OCP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for OCP 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 294 343 462
Rank change year-on-year +49 +119 +156
Contract jobs citing OCP 10 2 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.013% 0.058%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% 0.047% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 10
10th Percentile £443 - £485
25th Percentile £488 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £450 £581
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -22.58% -3.13%
75th Percentile £617 - £625
90th Percentile £645 - £708
UK median daily rate £605 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +0.88% -2.04% +2.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 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%

OCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OCP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OCP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OCP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OCP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OCP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OCP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OCP
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 (20.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
2 4 (40.00%) PaaS
2 4 (40.00%) SaaS
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Architect
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) DBA
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) OAuth
2 2 (20.00%) OpenID
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (20.00%) RAML
2 2 (20.00%) SAML
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Budgeting
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Observability
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Key Management
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat