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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 684 991 870
Rank change year-on-year +307 -121 -137
Permanent jobs citing OCP 43 99 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.078% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% 0.27% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 37 35 20
10th Percentile £38,750 - £66,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,219 £79,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,823 £91,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -24.99% +83.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,016 £101,750
90th Percentile £128,321 £94,504 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,288 £62,346 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.74% -22.07% +60.00%

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 17,523 37,320 32,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 29.53% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10,978 17,212 17,882
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,102 £41,250 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,590
% change year-on-year +5.00% +0.83% +1.20%

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 November 2023.

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 30 November 2023. 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 +212 39 £70,288 +12.74% 6
Work from Home +249 34 £70,576 +2.55% 8
England +254 28 £70,576 +2.55% 13
North of England +142 11 £70,576 +9.10% 2
Midlands +132 11 £50,000 +25.00% 3
East Midlands +60 11 £50,000 +25.00% 3
North West +113 8 £70,576 +18.56% 1
Scotland +61 7 £90,305 +51.71%
South West +77 5 £105,823 +77.78%
Yorkshire +71 3 £60,249 -20.35%
Northern Ireland +38 3 £70,000 -
Wales - 2 £33,426 -
London +256 1 £122,487 +56.75% 8

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 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
1 2 (4.65%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) GCP
2 11 (25.58%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Azure
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Pipelines
4 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.33%) Route 53
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) DNS
1 1 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 8 (18.60%) JIRA
3 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.63%) Maven
5 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.98%) Cypress.io
5 3 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (4.65%) Gradle
7 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.33%) GitLab
7 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (58.14%) Banking
2 23 (53.49%) Finance
2 23 (53.49%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) DBA
1 11 (25.58%) Oracle DBA
2 9 (20.93%) Architect
3 8 (18.60%) Administrator
3 8 (18.60%) Senior
3 8 (18.60%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Lead
5 6 (13.95%) Lead Software Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Software Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Java Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Software Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Java Software Developer
7 3 (6.98%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Java Software Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) Spring
1 10 (23.26%) Spring Boot
2 8 (18.60%) JSF
3 6 (13.95%) JSP
4 5 (11.63%) AngularJS
4 5 (11.63%) Node.js
5 4 (9.30%) React
5 4 (9.30%) RESTful
6 3 (6.98%) Express.js
6 3 (6.98%) Jest
7 2 (4.65%) JMS
7 2 (4.65%) Kafka
7 2 (4.65%) SOAP
7 2 (4.65%) Web Services
8 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
8 1 (2.33%) Java SE
8 1 (2.33%) JSON
8 1 (2.33%) Loki
8 1 (2.33%) Vue
8 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) Legacy Applications
2 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.98%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Windows
2 7 (16.28%) Linux
3 4 (9.30%) Unix
3 4 (9.30%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.33%) AIX
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Solaris
4 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) Agile
2 18 (41.86%) Software Engineering
3 13 (30.23%) Microservices
4 12 (27.91%) Test Automation
5 8 (18.60%) Adaptive Web Design
5 8 (18.60%) Coaching
5 8 (18.60%) Line Management
5 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
5 8 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (18.60%) Security Architecture
5 8 (18.60%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 8 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.95%) Analytics
7 6 (13.95%) Data Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Data Science
7 6 (13.95%) FinOps
7 6 (13.95%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (13.95%) Storage Management
7 6 (13.95%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) Java
2 13 (30.23%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) PL/SQL
4 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) Groovy
7 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 43 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 8 (18.60%) OCA
3 6 (13.95%) Degree
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.33%) OCPJP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.65%) WCAG
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Data Guard
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle Statspack
3 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.98%) Terraform
5 1 (2.33%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Kibana
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Oracle
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Ab Initio
3 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.65%) Snow
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat