OCR Contracts in the UK excluding London

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OCR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OCR over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 448 505
Rank change year-on-year +78 +57 -82
Contract jobs citing OCR 23 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.046% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.051% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 4
10th Percentile - - £407
25th Percentile £400 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -1.11% -15.49%
75th Percentile £488 £479 £516
90th Percentile £495 - £521
UK median daily rate £450 £460 £485
% change year-on-year -2.17% -5.15% -11.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OCR is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OCR in the UK excluding London

OCR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for OCR in the UK excluding London

OCR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for OCR in the UK excluding London

OCR
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 OCR within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 +23 9 £400 -3.03% 2
East of England - 6 £495 -
Scotland +33 5 £463 -3.44%
North of England - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
OCR
UK

OCR
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (26.09%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 6 (26.09%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
1 5 (21.74%) AWS
1 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (21.74%) Serverless
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.70%) Rekognition
3 2 (8.70%) Textract
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Billing
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) C++ Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Software Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Automation Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Service Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) C++ Software Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Junior
4 1 (4.35%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) EDI
1 6 (26.09%) IDoc
2 5 (21.74%) AWS CDK
3 4 (17.39%) SAP Business Workflow
4 1 (4.35%) PostGIS
4 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) Refactoring
2 9 (39.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Analytics
5 6 (26.09%) Accounts Payable
5 6 (26.09%) Invoice Processing
5 6 (26.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (26.09%) Workflow
6 5 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (21.74%) Kanban
6 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
6 5 (21.74%) Natural Language Processing
6 5 (21.74%) Scrum
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) Product Management
7 4 (17.39%) Service Design
8 3 (13.04%) Code Quality
8 3 (13.04%) Community of Practice
8 3 (13.04%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) C#
1 9 (39.13%) C++
2 6 (26.09%) ABAP
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) Java
6 1 (4.35%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) ISO 9001
1 8 (34.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) OpenText
1 6 (26.09%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft