Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Documentation Skills
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 58 50 40
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +38
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 18 9 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.10% 1.36% 3.32%
As % of the General category 3.43% 2.24% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 20
10th Percentile £331 £306 £536
25th Percentile - £367 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £450 £593
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -24.05% +7.73%
75th Percentile £402 £513 £664
90th Percentile £592 £535 £665
England median daily rate £492 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -5.84% +4.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £51.89 £38.16
% change year-on-year -18.10% +36.00% -39.44%

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 525 401 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.12% 60.67% 48.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 237 250
10th Percentile £190 £250 £160
25th Percentile £350 £322 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £641 £687
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 34
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.54 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.21 £15.10 £15.60
Median hourly rate £22.27 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.97% -38.18% +72.20%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.26 £51.50
90th Percentile £26.20 £55.00 £60.95
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.58% -6.31% +26.41%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the East Midlands

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Derbyshire +8 7 £225 -50.00%
Leicestershire -7 4 £360 -34.55% 2
Northamptonshire -8 3 £401 +50.75% 2
Lincolnshire - 3 £700 - 1
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.11%) ShareGate
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) General Ledger
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Test Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) ERP Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) HR Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Financials Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Payments Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) SharePoint Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) ADO
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.11%) SailPoint
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) PMI
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) ERP
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Accounts Payable
4 4 (22.22%) Accounts Receivable
4 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Defect Management
4 4 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Manual Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Test Planning
4 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 3 (16.67%) KYC
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
5 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) User Stories
5 3 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) PHP
2 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CBAP
3 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) ISO 8583
2 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 2 (11.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) BitLocker
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow