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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 102 134
Rank change year-on-year +27 +32 +16
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 47 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.73% 0.84% 0.61%
As % of the General category 3.81% 1.32% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 8 15
10th Percentile £296 £323 £405
25th Percentile £472 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £452 £563
90th Percentile - £508 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £17.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% -75.71% +27.27%

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 1,234 1,208 1,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 71.62% 63.58% 67.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 724 1,217
10th Percentile £243 £169 £206
25th Percentile £374 £301 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -7.37% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £557
90th Percentile £600 £635 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 49 33
10th Percentile £15.80 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.33 £13.50 £13.16
Median hourly rate £19.30 £16.92 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +14.05% -11.78% -28.57%
75th Percentile £24.62 £20.93 £58.75
90th Percentile £44.01 £31.35 £68.31
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +27.07% +21.53%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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
Edinburgh +31 30 £525 +40.00% 7
Glasgow -8 12 £433 -11.73% 16
Stirling - 1 - - 2
South Ayrshire - 1 £230 -
Aberdeen - 1 £200 -
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 (2.13%) Apache
1 1 (2.13%) IIS
1 1 (2.13%) nginx
1 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.64%) Azure
2 3 (6.38%) AWS
2 3 (6.38%) GitHub
2 3 (6.38%) Serverless
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DHCP
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
1 1 (2.13%) SSL
1 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) DB2
2 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.13%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) GitLab
1 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.26%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) JUnit
2 2 (4.26%) Mockito
General
1 27 (57.45%) Banking
2 26 (55.32%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (53.19%) Finance
4 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Legal
5 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (59.57%) Analyst
2 13 (27.66%) Fraud Analyst
3 4 (8.51%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Incident Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Major Incident Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Senior
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Architect
6 1 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (2.13%) Lead
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.13%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) Spring
1 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.26%) CSS
2 2 (4.26%) Hibernate
2 2 (4.26%) HTML
2 2 (4.26%) JSON
2 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.26%) REST
2 2 (4.26%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) .NET
3 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.13%) J2EE
3 1 (2.13%) JMS
3 1 (2.13%) Kafka
3 1 (2.13%) Middleware
3 1 (2.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.13%) SOAP
3 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.13%) CMDB
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Linux
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) AIX
4 1 (2.13%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) Migration
2 24 (51.06%) Case Management
2 24 (51.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 24 (51.06%) Fintech
2 24 (51.06%) Regulatory Compliance
3 23 (48.94%) Digital Banking
3 23 (48.94%) Due Diligence
3 23 (48.94%) Scenario Testing
4 13 (27.66%) Fraud Detection
5 10 (21.28%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 8 (17.02%) Agile
7 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.64%) DevOps
8 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (8.51%) Business Analysis
9 4 (8.51%) Data Protection
9 4 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (6.38%) ITSM
10 3 (6.38%) Microservices
10 3 (6.38%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) Java
2 4 (8.51%) SQL
3 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.26%) Bash
4 2 (4.26%) Perl
4 2 (4.26%) Python
5 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.13%) VB
5 1 (2.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) HNC
3 1 (2.13%) HND
3 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.13%) GRC
2 1 (2.13%) NCSC
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) KVM
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) SCCM
2 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) Grafana
3 1 (2.13%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.13%) Nagios
3 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.13%) Commvault
4 1 (2.13%) F5
4 1 (2.13%) Genesys
4 1 (2.13%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.13%) NetApp
4 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.13%) Remedy
4 1 (2.13%) VMware