OCR Contracts in England

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OCR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OCR over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 631 762
Rank change year-on-year +108 +131 -138
Contract jobs citing OCR 18 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.028% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.032% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 6
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile £400 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £413 £472
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.61% -21.33%
75th Percentile £495 £600 £510
90th Percentile £534 £813 £519
UK median daily rate £450 £453 £472
% change year-on-year -0.55% -4.13% -14.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

OCR 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OCR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OCR in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OCR in England.

Daily rate trend for OCR in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCR in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OCR in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OCR in England.

Hourly rate trend for OCR in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCR within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East +21 9 £400 -3.03% 1
East of England - 6 £495 - 1
London +81 2 £663 -5.02% 6
Midlands - 1 £450 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 2
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UK

OCR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 6 (33.33%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
1 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
General
1 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Billing
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Publishing
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) C++ Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) C++ Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) EDI
1 6 (33.33%) IDoc
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Business Workflow
3 1 (5.56%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) CCTV
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (38.89%) Analytics
4 6 (33.33%) Accounts Payable
4 6 (33.33%) Invoice Processing
4 6 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (33.33%) Workflow
5 2 (11.11%) Data Extraction
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (5.56%) Build Automation
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.56%) Document Management
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
6 1 (5.56%) Migration
6 1 (5.56%) TDD
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) C#
1 9 (50.00%) C++
2 6 (33.33%) ABAP
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) ISO 9001
1 8 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) OpenText
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft