OCP Contracts

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 595 682
Rank change year-on-year +104 +87 +134
Contract jobs citing OCP 28 5 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.011% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.037% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 24
10th Percentile £423 £480 £541
25th Percentile £509 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £730
90th Percentile £694 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +2.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OCP in the UK

OCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OCP in the UK

OCP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCP in the UK

OCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OCP in the UK

OCP
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +83 24 £605 -6.88% 16
London +45 12 £624 -3.96% 4
UK excluding London - 11 £513 - 12
Work from Home +58 10 £603 +34.00% 13
Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
North of England - 4 £525 -
Midlands - 3 £603 - 1
South East - 3 £475 - 5
West Midlands - 3 £603 - 1
Scotland - 1 £525 -

OCP
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 2 (7.14%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) OCI
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (25.00%) Serverless
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (21.43%) AWS CodePipeline
4 6 (21.43%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (21.43%) GitHub
4 6 (21.43%) PaaS
4 6 (21.43%) SaaS
5 5 (17.86%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (17.86%) Azure AKS
6 3 (10.71%) Azure
6 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle Database
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Git
3 3 (10.71%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Architect
2 7 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Architect
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Solution Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Database Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) DBA
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) MuleSoft Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) OAuth
1 7 (25.00%) OpenID
1 7 (25.00%) SAML
2 6 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (17.86%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 2 (7.14%) Java EE
4 2 (7.14%) Java SE
4 2 (7.14%) JSON
4 2 (7.14%) RAML
4 2 (7.14%) React
4 2 (7.14%) RESTful
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.14%) Struts
4 2 (7.14%) Web Services
4 2 (7.14%) XML
5 1 (3.57%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Management Information System
1 6 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 5 (17.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (17.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (42.86%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) Integration Patterns
4 9 (32.14%) Agile
5 8 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 7 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 6 (21.43%) Key Management
7 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 6 (21.43%) Project Management
7 6 (21.43%) Risk Assessment
8 5 (17.86%) Budgeting
8 5 (17.86%) Cost Management
8 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
8 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (17.86%) Observability
8 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 19 (67.86%) Security Cleared
3 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 7 (25.00%) Degree
5 6 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (17.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
8 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (7.14%) Sun Certification
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 7 (25.00%) NIST
1 7 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (14.29%) vSphere
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Ansible
1 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Kibana
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat