OCR Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring OCR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OCR 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 - £495
% change year-on-year - - -17.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

OCR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,858 815 1,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.11% 89.27% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 497 998
10th Percentile £304 £231 £263
25th Percentile £403 £356 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £557 £567 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £671
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 48
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.32 £11.08
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.46 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.54 £22.32 £15.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +47.67% +42.19%
75th Percentile £53.69 £37.60 £23.75
90th Percentile £65.53 £91.13 £53.75
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OCR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

OCR job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

OCR
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing OCR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing OCR

OCR
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCR in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OCR in Yorkshire

OCR
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCR within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 February 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
South Yorkshire - 5 £500 - 2
OCR
England

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (80.00%) OpenCV
1 4 (80.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (80.00%) Regular Expression
1 4 (80.00%) SpaCy
1 4 (80.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 4 (80.00%) Deep Learning
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Generative AI
2 4 (80.00%) Image Processing
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Data Science
3 3 (60.00%) KYC
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
5 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft