The first table below looks at the demand for the Documentation Specialist role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Documentation Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Documentation Specialist
Rank - 559 579
Contract jobs requiring a Documentation Specialist 0 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.010% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.011% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
Average daily rate - £283 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -56.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £283 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Documentation Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Documentation Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Documentation Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Documentation Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Documentation Specialist within the UK.

Documentation Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Documentation Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Documentation Specialist within the UK.

Documentation Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Documentation Specialist
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Documentation Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Documentation Specialist in their job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) COM
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Document Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories

Documentation Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Documentation Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Documentation Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) COM
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Document Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix