Objectives and Key Results Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Objectives and Key Results skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 77 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.54% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £498 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% - -
75th Percentile £595 - -
90th Percentile £643 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 942 612 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 85.02% 94.74% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 401 211
10th Percentile £363 £290 £313
25th Percentile £429 £368 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £465 £520
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -10.58% -9.57%
75th Percentile £576 £543 £588
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 15
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.77 -
25th Percentile £13.35 £15.00 £12.55
Median hourly rate £20.60 £18.21 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +41.89% -36.64%
75th Percentile £23.25 £18.87 £20.75
90th Percentile £24.29 - £21.80
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.09 £22.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year -9.26% +26.51% -12.50%

Objectives and Key Results
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Objectives and Key Results relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Objectives and Key Results job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Objectives and Key Results
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Objectives and Key Results.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Objectives and Key Results

Objectives and Key Results
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Objectives and Key Results in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Objectives and Key Results in South Yorkshire

Objectives and Key Results
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. 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
Sheffield -24 6 £514 -14.33% 3
Objectives and Key Results
Yorkshire

Objectives and Key Results
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (16.67%) QA Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) BCP
4 2 (33.33%) Burndown Charts
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Product Vision
4 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Stress Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow