Objectives and Key Results Contracts

Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 533 632
Rank change year-on-year +51 +99 +28
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 38 49 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 70
10th Percentile £463 £404 £499
25th Percentile £536 £481 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -6.48% -2.13%
75th Percentile £623 £706 £684
90th Percentile £716 £791 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £519 £566
% change year-on-year +5.01% -8.34% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Objectives and Key Results
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Objectives and Key Results in the UK

Objectives and Key Results
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Objectives and Key Results in the UK

Objectives and Key Results
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Objectives and Key Results over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Objectives and Key Results in the UK

Objectives and Key Results
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Objectives and Key Results in the UK

Objectives and Key Results
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +50 32 £600 +4.35% 148
London +31 20 £608 -8.30% 101
UK excluding London +59 14 £545 +5.01% 55
Work from Home +35 11 £650 +33.33% 83
North of England +19 4 £600 - 14
Scotland +13 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +7 3 £600 - 8
Midlands - 3 £545 - 2
East of England +31 2 £700 +21.74% 2
South West - 2 £475 - 12
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 2
North West - 1 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 - -

Objectives and Key Results
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (13.16%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) SaaS
2 2 (5.26%) Figma
3 1 (2.63%) Azure
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Storybook
General
1 18 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Finance
3 12 (31.58%) Retail
4 7 (18.42%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (15.79%) Marketing
6 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.63%) Legal
8 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Product Manager
2 8 (21.05%) Product Owner
3 5 (13.16%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Programme Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Technical Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Technical Programme Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Product Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Business Change
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Product Owner
6 2 (5.26%) SEO Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) SEO Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Analytics Manager
7 1 (2.63%) E-Commerce Product Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Finance Manager
7 1 (2.63%) PMO Lead
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Transformation Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.26%) React
2 1 (2.63%) RESTful
2 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Digital Media
2 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Agile
2 21 (55.26%) Roadmaps
3 13 (34.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (31.58%) Analytics
5 10 (26.32%) Product Management
5 10 (26.32%) Product Vision
6 9 (23.68%) Product Roadmap
7 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (21.05%) Customer Experience
7 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
7 8 (21.05%) Product Strategy
7 8 (21.05%) Project Management
8 7 (18.42%) DevOps
8 7 (18.42%) E-Commerce
8 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (18.42%) Scrum
9 6 (15.79%) Backlog Management
9 6 (15.79%) User Experience
9 6 (15.79%) UX Design
10 5 (13.16%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) Java
1 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) PMO
2 1 (2.63%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle