Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends 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 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 65 76
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +38
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 8 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.19% 0.15% 0.56%
As % of the General category 2.06% 0.33% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £505 - £283
25th Percentile £513 £275 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £600 £325 £500
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £300 £500
% change year-on-year +80.00% -40.00% +5.26%

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 389 307 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 58.06% 45.75% 56.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 179 409
10th Percentile £285 £350 £281
25th Percentile £400 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £638
90th Percentile £638 £638 £725
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 8
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.22 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +66.67% +23.81%
75th Percentile £27.63 £40.00 £21.31
90th Percentile £28.30 - £21.59
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% +1.60%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Documentation Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Leeds

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) OCI
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Legal
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Games
4 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Implementation Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Implementation Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Implementation Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) CMDB
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Runbook
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) COBIT
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 22301
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Brio
1 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (25.00%) Dell
1 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (25.00%) F5
1 2 (25.00%) HP
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) BMC
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft