OCP Contract Job Trends

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 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 536 535 622
Rank change year-on-year -1 +87 +178
Contract jobs citing OCP 27 16 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.044% 0.019%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.24% 0.15% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 8
10th Percentile £402 £510 £443
25th Percentile £429 £521 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% +22.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £578 £656 £625
90th Percentile £647 £675 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £525 £494
% change year-on-year -11.90% +6.33% -5.95%

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 11,180 10,714 13,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.67% 29.31% 28.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,098 6,524 8,616
10th Percentile £293 £313 £305
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £517 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.14% +1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 953 487 754
10th Percentile £17.09 £18.58 £17.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £42.25 £66.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £48.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -47.80% -7.15% +15.31%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OCP job vacancy trend in the UK

OCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

OCP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCP over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCP in the UK

OCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

OCP
Top 10 Contract Job 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 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
England +4 26 £462 -27.53% 11
UK excluding London -15 20 £463 -11.90% 7
South East +20 15 £467 -8.83% 7
Work from Home +10 10 £450 -28.00%
London +5 5 £415 -36.15% 8
Midlands -20 2 - -
West Midlands -24 2 - -
South West - 2 £463 -
Yorkshire -30 1 - -
North of England -35 1 - -

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (7.41%) Confluence
1 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 11 (40.74%) Azure
3 8 (29.63%) OpenShift
4 6 (22.22%) GitHub
5 5 (18.52%) Datadog
6 3 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (7.41%) Apple Pay
7 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 2 (7.41%) Google Pay
7 2 (7.41%) OCI
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (29.63%) MongoDB
3 7 (25.93%) NoSQL
3 7 (25.93%) Oracle Database
4 5 (18.52%) DynamoDB
4 5 (18.52%) HBase
5 4 (14.81%) MySQL
5 4 (14.81%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
6 3 (11.11%) Tableau
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (7.41%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (7.41%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
7 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 6 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (22.22%) JUnit
2 6 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (18.52%) Artifactory
3 5 (18.52%) Gradle
4 4 (14.81%) Git
5 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.70%) Gatling
6 1 (3.70%) JMeter
6 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Electronics
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.41%) Marketing
5 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Developer
1 8 (29.63%) Java Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Senior
3 5 (18.52%) AWS Developer
3 5 (18.52%) DBA
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Migration Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Database Specialist
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared DBA
6 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
6 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared DBA
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Onboarding Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Oracle Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Spring
1 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
2 5 (18.52%) Kafka
2 5 (18.52%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
3 2 (7.41%) JSON
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (7.41%) React
3 2 (7.41%) RESTful
3 2 (7.41%) XML
4 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.70%) Java EE
4 1 (3.70%) Java SE
4 1 (3.70%) JPA
4 1 (3.70%) ONNX
4 1 (3.70%) SOAP
4 1 (3.70%) Struts
4 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Replication
2 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Clustering
3 2 (7.41%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Migration
2 10 (37.04%) Microservices
2 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
4 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (22.22%) DevOps
6 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (22.22%) Programme Management
7 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
7 5 (18.52%) High Availability
7 5 (18.52%) SOA
8 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
8 4 (14.81%) Database Migration
8 4 (14.81%) Database Security
8 4 (14.81%) Observability
8 4 (14.81%) Release Train
8 4 (14.81%) Scrum
8 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) Python
4 6 (22.22%) PL/SQL
5 4 (14.81%) Bash
6 3 (11.11%) Go
6 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (7.41%) C++
7 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (14.81%) OCA
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) PgMP
3 3 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 3 (11.11%) PMP
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) GDPR
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) HIPAA
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Grafana
3 6 (22.22%) Data Guard
3 6 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Ansible
6 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.70%) Cilium
7 1 (3.70%) Rsyslog
7 1 (3.70%) SCOM
7 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Samsung
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) NVIDIA
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Snow