OCR Contracts with Work from Home Options

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for OCR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OCR over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 453 612
Rank change year-on-year +124 +159 -119
Contract jobs citing OCR 10 12 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.049% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.054% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 4
10th Percentile £409 £423 £420
25th Percentile £410 £434 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £467 £472
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -1.06% -5.60%
75th Percentile £495 £479 £516
90th Percentile £500 - £521
UK median daily rate £450 £453 £472
% change year-on-year -0.55% -4.13% -14.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

OCR is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,053 22,182 40,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.73% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,754 15,684 29,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 541
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.93 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +40.11% +54.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

OCR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OCR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OCR trend for jobs with a WFH option

OCR
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OCR.

OCR daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OCR
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:

Business Applications
1 8 (80.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 8 (80.00%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (20.00%) Rekognition
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
1 2 (20.00%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (80.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) EDI
1 8 (80.00%) IDoc
1 8 (80.00%) SAP Business Workflow
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Accounts Payable
1 8 (80.00%) Analytics
1 8 (80.00%) Invoice Processing
1 8 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 8 (80.00%) Workflow
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Coaching
2 2 (20.00%) Code Coverage
2 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (20.00%) ETL
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (20.00%) Kanban
2 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Product Management
2 2 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) ABAP
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) OpenText
1 8 (80.00%) SAP