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 in the Midlands. 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 90 113 131
Rank change year-on-year +23 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 21 20 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.10% 0.73% 1.05%
As % of the General category 1.76% 1.32% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 20
10th Percentile £264 £190 £286
25th Percentile £350 £301 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% -
75th Percentile £456 £494 £638
90th Percentile £513 £558 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.90 -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £20.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +40.24% -71.72% +48.72%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,194 1,513 1,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.38% 54.88% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,034 1,359
10th Percentile £190 £207 £213
25th Percentile £343 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +1.56% +2.67%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 167 83
10th Percentile £13.98 £11.75 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.90 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.88 £17.50 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -13.88% +14.80%
75th Percentile £30.00 £38.13 £32.13
90th Percentile £34.24 £53.80 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
West Midlands +19 20 £400 -11.11% 30
East Midlands +7 1 £550 +49.66% 16
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Mimecast
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) Akamai
3 1 (4.76%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Unified Communications
2 4 (19.05%) LAN
2 4 (19.05%) WAN
3 3 (14.29%) Firewall
4 2 (9.52%) Network Security
4 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
4 2 (9.52%) VoIP
4 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.76%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (4.76%) Automotive
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Tester
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Unified Communications Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Network Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
4 1 (4.76%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Messaging Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Product Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Product Ownership
1 5 (23.81%) SCADA
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Change Management
2 7 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) User Stories
4 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
4 5 (23.81%) Defect Management
4 5 (23.81%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (23.81%) Scrum
4 5 (23.81%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (23.81%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Test Assurance
4 5 (23.81%) Test Management
4 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
4 5 (23.81%) User Experience
5 4 (19.05%) Information Security
5 4 (19.05%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (19.05%) PLM
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (19.05%) System Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
1 2 (9.52%) Python
1 2 (9.52%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CEH
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) HP ALM
2 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.52%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Cisco
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) HP
2 5 (23.81%) MuleSoft
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
3 4 (19.05%) Proofpoint
4 2 (9.52%) Aruba
4 2 (9.52%) Mitel
5 1 (4.76%) F5
5 1 (4.76%) Imperva