OCA Contracts

Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 594 669
Rank change year-on-year +56 +75 +195
Contract jobs citing OCA 13 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.002% 0.020%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.008% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 11
10th Percentile £431 - £369
25th Percentile £563 £658 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £665 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +20.91% +1.38%
75th Percentile £588 £673 £591
90th Percentile £625 - £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +7.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,754 12,940 15,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.87% 29.79% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,039 8,021 9,992
10th Percentile £277 £313 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £704 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 649 1,105 737
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.23
25th Percentile £20.15 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.94 £40.94 £55.85
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% -26.70% +25.51%
75th Percentile £59.90 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.32 £43.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -41.12% -19.87% +52.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OCA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OCA in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OCA.

Daily rate trend for OCA in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCA over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCA in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OCA.

Hourly rate trend for OCA in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 July 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
England +76 13 £575 -13.53% 9
UK excluding London - 11 £575 - 4
South West - 11 £575 - 1
Work from Home +45 3 £538 -19.17% 5
London +35 2 £415 -37.59% 5

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (76.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Bitbucket
1 12 (92.31%) Git
2 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 10 (76.92%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) REST
2 10 (76.92%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 11 (84.62%) Configuration Management
2 11 (84.62%) Deployment Automation
2 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Automation
3 10 (76.92%) NsoIT
3 10 (76.92%) Reverse Engineering
3 10 (76.92%) Validation
4 9 (69.23%) Service Management
4 9 (69.23%) System Testing
5 5 (38.46%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Migration
7 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
8 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
8 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) Bash
2 10 (76.92%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (76.92%) CCNP
3 10 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (76.92%) RHCA
3 10 (76.92%) RHCE
4 2 (15.38%) OCP
5 1 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (7.69%) MCSA
5 1 (7.69%) MCSE
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Ansible
2 11 (84.62%) vCenter Server
3 10 (76.92%) Progress Chef
3 10 (76.92%) Puppet
4 2 (15.38%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) PowerCLI
5 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (84.62%) VMware
3 10 (76.92%) Cisco
4 8 (61.54%) Atlassian
5 2 (15.38%) Splunk
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 1 (7.69%) Veeam