OCP Contracts in England

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 538 627
Rank change year-on-year +77 +89 +130
Contract jobs citing OCP 24 4 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.011% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.034% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 22
10th Percentile £425 £608 £563
25th Percentile £519 £619 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £656 £694 £739
90th Percentile £714 £713 £800
UK median daily rate £605 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +0.88% -2.04% +2.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OCP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OCP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OCP 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 OCP within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +48 12 £624 -3.96% 7
Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
North of England - 4 £525 -
Midlands - 3 £603 - 1
South East - 3 £475 - 8
West Midlands - 3 £603 - 1
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UK

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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 2 (8.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
1 9 (37.50%) OCI
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (20.83%) GitHub
2 5 (20.83%) Serverless
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 4 (16.67%) PaaS
3 4 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
2 4 (16.67%) MySQL
2 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (12.50%) Git
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Security Architect
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Database Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (12.50%) DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) OAuth
1 7 (29.17%) OpenID
1 7 (29.17%) SAML
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.33%) Java EE
4 2 (8.33%) Java SE
4 2 (8.33%) JSON
4 2 (8.33%) RAML
4 2 (8.33%) React
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.33%) Struts
4 2 (8.33%) Web Services
4 2 (8.33%) XML
5 1 (4.17%) .NET
5 1 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (41.67%) Integration Patterns
3 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Cloud Security
4 7 (29.17%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (25.00%) Key Management
5 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (25.00%) Project Management
5 6 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (16.67%) Budgeting
6 4 (16.67%) Cost Management
6 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Java
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) C#
2 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (29.17%) Degree
5 6 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (20.83%) AWS Certification
7 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (8.33%) Sun Certification
9 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 7 (29.17%) NIST
1 7 (29.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (16.67%) vSphere
2 3 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Ansible
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Data Guard
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) OpenAI