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 10 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.59% - 0.45%
As % of the General category 3.97% - 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £230 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £390
75th Percentile £419 - £395
90th Percentile £580 - -
South Wales median daily rate £325 - £390

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 126 103 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 65.28% 46.82% 42.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 68 66
10th Percentile £213 £120 £184
25th Percentile £300 £143 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £330 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -22.35% -11.37%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £538
90th Percentile £635 £611 £606
South Wales median daily rate £388 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -3.13% -11.11% -10.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £12.21 £28.54 -
25th Percentile £12.86 £32.95 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.08 £42.80 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.44% +114.00% +7.96%
75th Percentile £14.06 £55.15 £26.50
90th Percentile £20.37 £61.06 £36.10
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £26.50 £23.21
% change year-on-year -44.87% +14.19% +16.04%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills 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 10 September 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 and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft