OCP Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for OCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 164 -
Rank change year-on-year -45 - -
Contract jobs citing OCP 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.10% 0.030% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.34% 0.097% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £572 - -
25th Percentile £585 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £618 - -
90th Percentile £621 - -
England median daily rate £518 £650 £713
% change year-on-year -20.35% -8.77% +5.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,453 1,035 1,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.09% 30.96% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 610 789
10th Percentile £232 £230 £270
25th Percentile £400 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £581 £575 £630
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 50 126
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.58 £12.53
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.26 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +1.20% +11.90%
75th Percentile £63.80 £50.44 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.80 £73.68 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.54% - +2.62%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OCP job vacancy trend in the North of England

OCP
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OCP

OCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OCP

OCP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
Yorkshire -52 5 £613 - 2
OCP
England

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (20.00%) Release Management
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Dell
1 4 (80.00%) Pure Storage
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft