OCR Job Trends in Southampton

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring OCR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OCR 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.17% - 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - £32,500
75th Percentile £33,750 - £33,750
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £32,500 - £32,500

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 449 482 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 78.50% 82.39% 91.60%
Number of salaries quoted 323 352 296
10th Percentile £29,800 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,813 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £62,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,250
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

OCR job vacancy trend in Southampton

OCR
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing OCR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing OCR

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Document Management
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle