Documentation Skills Contracts in Staffordshire

Documentation Skills
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Staffordshire. 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 12 13 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.97% 4.76% 0.69%
As % of the General category 9.52% 8.06% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £383 £305 -
25th Percentile £394 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile - £419 -
90th Percentile - £445 -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.90 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £15.90 -

All General Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42 62 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 62.69% 59.05% 61.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 36 67
10th Percentile £140 £238 £160
25th Percentile £150 £300 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year -48.39% -18.42% +26.67%
75th Percentile £488 £491 £650
90th Percentile £563 £544 £710
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 4
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.95 £12.60
25th Percentile £13.40 £14.71 £15.83
Median hourly rate £15.89 £15.61 £20.02
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -22.03% +2.64%
75th Percentile £20.31 £16.67 £22.41
90th Percentile £28.13 £44.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Staffordshire

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in Staffordshire

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in Staffordshire

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire 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
Stoke-on-Trent +4 4 £400 - 7
Documentation Skills
West Midlands

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Messaging Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) PLM
1 4 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 4 (100.00%) System Testing
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Proofpoint