OCP Contract Job Trends 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 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 356 413
Rank change year-on-year -15 +57 +82
Contract jobs citing OCP 20 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.048% 0.034%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% 0.14% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 6
10th Percentile £443 £466 £438
25th Percentile £454 £510 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +6.33% -5.95%
75th Percentile £509 £591 £500
90th Percentile £680 £643 £544
UK median daily rate £462 £613 £500
% change year-on-year -24.57% +22.50% -9.09%

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 6,054 5,658 7,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.31% 33.81% 35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,688 3,332 4,539
10th Percentile £213 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.14% +1.81%
75th Percentile £594 £624 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 405 623
10th Percentile £16.75 £18.66 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.24
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.18 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -47.80% -7.15% +15.31%
75th Percentile £40.30 £67.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.58 £75.00 £79.02
UK 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 UK excluding London

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

OCP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OCP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCP in the UK excluding London

OCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 2 November 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 East +20 15 £467 -8.83% 7
Midlands -20 2 - -
West Midlands -24 2 - -
South West - 2 £463 -
Yorkshire -30 1 - -
North of England -35 1 - -
OCP
UK

OCP
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 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Datadog
2 5 (25.00%) GitHub
2 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (10.00%) Apple Pay
4 2 (10.00%) Google Pay
4 2 (10.00%) OCI
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 5 (25.00%) HBase
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (15.00%) Tableau
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (10.00%) MySQL
6 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
6 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (5.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
1 6 (30.00%) JUnit
1 6 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 5 (25.00%) Gradle
3 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.00%) Gatling
4 1 (5.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Electronics
4 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
1 6 (30.00%) Java Developer
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) DBA
3 4 (20.00%) Migration Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Database Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Spring
1 6 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (25.00%) Kafka
2 5 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.00%) ONNX
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Clustering
1 2 (10.00%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Migration
2 8 (40.00%) Microservices
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Programme Management
5 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 5 (25.00%) SOA
6 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (20.00%) Database Security
6 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (20.00%) High Availability
6 4 (20.00%) Observability
6 4 (20.00%) Release Train
6 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (15.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Python
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (15.00%) PgMP
2 3 (15.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (15.00%) PMP
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.00%) OCA
4 1 (5.00%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Grafana
3 4 (20.00%) Data Guard
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Ansible
5 1 (5.00%) Cilium
5 1 (5.00%) Rsyslog
5 1 (5.00%) SCOM
5 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Samsung
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) NVIDIA