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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 75 96
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 +34
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 34 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.24% 0.55% 0.82%
As % of the General category 3.66% 1.02% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 8
10th Percentile £156 - £136
25th Percentile £363 £248 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £255 £388
Median % change year-on-year +109.80% -34.19% -18.42%
75th Percentile £638 £263 £550
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile £22.05 - £23.80
25th Percentile £41.25 - £35.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £43.75 - £67.50
90th Percentile £44.75 - £69.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £42.83
% change year-on-year +6.25% -6.60% -32.02%

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 930 689 1,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 61.22% 54.00% 61.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 283 586
10th Percentile £163 £250 £200
25th Percentile £313 £323 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £660 £700
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 139 289
10th Percentile £13.59 £15.60 £14.13
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.69 £17.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.23% -5.41% -10.84%
75th Percentile £56.00 £59.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £66.30 £65.00
England median hourly rate £24.61 £31.97 £32.32
% change year-on-year -23.02% -1.08% +25.71%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -4 14 £488 +91.18% 3
Bedfordshire - 10 £538 - 2
Cambridgeshire 0 5 £673 - 3
Norfolk - 3 £545 - 5
Essex - 2 £125 - 2
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 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Simulink
2 1 (2.94%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) GCP
3 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.76%) Azure AI
4 4 (11.76%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (8.82%) SaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) RS-232
1 7 (20.59%) SpaceWire
2 3 (8.82%) DHCP
2 3 (8.82%) DNS
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (5.88%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) LAN
3 2 (5.88%) Network Security
3 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.88%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (5.88%) VPN
3 2 (5.88%) WAN
3 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Power BI
2 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) MS Access
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) AdminStudio
3 1 (2.94%) CANoe
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 20 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Aerospace
5 3 (8.82%) Aviation
6 2 (5.88%) Law
6 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Automotive
7 1 (2.94%) Electronics
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (8.82%) Analyst
3 2 (5.88%) Architect
3 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
3 2 (5.88%) Consultant
3 2 (5.88%) Developer
3 2 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Network Architect
3 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Network Security Architect
3 2 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (2.94%) ICT Business Analyst
4 1 (2.94%) IT Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Junior Hardware Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Junior IT Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Ontologist
4 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) REST
2 4 (11.76%) PyTorch
2 4 (11.76%) scikit-learn
2 4 (11.76%) SOAP
2 4 (11.76%) TensorFlow
3 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) Software Packaging
3 2 (5.88%) Web Services
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.94%) ISPF
4 1 (2.94%) JSON
4 1 (2.94%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) CAN bus
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Linked Data
3 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 7 (20.59%) Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Validation
2 8 (23.53%) AI
3 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
4 6 (17.65%) API Development
4 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 6 (17.65%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) Migration
5 5 (14.71%) Analytics
5 5 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.76%) B2B
6 4 (11.76%) B2C
6 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.76%) Data Analytics
6 4 (11.76%) Data Science
6 4 (11.76%) Feature Engineering
6 4 (11.76%) Incident Response
6 4 (11.76%) LLM
6 4 (11.76%) Microservices
6 4 (11.76%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) Java
2 5 (14.71%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) Bash
3 4 (11.76%) C
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) Tcl
3 4 (11.76%) VBA
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) CLIST
4 1 (2.94%) JCL
4 1 (2.94%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.94%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) Degree
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) DBS Check
4 2 (5.88%) CBAP
4 2 (5.88%) CCIE
4 2 (5.88%) CCIE Security
4 2 (5.88%) CCNP
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) CISSP
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.88%) GIAC
5 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) GRC
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) PMO
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.94%) RACF
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.82%) SCCM
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (2.94%) zSecure
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.76%) Foundry
3 4 (11.76%) Google
3 4 (11.76%) OpenAI
4 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 2 (5.88%) Aruba
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
5 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.88%) Pega
5 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.88%) Workday
5 2 (5.88%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.94%) IBM
6 1 (2.94%) Veeam
6 1 (2.94%) VMware