Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Documentation Skills
North West > Cumbria

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Cumbria. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 1.79% - 0.49%
As % of the General category 3.45% - 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £231 - -
25th Percentile £279 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - £400
75th Percentile £458 - £425
90th Percentile £509 - -
North West median daily rate £527 £504 £488
% change year-on-year +4.62% +3.33% -7.50%

All General Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58 86 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 51.79% 39.27% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 43 56
10th Percentile £396 £200 £363
25th Percentile £453 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £499 £486
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% +2.67% +13.82%
75th Percentile £553 £535 £627
90th Percentile £691 £648 £670
North West median daily rate £450 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 0
10th Percentile £26.61 £30.73 -
25th Percentile £27.14 £45.22 -
Median hourly rate £52.26 £49.28 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% - -
75th Percentile £63.40 £68.30 -
90th Percentile £63.96 £74.16 -
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £22.53
% change year-on-year -35.34% +55.35% -2.87%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Cumbria over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Cumbria

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. 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
Carlisle - 1 £200 -
Documentation Skills
North West

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SAN Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft