OCR Job Trends in the East of England

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring OCR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 178 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Permanent jobs citing OCR 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.030% 0.024% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.032% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £84,288
% change year-on-year -30.00% -11.02% +57.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,855 3,174 2,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 85.99% 76.52% 92.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,569 1,446 1,347
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.41% +0.42%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OCR relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

OCR job vacancy trend in the East of England

OCR
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OCR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OCR

OCR
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OCR within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 1 £52,500 - 3
OCR
England

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker