Docs as Code Contract Job Trends in London

Documentation as Code
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Docs as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 361 393
Rank change year-on-year -84 +32 +45
Contract jobs citing Docs as Code 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% 0.007% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.008% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £825 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £875 £513 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £675 £500 -
% change year-on-year +35.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Docs as Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,999 12,504 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.62% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,775 8,251 9,455
10th Percentile £358 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 245 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.35 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

Docs as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docs as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Docs as Code job vacancy trend in London

Docs as Code
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Docs as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Docs as Code

Docs as Code
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docs as Code within the London region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. 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
Central London - 1 £850 - 1
Docs as Code
England

Docs as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (100.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Backends for Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) Swift