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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 342 452
Rank change year-on-year +41 +110 +180
Contract jobs citing OCA 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.049% 0.007% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% 0.028% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £427 - £393
25th Percentile £456 £658 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £665 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.45% +15.65% +21.05%
75th Percentile £581 £673 £597
90th Percentile £623 - £603
UK median daily rate £575 £665 £550
% change year-on-year -13.53% +20.91% -

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 3,004 3,565 5,782
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.45% 25.17% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,972 2,365 3,902
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -
75th Percentile £625 £637 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 227 233
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £27.34 £26.88 £42.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% -28.33% +10.09%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.82% -24.77% +26.94%

OCA
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

OCA
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

OCA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OCA over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

OCA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OCA
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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) OCI
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) NsoIT
4 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (60.00%) OCP
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) MCSA
4 1 (20.00%) MCSE
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) RHCA
4 1 (20.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam