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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 111 139
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 +33
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 30 26 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.37% 0.87% 0.62%
As % of the General category 2.20% 1.65% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 13
10th Percentile £300 £190 £351
25th Percentile £325 £305 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £388
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +25.81% -20.92%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £525
90th Percentile £500 £575 £648
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.90 -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £21.70 £72.50
% change year-on-year +32.49% -70.07% +34.26%

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 1,362 1,575 1,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.39% 52.94% 54.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,046 1,251
10th Percentile £200 £210 £235
25th Percentile £344 £355 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -3.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £725 £700
England median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 185 81
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.03 £13.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £17.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% -24.63% +19.08%
75th Percentile £33.91 £33.93 £46.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.56 £51.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £32.04 £27.70
% change year-on-year -12.10% +15.68% +21.76%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +14 24 £400 -17.95% 99
East Midlands +6 6 £450 +22.45% 60
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 2 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.33%) InDesign
2 1 (3.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Sprinklr
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle iProcurement
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.33%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (3.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) AWS
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (10.00%) SaaS
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
2 2 (6.67%) Lucidchart
2 2 (6.67%) Mimecast
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Serverless
3 1 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) LAN
1 2 (6.67%) Unified Communications
1 2 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (3.33%) Converged Networks
2 1 (3.33%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (3.33%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.33%) ERwin
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Tester
2 4 (13.33%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) Implementation Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Product Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Unified Communications Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Release Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Middleware
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (3.33%) CSS
3 1 (3.33%) Flash
3 1 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) SCADA
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) Blog
5 1 (3.33%) CMDB
5 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.33%) Social Media
5 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) Change Management
2 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) Scrum
4 6 (20.00%) ITIL
4 6 (20.00%) User Stories
5 5 (16.67%) Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 5 (16.67%) DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Project Management
5 5 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Test Assurance
5 5 (16.67%) Test Management
5 5 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) CRM
6 4 (13.33%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) R
4 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) HP ALM
2 4 (13.33%) SCCM
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) HP
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) MuleSoft
3 2 (6.67%) Avaya
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) Genesys
3 2 (6.67%) Proofpoint
3 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) Adobe
4 1 (3.33%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (3.33%) Facebook
4 1 (3.33%) Instagram
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Twitter
4 1 (3.33%) UiPath
4 1 (3.33%) Workday
4 1 (3.33%) YouTube