Documentation Skills Contracts in Edinburgh

Documentation Skills
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 64 60 86
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 +34
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 3 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.48% 1.47% 2.00%
As % of the General category 0.62% 1.97% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 24
10th Percentile £420 £310 £443
25th Percentile £450 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £509
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -26.29% -5.35%
75th Percentile £525 £388 £557
90th Percentile £540 £393 £572
Scotland median daily rate £413 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +3.13% -22.03% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £17.00 -

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 482 610 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 77.12% 74.85% 72.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 348 688
10th Percentile £199 £183 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 34 7
10th Percentile £19.77 £16.25 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £35.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +64.63% -46.85%
75th Percentile £29.86 £60.75 £31.34
90th Percentile £52.90 £67.23 £51.60
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
% change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Edinburgh

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in Edinburgh

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Edinburgh

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in Edinburgh

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (33.33%) Ajax
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
2 1 (33.33%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Case Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) HAProxy
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Commvault
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) VMware