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 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 81 109
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 -1
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 46 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.28% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the General category 4.28% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 1 2
10th Percentile £339 - £186
25th Percentile £463 £425 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £288
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +56.52% -34.29%
75th Percentile £638 £475 £347
90th Percentile - - £379
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.30 £28.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year +99.30% +40.24% -72.67%

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 1,074 598 1,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.30% 62.29% 61.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 328 512
10th Percentile £188 £213 £250
25th Percentile £313 £342 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £553
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 100 399
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.86 £19.16 £15.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £46.81 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -57.47% +22.80% +81.52%
75th Percentile £55.00 £69.06 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £30.00 £26.40
% change year-on-year -14.10% +13.64% -24.57%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 - 29 £478 - 8
Bedfordshire - 9 £625 - 1
Suffolk +4 4 - - 3
Cambridgeshire - 2 £211 - 7
Norfolk - 2 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 10 (21.74%) GCP
3 10 (21.74%) Power Platform
4 8 (17.39%) Azure AI
4 8 (17.39%) Copilot Studio
4 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.52%) SaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.17%) Boomi
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) DHCP
1 3 (6.52%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) LAN
2 1 (2.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) SAN
2 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.17%) VPN
2 1 (2.17%) WAN
2 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) Power BI
2 8 (17.39%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) QlikView
4 1 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Git
2 9 (19.57%) GitLab
2 9 (19.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.39%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (17.39%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 30 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Aerospace
3 9 (19.57%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Automotive
5 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Administrator
2 9 (19.57%) Linux Administrator
3 7 (15.22%) Analyst
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) IT Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) IT Support
5 4 (8.70%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Ada Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) REST
2 9 (19.57%) LDAP
2 9 (19.57%) Middleware
3 8 (17.39%) PyTorch
3 8 (17.39%) scikit-learn
3 8 (17.39%) TensorFlow
4 2 (4.35%) .NET
4 2 (4.35%) ISPF
4 2 (4.35%) SOAP
5 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.17%) JSON
5 1 (2.17%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Data Centre
1 9 (19.57%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.35%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Linked Data
4 1 (2.17%) NHS
4 1 (2.17%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) CentOS
1 9 (19.57%) Linux
1 9 (19.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 12 (26.09%) DevOps
3 11 (23.91%) Software Engineering
4 10 (21.74%) AI
4 10 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (21.74%) Information Management
4 10 (21.74%) Validation
5 9 (19.57%) Data Acquisition
5 9 (19.57%) Embedded Software Development
5 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 9 (19.57%) Machine Learning
5 9 (19.57%) Test Automation
5 9 (19.57%) Verification and Validation
5 9 (19.57%) Workflow
6 8 (17.39%) Analytics
6 8 (17.39%) Data Science
6 8 (17.39%) Feature Engineering
6 8 (17.39%) MLOps
6 8 (17.39%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) SQL
2 11 (23.91%) Python
3 9 (19.57%) Ada
3 9 (19.57%) C
3 9 (19.57%) MATLAB
3 9 (19.57%) Shell Script
4 5 (10.87%) C++
5 2 (4.35%) CLIST
5 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) JCL
5 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) REXX
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) CCIE
5 1 (2.17%) CCIE Security
5 1 (2.17%) CCNP
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.17%) CISSP
5 1 (2.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) SLA
2 8 (17.39%) Def Stans
3 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.35%) QA
4 2 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.17%) GMP
5 1 (2.17%) NIST
5 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.39%) Docker
3 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Ansible
1 9 (19.57%) Check_MK
1 9 (19.57%) Podman
1 9 (19.57%) Red Hat Satellite
2 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (4.35%) zSecure
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.91%) VMware
3 9 (19.57%) Red Hat
4 8 (17.39%) Foundry
4 8 (17.39%) Google
4 8 (17.39%) OpenAI
5 4 (8.70%) Lauterbach
5 4 (8.70%) SAP
6 3 (6.52%) MuleSoft
7 2 (4.35%) IBM
7 2 (4.35%) Pega
7 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
7 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.35%) Veeam
8 1 (2.17%) Cisco
8 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.17%) Informatica
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle
8 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.17%) Talend