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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 524 607
Rank change year-on-year +36 +83 +31
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 33 54 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 34 56
10th Percentile £463 £409 £488
25th Percentile £500 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £573
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -6.07% -0.43%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £656
90th Percentile £720 £788 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £513 £546
% change year-on-year +6.34% -6.18% -2.89%
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 26,091 36,498 50,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.03% 86.03% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,724 23,542 35,172
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,059 2,447 1,685
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £15.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%
75th Percentile £58.63 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%

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 23 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 23 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 +42 27 £550 -8.33% 321
London +41 15 £550 -15.38% 114
UK excluding London +43 14 £545 +6.34% 246
Work from Home +43 10 £600 +23.08% 181
North of England +15 4 £600 - 51
Midlands +20 3 £545 -16.15% 38
Yorkshire +14 3 £600 - 24
Scotland +7 3 - - 14
South West - 2 £475 - 22
East of England - 2 £700 - 41
West Midlands +13 1 - - 18
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 18
North West - 1 - - 22

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 (15.15%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) SaaS
2 2 (6.06%) Figma
3 1 (3.03%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) Storybook
General
1 15 (45.45%) Finance
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (27.27%) Retail
4 5 (15.15%) Marketing
5 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Product Manager
2 8 (24.24%) Product Owner
3 5 (15.15%) Lead
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Programme Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Programme Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Product Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Head of Business Change
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Product Owner
6 2 (6.06%) Operations Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Product Operations Manager
6 2 (6.06%) SEO Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) SEO Manager
7 1 (3.03%) E-Commerce Product Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Finance Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Transformation Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
1 2 (6.06%) React
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Digital Media
2 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Agile
2 17 (51.52%) Roadmaps
3 11 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (30.30%) Product Management
4 10 (30.30%) Product Vision
4 10 (30.30%) Project Management
5 9 (27.27%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (21.21%) Analytics
7 7 (21.21%) DevOps
7 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (21.21%) Scrum
8 6 (18.18%) Backlog Management
8 6 (18.18%) User Experience
8 6 (18.18%) UX Design
9 5 (15.15%) Business Case
9 5 (15.15%) SDLC
9 5 (15.15%) User Stories
10 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
10 4 (12.12%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) Java
1 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.06%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle