Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Documentation Skills
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.60% 0.66% 0.53%
As % of the General category 4.92% 1.33% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £211 - £175
75th Percentile - - £188
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £211 - £175
% change year-on-year - - -70.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.25 - -
Median hourly rate £43.50 - -
75th Percentile £44.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £43.50 - £16.00

All General Skills
Cambridge

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 general skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 61 75 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 32.62% 49.34% 58.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 47 65
10th Percentile £211 £258 £165
25th Percentile £265 £422 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £410
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +22.56% -12.53%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £500
90th Percentile £675 £635 £562
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 18
10th Percentile £23.00 £20.66 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.97 £18.29
Median hourly rate £23.83 £36.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.05% +60.56% -57.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £47.47 £66.25
90th Percentile £46.97 £53.49 £68.10
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) MS Access
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) QlikView
1 1 (33.33%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 1 (33.33%) Data Coordinator
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Ontologist
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Linked Data
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Ontologies
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) RDF
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft