Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Reading

Documentation Skills
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 77 83
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 11 15 10
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.73% 1.39% 0.91%
As % of the General category 2.81% 2.50% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 4
10th Percentile - £210 £171
25th Percentile £443 £300 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £578 £210
Median % change year-on-year -22.94% +175.00% -58.00%
75th Percentile £448 £588 £286
90th Percentile - £590 £368
Berkshire median daily rate £455 £538 £210
% change year-on-year -15.35% +155.95% -58.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £27.50 - -

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 392 600 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 61.64% 55.61% 62.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 280 402
10th Percentile £257 £300 £210
25th Percentile £420 £450 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £603 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £680
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 9
10th Percentile £14.65 £14.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £14.75 £17.63 £57.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £60.46 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -52.86% -4.48% +15.07%
75th Percentile £58.00 £64.07 £66.44
90th Percentile £66.50 £82.45 £69.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £58.43 £54.47
% change year-on-year -56.96% +7.27% +32.23%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Reading

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (54.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) BGP
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
1 6 (54.55%) MPLS
1 6 (54.55%) OSPF
1 6 (54.55%) SNMP
1 6 (54.55%) TACACS
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
1 6 (54.55%) Wireless
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Designer
1 6 (54.55%) IP Designer
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Customer Support Representative
2 1 (9.09%) Database Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IP Architect
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Data Centre
2 6 (54.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) FlexPod
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
1 6 (54.55%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (54.55%) Validation
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
3 1 (9.09%) Database Security
3 1 (9.09%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Certification
1 7 (63.64%) CCIE
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (54.55%) JNCIE
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) OCP
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (54.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) F5
2 6 (54.55%) Fortinet
2 6 (54.55%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Commvault
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) NetApp
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) SAP