OCP Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for OCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
North West median daily rate £375 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

OCP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 259 118 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 36.84% 27.96% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 79 91
10th Percentile £313 £230 £158
25th Percentile £358 £343 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £540
90th Percentile £652 £600 £638
North West median daily rate £469 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -6.18% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £15.50 £24.13 -
25th Percentile £18.13 £29.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.85 £32.50 £20.33
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +59.86% -43.53%
75th Percentile £90.60 £85.44 £26.66
90th Percentile £111.15 £86.00 £35.83
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year +39.88% +102.37% -55.39%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

OCP job vacancy trend in Cheshire

OCP
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OCP

OCP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Knutsford - 1 £375 -
OCP
North West

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware