OCP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for OCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 100 112
Rank change year-on-year -63 +12 -
Contract jobs citing OCP 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.32% 0.048%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.52% 1.01% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £439 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £603 £510
Median % change year-on-year -25.87% +18.24% -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £453 - -
England median daily rate £447 £603 £638
% change year-on-year -25.87% -5.41% +6.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,155 497 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.72% 31.58% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 324 435
10th Percentile £329 £155 £289
25th Percentile £408 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £502
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.28% -7.13%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £613
90th Percentile £656 £700 £707
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 39 34
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.08 £21.44
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +5.26% +37.65%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.00 £53.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £50.50 £58.75
England median hourly rate £53.00 £27.76 £42.50
% change year-on-year +90.92% -34.68% -22.73%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

OCP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

OCP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OCP

OCP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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
Shropshire -41 5 £447 - 3
OCP
England

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DBA
2 5 (83.33%) Administrator
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL DBA
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 6 (100.00%) Data Management
1 6 (100.00%) Database Security
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle