OCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 - 447
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing OCP 11 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% - 0.062%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.24% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 13
10th Percentile £425 - £510
25th Percentile £463 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.22%
75th Percentile £587 - £625
90th Percentile £627 - £645
UK median daily rate £605 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +0.88% -2.04% +2.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,695 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.58% 37.05% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,411 5,360
10th Percentile £211 £263 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £723 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.92
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.39 £76.29 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OCP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OCP in the UK excluding London

OCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OCP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OCP in the UK excluding London

OCP
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 OCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
North of England - 4 £525 -
Midlands - 3 £603 - 1
South East - 3 £475 - 8
West Midlands - 3 £603 - 1
Scotland - 1 £525 -
OCP
UK

OCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) OCI
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) CloudFront
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Route 53
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Database
2 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Database Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) DBA
3 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) RAML
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 1 (9.09%) Java EE
2 1 (9.09%) Java SE
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) Loki
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) Struts
2 1 (9.09%) Swagger
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (18.18%) Data Management
6 2 (18.18%) Database Security
7 1 (9.09%) API Development
7 1 (9.09%) API Integration
7 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
7 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 1 (9.09%) Microservices
7 1 (9.09%) Project Management
7 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Groovy
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (36.36%) vSphere
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Kibana
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (9.09%) OpenAI