Documentation Skills Contracts in the Midlands

Documentation Skills
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 133 176
Rank change year-on-year +17 +43 -43
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 19 40 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.69% 1.16% 0.64%
As % of the General category 1.26% 2.06% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 15
10th Percentile £190 £303 £381
25th Percentile £300 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £494 £631 £474
90th Percentile £560 £675 £553
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.13 - -
Median hourly rate £15.90 - -
75th Percentile £16.67 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.50 £72.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -71.72% +48.72% -15.95%

All General Skills
Midlands

Documentation Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,505 1,946 2,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 55.01% 56.19% 54.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,365 2,080
10th Percentile £200 £213 £220
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +3.78% +15.63%
75th Percentile £611 £588 £550
90th Percentile £736 £680 £657
England median daily rate £538 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 85 106
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £13.91 £13.31 £12.56
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.64% +5.86%
75th Percentile £37.50 £32.00 £24.19
90th Percentile £53.40 £51.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% +62.79% -4.44%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the Midlands

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the Midlands

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the Midlands

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the Midlands

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +11 14 £420 -13.85% 11
East Midlands +13 4 £368 +5.00% 7
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) LAN
2 3 (15.79%) VLAN
2 3 (15.79%) VoIP
2 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 3 (15.79%) WAN
2 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Power BI
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (10.53%) SAP BW
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Automotive
3 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.26%) Local Government
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 3 (15.79%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Change Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior IT Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Driving Licence
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
1 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
1 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
1 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
2 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Database Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
3 4 (21.05%) Project Management
3 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Data Reconciliation
4 3 (15.79%) Data Science
4 3 (15.79%) Database Security
4 3 (15.79%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (15.79%) Quality Management
4 3 (15.79%) RBAC
4 3 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (10.53%) Change Management
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL
5 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Autotask
1 3 (15.79%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (15.79%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (15.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Apple
2 3 (15.79%) Datto
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Anaplan
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) NetApp
4 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto