Documentation Skills Contracts in Birmingham

Documentation Skills
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 59 63
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +27
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 1 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.19% 1.03% 1.33%
As % of the General category 0.30% 1.96% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - - £366
25th Percentile - £190 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £388
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +25.81% -9.88%
75th Percentile - £514 £406
90th Percentile - £575 £459
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +2.70%

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 338 409 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 64.75% 52.91% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 280 361
10th Percentile £163 £212 £263
25th Percentile £375 £373 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -12.15% +10.81%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 28
10th Percentile - £11.78 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £25.33 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year -41.95% +45.61% +0.83%
75th Percentile £24.06 £48.75 £29.12
90th Percentile £45.95 £56.25 £74.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Birmingham

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in Birmingham

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in Birmingham

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Imperva