Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Documentation Skills
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 38 46
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.09% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the General category 2.15% 0.61% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £211 - £175
Median % change year-on-year - - -70.21%
75th Percentile - - £188
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £513 £255 £550
% change year-on-year +100.98% -53.64% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.25 - -
Median hourly rate £43.50 - £16.00
75th Percentile £44.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -73.33%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 186 165 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 50.68% 53.75% 70.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 73 100
10th Percentile £171 £313 £168
25th Percentile £208 £425 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £585 £538
90th Percentile £672 £645 £582
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 35 176
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.71
25th Percentile £13.80 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £17.25 £16.85 £16.09
90th Percentile £24.49 £22.55 £28.84
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £26.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -30.19% +33.77% -

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Cambridge -4 3 £211 - 2
Documentation Skills
East of England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) MS Access
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) QlikView
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Data Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Ontologist
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Process Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Linked Data
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) AI Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Swim Lanes
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow