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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 352 289
Rank change year-on-year +152 -63 +50
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 356 207 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.39% 0.56% 0.89%
As % of the General category 2.17% 0.97% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 153 261
10th Percentile £300 £260 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £625 £590 £600
90th Percentile £738 £674 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 27
10th Percentile £23.98 - £42.80
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.13 £61.00
Median hourly rate £39.32 £21.70 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.20% -69.00% +29.63%
75th Percentile £75.63 £30.31 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £33.13 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £39.32 £17.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +131.29% -76.55% +34.26%

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 16,421 21,261 28,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.03% 57.26% 59.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 13,561 19,642
10th Percentile £281 £295 £315
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 813 1,796 948
10th Percentile £13.27 £13.00 £13.93
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% +8.99% +28.26%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.82 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £31.61 £30.25
% change year-on-year -13.38% +4.48% +26.04%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +123 180 £520 -5.45% 486
North of England +38 64 £525 +5.00% 206
North West +28 42 £600 +23.08% 130
South East +62 40 £450 -10.00% 281
Midlands +19 31 £425 -12.82% 150
West Midlands +12 25 £400 -17.95% 97
Yorkshire +12 19 £600 +14.29% 67
East of England +36 17 £450 - 135
South West +37 13 £505 +9.19% 108
East Midlands +5 6 £450 +22.45% 52
North East +1 4 £313 -65.16% 9
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 (7.30%) Confluence
2 23 (6.46%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.56%) Apache
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.56%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) CICS
6 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.28%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.28%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 19 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.06%) MS Visio
3 15 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.28%) InDesign
6 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.28%) Simulink
6 1 (0.28%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (3.09%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.12%) CA PPM
5 3 (0.84%) Sprinklr
6 2 (0.56%) OpenText MBPM
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.28%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 62 (17.42%) Azure
2 44 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (11.80%) AWS
4 27 (7.58%) Power Platform
4 27 (7.58%) SaaS
5 18 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (5.06%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.21%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.81%) GCP
11 9 (2.53%) GitHub
12 8 (2.25%) Serverless
13 7 (1.97%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.69%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.40%) Azure Functions
15 5 (1.40%) Collibra
15 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.90%) Firewall
2 19 (5.34%) DNS
2 19 (5.34%) WAN
3 17 (4.78%) LAN
4 16 (4.49%) VPN
5 13 (3.65%) Network Security
5 13 (3.65%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.37%) BGP
7 11 (3.09%) OSPF
8 8 (2.25%) DHCP
9 7 (1.97%) MPLS
9 7 (1.97%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.69%) DMZ
10 6 (1.69%) Multicast
10 6 (1.69%) SD-WAN
10 6 (1.69%) Wireless
11 4 (1.12%) IPsec
12 3 (0.84%) DWDM
12 3 (0.84%) Internet
12 3 (0.84%) L2TP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.46%) Power BI
2 16 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (2.53%) Tableau
5 7 (1.97%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.69%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.40%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (1.40%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.12%) Metadata
9 3 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.84%) Big Data
9 3 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.56%) DB2
10 2 (0.56%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 41 (11.52%) JIRA
2 12 (3.37%) Git
3 6 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.12%) AdminStudio
4 4 (1.12%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.12%) ERwin
4 4 (1.12%) JUnit
4 4 (1.12%) MSI
4 4 (1.12%) Selenium
5 3 (0.84%) GitLab
5 3 (0.84%) TestNG
5 3 (0.84%) TestRail
5 3 (0.84%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.84%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.56%) MLflow
6 2 (0.56%) TestPartner
7 1 (0.28%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.28%) Maven
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
General
1 210 (58.99%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.51%) Finance
3 72 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.02%) Banking
6 23 (6.46%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (4.78%) Legal
8 10 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.69%) Games
10 6 (1.69%) Marketing
10 6 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.69%) Retail
10 6 (1.69%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.40%) Military
12 4 (1.12%) Arabic Language
12 4 (1.12%) Czech Language
