OCR Contracts in England

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OCR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OCR over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 583 740
Rank change year-on-year +71 +157 +6
Contract jobs citing OCR 2 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.006% 0.015% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.017% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile - - £380
25th Percentile £408 £300 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £448 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -20.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £423 £636 £678
90th Percentile - £659 £790
UK median daily rate £450 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -10.54% -4.19% -2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OCR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OCR in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OCR in England.

Daily rate trend for OCR in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OCR in England.

Hourly rate trend for OCR in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCR within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 2 £415 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £415 - 2
OCR
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (100.00%) Miro
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) CRM Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) CRM Business Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Process Mapping
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Swim Lanes
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft