Documentation Skills Contracts in Scotland

Documentation Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 100 102 127
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 +4
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 16 27 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 1.22% 1.26%
As % of the General category 1.37% 1.87% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 31
10th Percentile £200 £338 £440
25th Percentile £206 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -22.03% -0.87%
75th Percentile £492 £700 £557
90th Percentile £554 £780 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.97% -0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £17.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +69.12% -77.33% +50.00%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,171 1,442 1,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 72.06% 65.04% 65.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 864 1,390
10th Percentile £240 £182 £236
25th Percentile £375 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £570
90th Percentile £612 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 73 28
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.52 £16.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%
75th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.74 £69.00 £66.84
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Scotland

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in Scotland

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Scotland

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in Scotland

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +2 9 £425 -42.57% 1
Edinburgh -4 3 £500 +33.33% 6
Dundee -1 1 £200 -50.00%
Aberdeen - 1 £200 -
Stirling - 1 - -
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Acrobat
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
1 1 (6.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Internet
2 1 (6.25%) IPsec
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) MPLS
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) WebEx
2 1 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
1 3 (18.75%) JUnit
1 3 (18.75%) Mockito
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Legal
3 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (12.50%) Analyst
1 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
1 2 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Designer
2 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
2 1 (6.25%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Incident Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Major Incident Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Service Designer
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
2 1 (6.25%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
1 3 (18.75%) Spring
1 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
1 3 (18.75%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (6.25%) Ajax
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.25%) JMS
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Blackberry
1 1 (6.25%) CMDB
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) AIX
3 1 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Functional Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) CRM
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) ITSM
5 2 (12.50%) Journey Map
5 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (12.50%) User Experience
5 2 (12.50%) UX Design
6 1 (6.25%) Change Management
6 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) VB
3 1 (6.25%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) GRC
1 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) KVM
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
2 1 (6.25%) Nagios
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (6.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Bomgar
3 1 (6.25%) Commvault
3 1 (6.25%) Genesys
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Meraki
3 1 (6.25%) NetApp
3 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) Peregrine
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) Remedy
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) VMware