OCR Job Trends in Leeds

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring OCR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OCR 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.064% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,215 826 1,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 78.34% 91.68% 90.03%
Number of salaries quoted 821 479 1,195
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,691 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,400 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

OCR job vacancy trend in Leeds

OCR
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing OCR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing OCR

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) DSLAM
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cabling Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BT