Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in the North East

Documentation Skills
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -29 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.46% 1.32% 1.28%
As % of the General category 0.95% 2.34% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £363 £134 £357
25th Percentile £373 £176 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £313 £897
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -65.16% +79.39%
75th Percentile £411 £484 £955
90th Percentile £419 £569 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
England median hourly rate £47.54 £28.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year +65.36% +40.24% -71.72%

All General Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 317 171 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 48.84% 56.44% 50.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 120 80
10th Percentile £308 £200 £288
25th Percentile £400 £349 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £537 £606
90th Percentile £639 £588 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 13 36
10th Percentile £15.96 - £11.29
25th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.50 £16.48
Median % change year-on-year +293.94% +0.12% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £19.38 £46.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £20.49 £48.75
England median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -2.88%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the North East

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 5 June 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -34 2 £425 +36.00% 2
Durham - 1 £363 - 2
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 4G
1 1 (33.33%) 5G
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Talend