Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Documentation Skills
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 2.78% - 0.28%
As % of the General category 5.13% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £390
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.09%
75th Percentile £538 - £395
90th Percentile £583 - -
Wales median daily rate £438 - £390
% change year-on-year - - -29.09%

All General Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 195 202 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 54.17% 56.11% 48.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 97 121
10th Percentile £187 £161 £179
25th Percentile £281 £210 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -9.33%
75th Percentile £481 £518 £600
90th Percentile £594 £625 £650
Wales median daily rate £375 £400 £406
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% -12.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 31 21
10th Percentile £12.92 £15.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £18.18 £22.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% -32.31% +61.53%
75th Percentile £30.00 £27.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £50.00 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £19.19 £22.00 £29.83
% change year-on-year -12.77% -26.25% +47.39%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in South Wales

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in South Wales over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in South Wales

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Cardiff - 7 £454 - 2
Newport - 3 £438 - 2
Documentation Skills
Wales

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Rubrik
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) JMeter
1 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) API Design
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (10.00%) Runbook
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam