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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 380 413
Rank change year-on-year +41 +33 +72
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 14 21 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.099% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 24
10th Percentile £463 £424 £491
25th Percentile £478 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £526 £556
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -5.53% -3.26%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £613 £668
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £570
% change year-on-year - -3.51% -0.87%

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 12,292 17,554 20,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 82.63% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,533 10,298 13,898
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 2,191 1,271
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +18 4 £600 - 29
Midlands +14 3 £545 -16.15% 19
Yorkshire +5 3 £600 - 16
Scotland +4 3 - - 3
East of England - 2 £700 - 12
South West - 2 £475 - 16
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 7
North West - 1 - - 10
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%) Azure
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 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 4 (28.57%) Lead
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%) Delivery Manager
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 9 (64.29%) 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 7 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (42.86%) Product Vision
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Business Case
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) Customer Experience
4 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
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%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (14.29%) Servant Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle