OCR Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring OCR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCR 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 2.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £492 - £495

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 82 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 76.34% 81.19% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 53
10th Percentile £220 £216 £205
25th Percentile £325 £274 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £662 £538 £563
90th Percentile £713 £687 £692
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £14.63 £45.22 -
25th Percentile £18.07 £46.72 £11.25
Median hourly rate £22.38 £61.25 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.47% +337.50% -7.41%
75th Percentile £24.57 £70.00 £42.25
90th Percentile £25.15 - £64.40
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%

OCR
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCR within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 31 January 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
Ipswich - 2 £550 -
OCR
East of England

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI