OCR Contract Job Trends in London

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring OCR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 - 434
Rank change year-on-year - - +130
Contract jobs citing OCR 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.023% - 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% - 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.00%
75th Percentile - - £461
90th Percentile - - £558
England median daily rate £485 £415 £356
% change year-on-year +16.87% +16.49% -36.67%

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 12,288 14,145 18,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.45% 89.29% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,086 9,142 13,599
10th Percentile £332 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 175 231
10th Percentile £18.03 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.17 £21.63
Median hourly rate £30.50 £37.50 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -4.87% -0.20%
75th Percentile £47.75 £57.50 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.95 £78.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OCR job vacancy trend in London

OCR
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OCR

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OCR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OCR

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Hugging Face
2 2 (66.67%) OpenCV
2 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
2 2 (66.67%) SpaCy
2 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (33.33%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Due Diligence
2 2 (66.67%) Image Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (66.67%) KYC
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines