Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Documentation Skills
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Leicestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 2.42% - 1.71%
As % of the General category 4.49% - 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £560
25th Percentile - - £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £640
Median % change year-on-year - - +70.67%
75th Percentile - - £642
90th Percentile - - £643
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £450 £593
% change year-on-year -11.11% -24.05% +10.23%

All General Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 89 50 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 53.94% 50.51% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 41 45
10th Percentile £186 £200 £159
25th Percentile £250 £275 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £500
90th Percentile £638 £715 £575
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £445 £453
% change year-on-year -7.30% -1.77% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £15.76 - £13.85
25th Percentile £18.65 - £16.63
Median hourly rate £20.90 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.35%
75th Percentile £22.60 - £44.38
90th Percentile £24.94 - £56.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.94 £17.00 £26.34
% change year-on-year +29.03% -35.46% +59.64%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Leicester - 3 £360 - 1
Loughborough - 1 £360 -
Documentation Skills
East Midlands

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) ERP Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Financials Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (50.00%) ADO
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Accounts Payable
1 3 (75.00%) Accounts Receivable
1 3 (75.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (75.00%) ERP
1 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft