Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Documentation Skills
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 71 93
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 -7
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 42 23 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.90% 1.79% 0.26%
As % of the General category 3.75% 3.05% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 3
10th Percentile £214 £189 £288
25th Percentile £304 £200 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £516 £501 £488
90th Percentile £600 £548 £510
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 0
10th Percentile £54.60 £32.15 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £40.06 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% - -
75th Percentile - £43.75 -
90th Percentile - £62.28 -
England median hourly rate £47.54 £42.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +11.86% +36.00% -54.55%

All General Skills
East of England

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 general skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,121 755 861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 50.61% 58.66% 56.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 303 282
10th Percentile £190 £185 £213
25th Percentile £325 £350 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £552
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £538
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 209 307
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.19 £30.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% -21.30% +115.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £78.00 £77.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.25% -34.02% +38.62%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the East of England

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the East of England

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Documentation Skills in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the East of England

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -2 22 £483 +150.65% 13
Norfolk -5 11 £600 +19.88% 1
Cambridgeshire +8 4 £423 -3.15% 10
Bedfordshire +1 4 £220 -41.33% 2
Suffolk -12 1 £195 -56.67% 1
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.90%) AWS
2 4 (9.52%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.38%) Cohesity
4 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.38%) Figma
4 1 (2.38%) GCP
4 1 (2.38%) Miro
4 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) SaaS
4 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) Wireless
3 1 (2.38%) BGP
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (2.38%) LAN
3 1 (2.38%) NAS
3 1 (2.38%) Network Security
3 1 (2.38%) OSPF
3 1 (2.38%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) VLAN
3 1 (2.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) GitLab
2 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (7.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 21 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Finance
6 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Legal
7 1 (2.38%) Law
7 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Consultant
2 7 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
2 7 (16.67%) JDE Consultant
2 7 (16.67%) JDE Functional Consultant
3 6 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) NetApp Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Administrator
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (7.14%) Backup Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Storage and Backup Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) LDAP
2 4 (9.52%) Middleware
3 1 (2.38%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.38%) REST
3 1 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Data Centre
1 5 (11.90%) Replication
2 4 (9.52%) PKI
3 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.76%) CMDB
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.38%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.38%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.38%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (33.33%) Linux
1 14 (33.33%) Windows
2 10 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (21.43%) CentOS
3 9 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.90%) Rocky
5 4 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (4.76%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (19.05%) Business Analysis
2 8 (19.05%) ERP
3 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (16.67%) Validation
4 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (11.90%) Migration
4 5 (11.90%) Workflow
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Security
5 4 (9.52%) Information Management
5 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 4 (9.52%) ITIL
5 4 (9.52%) Service Management
5 4 (9.52%) Software Engineering
5 4 (9.52%) Test Automation
6 3 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 3 (7.14%) Data Acquisition
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.52%) MATLAB
3 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
4 3 (7.14%) Ada
4 3 (7.14%) C
5 2 (4.76%) Python
6 1 (2.38%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 17 (40.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) Degree
4 3 (7.14%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.76%) CCNA
5 2 (4.76%) CCNP
5 2 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) PMP
6 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.38%) CBAP
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.38%) MCSE
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) SLA
2 3 (7.14%) Def Stans
3 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.76%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.38%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Ansible
2 5 (11.90%) NetBackup
3 4 (9.52%) Check_MK
3 4 (9.52%) Podman
3 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (2.38%) CSIRT
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) JD Edwards
3 6 (14.29%) NetApp
3 6 (14.29%) VMware
4 5 (11.90%) Veeam
5 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.14%) Cisco
6 3 (7.14%) Lauterbach
7 2 (4.76%) Remedy
7 2 (4.76%) SAP
8 1 (2.38%) Aruba
8 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.38%) Pega
8 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.38%) Splunk