Documentation Skills Contracts in the North of England

Documentation Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 121 155 186
Rank change year-on-year +34 +31 +8
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 45 30 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.37% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the General category 2.31% 1.15% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 22
10th Percentile £226 £206 £322
25th Percentile £452 £294 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £670 £575 £593
90th Percentile £780 £735 £671
England median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £28.75 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £30.63 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £20.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +40.24% -71.72% +48.72%

All General Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,947 2,614 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.09% 54.82% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,539 2,212
10th Percentile £255 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £662 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 310 96
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.11 £14.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.30 £17.60
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.06 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.67% -35.76% +33.69%
75th Percentile £39.75 £27.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £48.75 £53.17
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the North of England

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the North of England

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the North of England

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the North of England

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +30 30 £626 +31.79% 41
Yorkshire +11 12 £563 +12.50% 15
North East 0 4 £313 -65.16% 3
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) CICS
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) MS Visio
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.22%) SAP APO
2 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (11.11%) Collibra
3 4 (8.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (4.44%) AWS
4 2 (4.44%) Azure
4 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.44%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) dbt
5 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.22%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) VPN
2 5 (11.11%) LAN
3 3 (6.67%) Wireless
4 2 (4.44%) BGP
4 2 (4.44%) DNS
4 2 (4.44%) Network Security
4 2 (4.44%) OSPF
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.22%) DHCP
5 1 (2.22%) DMZ
5 1 (2.22%) DWDM
5 1 (2.22%) EIGRP
5 1 (2.22%) Internet
5 1 (2.22%) L2TP
5 1 (2.22%) MPLS
5 1 (2.22%) Multicast
5 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.22%) SSL
5 1 (2.22%) WAN
5 1 (2.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.22%) DB2
1 1 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 29 (64.44%) Social Skills
2 16 (35.56%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 6 (13.33%) Finance
4 6 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Desktop Support
2 6 (13.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Migration Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Administrator
3 5 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 4 (8.89%) Data Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Data Migration Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.22%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (2.22%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.22%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Security Posture
2 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) EMC VNX
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.22%) IBM XIV
4 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.22%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (37.78%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Linux
3 7 (15.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 5 (11.11%) Windows 8
4 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (11.11%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (33.33%) Migration
3 9 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 8 (17.78%) Data Migration
4 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
4 8 (17.78%) ITIL
4 8 (17.78%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (17.78%) Validation
5 7 (15.56%) Data Mapping
5 7 (15.56%) ETL
6 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.33%) Microservices
6 6 (13.33%) Process Improvement
6 6 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 5 (11.11%) Business Case
7 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.11%) Observability
7 5 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) SQL
2 8 (17.78%) PL/SQL
3 3 (6.67%) Python
4 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) ABAP
5 1 (2.22%) COBOL
5 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.22%) CCIE
5 1 (2.22%) CCNP
5 1 (2.22%) CISA
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) PMO
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 6 (13.33%) SCCM
2 5 (11.11%) Grafana
3 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.44%) Ansible
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (2.22%) Terraform
5 1 (2.22%) VxRail
5 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) Oracle
3 8 (17.78%) Splunk
4 5 (11.11%) Canon
5 2 (4.44%) Aruba
5 2 (4.44%) Cisco
5 2 (4.44%) SAP
5 2 (4.44%) VMware
6 1 (2.22%) Ariba
6 1 (2.22%) Arista
6 1 (2.22%) Bomgar
6 1 (2.22%) Dell
6 1 (2.22%) EMC
6 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.22%) IBM
6 1 (2.22%) McAfee
6 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.22%) Okta
6 1 (2.22%) Perforce