OCR Contracts in Sheffield

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring OCR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OCR over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCR 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.84% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 - -
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £489 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 450 385 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 93.95% 90.16% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 213 264
10th Percentile £301 £376 £363
25th Percentile £388 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -15.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £691
90th Percentile £639 £644 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £564
% change year-on-year -5.10% -11.31% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £15.00 - £12.45
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.50 £14.63
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +13.16% +13.43%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £21.13
90th Percentile - - £22.10
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £10.63
% change year-on-year +43.08% +20.70% -36.54%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing OCR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for OCR in Sheffield

OCR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 4 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 4 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 4 (100.00%) KYC
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Client Onboarding
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft