Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 849 898 678
Rank change year-on-year +49 -220 +58
Permanent jobs citing OCP 47 72 643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.069% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% 0.21% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 39 24 24
10th Percentile £50,400 - £47,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,219 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,249 £59,526 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +13.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £70,581 £81,563
90th Percentile £91,695 £72,647 £98,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,249 £59,526 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.21% +13.38% +5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

OCP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for OCP in the UK

OCP
Top 13 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 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +23 47 £60,249 +1.21% 3
England +85 36 £57,500 -3.40% 5
Work from Home +68 26 £67,000 +12.56% 2
North of England +50 17 £60,249 +1.21%
East Midlands - 14 £57,500 -
Midlands - 14 £57,500 -
Scotland -60 10 £60,249 +1.21%
North East - 8 £52,500 -
North West +14 6 £70,576 +18.56%
South East +30 4 £67,000 - 2
Yorkshire +82 3 £60,249 -2.99%
South West -7 1 £105,823 +77.78%
Northern Ireland - 1 £90,000 -

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 7 (14.89%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) GCP
2 14 (29.79%) OCI
3 13 (27.66%) AWS
3 13 (27.66%) Azure
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.13%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (2.13%) Apigee
5 1 (2.13%) npm
5 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (65.96%) Oracle Database
2 12 (25.53%) SQL Server
3 10 (21.28%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (21.28%) MySQL
4 4 (8.51%) SAP HANA
5 3 (6.38%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Git
1 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.38%) JIRA
1 3 (6.38%) Maven
1 3 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.13%) Gradle
3 1 (2.13%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.13%) Spinnaker
3 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.91%) Banking
2 15 (31.91%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.26%) Police
3 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (63.83%) DBA
2 28 (59.57%) Oracle DBA
3 18 (38.30%) Administrator
4 6 (12.77%) Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Senior
5 5 (10.64%) Technical Administrator
6 3 (6.38%) SAP Administrator
6 3 (6.38%) SAP HANA Administrator
6 3 (6.38%) Senior DBA
7 2 (4.26%) Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (4.26%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Software Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.26%) Express.js
3 2 (4.26%) Jest
3 2 (4.26%) Node.js
3 2 (4.26%) React
3 2 (4.26%) Spring
4 1 (2.13%) JSF
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) JSP
4 1 (2.13%) Middleware
4 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.13%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.04%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Windows
3 4 (8.51%) AIX
4 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Performance Tuning
2 23 (48.94%) Database Security
3 16 (34.04%) Agile
3 16 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (27.66%) Software Engineering
5 11 (23.40%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
6 10 (21.28%) Migration
7 9 (19.15%) DevOps
8 7 (14.89%) Analytics
9 6 (12.77%) Adaptive Web Design
9 6 (12.77%) Data Engineering
9 6 (12.77%) Data Management
9 6 (12.77%) Data Science
9 6 (12.77%) Data Strategy
9 6 (12.77%) Patch Management
9 6 (12.77%) Security Architecture
9 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
9 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.77%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) SQL
2 15 (31.91%) PL/SQL
3 11 (23.40%) Java
4 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) Python
6 1 (2.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 11 (23.40%) Degree
3 10 (21.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (19.15%) OCA
5 6 (12.77%) Azure Certification
5 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (17.02%) Data Guard
3 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.38%) Terraform
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle Statspack
5 1 (2.13%) Ansible
5 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (68.09%) Oracle
2 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe
4 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.13%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat