Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 663 840 916
Rank change year-on-year +177 +76 -240
Permanent jobs citing OCP 21 45 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.046% 0.068%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.082% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9 37 23
10th Percentile £56,447 £50,300 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% +13.38%
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,500 £67,790
90th Percentile - £72,433 £72,233
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - +0.80% +13.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

OCP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OCP in the UK

OCP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OCP.

Salary trend for OCP in the UK

OCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OCP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for OCP in the UK

OCP
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +175 21 £60,000 +4.35% 16
UK excluding London +181 19 £60,000 - 12
South East +119 10 - - 5
Work from Home +165 8 £60,204 -5.38% 13
Midlands +52 5 £60,000 +4.35% 1
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 1
North of England +70 3 £74,870 +24.27%
Yorkshire +70 3 £74,870 +24.27%
London - 2 £60,408 - 4
South West - 1 - - 4

OCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) GitHub
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 8 (38.10%) Amazon Kinesis
3 8 (38.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle Exadata
2 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 9 (42.86%) Artifactory
3 8 (38.10%) Cucumber
3 8 (38.10%) git-flow
3 8 (38.10%) Gradle
4 4 (19.05%) Git
5 3 (14.29%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (14.29%) JIRA
5 3 (14.29%) Selenium
5 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (76.19%) Finance
2 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (61.90%) Banking
4 12 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Applications Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) DBA
3 5 (23.81%) Oracle DBA
4 4 (19.05%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Kafka
2 9 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 8 (38.10%) Drools
3 8 (38.10%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (23.81%) Middleware
4 5 (23.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (14.29%) Django
5 3 (14.29%) FastAPI
5 3 (14.29%) Flask
5 3 (14.29%) Playwright
6 1 (4.76%) REST
6 1 (4.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
1 5 (23.81%) Unix
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 11 (52.38%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) Computer Science
4 10 (47.62%) Collaborative Culture
4 10 (47.62%) Digital Banking
4 10 (47.62%) Risk Management
5 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
6 8 (38.10%) BDD
6 8 (38.10%) Code Coverage
6 8 (38.10%) Design Patterns
6 8 (38.10%) High Availability
6 8 (38.10%) Performance Monitoring
6 8 (38.10%) TDD
6 8 (38.10%) Thought Leadership
7 6 (28.57%) Informatics
7 6 (28.57%) Information Security
8 5 (23.81%) Data Management
8 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (19.05%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) Java
3 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
5 3 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 8 (38.10%) AWS Certification
3 5 (23.81%) Degree
3 5 (23.81%) OCA
4 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Kubernetes
2 11 (52.38%) Ansible
2 11 (52.38%) Terraform
3 5 (23.81%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (14.29%) Argo
4 3 (14.29%) Grafana
4 3 (14.29%) Istio
4 3 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 3 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 3 (14.29%) IBM