Objectives and Key Results Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Objectives and Key Results skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Objectives and Key Results over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 409 497
Rank change year-on-year +27 +88 -68
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 18 29 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.13% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.14% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 16
10th Percentile £413 £450 £428
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £530 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -5.78% +19.68%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £638
90th Percentile £600 £665 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £566 £575
% change year-on-year -2.87% -1.52% +8.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Objectives and Key Results is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 2024. 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
Wales +22 6 £526 -10.17%
North of England +25 4 £600 +54.84% 1
Yorkshire +20 4 £600 +54.84%
South East +11 4 £350 -40.43% 6
Scotland +26 3 £500 -4.71% 2
Midlands +23 1 £650 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £650 -
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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) GitHub
1 6 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 6 (33.33%) Storybook
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Billing
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Product Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Product Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) SAP Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Playwright
1 6 (33.33%) Vue
2 3 (16.67%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (38.89%) Project Management
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Business Strategy
6 4 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (16.67%) Business Case
7 3 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
7 3 (16.67%) DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) Product Backlog
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Debt
8 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
8 2 (11.11%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 3 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Guidewire
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce