Documentation Skills Contracts in England

Documentation Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 339 286
Rank change year-on-year +72 -53 +78
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 229 210 445
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 0.56% 0.88%
As % of the General category 1.47% 0.97% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 160 270
10th Percentile £279 £239 £325
25th Percentile £409 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.67% +1.70%
75th Percentile £625 £585 £600
90th Percentile £724 £672 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.97% -0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 23
10th Percentile - £15.13 £60.20
25th Percentile £26.88 £17.19 £61.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £20.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.24% -71.72% +48.72%
75th Percentile £42.16 £33.99 £77.63
90th Percentile £65.00 £43.04 £80.85
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £17.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +69.12% -77.33% +50.00%

All General Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,582 21,742 29,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.02% 58.41% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,120 14,023 20,959
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 674 1,785 974
10th Percentile £14.01 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.27 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%
75th Percentile £58.34 £51.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Documentation Skills in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London +54 121 £550 - 94
North of England +42 44 £613 +25.64% 51
South East +40 31 £425 -5.56% 55
North West +23 29 £626 +31.79% 35
Midlands +25 21 £400 -8.57% 45
West Midlands +21 20 £400 -11.11% 30
Yorkshire +18 12 £563 +12.50% 13
North East 0 4 £313 -65.16% 3
South West +33 3 £408 -1.21% 9
East of England +33 2 £450 +5.88% 22
East Midlands +7 1 £550 +49.66% 15
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (11.35%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.99%) Confluence
3 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (1.31%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.31%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.87%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.44%) CICS
6 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.44%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 19 (8.30%) MS Visio
2 17 (7.42%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (4.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.93%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.75%) CA PPM
3 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.44%) BASE24
4 1 (0.44%) iTrent
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle ASCP
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.21%) Azure
2 40 (17.47%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (8.73%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.24%) AWS
4 12 (5.24%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.80%) OneDrive
6 9 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Copilot
7 7 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.06%) PowerApps
7 7 (3.06%) SaaS
8 5 (2.18%) Collibra
8 5 (2.18%) GitHub
8 5 (2.18%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (1.75%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.31%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.31%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.31%) Serverless
11 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.17%) Firewall
2 14 (6.11%) VPN
3 13 (5.68%) LAN
3 13 (5.68%) WAN
4 12 (5.24%) DNS
5 11 (4.80%) Network Security
6 10 (4.37%) BGP
6 10 (4.37%) OSPF
6 10 (4.37%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.62%) Multicast
9 5 (2.18%) HTTP
9 5 (2.18%) MPLS
9 5 (2.18%) NAS
9 5 (2.18%) POP3
9 5 (2.18%) SMTP
9 5 (2.18%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.75%) IPsec
10 4 (1.75%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.11%) Power BI
2 10 (4.37%) Relational Database
2 10 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.18%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (2.18%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (2.18%) Tableau
5 4 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.31%) Big Data
6 3 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.44%) DB2
8 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (10.92%) JIRA
2 4 (1.75%) MSI
2 4 (1.75%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.31%) Git
4 2 (0.87%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.87%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.87%) ERwin
4 2 (0.87%) GitLab
4 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 140 (61.14%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.09%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (18.34%) Finance
4 25 (10.92%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.86%) Banking
7 11 (4.80%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.49%) Legal
9 7 (3.06%) Marketing
10 6 (2.62%) Retail
11 4 (1.75%) Arabic Language
11 4 (1.75%) Czech Language
11 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.31%) Automotive
12 3 (1.31%) Electronics
12 3 (1.31%) Games
12 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (15.72%) Architect
2 34 (14.85%) Analyst
3 23 (10.04%) Developer
4 20 (8.73%) Consultant
5 17 (7.42%) Senior
