OCR Contracts in London

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring OCR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OCR over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 393 488
Rank change year-on-year +41 +95 +116
Contract jobs citing OCR 1 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.008% 0.011% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.013% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £556 -
25th Percentile £425 £584 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £663 £698
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% -5.02% +11.60%
75th Percentile £475 £734 £813
90th Percentile - £759 -
England median daily rate £450 £431 £413
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -13.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,594 15,775 24,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.57% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,304 17,662
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 326 275
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.00 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.77 £63.22
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.88 £77.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing OCR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for OCR in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OCR in London.

Daily rate trend for OCR in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OCR in London.

Hourly rate trend for OCR in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCR within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London - 1 £450 -
OCR
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google