Objectives and Key Results Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.100% - 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £230 - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £470 - -
South East median daily rate £475 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -40.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,431 1,358 2,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.01% 93.08% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,578 844 1,232
10th Percentile £306 £300 £213
25th Percentile £406 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £509
% change year-on-year +3.90% -1.67% +0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 68 168
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £30.56 £14.92 £19.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £25.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +223.09% -43.94% -13.63%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £63.27
90th Percentile £105.40 £78.25 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

Objectives and Key Results
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Objectives and Key Results job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Objectives and Key Results
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Objectives and Key Results.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Objectives and Key Results

Objectives and Key Results
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Objectives and Key Results in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Objectives and Key Results in the Thames Valley

Objectives and Key Results
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Berkshire - 2 £350 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Objectives and Key Results
South East

Objectives and Key Results
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Product Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Burndown Charts
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared