Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Documentation Skills
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 10 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 4.63% - 3.25%
As % of the General category 6.99% - 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £309 - £279
25th Percentile £363 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £550
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £548 £255 £475
% change year-on-year +114.71% -46.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -73.33%

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

Documentation Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 143 126 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 66.20% 75.90% 77.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 58 140
10th Percentile £198 £321 £363
25th Percentile £405 £500 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £478 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.45% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 3
10th Percentile £48.83 £22.28 £51.50
25th Percentile £70.50 £29.25 £51.88
Median hourly rate £80.00 £30.95 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.48% -43.73% -5.98%
75th Percentile £90.00 £55.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £91.50 £57.82 £57.00
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -0.45% +8.11% -6.61%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Documentation Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Bedfordshire

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Luton - 4 £375 - 1
Bedford - 2 £625 - 2
Documentation Skills
East of England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) GCP
2 6 (60.00%) Azure AI
2 6 (60.00%) Copilot Studio
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
1 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (20.00%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (60.00%) Power BI
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) PyTorch
1 6 (60.00%) REST
1 6 (60.00%) scikit-learn
1 6 (60.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) AI
1 6 (60.00%) Analytics
1 6 (60.00%) API Development
1 6 (60.00%) B2B
1 6 (60.00%) B2C
1 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Data Analytics
1 6 (60.00%) Data Science
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Feature Engineering
1 6 (60.00%) LLM
1 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
1 6 (60.00%) MLOps
1 6 (60.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 6 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCIE
1 2 (20.00%) CCIE Security
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
1 2 (20.00%) GIAC
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Foundry
1 6 (60.00%) Google
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (60.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (20.00%) Aruba
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) Zscaler