Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Documentation Skills
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Portsmouth. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 2.52% - -
As % of the General category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £325 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £549 £499 £475
% change year-on-year +9.97% +5.00% -20.83%

All General Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 60 56 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 37.74% 49.12% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 82
10th Percentile £190 £231 £401
25th Percentile £303 £352 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £473 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -13.30% +4.81%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £631
90th Percentile £622 £638 £667
Hampshire median daily rate £520 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +1.91% -7.23% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 32
10th Percentile £15.62 £26.80 £29.40
25th Percentile £22.75 £30.00 £53.19
Median hourly rate £48.05 £60.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +0.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £56.30 - £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £30.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year -31.44% -24.49% +14.29%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IFS
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware