Documentation Skills Contracts 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 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 78 110 90
Rank change year-on-year +32 -20 +30
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 4 2 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% 0.10% 1.60%
As % of the General category 0.68% 0.17% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 24
10th Percentile - £405 £374
25th Percentile - £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £425 £435
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% -2.30% +8.75%
75th Percentile £338 £438 £520
90th Percentile £420 £445 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.25
25th Percentile £36.48 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £39.32 - £72.50
75th Percentile £42.16 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £20.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +40.24% -71.72% +48.72%

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 common skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 592 1,183 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 63.11% 61.97% 60.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 448 692
10th Percentile £200 £237 £200
25th Percentile £363 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £568 £625
90th Percentile £675 £655 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 458 261
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +81.52% +44.83%
75th Percentile £65.19 £50.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.63 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the East of England

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the East of England

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the East of England

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +27 1 - - 15
Norfolk - 1 £200 - 3
Suffolk - 1 £450 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £200 - 2
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) RS-232
1 1 (25.00%) SpaceWire
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Tcl
1 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft