OCR Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring OCR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCR 7 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.87% - 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% - 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £477 - £463
25th Percentile £478 - £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £495
75th Percentile £495 - £499
90th Percentile £507 - £500
East of England median daily rate £492 - £495

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 276 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.33% 91.69% 84.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 147 156
10th Percentile £211 £296 £235
25th Percentile £335 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £470 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -1.88% +0.84%
75th Percentile £573 £544 £566
90th Percentile £675 £630 £681
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.95% +2.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 42 187
10th Percentile £13.38 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £24.49 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £34.92 £40.93 £37.14
East of England median hourly rate £20.72 £50.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.56% +31.16% +15.69%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

OCR job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

OCR
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing OCR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing OCR

OCR
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCR within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Huntingdon - 4 £489 -
Cambridge - 1 - - 1
OCR
East of England

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 7 (100.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 7 (100.00%) SAP FI
1 7 (100.00%) SAP MM
1 7 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Consultant
1 7 (100.00%) SAP Consultant
2 6 (85.71%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) SAP Basis
1 6 (85.71%) SAP Business Workflow
1 6 (85.71%) SAP Fiori
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Accounts Payable
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
1 7 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 7 (100.00%) Invoice Processing
1 7 (100.00%) ITSM
1 7 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 7 (100.00%) Workflow
2 6 (85.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) OpenText
1 7 (100.00%) SAP
1 7 (100.00%) ServiceNow