OCP Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 73 32 31
Rank change year-on-year -41 -1 -
Contract jobs citing OCP 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.72% 1.23% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.97% 3.45% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £445 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £510
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £453 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £447 £603 £510
% change year-on-year -25.87% +18.24% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 518 58 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 74.86% 35.80% 72.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 40 72
10th Percentile £358 £384 £338
25th Percentile £413 £404 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £470 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -3.09% -10.19%
75th Percentile £525 £537 £531
90th Percentile £600 £552 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £475 £502
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.28% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £59.50 £25.15 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +136.58% +79.64% -74.55%
75th Percentile £65.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% +5.26% +37.65%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

OCP job vacancy trend in Shropshire

OCP
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing OCP

OCP
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the Shropshire 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
Telford -52 5 £447 - 3
OCP
West Midlands

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DBA
2 4 (80.00%) Administrator
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (100.00%) Data Management
1 5 (100.00%) Database Security
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle