Applications Engineer
15 11 (3.69%) Integration Architect
16 10 (3.36%) Infrastructure Architect
16 10 (3.36%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (53.02%) OAuth2
2 144 (48.32%) OpenID
3 112 (37.58%) SAML
4 110 (36.91%) JWT
5 109 (36.58%) REST
6 65 (21.81%) Terraform
7 51 (17.11%) RESTful
8 46 (15.44%) Spring
9 43 (14.43%) Spring Boot
10 41 (13.76%) CSS
10 41 (13.76%) LDAP
10 41 (13.76%) Node.js
10 41 (13.76%) React
11 38 (12.75%) Middleware
12 36 (12.08%) .NET
13 27 (9.06%) NestJS
14 26 (8.72%) SOAP
15 21 (7.05%) RabbitMQ
16 20 (6.71%) JPA
16 20 (6.71%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 43 (14.43%) Onboarding
3 37 (12.42%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (7.05%) Marketing Technology
6 17 (5.70%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (5.37%) Social Media
8 13 (4.36%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 10 (3.36%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.01%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.01%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.68%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.68%) PKI
11 5 (1.68%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.34%) Digital Wallet
12 4 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.36%) Windows
2 4 (1.34%) Linux
3 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (41.28%) CI/CD
2 84 (28.19%) Event-Driven
3 76 (25.50%) Microservices
4 75 (25.17%) AI
5 73 (24.50%) DevOps
6 72 (24.16%) Test Automation
7 69 (23.15%) Mentoring
8 68 (22.82%) Integration Patterns
9 64 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (20.81%) RBAC
11 61 (20.47%) Cybersecurity
11 61 (20.47%) Identity Access Management
12 57 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (18.46%) Agile
13 55 (18.46%) Software Engineering
14 52 (17.45%) Containerisation
15 50 (16.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 48 (16.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 41 (13.76%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (13.76%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (24.50%) Java
2 63 (21.14%) JavaScript
3 57 (19.13%) SQL
4 47 (15.77%) Python
5 41 (13.76%) PowerShell
6 35 (11.74%) C#
7 31 (10.40%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.70%) DataWeave
9 10 (3.36%) Bash
9 10 (3.36%) Bicep
10 9 (3.02%) ABAP
10 9 (3.02%) Go
11 6 (2.01%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.34%) Rust
13 1 (0.34%) SOQL
13 1 (0.34%) SOSL
13 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.42%) CISSP
3 24 (8.05%) Degree
4 22 (7.38%) Azure Certification
4 22 (7.38%) SC Cleared
5 21 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (6.04%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.36%) CISM
8 10 (3.36%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.68%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.34%) CCSP
11 4 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.34%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.34%) PMP
12 3 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.09%) QA
2 22 (7.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (5.70%) NIST
4 8 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.34%) ISO 22301
5 4 (1.34%) SLA
6 2 (0.67%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (25.17%) Docker
2 66 (22.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.67%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 53 (17.79%) Kubernetes
2 49 (16.44%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (5.70%) Ansible
4 14 (4.70%) CloudHub
5 10 (3.36%) CASB
5 10 (3.36%) FortiGate
6 9 (3.02%) Grafana
7 8 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.68%) Nagios
9 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.67%) WMI
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.34%) Podman
11 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 79 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.74%) Okta
3 28 (9.40%) SAP
4 20 (6.71%) ForgeRock
4 20 (6.71%) MuleSoft
4 20 (6.71%) Ping Identity
5 19 (6.38%) Google
5 19 (6.38%) Salesforce
5 19 (6.38%) ServiceNow
6 15 (5.03%) SendGrid
7 13 (4.36%) Cisco
8 12 (4.03%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.36%) iManage
9 10 (3.36%) Splunk
10 9 (3.02%) CyberArk
11 8 (2.68%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.68%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.68%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.68%) New Relic
12 5 (1.68%) Red Hat