Objectives and Key Results Contracts

Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 611 636
Rank change year-on-year +95 +25 +41
Contract jobs citing Objectives and Key Results 55 76 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 58 148
10th Percentile £408 £488 £428
25th Percentile £472 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £573 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -2.30% +13.79%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £716
90th Percentile £788 £758 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £546 £563
% change year-on-year -6.18% -2.89% +19.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.08 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 May 2024.

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 11 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 18 May 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
England +94 43 £600 +0.42% 37
London +84 30 £650 +8.79% 26
UK excluding London +55 20 £513 -6.18% 17
Work from Home +97 19 £488 -13.33% 26
South East +35 6 £415 -29.36% 6
Wales +22 6 £526 -10.17% 2
North of England +35 4 £600 +54.84% 3
Yorkshire +17 4 £600 +54.84% 2
Scotland +33 3 £500 -5.61% 2
Midlands +23 1 £650 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £650 - 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Magento
1 1 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.00%) Azure
2 8 (14.55%) GitHub
2 8 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (12.73%) SaaS
4 5 (9.09%) Miro
5 4 (7.27%) AWS
6 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (3.64%) Asana
7 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.64%) Figma
7 2 (3.64%) GCP
7 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.64%) Smartsheet
7 2 (3.64%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.82%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) Tableau
2 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.82%) Looker
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) JIRA
2 6 (10.91%) Cypress.io
2 6 (10.91%) Storybook
General
1 24 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 23 (41.82%) Finance
3 9 (16.36%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Automotive
5 4 (7.27%) Billing
6 2 (3.64%) Publishing
7 1 (1.82%) Back Office
7 1 (1.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (16.36%) Lead
2 8 (14.55%) Analyst
2 8 (14.55%) Senior
3 6 (10.91%) Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Product Owner
4 5 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (9.09%) Product Manager
5 4 (7.27%) PMO Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Product Owner
6 3 (5.45%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 3 (5.45%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Head of Analytics
6 3 (5.45%) Head of Business Intelligence
6 3 (5.45%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Programme Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) Playwright
1 6 (10.91%) Vue
2 3 (5.45%) ADO
2 3 (5.45%) Laravel
3 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.64%) CSS
3 2 (3.64%) HTML
3 2 (3.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.18%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.82%) DataPower
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Android
1 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (81.82%) Agile
2 24 (43.64%) Roadmaps
3 19 (34.55%) Scrum
4 15 (27.27%) Analytics
5 13 (23.64%) Kanban
5 13 (23.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
6 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (20.00%) Product Strategy
7 11 (20.00%) Project Management
7 11 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
8 9 (16.36%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 9 (16.36%) Business Case
8 9 (16.36%) Change Management
8 9 (16.36%) DevOps
8 9 (16.36%) Product Management
8 9 (16.36%) Product Roadmap
8 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (12.73%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
2 2 (3.64%) Java
2 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.64%) Python
2 2 (3.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.64%) CSPO
1 2 (3.64%) PMP
2 1 (1.82%) CEH
2 1 (1.82%) CISM
2 1 (1.82%) CISSP
2 1 (1.82%) Degree
2 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.82%) PgMP
2 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) QA
2 8 (14.55%) PMO
3 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.82%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) SAP
3 3 (5.45%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.64%) Adobe
4 2 (3.64%) Citrix
4 2 (3.64%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.64%) Planview
5 1 (1.82%) Ariba
5 1 (1.82%) Concur
5 1 (1.82%) Marketo
5 1 (1.82%) NCR
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud