Objectives and Key Results Contracts in the UK excluding London

Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 381 423
Rank change year-on-year +56 +42 +60
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 14 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.087% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 24
10th Percentile £463 £408 £444
25th Percentile £478 £477 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £519 £566
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% -8.34% +2.95%
75th Percentile £594 £563 £591
90th Percentile £675 £600 £626
UK median daily rate £600 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +11.58% -6.48% -2.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Objectives and Key Results
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Objectives and Key Results as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Objectives and Key Results in the UK excluding London

Objectives and Key Results
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Objectives and Key Results in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Objectives and Key Results in the UK excluding London

Objectives and Key Results
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Objectives and Key Results in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Objectives and Key Results in the UK excluding London

Objectives and Key Results
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +23 4 £600 - 13
Scotland +13 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +6 3 £600 - 8
Midlands - 3 £545 - 2
East of England +30 2 £700 +21.74% 3
South West - 2 £475 - 10
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
North West - 1 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Objectives and Key Results
UK

Objectives and Key Results
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (7.14%) Figma
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
1 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Product Owner
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Business Change
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Product Owner
3 2 (14.29%) Programme Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Chief Operating Officer
4 1 (7.14%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Finance Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) UI Designer
4 1 (7.14%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (7.14%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Learning Management System
2 1 (7.14%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Product Vision
2 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Business Case
4 4 (28.57%) Customer Experience
4 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
4 4 (28.57%) User Stories
4 4 (28.57%) UX Design
5 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
5 3 (21.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Collection
5 3 (21.43%) Digital Customer Experience
5 3 (21.43%) Product Backlog
5 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (14.29%) Contingency Planning
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle