OCR Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring OCR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCR 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £325 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,635 1,764 2,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.74% 91.92% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,075 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

OCR job vacancy trend in the City of London

OCR
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OCR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OCR

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) CockroachDB
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) boto
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Information Management
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Product Information Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP