OCP Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCP 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.47% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.95% - -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £613 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 205 65 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 24.12% 24.25% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 43 63
10th Percentile £405 £156 £378
25th Percentile £463 £220 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £409 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -28.87% +8.49%
75th Percentile £675 £513 £675
90th Percentile £703 £630 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.36 £18.64 £15.00
% change year-on-year +30.74% +24.23% -63.08%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

OCP job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

OCP
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing OCP

OCP
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 3 £613 - 2
OCP
Yorkshire

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
1 4 (100.00%) Pure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft