OCA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCA 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.068% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £399 - -
25th Percentile £436 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £599 - -
UK median daily rate £463 £665 -
% change year-on-year -30.45% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

OCA 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,867 5,752 7,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.00% 33.92% 34.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,553 3,372 4,600
10th Percentile £213 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -4.00% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 435 622
10th Percentile £16.48 £18.66 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.30 £24.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% -3.64% +15.31%
75th Percentile £35.50 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.50 £75.00 £79.11
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -11.21% +18.89%

OCA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OCA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OCA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OCA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OCA

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCA in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OCA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OCA

OCA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
South West - 3 £463 - 1
South East - 1 £375 -
OCA
UK

OCA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (50.00%) OCP
3 1 (25.00%) MCSA
3 1 (25.00%) MCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) VMware