Okta Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Okta
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 October 2025, 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
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 349 375
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 +109
Contract jobs citing Okta 17 22 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% 0.29% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 32
10th Percentile £228 - £299
25th Percentile £272 £203 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £645 £557
90th Percentile £634 £715 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -0.19%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,833 7,607 9,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.26% 44.64% 46.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,908 4,386 6,323
10th Percentile £221 £223 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 624 462 524
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.99 £15.62 £17.74
Median hourly rate £21.48 £30.00 £42.15
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% -28.83% +97.05%
75th Percentile £35.51 £63.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £74.99
UK median hourly rate £24.62 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.25% -25.86% +79.15%

Okta
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Okta relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Okta job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Okta
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Okta.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Okta

Okta
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Okta in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Okta in the UK excluding London

Okta
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Okta.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Okta

Okta
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Okta within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 October 2025. 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
South West +16 4 £500 - 5
North of England -28 4 £395 -12.33% 3
South East +6 3 £225 +9.76% 28
Scotland -2 3 £613 -12.50% 3
Midlands -27 3 £550 +29.41% 2
West Midlands -15 2 £575 +35.29% 2
North East - 2 £275 -
North West -18 1 £514 +14.22% 2
Yorkshire -26 1 £675 +125.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £300 -
Okta
UK

Okta
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) Entra ID
3 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 4 (23.53%) SaaS
5 3 (17.65%) GCP
6 2 (11.76%) Google Workspace
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.76%) Slack
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub
7 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (5.88%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Tableau
2 2 (11.76%) Looker
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Build Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) SailPoint
2 3 (17.65%) LDAP
3 2 (11.76%) SAML
4 1 (5.88%) ADO
4 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Migration
2 4 (23.53%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
3 3 (17.65%) RBAC
4 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (11.76%) Anomaly Detection
4 2 (11.76%) Behavioural Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
4 2 (11.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) User Experience
4 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CBAP
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
2 3 (17.65%) HIPAA
2 3 (17.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (17.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Apple
3 4 (23.53%) ForgeRock
3 4 (23.53%) Google
4 2 (11.76%) CyberArk
4 2 (11.76%) Dell
4 2 (11.76%) Micro Focus
4 2 (11.76%) NetIQ
4 2 (11.76%) Ping Identity
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.88%) Workday