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 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 746 670 863
Rank change year-on-year -76 +193 -17
Permanent jobs citing OCP 2 11 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.022% 0.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.010% 0.063% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 15
10th Percentile £53,250 £52,500 £50,800
25th Percentile £54,375 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +16.67% -19.45%
75th Percentile £59,375 £76,840 £68,500
90th Percentile £59,750 - £68,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +5.00%

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 19,193 17,591 26,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 35.88% 25.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,063 7,782 16,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -4.76%

OCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OCP job vacancy trend in the UK

OCP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OCP

OCP
Top 4 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 11 July 2026. 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 -80 2 £57,500 -6.12% 5
London -25 1 £55,000 -
South West -61 1 £60,000 - 1
UK excluding London -63 1 £60,000 - 5

OCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle