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 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 78 101
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +20
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 34 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.15% 0.63% 0.59%
As % of the General category 3.58% 1.07% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 1 6
10th Percentile £425 - £163
25th Percentile £464 £248 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £255 £513
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -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 8 0 1
10th Percentile £35.12 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £16.00
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile £44.05 - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £63.79 £18.50
% change year-on-year -33.37% +244.78% -70.63%

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 951 655 1,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 60.04% 58.90% 60.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 293 518
10th Percentile £188 £253 £208
25th Percentile £337 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +1.52% -1.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £560
90th Percentile £688 £693 £650
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 115 284
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.91 £23.41 £17.88
Median % change year-on-year -14.95% +30.97% -14.88%
75th Percentile £55.00 £60.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +28.83%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -1 20 £492 +92.94% 4
Bedfordshire - 10 £625 - 2
Cambridgeshire -1 3 - - 1
Norfolk - 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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) GCP
2 9 (26.47%) Power Platform
3 8 (23.53%) Azure AI
3 8 (23.53%) Copilot Studio
3 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (8.82%) SaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) RS-232
1 6 (17.65%) SpaceWire
2 3 (8.82%) DHCP
2 3 (8.82%) DNS
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) LAN
3 1 (2.94%) Network Security
3 1 (2.94%) SAN
3 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.94%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (2.94%) VPN
3 1 (2.94%) WAN
3 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Power BI
2 8 (23.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) MS Access
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Aerospace
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Aviation
3 2 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Administrator
3 5 (14.71%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (8.82%) Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Security Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Automation Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Data Coordinator
6 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.94%) HR Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Mainframe Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Ontologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) REST
2 8 (23.53%) PyTorch
2 8 (23.53%) scikit-learn
2 8 (23.53%) TensorFlow
3 5 (14.71%) LDAP
3 5 (14.71%) Middleware
4 2 (5.88%) .NET
4 2 (5.88%) ISPF
4 2 (5.88%) SOAP
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) JSON
5 1 (2.94%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) CAN bus
2 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.88%) Low-Code
3 2 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Linux
2 9 (26.47%) Windows
3 5 (14.71%) CentOS
3 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (5.88%) zOS
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) AI
2 11 (32.35%) Machine Learning
3 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 10 (29.41%) DevOps
4 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (23.53%) Analytics
5 8 (23.53%) API Development
5 8 (23.53%) B2B
5 8 (23.53%) B2C
5 8 (23.53%) Data Analytics
5 8 (23.53%) Data Science
5 8 (23.53%) Feature Engineering
5 8 (23.53%) LLM
5 8 (23.53%) Microservices
5 8 (23.53%) MLOps
5 8 (23.53%) Prompt Engineering
5 8 (23.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 7 (20.59%) Validation
7 5 (14.71%) Information Management
7 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) SQL
3 5 (14.71%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) MATLAB
3 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
4 4 (11.76%) Bash
4 4 (11.76%) C
4 4 (11.76%) Tcl
4 4 (11.76%) VBA
5 2 (5.88%) CLIST
5 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) JCL
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) REXX
6 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CCIE
5 1 (2.94%) CCIE Security
5 1 (2.94%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
5 1 (2.94%) GIAC
5 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) SLA
2 2 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) GRC
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.88%) RACF
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) Check_MK
2 5 (14.71%) Podman
2 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (5.88%) zSecure
4 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) Foundry
2 8 (23.53%) Google
2 8 (23.53%) OpenAI
3 7 (20.59%) VMware
4 5 (14.71%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.88%) IBM
6 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
6 2 (5.88%) Pega
6 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.88%) Veeam
7 1 (2.94%) Aruba
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco
7 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.94%) Workday
7 1 (2.94%) Zscaler