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 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 441 543
Rank change year-on-year +17 +102 +161
Contract jobs citing Okta 85 130 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.72% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 68 101
10th Percentile £293 £271 £280
25th Percentile £459 £472 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £688 £731 £600
90th Percentile £760 £845 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
Median hourly rate - £24.59 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year - -37.90% -
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 13,971 18,022 24,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.75% 42.33% 42.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,707 11,216 16,357
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 1,111 661
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.02 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% -46.91% +88.37%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £33.00
% change year-on-year +4.85% -34.97% +76.00%

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 19 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 12 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 19 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 +13 59 £582 +5.73% 105
London +12 40 £600 +9.09% 86
Work from Home +48 38 £600 +4.35% 62
UK excluding London +26 8 £513 -14.58% 37
North of England +18 3 £725 +141.67% 7
South East +33 2 £245 -62.31% 22
North West +15 2 £700 - 3
Yorkshire +13 1 £725 +141.67% 3
Midlands +8 1 £425 -29.17% 5
Scotland -4 1 £600 -20.00% 1
East of England - 1 £125 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 3

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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 3 (3.53%) nginx
1 3 (3.53%) Traefik
2 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Maya
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (45.88%) Entra ID
2 37 (43.53%) Azure
3 31 (36.47%) AWS
4 8 (9.41%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (7.06%) Google Workspace
6 5 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (5.88%) SaaS
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.71%) GCP
7 4 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.35%) IaaS
8 2 (2.35%) PaaS
8 2 (2.35%) Serverless
8 2 (2.35%) Slack
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.18%) npm
9 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.18%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) DNS
2 5 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.71%) Firewall
4 1 (1.18%) FTP
4 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.18%) MPLS
4 1 (1.18%) Network Security
4 1 (1.18%) SSL
4 1 (1.18%) VPN
4 1 (1.18%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (5.88%) GitLab
1 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.53%) JIRA
3 2 (2.35%) Git
4 1 (1.18%) Babel
4 1 (1.18%) JMeter
4 1 (1.18%) Mockito
4 1 (1.18%) Postman
4 1 (1.18%) Selenium
4 1 (1.18%) Toad
4 1 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 19 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Finance
4 6 (7.06%) Banking
5 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.53%) Military
7 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Back Office
8 1 (1.18%) Billing
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Architect
2 12 (14.12%) Senior
3 11 (12.94%) IAM Specialist
4 9 (10.59%) AWS Specialist
4 9 (10.59%) Lead
5 6 (7.06%) Analyst
5 6 (7.06%) Build Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Developer
7 4 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Lead Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Mac Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Senior Build Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.65%) SailPoint
2 26 (30.59%) SAML
3 22 (25.88%) OAuth
4 20 (23.53%) OpenID
5 5 (5.88%) LDAP
6 4 (4.71%) cloud-init
6 4 (4.71%) Kafka
6 4 (4.71%) Keycloak
6 4 (4.71%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.53%) XACML
8 2 (2.35%) Django
8 2 (2.35%) htmx
8 2 (2.35%) JWT
8 2 (2.35%) React Native
8 2 (2.35%) REST
8 2 (2.35%) RESTful
9 1 (1.18%) AWS CDK
9 1 (1.18%) FIDO
9 1 (1.18%) Jest
9 1 (1.18%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.24%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.06%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.88%) PKI
5 4 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.18%) BYOD
8 1 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.18%) iPad
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Life Science
8 1 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.06%) Linux
1 6 (7.06%) Mac OS
2 5 (5.88%) Unix
2 5 (5.88%) Windows
3 4 (4.71%) CentOS
3 4 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.76%) Identity Access Management
2 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (23.53%) Identity Management
4 17 (20.00%) Migration
5 15 (17.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 13 (15.29%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (15.29%) RBAC
7 12 (14.12%) Agile
7 12 (14.12%) Regulatory Compliance
8 10 (11.76%) Task Automation
9 8 (9.41%) DevOps
9 8 (9.41%) Roadmaps
9 8 (9.41%) Zero Trust
10 7 (8.24%) CI/CD
10 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (8.24%) Risk Management
10 7 (8.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (7.06%) Cloud Security
11 6 (7.06%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (7.06%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (30.59%) PowerShell
2 24 (28.24%) Python
3 6 (7.06%) Bash
4 4 (4.71%) Go
4 4 (4.71%) Java
5 3 (3.53%) SQL
6 2 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.18%) BeanShell
7 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) SC Cleared
1 19 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.94%) AWS Certification
3 10 (11.76%) CISSP
4 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.53%) CISM
6 3 (3.53%) Degree
7 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.18%) MCP
7 1 (1.18%) MCSA
7 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (23.53%) GDPR
2 18 (21.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 16 (18.82%) HIPAA
4 10 (11.76%) NIST
5 9 (10.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (7.06%) PCI DSS
7 4 (4.71%) NCSC
8 3 (3.53%) GRC
9 2 (2.35%) SLA
10 1 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (29.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (36.47%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (12.94%) Ansible
3 10 (11.76%) Terraform
4 5 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (4.71%) Consul
5 4 (4.71%) Grafana
5 4 (4.71%) Istio
5 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.71%) linkerd
5 4 (4.71%) Packer
5 4 (4.71%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.71%) Rancher
5 4 (4.71%) ZABBIX
6 3 (3.53%) HAProxy
6 3 (3.53%) PingFederate
7 2 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 19 (22.35%) Ping Identity
3 13 (15.29%) CyberArk
4 7 (8.24%) Apple
4 7 (8.24%) ForgeRock
4 7 (8.24%) Google
4 7 (8.24%) Splunk
5 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.53%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (3.53%) ESET
7 2 (2.35%) Autodesk
7 2 (2.35%) Oracle
8 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.18%) Cisco
8 1 (1.18%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.18%) SAP
8 1 (1.18%) Talend