Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Documentation Skills
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.63% 1.52% -
As % of the General category 1.26% 2.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £243 -
25th Percentile - £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £413 £531 -
90th Percentile £420 £588 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £400 £425 -
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -

All General Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 general skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 317 105 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 49.53% 53.03% 51.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 68 41
10th Percentile £313 £200 £313
25th Percentile £390 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £540 £550
90th Percentile £625 £596 £626
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £441 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.11% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 7 4
10th Percentile £16.82 £13.60 £14.03
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.38 £14.46
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% +14.28% -13.62%
75th Percentile £69.75 £20.63 £20.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £33.18 £20.53
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £16.85
% change year-on-year +128.36% +14.28% -13.62%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Documentation Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (50.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker