OCA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for OCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 - 474
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCA 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.012%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.072% - 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £505 - £393
25th Percentile £523 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 - £575
75th Percentile £633 - £597
90th Percentile £643 - £603
UK median daily rate £575 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +1.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OCA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OCA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OCA.

OCA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) NsoIT
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) MCSA
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) RHCA
2 1 (50.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam