Technical Writer Contracts in England

Technical Writer
UK > England

The median Technical Writer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 507 602
Rank change year-on-year +47 +95 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Writer 25 35 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.094% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 37
10th Percentile £337 £314 £308
25th Percentile £350 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -21.95% +16.48%
75th Percentile £454 £439 £569
90th Percentile £521 £585 £650
UK median daily rate £400 £400 £400
% change year-on-year - - -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Technical Writer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Writer in England

Technical Writer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Writer in England

Technical Writer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Writer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Writer in England

Technical Writer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Writer in England

Technical Writer
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 Writer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +28 10 £457 +14.25% 20
North of England +27 9 £350 -12.50% 6
Yorkshire +15 8 £375 -6.25% 1
South East +44 3 - - 4
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 2
South West +43 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £350 -
Technical Writer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical Writer 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 Writer in the job title.

1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 5 (20.00%) Agile
1 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (20.00%) User Experience
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) NCSC
3 3 (12.00%) NIST
3 3 (12.00%) Storyboarding
3 3 (12.00%) Technology Transformation
3 3 (12.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) APMP
4 2 (8.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (8.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (8.00%) Coaching
4 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (8.00%) Swagger
4 2 (8.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (8.00%) SCADA
4 2 (8.00%) QA
4 2 (8.00%) Information Architecture
4 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) OAuth

Technical Writer 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.00%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) AWS
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
1 1 (4.00%) Figma
1 1 (4.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) Postman
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Public Speaking
4 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) JSON
2 2 (8.00%) OAuth
2 2 (8.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (8.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (8.00%) RESTful
2 2 (8.00%) Swagger
2 2 (8.00%) XML
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.00%) SCADA
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.00%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Agile
1 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (20.00%) User Experience
2 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (12.00%) Storyboarding
2 3 (12.00%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (8.00%) API Management
3 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (8.00%) Coaching
3 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (8.00%) Content Development
3 2 (8.00%) Content Management
3 2 (8.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (8.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (8.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (8.00%) Migration
3 2 (8.00%) OO
3 2 (8.00%) OOP
3 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (8.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) VB
1 2 (8.00%) VBA
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) APMP
2 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.00%) NCSC
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Ansible
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media