6 15 (6.55%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (5.24%) Tester
9 11 (4.80%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.93%) Administrator
11 8 (3.49%) Migration Engineer
11 8 (3.49%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 7 (3.06%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.06%) Desktop Engineer
12 7 (3.06%) Desktop Support
12 7 (3.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 7 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (2.18%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
13 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.93%) REST
2 6 (2.62%) Bootstrap
2 6 (2.62%) JSON
2 6 (2.62%) Web Services
3 5 (2.18%) .NET
3 5 (2.18%) AngularJS
3 5 (2.18%) CSS
3 5 (2.18%) CSS3
3 5 (2.18%) HTML
3 5 (2.18%) LDAP
3 5 (2.18%) Middleware
3 5 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (2.18%) SailPoint
3 5 (2.18%) SOAP
3 5 (2.18%) YAML
4 4 (1.75%) Kafka
5 3 (1.31%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.31%) React
6 2 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.87%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.11%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.49%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.06%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.18%) SCADA
7 5 (2.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.31%) NHS
9 2 (0.87%) BYOD
9 2 (0.87%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Licensing
9 2 (0.87%) Shadow IT
9 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.78%) Windows
2 18 (7.86%) Linux
3 15 (6.55%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.37%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.18%) Windows 8
6 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.18%) Windows XP
7 4 (1.75%) Unix
8 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.44%) Solaris
9 1 (0.44%) SUSE
9 1 (0.44%) VMS
9 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.68%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (20.52%) Agile
3 35 (15.28%) Migration
4 29 (12.66%) Roadmaps
5 24 (10.48%) Change Management
6 23 (10.04%) DevOps
6 23 (10.04%) ITIL
7 22 (9.61%) Project Management
8 20 (8.73%) Scrum
8 20 (8.73%) User Experience
9 19 (8.30%) Data Modelling
9 19 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (8.30%) Validation
10 18 (7.86%) User Acceptance Testing
11 15 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (6.55%) Process Improvement
12 14 (6.11%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (6.11%) Translating Business Requirements
12 14 (6.11%) User Stories
13 13 (5.68%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.85%) SQL
2 22 (9.61%) PowerShell
2 22 (9.61%) Python
3 9 (3.93%) PL/SQL
4 8 (3.49%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.62%) Java
6 5 (2.18%) Bash
6 5 (2.18%) C#
7 4 (1.75%) Perl
8 3 (1.31%) Bicep
9 2 (0.87%) C
9 2 (0.87%) COBOL
9 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.87%) R
9 2 (0.87%) VBA
10 1 (0.44%) ABAP
10 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.44%) C++
10 1 (0.44%) Ruby
10 1 (0.44%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 35 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.35%) Degree
2 26 (11.35%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.49%) CCNP
5 8 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.06%) CCIE
6 7 (3.06%) CISSP
7 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.31%) CCNA
8 3 (1.31%) CISM
8 3 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.31%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.31%) PMP
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (0.87%) CISA
9 2 (0.87%) GCIA
9 2 (0.87%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.37%) QA
2 6 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.18%) NIST
4 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.87%) GDPR
6 2 (0.87%) GRC
6 2 (0.87%) PMO
6 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.44%) COBIT
7 1 (0.44%) COSO
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.44%) ITGC
7 1 (0.44%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.44%) MiFID
7 1 (0.44%) NCSC
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (13.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.75%) vSphere
4 3 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.44%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 15 (6.55%) SCCM
2 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.37%) Ansible
4 9 (3.93%) Kubernetes
5 7 (3.06%) Terraform
6 5 (2.18%) Grafana
6 5 (2.18%) HP ALM
6 5 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.31%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.87%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 2 (0.87%) Puppet
9 2 (0.87%) ThinApp
9 2 (0.87%) vRealize
9 2 (0.87%) WMI
10 1 (0.44%) Rancher
10 1 (0.44%) VxRail
10 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (32.31%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.48%) Cisco
3 22 (9.61%) Oracle
4 21 (9.17%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.24%) Salesforce
5 12 (5.24%) SAP
6 11 (4.80%) Splunk
7 10 (4.37%) VMware
8 8 (3.49%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.62%) HP
9 6 (2.62%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.18%) Canon
11 4 (1.75%) AlgoSec
11 4 (1.75%) Arista
11 4 (1.75%) Aruba
11 4 (1.75%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.75%) Planview
11 4 (1.75%) Proofpoint
11 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.75%) Tufin