Okta Contract Job Trends in the North West

Okta
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Okta products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Okta over the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Okta, Inc.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 125 124
Rank change year-on-year -25 -1 +48
Contract jobs citing Okta 3 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.11% 0.096% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 0.24% 0.19% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £638 £472
25th Percentile - £656 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £731 -
90th Percentile - £743 £539
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +14.29%

All Vendors
North West

Okta falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,276 1,056 1,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 46.05% 50.89% 42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 635 759
10th Percentile £213 £250 £265
25th Percentile £360 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £583
90th Percentile £688 £671 £683
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 50 119
10th Percentile £15.56 £19.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.46 £14.50
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +83.41% -40.93%
75th Percentile £60.61 £60.00 £38.43
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.78 £27.14
% change year-on-year -22.60% +13.41% -18.99%

Okta
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Okta relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Okta job vacancy trend in the North West

Okta
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Okta.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Okta

Okta
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Okta within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -19 3 - - 6
Okta
England

Okta
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) IAM Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk