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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 697 839 904
Rank change year-on-year +142 +65 -221
Permanent jobs citing OCP 15 39 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.039% 0.068%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.055% 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 27,097 27,438 33,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.19% 27.71% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,306 17,258 15,028
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,563
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -9.34% +8.30%
75th Percentile £68,525 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,603
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.11% +3.21%

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 14 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 14 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 +126 15 £60,000 +4.35% 26
UK excluding London +158 13 £60,000 +4.35% 19
Work from Home +108 8 £61,250 +1.66% 17
Midlands +53 5 £60,000 +4.35% 1
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 1
South East +101 4 - - 6
Yorkshire +75 3 £74,870 +24.27%
North of England +41 3 £74,870 +42.61% 1
London - 1 - - 9
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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) GitHub
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) git-flow
2 3 (20.00%) Gradle
2 3 (20.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Banking
2 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) DBA
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (33.33%) Middleware
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 4 (26.67%) Kafka
4 3 (20.00%) Django
4 3 (20.00%) Drools
4 3 (20.00%) FastAPI
4 3 (20.00%) Flask
4 3 (20.00%) Playwright
4 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Unix
2 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (26.67%) Data Management
4 4 (26.67%) Database Tuning
4 4 (26.67%) Digital Banking
4 4 (26.67%) High Availability
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
5 3 (20.00%) BDD
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Information Security
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 6 (40.00%) Python
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (33.33%) OCA
3 4 (26.67%) Degree
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (40.00%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 5 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (20.00%) Argo
4 3 (20.00%) Grafana
4 3 (20.00%) Istio
4 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) SAP