12 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.84%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (17.13%) Architect
2 60 (16.85%) Analyst
3 38 (10.67%) Consultant
4 31 (8.71%) Business Analyst
5 25 (7.02%) Developer
6 23 (6.46%) Security Architect
7 19 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.78%) Senior
9 13 (3.65%) Support Engineer
9 13 (3.65%) Tester
10 12 (3.37%) Lead
11 11 (3.09%) Administrator
11 11 (3.09%) Network Engineer
12 10 (2.81%) Deployment Engineer
13 9 (2.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 8 (2.25%) Data Engineer
14 8 (2.25%) Desktop Engineer
14 8 (2.25%) Desktop Support
14 8 (2.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 8 (2.25%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.65%) REST
2 11 (3.09%) Middleware
2 11 (3.09%) Web Services
3 10 (2.81%) .NET
4 8 (2.25%) SOAP
5 6 (1.69%) HTML
6 5 (1.40%) CSS
6 5 (1.40%) JSON
6 5 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.12%) React
7 4 (1.12%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.84%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.84%) Kafka
8 3 (0.84%) LDAP
8 3 (0.84%) OAuth
8 3 (0.84%) Spring
9 2 (0.56%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.56%) Node.js
9 2 (0.56%) SAML
9 2 (0.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.55%) Onboarding
2 20 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.78%) CSOC
3 17 (4.78%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (4.49%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.97%) SCADA
7 7 (1.97%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.69%) NHS
8 6 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.40%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.40%) CMDB
10 4 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.12%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 66 (18.54%) Windows
2 25 (7.02%) Linux
3 16 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.93%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.40%) Windows 8
7 5 (1.40%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.40%) Windows XP
8 4 (1.12%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.84%) Android
9 3 (0.84%) Unix
9 3 (0.84%) VMS
10 2 (0.56%) Solaris
10 2 (0.56%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.28%) AIX
11 1 (0.28%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (18.82%) Agile
3 55 (15.45%) Migration
4 48 (13.48%) DevOps
5 38 (10.67%) Validation
6 35 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
7 34 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (8.99%) ITIL
8 32 (8.99%) User Acceptance Testing
9 27 (7.58%) Change Management
9 27 (7.58%) Project Management
10 26 (7.30%) Roadmaps
11 25 (7.02%) CI/CD
11 25 (7.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (7.02%) Use Case
12 24 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (6.74%) Data Migration
13 23 (6.46%) Collaborative Working
13 23 (6.46%) Data Modelling
13 23 (6.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (16.01%) SQL
2 25 (7.02%) Python
3 19 (5.34%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.21%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.21%) PL/SQL
5 14 (3.93%) Java
6 11 (3.09%) C#
7 4 (1.12%) Perl
7 4 (1.12%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.84%) Bash
8 3 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.84%) VBA
9 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.56%) Go
9 2 (0.56%) R
10 1 (0.28%) ABAP
10 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.28%) RPG
10 1 (0.28%) RPG IV
10 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 51 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.87%) Degree
4 21 (5.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.81%) CCNP
8 8 (2.25%) CISSP
9 7 (1.97%) CCIE
9 7 (1.97%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.12%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.12%) PMP
12 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.84%) CCNA
12 3 (0.84%) CISM
12 3 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.56%) CBAP
13 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.34%) QA
2 10 (2.81%) NIST
3 8 (2.25%) GDPR
4 7 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.69%) PMO
6 4 (1.12%) SLA
7 3 (0.84%) GRC
7 3 (0.84%) NCSC
7 3 (0.84%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.56%) MiFID
8 2 (0.56%) PERC
8 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.56%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.28%) COBIT
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 37 (10.39%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.97%) Docker
4 5 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.84%) UAG
6 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (7.02%) SCCM
2 11 (3.09%) Ansible
2 11 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.81%) Terraform
4 6 (1.69%) Grafana
4 6 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.40%) HP ALM
6 4 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.84%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.56%) Puppet
8 2 (0.56%) ThinApp
8 2 (0.56%) WMI
8 2 (0.56%) WSUS
9 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.28%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 91 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.96%) Oracle
3 27 (7.58%) Splunk
4 24 (6.74%) ServiceNow
5 20 (5.62%) SAP
6 17 (4.78%) Cisco
7 13 (3.65%) Fortinet
8 12 (3.37%) Salesforce
8 12 (3.37%) VMware
9 7 (1.97%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.69%) Arista
11 5 (1.40%) Canon
11 5 (1.40%) Duck Creek
11 5 (1.40%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.40%) HP
11 5 (1.40%) Workday
12 4 (1.12%) AlgoSec
12 4 (1.12%) Dell
12 4 (1.12%) EMC
12 4 (1.12%) Red Hat