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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 76 98
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 +27
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 31 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.92% 0.62% 0.64%
As % of the General category 3.24% 1.06% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 6
10th Percentile £363 - £163
25th Percentile £463 £248 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £255 £513
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -50.24% +7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £263 £550
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £37.16 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £16.00
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile £56.90 - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £51.89 £16.50
% change year-on-year -18.10% +214.50% -73.81%

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 956 662 1,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 59.20% 58.69% 61.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 292 542
10th Percentile £185 £250 £208
25th Percentile £337 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 121 285
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.91 £20.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +15.69% -14.60%
75th Percentile £55.00 £60.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 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
Hertfordshire -5 16 £492 +92.94% 17
Bedfordshire - 11 £625 - 12
Cambridgeshire -1 3 - - 7
Norfolk - 1 - - 4
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 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) AWS
1 11 (35.48%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) GCP
3 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
4 7 (22.58%) Azure AI
4 7 (22.58%) Copilot Studio
4 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (9.68%) SaaS
6 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) RS-232
1 6 (19.35%) SpaceWire
2 4 (12.90%) DHCP
2 4 (12.90%) DNS
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (6.45%) Firewall
3 2 (6.45%) LAN
3 2 (6.45%) Network Security
3 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
3 2 (6.45%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (6.45%) VPN
3 2 (6.45%) WAN
3 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Power BI
2 7 (22.58%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) MS Access
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 19 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.45%) Aviation
4 2 (6.45%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) Administrator
3 2 (6.45%) Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (6.45%) Network Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Network Security Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Security Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Senior
3 2 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Automation Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Data Coordinator
4 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Mainframe Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) REST
2 7 (22.58%) PyTorch
2 7 (22.58%) scikit-learn
2 7 (22.58%) TensorFlow
3 2 (6.45%) ISPF
3 2 (6.45%) LDAP
3 2 (6.45%) Middleware
3 2 (6.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.23%) .NET
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) CAN bus
2 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.45%) Low-Code
2 2 (6.45%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Windows
2 8 (25.81%) Linux
3 2 (6.45%) CentOS
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (6.45%) zOS
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) AI
2 10 (32.26%) Machine Learning
3 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) DevOps
4 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (22.58%) Analytics
5 7 (22.58%) API Development
5 7 (22.58%) B2B
5 7 (22.58%) B2C
5 7 (22.58%) Data Analytics
5 7 (22.58%) Data Science
5 7 (22.58%) Feature Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) LLM
5 7 (22.58%) Microservices
5 7 (22.58%) MLOps
5 7 (22.58%) Prompt Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 7 (22.58%) Validation
6 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (12.90%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) Bash
4 4 (12.90%) C
4 4 (12.90%) Tcl
4 4 (12.90%) VBA
5 2 (6.45%) CLIST
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.45%) JCL
5 2 (6.45%) MATLAB
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) REXX
5 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) CCIE
4 2 (6.45%) CCIE Security
4 2 (6.45%) CCNP
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.45%) CISSP
4 2 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.45%) DBS Check
4 2 (6.45%) GIAC
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
1 2 (6.45%) QA
1 2 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GRC
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Docker
2 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.45%) RACF
3 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Check_MK
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 2 (6.45%) Podman
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (6.45%) zSecure
3 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Foundry
2 7 (22.58%) Google
2 7 (22.58%) OpenAI
3 4 (12.90%) VMware
4 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.45%) Aruba
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco
5 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.45%) IBM
5 2 (6.45%) MuleSoft
5 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.45%) Pega
5 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.45%) SAP
5 2 (6.45%) Veeam
5 2 (6.45%) Zscaler