Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Documentation Skills
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.41% - 0.41%
As % of the General category 4.38% - 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £390
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.09%
75th Percentile £503 - £395
90th Percentile £569 - -
South Wales median daily rate £425 - £390
% change year-on-year - - -29.09%

All General Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 137 109 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 55.02% 46.98% 42.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 70 75
10th Percentile £201 £160 £196
25th Percentile £281 £171 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £318 £418
Median % change year-on-year +8.03% -23.95% -7.22%
75th Percentile £486 £524 £524
90th Percentile £584 £626 £600
South Wales median daily rate £375 £375 £421
% change year-on-year - -10.98% -11.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.08 £21.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.60 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -1.54% +91.71%
75th Percentile £20.50 £27.50 £42.50
90th Percentile £25.13 £43.25 £49.25
South Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £21.50 £29.83
% change year-on-year -15.44% -27.93% +48.27%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Cardiff over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Cardiff

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
1 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ADO
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle