OCA Contracts in England

Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 559 620
Rank change year-on-year +71 +61 +156
Contract jobs citing OCA 15 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.055% 0.003% 0.023%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.18% 0.009% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 11
10th Percentile £432 - £369
25th Percentile £475 £658 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £665 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +20.91% -
75th Percentile £588 £673 £591
90th Percentile £625 - £606
UK median daily rate £575 £665 £550
% change year-on-year -13.53% +20.91% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

OCA 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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,415 11,077 12,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.92% 30.63% 27.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,307 6,943 8,560
10th Percentile £288 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +3.48%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 941 633
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.13 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% -21.82% +32.53%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £77.50 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £56.29
% change year-on-year -40.82% -24.50% +26.49%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OCA in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OCA in England.

Daily rate trend for OCA in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCA in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCA in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OCA in England.

Hourly rate trend for OCA in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCA within the England region over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. 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
South West - 13 £575 -
London +34 2 £415 -37.59% 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (66.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) OCI
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Bitbucket
1 12 (80.00%) Git
2 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 10 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DBA
4 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) REST
2 10 (66.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) Configuration Management
2 11 (73.33%) Deployment Automation
2 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 10 (66.67%) NsoIT
3 10 (66.67%) Reverse Engineering
3 10 (66.67%) Validation
4 9 (60.00%) Service Management
4 9 (60.00%) System Testing
5 7 (46.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
9 1 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) Bash
2 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) C++
3 2 (13.33%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
2 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (73.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (66.67%) CCNP
3 10 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (66.67%) RHCA
3 10 (66.67%) RHCE
4 4 (26.67%) OCP
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) MCSA
5 1 (6.67%) MCSE
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Ansible
2 11 (73.33%) vCenter Server
3 10 (66.67%) Progress Chef
3 10 (66.67%) Puppet
4 2 (13.33%) Data Guard
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
5 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (73.33%) VMware
3 10 (66.67%) Cisco
4 8 (53.33%) Atlassian
5 2 (13.33%) Splunk
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.67%) Veeam