Objectives and Key Results Contracts in England

Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Objectives and Key Results skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Objectives and Key Results over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 499 583
Rank change year-on-year +59 +84 +5
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 27 43 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 41
10th Percentile £463 £408 £488
25th Percentile £500 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% +0.85%
75th Percentile £600 £756 £688
90th Percentile £735 £806 £776
UK median daily rate £550 £526 £570
% change year-on-year +4.66% -7.81% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.08
UK median hourly rate - - £23.08

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Objectives and Key Results falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Objectives and Key Results
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Objectives and Key Results as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Objectives and Key Results in England

Objectives and Key Results
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Objectives and Key Results in England.

Daily rate trend for Objectives and Key Results in England

Objectives and Key Results
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Objectives and Key Results in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Objectives and Key Results in England

Objectives and Key Results
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Objectives and Key Results in England.

Hourly rate trend for Objectives and Key Results in England

Objectives and Key Results
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Objectives and Key Results within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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
London +26 15 £550 -15.38% 134
North of England +18 4 £600 - 47
Midlands +15 3 £545 -16.15% 38
Yorkshire +8 3 £600 - 25
East of England - 2 £700 - 41
South West - 2 £475 - 23
West Midlands +12 1 - - 19
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 17
North West - 1 - - 17
Objectives and Key Results
UK

Objectives and Key Results
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) Figma
2 1 (3.70%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.70%) SaaS
2 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Storybook
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Retail
4 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Marketing
7 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Product Manager
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Product Owner
3 4 (14.81%) Programme Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Technical Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Technical Programme Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Product Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Head of Business Change
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Product Owner
5 2 (7.41%) Operations Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Product Operations Manager
5 2 (7.41%) SEO Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) SEO Manager
6 1 (3.70%) E-Commerce Product Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Finance Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Transformation Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) RESTful
1 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Digital Media
2 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Agile
2 15 (55.56%) Roadmaps
3 11 (40.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (37.04%) Product Management
4 10 (37.04%) Project Management
5 9 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (25.93%) DevOps
7 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) Product Vision
8 6 (22.22%) Scrum
9 5 (18.52%) SDLC
9 5 (18.52%) User Stories
10 4 (14.81%) Analytics
10 4 (14.81%) Budget Management
10 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
10 4 (14.81%) Product Strategy
10 4 (14.81%) Programme Management
10 4 (14.81%) Strategic Roadmap
11 3 (11.11%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Java
1 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle