OCR Job Trends in London

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring OCR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 432 442
Rank change year-on-year +68 +10 +222
Permanent jobs citing OCR 10 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.072% 0.006% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.007% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £70,000
25th Percentile - - £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile - - £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £42,500 £67,037 £72,500
% change year-on-year -36.60% -7.54% -19.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,179 14,601 16,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.59% 94.58% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,774 8,034 13,619
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,263 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OCR job vacancy trend in London

OCR
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OCR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OCR

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (90.00%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
1 9 (90.00%) Azure AI
1 9 (90.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 9 (90.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Pinecone
1 9 (90.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) MLflow
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) E-Discovery Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Legal Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Django
1 9 (90.00%) Faiss
1 9 (90.00%) FastAPI
1 9 (90.00%) Flask
1 9 (90.00%) Hugging Face
1 9 (90.00%) JWT
1 9 (90.00%) NumPy
1 9 (90.00%) OAuth
1 9 (90.00%) OpenAPI
1 9 (90.00%) Pandas
1 9 (90.00%) pytest
1 9 (90.00%) PyTorch
1 9 (90.00%) REST
1 9 (90.00%) RESTful
1 9 (90.00%) scikit-learn
1 9 (90.00%) Swagger
1 9 (90.00%) TensorFlow
1 9 (90.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Legacy Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) AI
1 9 (90.00%) API Development
1 9 (90.00%) API Integration
1 9 (90.00%) Change Management
1 9 (90.00%) Data Cleansing
1 9 (90.00%) Data Extraction
1 9 (90.00%) Data Modelling
1 9 (90.00%) Data Validation
1 9 (90.00%) ETL
1 9 (90.00%) Machine Learning
1 9 (90.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 9 (90.00%) OO
1 9 (90.00%) OOD
1 9 (90.00%) Open Source
1 9 (90.00%) Robotic Process Automation
1 9 (90.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
1 9 (90.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 9 (90.00%) Validation
1 9 (90.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Automation Anywhere
1 9 (90.00%) OpenAI
1 9 (90.00%) UiPath
2 1 (10.00%) Nuix