Objectives and Key Results Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Objectives and Key Results skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 516 529
Rank change year-on-year +20 +13 +133
Permanent jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 21 64 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.050% 0.17% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.19% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 3 30 14
10th Percentile £64,750 - £68,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £54,439 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £150,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -56.67% +114.29%
75th Percentile £143,125 £76,500 £171,250
90th Percentile £177,250 £90,250 £175,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% -18.75% +3.23%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,380 32,892 27,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.58% 88.28% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,063 15,104 20,736
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,755 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,070
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Objectives and Key Results relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Objectives and Key Results job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Objectives and Key Results
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Objectives and Key Results.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Objectives and Key Results

Objectives and Key Results
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Objectives and Key Results in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Objectives and Key Results in the UK excluding London

Objectives and Key Results
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Objectives and Key Results within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +16 15 £75,000 +6.01% 7
North of England +29 5 £200,000 - 8
Yorkshire - 4 - - 4
North West +26 1 £200,000 - 4
South West -7 1 - - 2
Objectives and Key Results
UK

Objectives and Key Results
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (47.62%) SugarCRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (52.38%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Marketing
4 4 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Retail
6 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Public Speaking
7 1 (4.76%) Billing
7 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Lead
2 2 (9.52%) Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (9.52%) Security Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (9.52%) Team Leader
2 2 (9.52%) Technical Leader
2 2 (9.52%) Technical Support
2 2 (9.52%) Technical Support Team Leader
2 2 (9.52%) Technical Team Leader
2 2 (9.52%) Tester
3 1 (4.76%) Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Chief Operating Officer
3 1 (4.76%) Head of Development
3 1 (4.76%) Head of Software Development
3 1 (4.76%) Release Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Management Information System
2 5 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Budgeting
1 11 (52.38%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 11 (52.38%) CRM
1 11 (52.38%) Decision-Making
1 11 (52.38%) Performance Metrics
2 10 (47.62%) Analytics
2 10 (47.62%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (47.62%) Data Analysis
2 10 (47.62%) Data Management
2 10 (47.62%) Data Matching
2 10 (47.62%) Information Management
2 10 (47.62%) Validation
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Business Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) Information Security
4 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
4 4 (19.05%) Presales
4 4 (19.05%) Security Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Perl
1 2 (9.52%) Python
1 2 (9.52%) Ruby
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Degree
2 10 (47.62%) HNC
3 2 (9.52%) CEH
3 2 (9.52%) CISA
3 2 (9.52%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (9.52%) GRC
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.52%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft