Documentation Skills Contracts in the South East

Documentation Skills
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 126 171 142
Rank change year-on-year +45 -29 +25
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 33 34 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.10% 0.61% 1.38%
As % of the General category 1.79% 1.21% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 45
10th Percentile £268 £256 £252
25th Percentile £375 £298 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -3.61%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £625
90th Percentile £688 - £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 16
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile - £19.25 £61.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £20.50 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.46% -72.20% +51.28%
75th Percentile - £21.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.75 £20.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +40.24% -71.72% +48.72%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,848 2,816 3,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 61.40% 50.67% 58.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,546 2,305
10th Percentile £228 £205 £242
25th Percentile £389 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £688 £721
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 327 167
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.93 £18.40
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%
75th Percentile £59.69 £61.30 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.07 £72.98
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +49 19 £425 +37.10% 17
Berkshire +36 14 £400 +29.03% 10
Hampshire +34 9 £475 - 15
Buckinghamshire +17 5 £450 -18.18% 2
Kent +8 2 £313 -21.88%
West Sussex +9 1 - -
Surrey +7 1 - - 9
East Sussex - 1 £463 - 6
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (9.09%) Confluence
1 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) iTrent
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle ASCP
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.06%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) OneDrive
2 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.03%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) BGP
1 2 (6.06%) OSPF
1 2 (6.06%) WAN
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) IPsec
2 1 (3.03%) LAN
2 1 (3.03%) MPLS
2 1 (3.03%) NGFW
2 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.03%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) VLAN
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 12c
1 2 (6.06%) Power BI
1 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
1 4 (12.12%) MSI
2 2 (6.06%) AdminStudio
3 1 (3.03%) ER Studio
3 1 (3.03%) ERwin
General
1 23 (69.70%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Automotive
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Legal
3 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Aviation
4 1 (3.03%) Billing
4 1 (3.03%) Dutch Language
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) Tester
3 3 (9.09%) Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Consultant
3 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (6.06%) JIRA Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) JIRA Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (6.06%) QA Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Test Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) IoT
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) PKI
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.21%) Agile
3 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (15.15%) Test Management
4 4 (12.12%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
4 4 (12.12%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (12.12%) GAP Analysis
4 4 (12.12%) Performance Testing
4 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
5 3 (9.09%) Change Management
5 3 (9.09%) Exploratory Testing
5 3 (9.09%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (9.09%) Security Testing
5 3 (9.09%) Software Testing
5 3 (9.09%) Test Strategy
5 3 (9.09%) User Stories
6 2 (6.06%) Business Continuity
6 2 (6.06%) Migration
6 2 (6.06%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) SQL
2 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) Degree
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) CCNP
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CCDE
5 1 (3.03%) CCDP
5 1 (3.03%) CCIE
5 1 (3.03%) CISA
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.03%) COBIT
3 1 (3.03%) COSO
3 1 (3.03%) ITGC
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) SCCM
2 2 (6.06%) Data Guard
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (6.06%) ThinApp
2 2 (6.06%) WMI
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco
3 3 (9.09%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) Ivanti
4 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) Aruba
5 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) VMware