OCP Contract Job Trends 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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 124 135
Rank change year-on-year -59 +11 +26
Contract jobs citing OCP 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.21% 0.034%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.43% 0.73% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £439 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £603 £510
Median % change year-on-year -25.87% +18.24% +45.71%
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £453 - -
England median daily rate £447 £603 £638
% change year-on-year -25.87% -5.41% +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 1,410 689 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.54% 29.53% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 425 582
10th Percentile £313 £160 £255
25th Percentile £405 £313 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £697
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 78 69
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.87 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.83 £18.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% +2.03% +13.75%
75th Percentile £66.54 £31.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £53.00 £27.76 £42.50
% change year-on-year +90.92% -34.68% -22.73%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

OCP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

OCP
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OCP

OCP
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 9 July 2026. 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 -63 6 £447 -25.87% 3
OCP
England

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DBA
2 5 (83.33%) Administrator
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL DBA
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 6 (100.00%) Data Management
1 6 (100.00%) Database Security
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle