OCR Contracts with Work from Home Options

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 319 394 577
Rank change year-on-year +75 +183 +2
Contract jobs citing OCR 3 5 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.025% 0.027% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.030% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile - - £398
25th Percentile £408 £300 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £470 £456
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% +2.90% -13.10%
75th Percentile £423 £530 £650
90th Percentile - £535 £661
UK median daily rate £450 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -10.54% -4.19% -2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,687 16,696 35,240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.04% 88.78% 91.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,714 11,676 25,347
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 402 535
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.49 £16.07
25th Percentile £23.92 £26.06 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -2.78% +125.00%
75th Percentile £66.53 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

OCR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OCR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OCR trend for jobs with a WFH option

OCR
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OCR.

OCR daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OCR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (33.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (33.33%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (66.67%) Miro
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) CRM Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) CRM Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Business Process Mapping
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Swim Lanes
1 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (33.33%) Accounts Payable
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) ABAP
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Ariba
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenText
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow