OCR Job Trends in Blackburn

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Lancashire > Blackburn

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Blackburn requiring OCR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OCR 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Blackburn 0.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - -
75th Percentile £42,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £40,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Blackburn

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 76 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 71.59% 98.70% 79.35%
Number of salaries quoted 51 57 61
10th Percentile - £41,250 £22,489
25th Percentile £27,000 £46,250 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,055 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +54.01% -35.00%
75th Percentile £49,325 £58,943 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,110 £87,500 £65,000
Lancashire median annual salary £48,000 £50,055 £46,457
% change year-on-year -4.10% +7.74% -2.20%

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackburn 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI