Objectives and Key Results Contracts with Work from Home Options

Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Objectives and Key Results skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Objectives and Key Results over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 435 516
Rank change year-on-year +103 +81 -38
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 17 31 104
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.14% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 74
10th Percentile £356 £503 £426
25th Percentile £463 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £555
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +1.35% +15.81%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £638
90th Percentile £786 £675 £793
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £587
% change year-on-year -5.98% -0.30% +16.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Objectives and Key Results is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Objectives and Key Results
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Objectives and Key Results as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Objectives and Key Results trend for jobs with a WFH option

Objectives and Key Results
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Objectives and Key Results.

Objectives and Key Results daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Objectives and Key Results
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Objectives and Key Results over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Objectives and Key Results daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Objectives and Key Results
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (17.65%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Magento
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) SaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Adobe Analytics
3 2 (11.76%) Asana
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Miro
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.88%) Storybook
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Automotive
5 1 (5.88%) Billing
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Product Owner
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Product Owner
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Data Strategist
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) CRM Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.88%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Programme Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ADO
1 2 (11.76%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Playwright
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.88%) DataPower
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Android
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Scrum
3 8 (47.06%) Product Strategy
3 8 (47.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (41.18%) Analytics
4 7 (41.18%) Kanban
4 7 (41.18%) Strategic Thinking
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
6 5 (29.41%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (29.41%) Information Security
6 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (23.53%) Business Case
7 4 (23.53%) Change Management
7 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
7 4 (23.53%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (23.53%) Product Management
7 4 (23.53%) Product Vision
7 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CEH
1 1 (5.88%) CISM
1 1 (5.88%) CISSP
1 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.88%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Marketo
3 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud