Documentation Skills Contracts in Leeds

Documentation Skills
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 59 95
Rank change year-on-year +6 +36 +9
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 7 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.51% 0.50% 0.075%
As % of the General category 2.66% 0.96% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £456 £438 -
25th Percentile - £494 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.82% - -
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £780 £513 £225
% change year-on-year +52.20% +127.78% -51.35%

All General Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 263 416 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 56.56% 52.07% 60.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 245 599
10th Percentile £240 £264 £363
25th Percentile £340 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £631
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 34 6
10th Percentile £31.59 £11.87 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.76 £12.15 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -28.89% -21.59%
75th Percentile £96.64 £15.19 £57.00
90th Percentile £97.79 - £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £13.50 £17.24
% change year-on-year +83.85% -21.69% -7.81%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Leeds

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in Leeds

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Leeds

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in Leeds

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Collibra
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) Monte Carlo Method
1 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Logistics
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) COBOL
1 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Grafana
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Perforce