Documentation Skills Contracts in the North West

Documentation Skills
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 133 153
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 -33
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 16 27 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.58% 0.85% 0.71%
As % of the General category 1.08% 1.63% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 16
10th Percentile £205 £353 £409
25th Percentile £210 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -1.41% +33.13%
75th Percentile £502 £566 £570
90th Percentile £556 £630 £631
England median daily rate £500 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -1.67% +1.70% +11.11%

All General Skills
North West

Documentation Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,480 1,657 2,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.56% 51.86% 50.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 1,141 1,433
10th Percentile £300 £305 £213
25th Percentile £395 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £573
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 82 116
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.88 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.28 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £36.95 £38.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £52.90 £53.45
England median hourly rate £30.00 £33.91 £21.43
% change year-on-year -11.53% +58.27% -4.78%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +14 6 £348 -7.33% 7
Lancashire +3 5 £475 -5.00% 3
Merseyside +19 3 £488 - 3
Cheshire -6 2 £363 -35.93%
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) LAN
1 3 (18.75%) VLAN
1 3 (18.75%) VoIP
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
1 3 (18.75%) WAN
1 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (12.50%) DHCP
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 3 (18.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Functional Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Deployment Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Deployment Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
1 3 (18.75%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (18.75%) Mac OS
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Migration
2 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Data Reconciliation
4 3 (18.75%) Data Science
4 3 (18.75%) Database Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Database Security
4 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Quality Management
4 3 (18.75%) RBAC
4 3 (18.75%) User Stories
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 2 (12.50%) Inventory Management
5 2 (12.50%) Security Hardening
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Map
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Autotask
1 3 (18.75%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (18.75%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Apple
3 3 (18.75%) Datto
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce