OCR Job Trends in South Wales

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales 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 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OCR 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £125,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £150,000 - -
75th Percentile £175,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £150,000 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 590 631 635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 83.69% 69.26% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 443 375 497
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,875 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,157 £76,500 £73,250
Wales median annual salary £48,500 £45,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +6.59% -2.15% -7.00%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

OCR job vacancy trend in South Wales

OCR
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OCR within the South Wales 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
Cardiff - 1 £150,000 - 1
OCR
Wales

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft