OCR Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring OCR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCR 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.51% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £492 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

OCR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 184 179 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 92.93% 90.40% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 86 109
10th Percentile £350 £278 £218
25th Percentile £409 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.15% -4.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £573 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £589
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £18.45 £16.78
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.32 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +175.00% -61.90%
75th Percentile £61.68 £63.75 £61.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.88 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OCR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

OCR job vacancy trend in Cambridge

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (100.00%) SAP MM
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Basis
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Business Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Fiori
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Accounts Payable
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Invoice Processing
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) ABAP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenText
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow