Documentation Skills Contracts 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 293 283
Rank change year-on-year +61 -10 +82
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 123 98 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.99% 0.56% 0.83%
As % of the General category 1.47% 0.88% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 69 131
10th Percentile £368 £328 £413
25th Percentile £430 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% +5.83%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £622
90th Percentile £750 £699 £875
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £20.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +40.24% -71.72% +48.72%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,377 11,150 16,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.74% 63.17% 63.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,640 7,948 12,099
10th Percentile £346 £336 £375
25th Percentile £443 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 239 214
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.90 £16.45
25th Percentile £23.13 £18.19 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.25 £28.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -11.70% -15.44%
75th Percentile £51.23 £44.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.57% -5.38% +51.16%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in London

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in London

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in London

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in London

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 13 May 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
Central London +3 24 £600 -1.44% 13
South London - 5 £600 - 2
East London +13 2 £474 -27.12% 4
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 18 (14.63%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.69%) Confluence
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.44%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.44%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.69%) MS Visio
3 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.25%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.81%) BASE24
2 1 (0.81%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.81%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.81%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.27%) Azure
2 25 (20.33%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (13.01%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.32%) AWS
4 9 (7.32%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.88%) GitHub
7 6 (4.88%) OneDrive
7 6 (4.88%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.25%) SaaS
9 3 (2.44%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.44%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.63%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.63%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.76%) Firewall
2 8 (6.50%) DNS
2 8 (6.50%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.50%) WAN
3 7 (5.69%) BGP
3 7 (5.69%) OSPF
3 7 (5.69%) VPN
3 7 (5.69%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (4.07%) Multicast
4 5 (4.07%) Network Security
5 4 (3.25%) LAN
5 4 (3.25%) MPLS
6 3 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.44%) NAS
6 3 (2.44%) VXLAN
7 2 (1.63%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.63%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.63%) NX-OS
7 2 (1.63%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.13%) Power BI
1 10 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.07%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (4.07%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (4.07%) Tableau
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.44%) Big Data
4 3 (2.44%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.81%) Metadata
5 1 (0.81%) MySQL
5 1 (0.81%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.81%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (9.76%) JIRA
2 4 (3.25%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.44%) Git
4 2 (1.63%) GitLab
4 2 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 74 (60.16%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.95%) Finance
3 18 (14.63%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (10.57%) Banking
6 12 (9.76%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.07%) Legal
7 5 (4.07%) Retail Banking
8 4 (3.25%) Arabic Language
8 4 (3.25%) Czech Language
8 4 (3.25%) Games
9 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.44%) Marketing
9 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.81%) Advertising
11 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (21.95%) Analyst
2 19 (15.45%) Architect
3 16 (13.01%) Developer
4 15 (12.20%) Consultant
5 11 (8.94%) Business Analyst
5 11 (8.94%) Senior
6 8 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.07%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (4.07%) Security Architect
8 4 (3.25%) Incident Manager
8 4 (3.25%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.25%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Network Security Architect
8 4 (3.25%) Power BI Analyst
8 4 (3.25%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.25%) Remote Support Analyst
8 4 (3.25%) Solutions Analyst
8 4 (3.25%) Support Analyst
8 4 (3.25%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.88%) .NET
2 4 (3.25%) REST
2 4 (3.25%) SailPoint
2 4 (3.25%) YAML
3 3 (2.44%) Kafka
4 2 (1.63%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.63%) Bootstrap
4 2 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.63%) JSON
4 2 (1.63%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.63%) PySpark
4 2 (1.63%) React
4 2 (1.63%) Web Services
5 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.81%) CSS
5 1 (0.81%) HTML
5 1 (0.81%) Next.js
5 1 (0.81%) SOAP
5 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.13%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.88%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.07%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.44%) CMDB
4 3 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.44%) Replication
4 3 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.63%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Licensing
5 2 (1.63%) NHS
5 2 (1.63%) Shadow IT
6 1 (0.81%) Clustering
6 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.81%) Equities
6 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.94%) Windows
2 5 (4.07%) Linux
3 4 (3.25%) Unix
3 4 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.63%) Solaris
5 1 (0.81%) AIX
5 1 (0.81%) HPUX
5 1 (0.81%) SUSE
5 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (21.14%) Agile
3 21 (17.07%) Roadmaps
4 16 (13.01%) DevOps
5 14 (11.38%) Migration
5 14 (11.38%) Project Management
5 14 (11.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 12 (9.76%) Business Analysis
6 12 (9.76%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (8.94%) CI/CD
7 11 (8.94%) ITIL
7 11 (8.94%) User Experience
8 10 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (8.13%) Validation
9 9 (7.32%) Change Management
9 9 (7.32%) Data Modelling
9 9 (7.32%) Scrum
10 8 (6.50%) Process Improvement
10 8 (6.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.26%) SQL
2 13 (10.57%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.57%) Python
3 6 (4.88%) C#
4 5 (4.07%) Java
5 3 (2.44%) Perl
6 2 (1.63%) Bicep
6 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.81%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.81%) Bash
7 1 (0.81%) C
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) COBOL
7 1 (0.81%) R
7 1 (0.81%) Ruby
7 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (11.38%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) Degree
4 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.69%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.88%) CCNP
7 5 (4.07%) CCIE
8 3 (2.44%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.44%) PMP
9 2 (1.63%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (1.63%) CISSP
9 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.81%) CCNA
10 1 (0.81%) CISM
10 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.81%) GCIA
10 1 (0.81%) GIAC
10 1 (0.81%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.81%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.07%) QA
2 4 (3.25%) NIST
3 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.63%) GRC
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) MiFID
4 1 (0.81%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (13.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.44%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.44%) vSphere
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.81%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) Ansible
1 7 (5.69%) Terraform
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.25%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.44%) SCCM
5 2 (1.63%) Puppet
6 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.81%) Nagios
6 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.81%) Rancher
6 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.81%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (34.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.20%) ServiceNow
3 12 (9.76%) Salesforce
4 11 (8.94%) Cisco
5 8 (6.50%) Fortinet
5 8 (6.50%) Oracle
6 4 (3.25%) AlgoSec
6 4 (3.25%) Broadcom
6 4 (3.25%) Planview
6 4 (3.25%) SAP
6 4 (3.25%) Tufin
6 4 (3.25%) VMware
7 3 (2.44%) Arista
7 3 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.44%) Splunk
8 2 (1.63%) BMC
8 2 (1.63%) Dell
8 2 (1.63%) McAfee
8 2 (1.63%) Okta
8 2 (1.63%) Sybase