Documentation Skills Contracts in the North West

Documentation Skills
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 90 120 130
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 30 17 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.52% 0.62% 0.85%
As % of the General category 2.65% 1.15% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 17
10th Percentile £461 £205 £353
25th Percentile £513 £210 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.79% -9.52% -1.41%
75th Percentile £665 £502 £566
90th Percentile £696 £556 £630
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,131 1,478 1,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.47% 53.65% 51.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 905 1,142
10th Percentile £265 £300 £305
25th Percentile £380 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 191 82
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £14.88
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.50 £19.28
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £49.06 £36.72 £38.39
90th Percentile £75.38 £51.91 £52.90
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +22 11 £666 +91.51% 30
Lancashire +7 10 - - 10
Cheshire +2 4 £613 +68.97% 2
Merseyside +2 1 £500 +2.56% 1
Cumbria - 1 £525 - 2
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (3.33%) CICS
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.33%) SAP APO
2 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) VPN
2 5 (16.67%) LAN
3 3 (10.00%) Wireless
4 2 (6.67%) DNS
5 1 (3.33%) BGP
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (3.33%) DHCP
5 1 (3.33%) DMZ
5 1 (3.33%) DWDM
5 1 (3.33%) Firewall
5 1 (3.33%) Internet
5 1 (3.33%) IPsec
5 1 (3.33%) L2TP
5 1 (3.33%) MPLS
5 1 (3.33%) Multicast
5 1 (3.33%) Network Security
5 1 (3.33%) OSPF
5 1 (3.33%) SSL
5 1 (3.33%) WAN
5 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Administrator
2 5 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 5 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 5 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Data Migration Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Audit Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cabling Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Field Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.33%) Kafka
1 1 (3.33%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Security Posture
2 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) EMC VNX
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.33%) IBM XIV
3 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (16.67%) Windows 8
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 3 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (50.00%) Migration
3 9 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 8 (26.67%) Data Migration
4 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 8 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (26.67%) Validation
5 7 (23.33%) Data Mapping
5 7 (23.33%) ETL
5 7 (23.33%) ITIL
6 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 6 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 5 (16.67%) Budget Management
7 5 (16.67%) Business Case
7 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
7 5 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) PL/SQL
1 7 (23.33%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) ABAP
3 1 (3.33%) Perl
3 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) CCIE
4 1 (3.33%) CCNP
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) Canon
4 3 (10.00%) Splunk
5 2 (6.67%) Aruba
5 2 (6.67%) SAP
6 1 (3.33%) Ariba
6 1 (3.33%) Arista
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) EMC
6 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.33%) IBM
6 1 (3.33%) McAfee
6 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.33%) VMware