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 21 May 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 122 132
Rank change year-on-year -35 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Okta 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.15% 0.10% 0.038%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.20% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £516 £638 -
25th Percentile £541 £656 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% - -
75th Percentile £622 £731 -
90th Percentile £646 £743 -
England median daily rate £563 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -3.27% +5.73% +5.26%

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 1,335 1,020 1,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 40.64% 52.04% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 652 612
10th Percentile £268 £250 £257
25th Percentile £380 £388 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -1.55% +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £652 £674
England median daily rate £501 £523 £515
% change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 57 149
10th Percentile £19.46 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £23.00 £19.00 £12.00
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.00 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +99.25% -57.17%
75th Percentile £61.57 £60.00 £26.39
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -32 3 - - 2
Lancashire -8 1 £500 -23.08%
Cheshire - 1 £662 -
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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) IAM Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 2 (40.00%) OpenID
2 2 (40.00%) SAML
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Application Security
4 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft