OCP Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
South East > Hampshire

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 86 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing OCP 14 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.31% 0.087% -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.39% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.25% - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £690 - -
South East median daily rate £467 £513 -
% change year-on-year -8.83% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 587 657 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 55.12% 57.28% 56.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 464 385
10th Percentile £311 £360 £271
25th Percentile £463 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +6.98% -2.32%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £650
90th Percentile £669 £725 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 31 43
10th Percentile - £26.25 £23.70
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £34.88
Median hourly rate £23.79 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.04% -41.67% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £73.75 £69.38
90th Percentile £61.19 £75.00 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year -57.00% -2.52% +33.33%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

OCP job vacancy trend in Hampshire

OCP
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing OCP

OCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for OCP in Hampshire

OCP
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Farnborough +8 5 £473 +18.25% 1
Fleet - 1 £447 -
OCP
South East

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Datadog
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 5 (35.71%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (14.29%) Apple Pay
4 2 (14.29%) Google Pay
5 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (35.71%) DynamoDB
3 5 (35.71%) HBase
4 3 (21.43%) Tableau
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data
5 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.14%) MySQL
5 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
5 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
1 6 (42.86%) JUnit
2 5 (35.71%) Artifactory
2 5 (35.71%) Gradle
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Gatling
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
1 6 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Senior Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Migration Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Database Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Spring
1 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (7.14%) ONNX
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Microservices
1 8 (57.14%) Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven
3 5 (35.71%) SOA
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Observability
4 4 (28.57%) Programme Management
4 4 (28.57%) Release Train
5 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Fintech
5 3 (21.43%) People Management
5 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) User Stories
6 2 (14.29%) Compliance Management
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (21.43%) PgMP
2 3 (21.43%) PMI Certification
2 3 (21.43%) PMP
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CSPO
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Cilium
3 1 (7.14%) Rsyslog
3 1 (7.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
1 3 (21.43%) Samsung
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle