Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 674 799
Rank change year-on-year +96 +125 -116
Contract jobs citing OCP 5 31 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.052% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.038% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 36
10th Percentile £480 £541 £500
25th Percentile £525 £563 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +6.52% +15.58%
75th Percentile £663 £730 £666
90th Percentile £700 £800 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate - £575 £543
% change year-on-year - +5.99% +11.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

OCP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,256 16,225 19,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 27.32% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,168 10,826 12,560
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £743 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,080 849 777
10th Percentile £13.87 £15.25 £13.73
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.22 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +8.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.35 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £32.37
% change year-on-year -18.12% +54.46% -11.44%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OCP in the UK

OCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OCP in the UK

OCP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCP over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OCP in the UK

OCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OCP in the UK

OCP
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +96 4 £650 +1.96% 6
Work from Home +114 2 £450 -22.58% 3
London +95 2 £650 -9.57% 4

OCP
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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) French Language
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP P2P Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) User Experience
1 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (20.00%) Database Security
2 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) Scala
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) IFRS
1 1 (20.00%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP