Technical Writer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Writer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Writer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £388 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 441 497
Rank change year-on-year +61 +56 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Writer 13 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.075% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.079% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 4
10th Percentile £350 £280 £211
25th Percentile £359 £313 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £395
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.27% +10.49%
75th Percentile £823 £540 £464
90th Percentile £1,643 £548 £508
UK median daily rate £400 £400 £438
% change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £19.30 - -
25th Percentile £19.74 - -
Median hourly rate £20.97 - £13.00
75th Percentile £28.23 - -
90th Percentile £32.29 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £40.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,264 22,670 29,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,896 20,739
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,165 1,484
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Technical Writer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Technical Writer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Writer in the UK excluding London

Technical Writer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Writer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Writer in the UK excluding London

Technical Writer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Writer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Writer in the UK excluding London

Technical Writer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Writer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Writer in the UK excluding London

Technical Writer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Writer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Writer in the UK excluding London

Technical Writer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Writer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East +17 5 £350 -35.19% 1
South West +10 4 £819 +84.45%
Scotland +36 2 £550 +83.33%
North of England +23 1 £400 -17.95% 1
Yorkshire +22 1 £400 -7.25% 1
East of England +13 1 - - 2
Technical Writer
UK

Technical Writer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Technical Writer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Writer in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) CMS
2 4 (30.77%) Content Management
2 4 (30.77%) Document Management
2 4 (30.77%) Photoshop
2 4 (30.77%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) EDMS
3 3 (23.08%) CAD
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) Metadata Management
3 3 (23.08%) Veeva
3 3 (23.08%) PTC Creo
3 3 (23.08%) Metadata
4 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Workflow
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (7.69%) PTC
5 1 (7.69%) Windchill
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (7.69%) FrameMaker
5 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (7.69%) Runbook
5 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (7.69%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Biotechnology

Technical Writer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (30.77%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (30.77%) Photoshop
2 3 (23.08%) PTC Creo
3 1 (7.69%) FrameMaker
3 1 (7.69%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (7.69%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) EDMS
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Games
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Life Science
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Pharmacovigilance
1 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Content Management
1 4 (30.77%) Document Management
2 3 (23.08%) CAD
2 3 (23.08%) Metadata Management
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 1 (7.69%) Biotechnology
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Management
4 1 (7.69%) Runbook
4 1 (7.69%) Wealth Management
4 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) PTC