OCR Job Trends in Wales

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring OCR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OCR 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £125,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £150,000 - -
75th Percentile £175,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £84,288
% change year-on-year -30.00% -11.02% +57.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

OCR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 723 873 945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 83.49% 69.07% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 534 507 744
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,600 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -2.15% -7.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £61,449
90th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -

OCR
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

OCR job vacancy trend in Wales

OCR
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OCR within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
South Wales - 1 £150,000 - 1
OCR
UK

OCR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft