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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 708 893 913
Rank change year-on-year +185 +20 -196
Permanent jobs citing OCP 13 28 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.026% 0.035%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.049% 0.098% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 7
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £44,800
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £56,815
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -18.90% +24.48%
75th Percentile £73,567 £68,500 £91,323
90th Percentile £76,840 £72,433 £122,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £57,675
% change year-on-year +13.21% -8.11% +9.86%

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 26,641 28,550 31,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 26.33% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,003 17,234 14,336
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,734 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.96%

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 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for OCP in the UK

OCP
Top 11 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 10 June 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 +157 13 £60,000 +9.09% 37
UK excluding London +178 11 £60,000 +13.21% 25
Work from Home +120 9 £60,000 -10.45% 18
Midlands +74 5 £60,000 +4.35% 4
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 3
North of England +54 3 £74,870 +42.61%
Yorkshire - 3 £74,870 -
South East +84 1 - - 12
South West - 1 - -
London - 1 - - 17
East of England - 1 £55,000 - 8

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 (23.08%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle Database
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Exadata
3 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
4 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) IBM UrbanCode
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
1 3 (23.08%) Selenium
1 3 (23.08%) SonarQube
1 3 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DBA
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (38.46%) Middleware
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (23.08%) Django
3 3 (23.08%) FastAPI
3 3 (23.08%) Flask
3 3 (23.08%) Playwright
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Unix
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Data Management
2 4 (30.77%) Database Tuning
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.69%) ERP
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Programme Management
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PL/SQL
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
3 3 (23.08%) Groovy
3 3 (23.08%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (38.46%) OCA
3 4 (30.77%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Argo
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Istio
3 3 (23.08%) Progress Chef
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
3 3 (23.08%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Data Guard
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Atlassian
2 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) ATG
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
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