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 advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 180 208
Rank change year-on-year +22 +28 -69
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 30 33 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.58% 0.55%
As % of the General category 1.18% 1.04% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 27
10th Percentile £206 £320 £410
25th Percentile £294 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +2.80% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £540
90th Percentile £735 £675 £630
England median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.50 £73.75 £48.75
% change year-on-year -72.20% +51.28% -15.95%

All General Skills
North of England

Documentation Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,553 3,162 3,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.79% 55.40% 50.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 2,185 2,585
10th Percentile £256 £300 £206
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% +7.95%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £560
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 90 178
10th Percentile £12.13 £14.23 £11.20
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.95 £14.96
Median hourly rate £16.06 £25.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +35.51% +1.72%
75th Percentile £33.30 £37.30 £31.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.02 £50.98
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.17%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 +15 17 £475 -7.59% 16
Yorkshire +28 9 £500 -16.67% 5
North East +18 4 £897 +124.24% 4
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 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP EWM
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
1 5 (16.67%) LAN
2 4 (13.33%) VoIP
2 4 (13.33%) WAN
2 4 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (10.00%) DHCP
3 3 (10.00%) DNS
3 3 (10.00%) VLAN
3 3 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Tableau
General
1 18 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.33%) Back Office
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Consultant
3 4 (13.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Business Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Developer
5 2 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) .NET
1 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.33%) HTML
1 1 (3.33%) JSP
1 1 (3.33%) LDAP
1 1 (3.33%) SailPoint
1 1 (3.33%) Servlets
1 1 (3.33%) SOAP
1 1 (3.33%) SPML
1 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Clustering
1 3 (10.00%) Driving Licence
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.33%) LIMS
3 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) Windows 10
2 7 (23.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.33%) Windows 8
6 1 (3.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Migration
3 6 (20.00%) Change Management
3 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.33%) Agile
5 4 (13.33%) Business Case
5 4 (13.33%) Database Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Project Management
5 4 (13.33%) RBAC
5 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (10.00%) Data Science
6 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.00%) Due Diligence
6 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) CBAP
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.33%) ACF2
4 1 (3.33%) IAG
4 1 (3.33%) RACF
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.33%) vSphere
4 1 (3.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) SCCM
2 3 (10.00%) Autotask
2 3 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Apple
3 3 (10.00%) Datto
3 3 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) Aruba
5 1 (3.33%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) NetApp
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Sophos