Technical Author Contracts in England

Technical Author
UK > England

The median Technical Author daily rate in England is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 425 602
Rank change year-on-year -57 +177 +127
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Author 14 128 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.055% 0.34% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.37% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 20
10th Percentile £494 - £349
25th Percentile £513 £158 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -31.82% +37.50%
75th Percentile £666 £400 £650
90th Percentile £672 £450 -
UK median daily rate £525 £375 £540
% change year-on-year +40.00% -30.56% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 67 0
Median hourly rate - £43.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £43.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -21.82% +25.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 23,505 34,499 44,660
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.91% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,375 22,541 31,653
10th Percentile £293 £298 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,094 2,589 1,357
10th Percentile £13.90 £12.86 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.74 £19.92
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +77.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.51 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% -12.79% +71.71%

Technical Author
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Technical Author in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Author in England

Technical Author
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Author in England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Author in England

Technical Author
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Author in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Author in England

Technical Author
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Author in England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Author in England

Technical Author
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 Technical Author within the England region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
South West +20 9 £638 +96.15% 3
London +46 3 £500 +16.96% 10
South East +50 1 - - 8
East of England -36 1 - - 5
Technical Author
UK

Technical Author Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, Technical Author contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Technical Author in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Service Design
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (14.29%) Programme Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (14.29%) Logistics
5 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
5 2 (14.29%) Windchill
5 2 (14.29%) Teamcenter
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 2 (14.29%) Electronics
5 2 (14.29%) HNC
5 2 (14.29%) HND
6 1 (7.14%) VML
6 1 (7.14%) B2B
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.14%) Adobe
6 1 (7.14%) Salesforce

Technical Author Skill Set
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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Windchill
2 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (7.14%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Teamcenter
2 1 (7.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) BigCommerce
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 2 (14.29%) Electronics
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Police
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
1 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
1 4 (28.57%) Service Design
2 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (14.29%) Logistics
3 2 (14.29%) Programme Governance
4 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.14%) Conversational UI
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Acquisition
4 1 (7.14%) Document Management
4 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
4 1 (7.14%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Prototyping
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) HNC
4 2 (14.29%) HND
4 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
1 1 (7.14%) SAP
1 1 (7.14%) Sitecore