OCP Contracts in the Midlands

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 108 - 166
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCP 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% - 0.029%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.53% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 - £350
England median daily rate £605 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -6.88% +1.96% +6.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 564 899 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.47% 32.61% 28.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 556 615
10th Percentile £150 £230 £253
25th Percentile £272 £325 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -13.21% +15.22%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £689
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 71 76
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £17.00 £14.30
Median hourly rate £24.50 £24.65 £18.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +32.35% -6.88%
75th Percentile £31.38 £43.13 £26.64
90th Percentile £59.00 £56.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for OCP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for OCP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the Midlands 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
West Midlands - 3 £603 - 1
OCP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (33.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Database Security
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft