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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 691 858 909
Rank change year-on-year +167 +51 -231
Permanent jobs citing OCP 14 39 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.039% 0.068%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.051% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9 31 23
10th Percentile £56,500 £50,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.40% +13.38%
75th Percentile £76,840 £62,167 £67,070
90th Percentile - £72,433 £70,581
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.35% -3.40% +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 27,209 27,402 32,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.33% 27.67% 32.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,307 17,265 14,877
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,277
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +131 14 £60,000 +4.35% 30
UK excluding London +151 12 £60,000 +4.35% 21
Work from Home +124 8 £61,250 +1.66% 20
Midlands +58 5 £60,000 +4.35% 1
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 1
South East +95 3 - - 7
Yorkshire +65 3 £74,870 +24.27%
North of England +45 3 £74,870 +42.61% 1
London - 1 - - 11
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 (21.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle Database
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle Exadata
2 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
3 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
2 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
2 3 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (14.29%) git-flow
3 2 (14.29%) Gradle
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Electronics
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) DBA
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (35.71%) Middleware
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (21.43%) Django
3 3 (21.43%) FastAPI
3 3 (21.43%) Flask
3 3 (21.43%) Kafka
3 3 (21.43%) Playwright
4 2 (14.29%) Drools
4 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mainframe
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Unix
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Data Management
4 4 (28.57%) Database Tuning
5 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Digital Banking
5 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
6 2 (14.29%) BDD
6 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PL/SQL
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 3 (21.43%) Groovy
4 3 (21.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (35.71%) OCA
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Argo
3 3 (21.43%) Grafana
3 3 (21.43%) Istio
3 3 (21.43%) Progress Chef
3 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Data Guard
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Atlassian
2 3 (21.43%) Dynatrace
2 3 (21.43%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) SAP