Documentation Skills Contracts in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the City of London. 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 98 96 143
Rank change year-on-year -2 +47 +13
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 21 31 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.20% 1.41% 0.96%
As % of the General category 1.69% 2.13% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 19
10th Percentile £500 £425 £454
25th Percentile £566 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +54.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £686 £788 £915
Central London median daily rate £600 £621 £550
% change year-on-year -3.42% +12.95% +49.66%

All General Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,243 1,456 2,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 70.79% 66.27% 62.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 1,037 1,597
10th Percentile £335 £340 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +2.68% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 13
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.13 £15.10
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £16.61
Median hourly rate £29.58 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.23% +14.29% -53.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £96.38 £32.05 £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £24.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.59% -30.00% -23.08%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) CA PPM
2 1 (4.76%) BASE24
2 1 (4.76%) SAP CO
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) Apple Pay
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) NAS
2 1 (4.76%) ATM
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Power BI
2 5 (23.81%) BusinessObjects
2 5 (23.81%) Crystal Reports
2 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (23.81%) Tableau
3 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 17 (80.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Arabic Language
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Czech Language
5 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.76%) Local Government
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Power BI Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Remote Support Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Solutions Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) IT Manager
4 2 (9.52%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Power BI Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Identity Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.76%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.76%) BYOD
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) SUSE
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 7 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 7 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (23.81%) User Experience
5 4 (19.05%) Project Management
5 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
5 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Data Privacy
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (9.52%) Business Case
7 2 (9.52%) Coaching
7 2 (9.52%) IT Strategy
7 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
7 2 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) C
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) C++
2 1 (4.76%) COBOL
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) ISO 8583
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.76%) XenDesktop
2 1 (4.76%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Forefront Identity Manager
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.76%) Rancher
1 1 (4.76%) SCCM
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (14.29%) Broadcom
4 2 (9.52%) Planview
4 2 (9.52%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) Progress
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.76%) Snow