OCP Contract Job Trends in Reading

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for OCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 88 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Contract jobs citing OCP 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.091% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.62% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £443 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.80% - -
75th Percentile £448 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £445 £625 -
% change year-on-year -28.80% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 162 461 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 28.32% 41.91% 36.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 244 262
10th Percentile £269 £360 £213
25th Percentile £445 £525 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £534
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +13.40% +6.70%
75th Percentile £612 £675 £624
90th Percentile £696 £765 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £583 £525
% change year-on-year -14.16% +10.95% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 32 12
10th Percentile £31.08 £49.39 £57.63
25th Percentile £37.56 £60.07 £62.55
Median hourly rate £49.25 £71.31 £70.63
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% +0.97% -
75th Percentile £60.06 £97.50 £75.06
90th Percentile £66.03 £100.00 £76.82
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £61.60 £64.52
% change year-on-year -34.36% -4.52% +206.85%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for OCP in Reading

OCP
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OCP

OCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle