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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 515 583
Rank change year-on-year +45 +68 +153
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Writer 28 37 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.099% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 39
10th Percentile £325 £315 £300
25th Percentile £344 £363 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £452 £513 £550
90th Percentile £553 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £400 £400 £463
% change year-on-year - -13.51% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile - £19.74 -
25th Percentile £33.00 £24.11 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% - -
75th Percentile £35.00 £41.75 -
90th Percentile - £42.75 -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.21% -34.09% +37.50%

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 24,457 34,585 45,524
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 92.93% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,942 22,634 32,270
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £747 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,155 2,533 1,388
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.88 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.93 £16.86 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%
75th Percentile £57.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.53 £77.58
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%

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 6 July 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 6 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 +29 14 £438 +9.38% 10
South East +42 7 £400 +5.80% 10
North of England +7 5 £350 -12.50% 3
Yorkshire +7 3 £350 -12.50%
West Midlands - 2 - - 3
Midlands - 2 - - 4
North East - 1 £350 -
North West - 1 - - 3
Technical Writer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 (21.43%) User Experience
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 3 (10.71%) NCSC
4 3 (10.71%) NIST
4 3 (10.71%) Confluence
4 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) QA
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
5 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
5 2 (7.14%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.14%) JIRA
5 2 (7.14%) Google
5 2 (7.14%) SCADA
5 2 (7.14%) Workflow
5 2 (7.14%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Publishing
5 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365

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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.57%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) GCP
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) IaaS
3 1 (3.57%) PaaS
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Publishing
4 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) CSS
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 2 (7.14%) SCADA
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) User Experience
2 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (7.14%) Content Writing
5 2 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning
5 2 (7.14%) Service Design
5 2 (7.14%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (7.14%) Workflow
6 1 (3.57%) Coaching
6 1 (3.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.57%) Micro Frontends
6 1 (3.57%) Natural Language Processing
6 1 (3.57%) Observability
6 1 (3.57%) Runbook
6 1 (3.57%) SDLC
6 1 (3.57%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.71%) NCSC
1 3 (10.71%) NIST
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow