Documentation Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Documentation Skills
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 251 331
Rank change year-on-year +3 +80 -59
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 93 231 313
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.92% 0.71%
As % of the General category 1.05% 1.57% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 146 214
10th Percentile £345 £397 £400
25th Percentile £425 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £507 £527
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +17.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £622
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £507 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.55% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 9
10th Percentile - £67.75 £40.20
25th Percentile £16.50 £71.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.33% +14.50% +5.65%
75th Percentile £20.69 £79.88 £65.54
90th Percentile £21.75 £80.48 -
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £53.95
% change year-on-year -77.33% +39.03% -6.99%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,864 14,673 23,844
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.80% 58.48% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,820 10,341 17,298
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 333 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.95 £19.43
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.77
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +52.58% +40.54%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.20 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Documentation Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Documentation Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Documentation Skills.

Documentation Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Documentation Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Documentation Skills.

Documentation Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.30%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.48%) Azure
2 15 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (11.83%) Entra ID
4 11 (11.83%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.75%) AWS
6 7 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.38%) IaaS
7 5 (5.38%) PaaS
8 4 (4.30%) GCP
8 4 (4.30%) Mimecast
8 4 (4.30%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.30%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.15%) GitHub
11 1 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.08%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.08%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.08%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.28%) Firewall
2 13 (13.98%) DNS
3 7 (7.53%) Network Security
4 4 (4.30%) DHCP
4 4 (4.30%) SAN
5 3 (3.23%) SSL
6 2 (2.15%) BGP
6 2 (2.15%) NAS
6 2 (2.15%) OSPF
6 2 (2.15%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.15%) SNMP
6 2 (2.15%) VoIP
6 2 (2.15%) VPN
7 1 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.08%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.08%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.08%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.15%) Power BI
4 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Selenium
2 5 (5.38%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (5.38%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.08%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.35%) Finance
3 12 (12.90%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (8.60%) Marketing
5 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.30%) Banking
7 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.08%) Front Office
8 1 (1.08%) German Language
8 1 (1.08%) International Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (16.13%) Architect
2 12 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (11.83%) Senior
4 8 (8.60%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.53%) Analyst
6 6 (6.45%) Automation Tester
6 6 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Tester
7 5 (5.38%) Consultant
7 5 (5.38%) Coordinator
7 5 (5.38%) Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Security Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Software Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.38%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.30%) .NET
1 4 (4.30%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.23%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.23%) Middleware
3 2 (2.15%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.15%) YAML
4 1 (1.08%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.08%) ADO
4 1 (1.08%) Ajax
4 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.08%) CSS
4 1 (1.08%) HATEOAS
4 1 (1.08%) HTML
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.08%) React
4 1 (1.08%) REST
4 1 (1.08%) WCF
4 1 (1.08%) Web Services
4 1 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.15%) PKI
3 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.15%) Tandem
4 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.08%) PMI
4 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.08%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.88%) Windows
2 8 (8.60%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.45%) Linux
4 5 (5.38%) Unix
5 3 (3.23%) VMS
6 2 (2.15%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.88%) Migration
2 20 (21.51%) DevOps
2 20 (21.51%) ITIL
3 17 (18.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (13.98%) Agile
5 12 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (10.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (10.75%) Data Migration
8 8 (8.60%) Change Management
8 8 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (8.60%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (7.53%) Application Security
9 7 (7.53%) Test Scripting
10 6 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (6.45%) Data Modelling
10 6 (6.45%) High Availability
10 6 (6.45%) Risk Management
10 6 (6.45%) Test Automation
10 6 (6.45%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.98%) SQL
2 7 (7.53%) C#
2 7 (7.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.15%) Python
4 1 (1.08%) Bicep
4 1 (1.08%) Scala
4 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (15.05%) Degree
2 10 (10.75%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.38%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (5.38%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.30%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.15%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.08%) CBAP
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.53%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.38%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
3 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.15%) NIST
3 2 (2.15%) PSD2
4 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (20.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.30%) vSphere
4 3 (3.23%) Docker
4 3 (3.23%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.23%) XenApp
4 3 (3.23%) XenDesktop
5 2 (2.15%) Ceph
5 2 (2.15%) KVM
5 2 (2.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 8 (8.60%) SCCM
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.23%) Ansible
4 2 (2.15%) Pacemaker
4 2 (2.15%) Podman
4 2 (2.15%) Terraform
5 1 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.75%) VMware
3 8 (8.60%) Citrix
3 8 (8.60%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.30%) BeyondTrust
4 4 (4.30%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.30%) Nintex
5 3 (3.23%) Cisco
5 3 (3.23%) FireEye
5 3 (3.23%) Tanium
6 2 (2.15%) CA
6 2 (2.15%) F5
6 2 (2.15%) Qualys
6 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.15%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.15%) Sun
7 1 (1.08%) IBM
7 1 (1.08%) Juniper
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle
7 1 (1.08%) Splunk