Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OCA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 867 977 726
Rank change year-on-year +110 -251 +79
Permanent jobs citing OCA 10 1 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.001% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.036% 0.003% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 15
10th Percentile £50,400 - £40,900
25th Percentile £52,500 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £52,500
75th Percentile £58,750 - £53,750
90th Percentile £60,250 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 - £52,500

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,423 33,905 42,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.66% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 17,333 15,229 18,987
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

OCA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OCA in the UK

OCA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OCA.

Salary trend for OCA in the UK

OCA
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OCA 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London - 10 £57,500 - 3
England +93 7 £57,500 - 2
East Midlands - 7 £57,500 -
Midlands - 7 £57,500 -
Work from Home - 5 £57,500 -
Scotland - 3 £54,000 -

OCA
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 7 (70.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) OCI
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 10g
General
1 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (20.00%) Police
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Administrator
1 10 (100.00%) DBA
2 8 (80.00%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (50.00%) Technical Administrator
4 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 3 (30.00%) Senior DBA
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (70.00%) Database Security
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) Data Security
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) Perl
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Ruby
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 9 (90.00%) OCP
3 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Data Guard
2 7 (70.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Statspack
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft