Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in London

Documentation Skills
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 237 298
Rank change year-on-year +104 +61 +10
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 330 122 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.12% 0.90% 0.56%
As % of the General category 3.32% 1.38% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 68 83
10th Percentile £317 £258 £300
25th Percentile £424 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £524 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £788 £715 £670
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.62 - £37.08
Median hourly rate £40.78 £65.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -37.26% +70.36% -32.47%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £39.23
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £63.79 £20.50
% change year-on-year -33.37% +211.15% -71.72%

All General Skills
London

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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,927 8,819 11,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.90% 65.40% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,477 5,594 8,308
10th Percentile £350 £326 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 112 254
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £27.19 £19.00
Median hourly rate £31.49 £39.00 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -19.26% +30.61% +1.22%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.38 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.72 £73.72
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.45 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.48% +17.12% -10.34%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in London

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in London

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Documentation Skills
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 Documentation Skills within the London region over the 6 months to 18 February 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 +16 49 £550 -8.33% 15
South London -1 11 £519 - 3
West London - 4 £513 - 5
East London - 2 £525 - 4
North London -2 1 £495 +94.12%
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
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 22 (6.67%) Confluence
2 15 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.82%) nginx
4 5 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (7.58%) MS Visio
2 18 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Notion
6 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.21%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (1.21%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.61%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.61%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.61%) Shopify
5 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.30%) Endur
5 1 (0.30%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.30%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.30%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 78 (23.64%) Azure
2 52 (15.76%) AWS
3 23 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
4 22 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 19 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.45%) Serverless
7 17 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 17 (5.15%) GCP
8 16 (4.85%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (4.24%) OpenShift
11 13 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.94%) GitHub
12 12 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (3.03%) Power Automate
13 10 (3.03%) SaaS
13 10 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.58%) Firewall
2 17 (5.15%) DNS
3 14 (4.24%) VPN
4 10 (3.03%) Network Security
4 10 (3.03%) SMS
5 8 (2.42%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.82%) DHCP
6 6 (1.82%) OpenVPN
7 5 (1.52%) BGP
7 5 (1.52%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.21%) IPv4
8 4 (1.21%) LAN
9 3 (0.91%) OSPF
9 3 (0.91%) VSAN
9 3 (0.91%) WAN
10 2 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.61%) MPLS
10 2 (0.61%) SSH
10 2 (0.61%) VLAN
10 2 (0.61%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.06%) Metadata
2 17 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (3.03%) Power BI
5 8 (2.42%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.21%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.21%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.61%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (10.30%) JIRA
2 21 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.73%) GitLab
4 7 (2.12%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.82%) Git
5 6 (1.82%) Selenium
6 4 (1.21%) JUnit
6 4 (1.21%) Mockito
6 4 (1.21%) Postman
7 3 (0.91%) ERwin
8 2 (0.61%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.61%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.30%) Locust
9 1 (0.30%) MLflow
9 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
General
1 191 (57.88%) Social Skills
2 116 (35.15%) Finance
3 65 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.91%) Banking
5 31 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (4.55%) Marketing
7 15 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.24%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.73%) Retail
10 8 (2.42%) Legal
11 7 (2.12%) Front Office
12 5 (1.52%) Back Office
12 5 (1.52%) Law
12 5 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.21%) Aviation
13 4 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.21%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.91%) Police
Job Titles
1 80 (24.24%) Analyst
2 68 (20.61%) Business Analyst
3 61 (18.48%) Architect
4 41 (12.42%) Consultant
5 20 (6.06%) Developer
6 19 (5.76%) Senior
7 17 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.24%) Lead
9 13 (3.94%) CyberArk Architect
10 11 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 10 (3.03%) Banking Analyst
11 10 (3.03%) Banking Business Analyst
12 9 (2.73%) Data Analyst
12 9 (2.73%) Functional Consultant
12 9 (2.73%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
12 9 (2.73%) Identity Management Analyst
12 9 (2.73%) Technical Business Analyst
13 8 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.36%) OpenID
2 19 (5.76%) LDAP
3 15 (4.55%) Kafka
3 15 (4.55%) REST
3 15 (4.55%) SAML
4 14 (4.24%) .NET
5 11 (3.33%) XML
6 10 (3.03%) Middleware
6 10 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (2.12%) SOAP
8 6 (1.82%) JSON
9 5 (1.52%) OAuth
10 4 (1.21%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.21%) JMS
10 4 (1.21%) Spring
10 4 (1.21%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.91%) FHIR
11 3 (0.91%) Gherkin
11 3 (0.91%) SailPoint
11 3 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.58%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.73%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.42%) Replication
7 7 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.82%) CMDB
8 6 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.82%) Educational Technology
8 6 (1.82%) Equities
9 5 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.52%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.52%) NHS
10 4 (1.21%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.21%) Clustering
10 4 (1.21%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.79%) Windows
2 11 (3.33%) Linux
3 10 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.73%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.12%) Unix
6 5 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.30%) VMS
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (25.15%) Agile
2 70 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (19.39%) DevOps
4 55 (16.67%) Migration
5 54 (16.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 49 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 38 (11.52%) Data Modelling
8 38 (11.52%) User Acceptance Testing
9 37 (11.21%) Workshop Facilitation
10 34 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (10.00%) Analytics
11 33 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 33 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
12 31 (9.39%) User Stories
13 30 (9.09%) Data Mapping
13 30 (9.09%) Validation
14 29 (8.79%) Business Analysis
15 28 (8.48%) Change Management
16 27 (8.18%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 57 (17.27%) SQL
2 36 (10.91%) Python
3 22 (6.67%) C#
4 19 (5.76%) PowerShell
5 14 (4.24%) Java
6 9 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.12%) Groovy
8 6 (1.82%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.91%) Bash
9 3 (0.91%) Bicep
9 3 (0.91%) C
10 2 (0.61%) C++
10 2 (0.61%) R
10 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.30%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 67 (20.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.97%) Degree
4 6 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.52%) CCA
5 5 (1.52%) CCNP
5 5 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.52%) Citrix Certification
6 4 (1.21%) CISSP
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.61%) CBAP
8 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.67%) QA
2 21 (6.36%) NIST
3 17 (5.15%) GDPR
3 17 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.24%) NCSC
5 9 (2.73%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.42%) PMO
7 4 (1.21%) COBIT
7 4 (1.21%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.91%) GRC
8 3 (0.91%) HL7
8 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.91%) SLA
9 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.61%) IFRS
9 2 (0.61%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.61%) MiFID
9 2 (0.61%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.15%) Docker
3 8 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.82%) Squid
5 5 (1.52%) XenApp
5 5 (1.52%) XenDesktop
6 4 (1.21%) vSphere
7 3 (0.91%) Firmware
7 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.61%) vCloud
9 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.48%) Terraform
3 17 (5.15%) SCCM
4 14 (4.24%) Grafana
5 10 (3.03%) Ansible
5 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.42%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.82%) Consul
7 6 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.52%) SCOM
8 5 (1.52%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.91%) QRadar
10 2 (0.61%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.61%) logstash
11 1 (0.30%) Cacti
11 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.30%) Opsview
11 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.88%) Oracle
3 23 (6.97%) Splunk
4 17 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.94%) CyberArk
7 11 (3.33%) Atlassian
7 11 (3.33%) SAP
8 10 (3.03%) Databricks
8 10 (3.03%) VMware
9 9 (2.73%) Cisco
9 9 (2.73%) Citrix
10 7 (2.12%) Adobe
10 7 (2.12%) Bloomberg
10 7 (2.12%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.82%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.82%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.52%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.52%) Dell
12 5 (1.52%) Google