OCP Contract Job Trends in the South East

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for OCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 169 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing OCP 22 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.50% 0.027% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.16% 0.070% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £445 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% - -
75th Percentile £609 £638 -
90th Percentile £663 - -
England median daily rate £468 £650 £713
% change year-on-year -28.04% -8.77% +9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,897 1,432 2,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.38% 38.46% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 954 1,305
10th Percentile £263 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 77 140
10th Percentile £17.24 £20.80 £27.45
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £49.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%
75th Percentile £58.94 £64.73 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £75.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

OCP job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OCP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCP in the South East over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCP in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OCP

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Hampshire - 19 £467 -
Berkshire -1 4 £575 -8.00% 1
Thames Valley -8 4 £575 -8.00% 1
OCP
England

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) GitHub
3 6 (27.27%) Datadog
3 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 5 (22.73%) Azure
5 4 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Storage
7 2 (9.09%) Apple Pay
7 2 (9.09%) Google Pay
7 2 (9.09%) IaaS
7 2 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (40.91%) MongoDB
3 8 (36.36%) HBase
3 8 (36.36%) NoSQL
4 6 (27.27%) DynamoDB
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
6 3 (13.64%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
6 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
6 3 (13.64%) Tableau
7 2 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (9.09%) MySQL
7 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (4.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Cucumber
2 9 (40.91%) Gradle
2 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 9 (40.91%) JUnit
3 8 (36.36%) Artifactory
3 8 (36.36%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (27.27%) JIRA
5 2 (9.09%) Gatling
6 1 (4.55%) Git
6 1 (4.55%) JMeter
6 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Developer
1 10 (45.45%) Java Developer
2 7 (31.82%) AWS Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Migration Manager
5 3 (13.64%) DBA
5 3 (13.64%) Java Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Database Specialist
6 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) Administrator
7 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Spring
2 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
3 8 (36.36%) Kafka
4 6 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.55%) JPA
5 1 (4.55%) ONNX
5 1 (4.55%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (40.91%) Microservices
2 9 (40.91%) Migration
3 6 (27.27%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
3 6 (27.27%) SOA
4 5 (22.73%) Observability
4 5 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (22.73%) Task Automation
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Fintech
5 4 (18.18%) High Availability
5 4 (18.18%) Programme Management
5 4 (18.18%) Release Train
6 3 (13.64%) People Management
6 3 (13.64%) Project Management
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Runbook
6 3 (13.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Certification
3 3 (13.64%) PgMP
3 3 (13.64%) PMI Certification
3 3 (13.64%) PMP
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.55%) CSPO
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) GDPR
2 3 (13.64%) QA
3 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Grafana
3 3 (13.64%) Data Guard
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (9.09%) systemd
5 1 (4.55%) Ansible
5 1 (4.55%) Cilium
5 1 (4.55%) Rsyslog
5 1 (4.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
2 3 (13.64%) Samsung
3 1 (4.55%) NVIDIA