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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 129 120
Rank change year-on-year -40 -9 +19
Contract jobs citing Okta 10 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.26% 0.046% 0.083%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.090% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £282 - -
25th Percentile £355 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +14.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
England median daily rate £505 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.05% +7.50% -6.98%

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 1,644 1,115 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 42.23% 51.05% 39.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 726 517
10th Percentile £242 £306 £289
25th Percentile £400 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £663 £700 £675
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 82 45
10th Percentile £14.68 £13.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £22.00
Median hourly rate £29.96 £22.63 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +32.39% -36.00% +1.03%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.12 £46.18
90th Percentile £86.45 £67.25 £55.79
England median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
% change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Okta in the North West over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Okta in the North West

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 18 September 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 - 5 £525 - 14
Cheshire -1 2 £282 -45.14%
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 1
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 (10.00%) Mendix
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (10.00%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Billing
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
3 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) cloud-init
4 1 (10.00%) EDI
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) SAML
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) Data Mapping
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) CRM
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (10.00%) ERP
5 1 (10.00%) ITSM
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Go
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) WMI
2 1 (10.00%) Consul
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (10.00%) Istio
2 1 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) linkerd
2 1 (10.00%) Packer
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Rancher
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) BeyondTrust
3 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (20.00%) Splunk
5 1 (10.00%) Apple
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (10.00%) Databricks
5 1 (10.00%) ESET
5 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock
5 1 (10.00%) Meraki
5 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (10.00%) Workday