OCR Contracts with Work from Home Options

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 460 616
Rank change year-on-year +122 +156 -133
Contract jobs citing OCR 10 16 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.066% 0.063% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.070% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile £409 £429 £423
25th Percentile £410 £434 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £495 £479 £525
90th Percentile £500 - £593
UK median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

OCR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OCR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OCR trend for jobs with a WFH option

OCR
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OCR.

OCR daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OCR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (80.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 8 (80.00%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (20.00%) Rekognition
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
1 2 (20.00%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (80.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) EDI
1 8 (80.00%) IDoc
1 8 (80.00%) SAP Business Workflow
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Accounts Payable
1 8 (80.00%) Analytics
1 8 (80.00%) Invoice Processing
1 8 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 8 (80.00%) Workflow
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Coaching
2 2 (20.00%) Code Coverage
2 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (20.00%) ETL
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (20.00%) Kanban
2 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Product Management
2 2 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) ABAP
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) OpenText
1 8 (80.00%) SAP