Okta Contracts

Okta
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 456 584
Rank change year-on-year +37 +128 +123
Contract jobs citing Okta 101 126 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.73% 0.68% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 68 97
10th Percentile £375 £289 £280
25th Percentile £500 £472 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £734 £731 £600
90th Percentile £750 £845 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £600 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -4.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year - -38.94% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £39.60

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Okta
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Okta as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Okta in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Okta.

Daily rate trend for Okta in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Okta over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Okta in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Okta.

Hourly rate trend for Okta in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +33 73 £600 +9.09% 86
Work from Home +46 46 £600 +14.29% 56
London +13 44 £620 +12.73% 65
UK excluding London +46 18 £650 +8.33% 36
North of England +28 11 £725 +141.67% 6
Yorkshire +14 7 £725 +141.67% 1
South East +43 3 £300 -53.85% 16
North West +18 2 £700 - 4
Scotland +4 2 £600 -20.00% 2
North East - 2 £750 - 1
West Midlands +14 1 £425 - 7
Midlands +11 1 £425 -29.17% 9
East of England - 1 £125 - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (11.88%) nginx
1 12 (11.88%) Traefik
2 2 (1.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 52 (51.49%) Entra ID
2 41 (40.59%) AWS
3 40 (39.60%) Azure
4 15 (14.85%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (14.85%) AWS Fargate
5 14 (13.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (13.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (13.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (10.89%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.95%) SaaS
8 4 (3.96%) GCP
8 4 (3.96%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.98%) IaaS
9 2 (1.98%) PaaS
9 2 (1.98%) Serverless
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.99%) npm
10 1 (0.99%) Slack
10 1 (0.99%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.84%) DNS
2 15 (14.85%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.97%) Firewall
4 1 (0.99%) FTP
4 1 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.99%) SSL
4 1 (0.99%) VPN
4 1 (0.99%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.85%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (14.85%) GitLab
1 15 (14.85%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.97%) JIRA
3 2 (1.98%) Git
4 1 (0.99%) Babel
4 1 (0.99%) JMeter
4 1 (0.99%) Mockito
4 1 (0.99%) Postman
4 1 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.99%) Toad
4 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 23 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Finance
4 7 (6.93%) Banking
5 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.95%) Military
7 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.99%) Automotive
9 1 (0.99%) Back Office
9 1 (0.99%) Billing
9 1 (0.99%) Front Office
9 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (21.78%) Architect
2 21 (20.79%) Senior
3 13 (12.87%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (11.88%) Lead
5 11 (10.89%) IAM Specialist
6 10 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) AWS Specialist
7 9 (8.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.92%) Lead Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Analyst
9 7 (6.93%) Developer
10 6 (5.94%) Build Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Technical Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Consultant
11 4 (3.96%) Security Architect
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Build Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (36.63%) SailPoint
2 29 (28.71%) SAML
3 24 (23.76%) OAuth
4 22 (21.78%) OpenID
5 14 (13.86%) cloud-init
5 14 (13.86%) Kafka
5 14 (13.86%) Keycloak
6 5 (4.95%) RESTful
7 4 (3.96%) LDAP
8 3 (2.97%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.97%) XACML
9 2 (1.98%) Django
9 2 (1.98%) htmx
9 2 (1.98%) JWT
9 2 (1.98%) REST
10 1 (0.99%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.99%) FIDO
10 1 (0.99%) Jest
10 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.99%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.85%) PKI
2 12 (11.88%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.93%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.94%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.99%) BYOD
8 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.99%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.99%) Life Science
8 1 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.84%) Linux
2 15 (14.85%) Unix
3 14 (13.86%) CentOS
3 14 (13.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.94%) Windows
5 5 (4.95%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.99%) Android
6 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (43.56%) Identity Access Management
2 32 (31.68%) Identity Management
3 26 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (23.76%) Migration
5 19 (18.81%) DevOps
6 18 (17.82%) CI/CD
7 15 (14.85%) Cloud Security
7 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (14.85%) Secrets Management
8 14 (13.86%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (13.86%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 14 (13.86%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 14 (13.86%) Observability
8 14 (13.86%) Static Application Security Testing
9 13 (12.87%) Agile
9 13 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (12.87%) Mobile Device Management
10 12 (11.88%) Regulatory Compliance
11 11 (10.89%) RBAC
12 10 (9.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.66%) Python
2 27 (26.73%) PowerShell
3 15 (14.85%) Bash
4 14 (13.86%) Go
5 7 (6.93%) Java
6 3 (2.97%) SQL
7 2 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.99%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.99%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (29.70%) Security Cleared
2 29 (28.71%) SC Cleared
3 21 (20.79%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.89%) CISSP
5 5 (4.95%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.97%) CISM
7 3 (2.97%) Degree
8 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.99%) CISA
8 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.99%) MCP
8 1 (0.99%) MCSA
8 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.79%) GDPR
2 19 (18.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 16 (15.84%) HIPAA
4 14 (13.86%) NCSC
5 8 (7.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (7.92%) NIST
6 6 (5.94%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.97%) GRC
8 2 (1.98%) SLA
9 1 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (21.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (33.66%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (18.81%) Terraform
3 15 (14.85%) Istio
3 15 (14.85%) Jamf Pro
3 15 (14.85%) Kubernetes
4 14 (13.86%) Consul
4 14 (13.86%) Grafana
4 14 (13.86%) linkerd
4 14 (13.86%) Packer
4 14 (13.86%) Prometheus
4 14 (13.86%) Rancher
4 14 (13.86%) ZABBIX
5 12 (11.88%) HAProxy
6 11 (10.89%) Ansible
7 7 (6.93%) PingFederate
8 2 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.98%) SCCM
9 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (22.77%) Ping Identity
2 21 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.79%) Splunk
3 16 (15.84%) Apple
3 16 (15.84%) CyberArk
4 12 (11.88%) ESET
5 9 (8.91%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.93%) ForgeRock
6 7 (6.93%) Google
7 3 (2.97%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle
9 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.99%) Cisco
9 1 (0.99%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.99%) Sage
9 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.99%) SAP
9 1 (0.99%) Talend
9 1 (0.99%) VMware