Documentation Skills Contracts in the South East

Documentation Skills
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 167 141 164
Rank change year-on-year -26 +23 -12
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 34 80 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.62% 1.38% 1.23%
As % of the General category 1.21% 2.36% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 63
10th Percentile £256 £252 £219
25th Percentile £298 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% +28.13%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £638
90th Percentile - £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -1.67% +1.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 6
10th Percentile - £60.50 £33.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £61.00 £45.31
Median hourly rate £20.50 £73.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -72.20% +51.28% -18.75%
75th Percentile £21.75 £75.00 £61.63
90th Percentile - £80.25 £65.52
England median hourly rate £20.50 £72.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -71.72% +48.72% -15.95%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,808 3,397 4,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.88% 58.48% 54.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,539 2,312 2,791
10th Percentile £205 £244 £213
25th Percentile £355 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £660
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 167 218
10th Percentile £12.91 £18.40 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.67 £25.00 £14.32
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -20.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.56 £32.50
90th Percentile £70.29 £72.98 £48.75
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -16 13 £310 -39.51% 12
Surrey +13 11 £525 +5.00% 3
Berkshire -19 9 £310 -40.95% 4
Buckinghamshire +22 4 £550 +15.79% 5
West Sussex +4 4 £450 +5.88%
Middlesex +3 3 £275 -50.00%
Kent +4 2 £400 +90.48% 4
Hampshire -23 1 £475 -18.24% 7
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
3 4 (11.76%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Firewall
2 4 (11.76%) DHCP
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (8.82%) DNS
3 3 (8.82%) Network Security
3 3 (8.82%) NX-OS
4 2 (5.88%) NAS
4 2 (5.88%) SAN
4 2 (5.88%) VPN
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.94%) ClearCase
2 1 (2.94%) ClearQuest
2 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Marketing
3 6 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Dutch Language
6 1 (2.94%) German Language
6 1 (2.94%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.94%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Senior
2 6 (17.65%) DOORS Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Integration Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Network Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Software Integration Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (8.82%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Support
5 2 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Middleware
1 2 (5.88%) YAML
2 1 (2.94%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.94%) ADO
2 1 (2.94%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Tandem
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (20.59%) Windows Server
3 6 (17.65%) Unix
4 5 (14.71%) Linux
5 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) ITIL
1 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (17.65%) Budgeting
3 6 (17.65%) Customer Engagement
3 6 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (17.65%) Customer Service
3 6 (17.65%) Process Improvement
3 6 (17.65%) Requirements Analysis
3 6 (17.65%) Requirements Management
3 6 (17.65%) Risk Management
3 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (17.65%) Systems Engineering
3 6 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (17.65%) Test Strategy
3 6 (17.65%) UML
3 6 (17.65%) Validation
3 6 (17.65%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (14.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Degree
2 6 (17.65%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (17.65%) Master's Degree
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.82%) CCNP
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.94%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CCIE
5 1 (2.94%) CEH
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
5 1 (2.94%) MCDST
5 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.82%) QA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (20.59%) vSphere
4 5 (14.71%) VMware NSX
5 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (8.82%) XenApp
6 3 (8.82%) XenDesktop
7 2 (5.88%) Ceph
7 2 (5.88%) Docker
7 2 (5.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Ansible
1 5 (14.71%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) SCCM
3 3 (8.82%) Netcool
4 2 (5.88%) Pacemaker
4 2 (5.88%) Podman
4 2 (5.88%) Rundeck
5 1 (2.94%) HP ALM
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) VMware
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) Cisco
3 4 (11.76%) IBM
4 3 (8.82%) CheckPoint
4 3 (8.82%) Citrix
4 3 (8.82%) Dynatrace
4 3 (8.82%) FireEye
4 3 (8.82%) Infoblox
4 3 (8.82%) Nokia
4 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.82%) Tanium
5 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.88%) Sun
6 1 (2.94%) HP
6 1 (2.94%) Salesforce