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 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 80 109
Rank change year-on-year +12 +29 -17
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 42 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.89% 0.62% 0.21%
As % of the General category 3.94% 0.99% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 3
10th Percentile £432 - £410
25th Percentile £463 £200 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £606 £475 £488
90th Percentile £638 £490 £510
England median daily rate £511 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 £36.48 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £39.32 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.67% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.16 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.54 £28.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year +65.36% +40.24% -71.72%

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 general skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,065 604 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 48.02% 61.95% 60.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 324 418
10th Percentile £191 £200 £234
25th Percentile £325 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 114 449
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.58 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £20.09 £30.55 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -34.24% -19.86% +90.31%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.78 £27.25 £30.16
% change year-on-year +12.95% -9.65% -5.75%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +3 28 £483 - 4
Bedfordshire - 5 £625 - 1
Suffolk -3 4 - - 1
Cambridgeshire +7 3 £211 +5.27% 5
Norfolk -20 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 4 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) AWS
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (14.29%) GCP
4 5 (11.90%) Azure AI
4 5 (11.90%) Copilot Studio
4 5 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.38%) Boomi
5 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.38%) Figma
5 1 (2.38%) Miro
5 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.38%) SaaS
5 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DHCP
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Power BI
2 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.38%) QlikView
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Git
2 11 (26.19%) GitLab
2 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 8 (19.05%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (19.05%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 24 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Aerospace
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Automotive
5 2 (4.76%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Administrator
1 11 (26.19%) Linux Administrator
2 8 (19.05%) Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) IT Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) IT Support
4 4 (9.52%) IT Support Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Ada Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Validation Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Verification Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Data Migration Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) LDAP
1 11 (26.19%) Middleware
2 6 (14.29%) REST
3 5 (11.90%) PyTorch
3 5 (11.90%) scikit-learn
3 5 (11.90%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) ISPF
4 1 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Data Centre
2 10 (23.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.38%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Linux
1 12 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (26.19%) CentOS
3 7 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (28.57%) Information Management
3 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 11 (26.19%) Validation
4 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
4 10 (23.81%) Workflow
5 9 (21.43%) Data Acquisition
5 9 (21.43%) Embedded Software Development
5 9 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 9 (21.43%) Verification and Validation
6 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 8 (19.05%) DevOps
6 8 (19.05%) Workflow Management
7 6 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (11.90%) AI
8 5 (11.90%) Analytics
8 5 (11.90%) B2B
8 5 (11.90%) B2C
8 5 (11.90%) Data Analytics
8 5 (11.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) MATLAB
1 11 (26.19%) Shell Script
2 9 (21.43%) Ada
2 9 (21.43%) C
3 8 (19.05%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) Python
5 5 (11.90%) C++
6 1 (2.38%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) CLIST
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) JCL
6 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) REXX
6 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.95%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) Degree
4 3 (7.14%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.76%) PMP
6 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.38%) CBAP
6 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (28.57%) SLA
2 8 (19.05%) Def Stans
3 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.38%) GMP
4 1 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.90%) Docker
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Ansible
1 11 (26.19%) Check_MK
1 11 (26.19%) Podman
1 11 (26.19%) Red Hat Satellite
2 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (2.38%) zSecure
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (30.95%) VMware
3 11 (26.19%) Red Hat
4 5 (11.90%) Foundry
4 5 (11.90%) Google
4 5 (11.90%) OpenAI
5 4 (9.52%) Lauterbach
5 4 (9.52%) SAP
6 2 (4.76%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.38%) IBM
7 1 (2.38%) Informatica
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle
7 1 (2.38%) Pega
7 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.38%) Splunk
7 1 (2.38%) Talend
7 1 (2.38%) Veeam
7 1 (2.38%) Workday