Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Documentation Skills
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 92 101
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 21 19 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.73% 1.13% 0.51%
As % of the General category 2.80% 2.09% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £350 £400 £170
25th Percentile £420 £456 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £580 £180
Median % change year-on-year -23.28% +222.22% -64.00%
75th Percentile £460 £590 £301
90th Percentile £700 £622 £374
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £27.50 - £68.75

All General Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 749 907 1,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 61.85% 53.99% 60.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 424 610
10th Percentile £268 £270 £213
25th Percentile £400 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £664 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 55 42
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.88 £17.38
25th Percentile £16.66 £47.56 £27.13
Median hourly rate £34.80 £61.60 £54.47
Median % change year-on-year -43.51% +13.08% +56.13%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.39 £66.29
90th Percentile £87.28 £86.91 £72.30
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -65.13% +9.24% +133.33%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Berkshire

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Berkshire

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Reading +21 12 £445 -23.41% 4
Wokingham - 4 £420 - 1
Bracknell +1 3 £700 +75.00%
Documentation Skills
South East

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (28.57%) OpenStack
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.52%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) BGP
2 6 (28.57%) LAN
2 6 (28.57%) MPLS
2 6 (28.57%) OSPF
2 6 (28.57%) SNMP
2 6 (28.57%) TACACS
2 6 (28.57%) WAN
2 6 (28.57%) Wireless
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
3 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) GIS
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) Spatial Data
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Designer
1 6 (28.57%) IP Designer
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Test Strategist
4 1 (4.76%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) GIS Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) GIS Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Product Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 6 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Clustering
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) FlexPod
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (9.52%) VMS
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Validation
2 6 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 6 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (23.81%) Business Continuity
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (19.05%) ERP
4 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (14.29%) Agile Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) High Availability
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (14.29%) Resilience Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 6 (28.57%) CCIE
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (28.57%) JNCIE
3 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 3 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.76%) OCP
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Data Guard
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Cisco
2 7 (33.33%) VMware
3 6 (28.57%) F5
3 6 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 6 (28.57%) Juniper
4 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
5 3 (14.29%) Oracle
5 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 3 (14.29%) Workday
6 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.76%) Commvault
7 1 (4.76%) ESRI
7 1 (4.76%) Meraki
7 1 (4.76%) NetApp
7 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
7 1 (4.76%) SAP