Documentation Skills Contracts in Manchester

Documentation Skills
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 90 111
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 +22
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 11 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the General category 2.10% 0.82% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £650 - £324
25th Percentile £655 £210 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £348 £375
Median % change year-on-year +91.51% -7.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £695 £525 £420
90th Percentile £703 £556 £425
North West median daily rate £626 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +31.79% -9.52% -1.41%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 524 731 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 56.59% 48.19% 49.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 477 647
10th Percentile £250 £313 £304
25th Percentile £375 £388 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +2.83%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £588
90th Percentile £676 £675 £659
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 62 39
10th Percentile - £12.27 £14.52
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £19.63
Median hourly rate £19.77 £21.73 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -13.10% +38.89%
75th Percentile £40.31 £31.50 £37.30
90th Percentile £72.75 £59.75 £45.05
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Manchester

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in Manchester

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in Manchester

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 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
Stockport - 1 - - 2
Documentation Skills
North West

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (9.09%) SAP APO
2 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (9.09%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Migration Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Software Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) EMC VNX
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (9.09%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Migration
2 8 (72.73%) Data Migration
2 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
3 7 (63.64%) Data Mapping
3 7 (63.64%) ETL
3 7 (63.64%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (63.64%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (63.64%) Validation
4 1 (9.09%) BCP
4 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
4 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PL/SQL
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) EMC
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
2 1 (9.09%) SAP