Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 97 108
Rank change year-on-year +24 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 58 27 37
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.87% 1.28% 1.45%
As % of the General category 4.72% 2.24% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 18 24
10th Percentile £400 £270 £240
25th Percentile £420 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £530 £486
Median % change year-on-year -13.11% +9.00% -11.59%
75th Percentile £491 £587 £578
90th Percentile £500 £593 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £25.23 - -
25th Percentile £25.56 - -
Median hourly rate £26.25 £29.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% - -
75th Percentile £27.06 - -
90th Percentile £27.48 - -
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year -13.79% -57.82% -

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,229 1,203 1,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 60.75% 57.12% 61.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 622 938
10th Percentile £251 £240 £210
25th Percentile £377 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £505 £477
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% +5.87% -3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 46 84
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.00 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.44 £28.06 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £53.75 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -53.21% +11.05% +117.53%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.65 £63.78
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.13 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £47.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.16% -5.51% +53.85%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Berkshire +16 40 £463 -7.40% 3
Buckinghamshire +14 14 £444 -17.82% 4
Oxfordshire -9 4 £419 - 3
Documentation Skills
South East

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.34%) OpenStack
2 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.45%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.72%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.83%) Azure
2 25 (43.10%) AWS
3 16 (27.59%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.62%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.17%) SaaS
7 2 (3.45%) OCI
8 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.72%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.72%) PaaS
8 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) BGP
2 6 (10.34%) LAN
2 6 (10.34%) MPLS
2 6 (10.34%) OSPF
2 6 (10.34%) SNMP
2 6 (10.34%) TACACS
2 6 (10.34%) WAN
2 6 (10.34%) Wireless
3 2 (3.45%) Firewall
3 2 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (1.72%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.72%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.72%) Network Security
4 1 (1.72%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.72%) SAN
4 1 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.17%) Power BI
4 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.72%) MySQL
5 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Git
1 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.72%) JIRA
1 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (84.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.90%) Finance
6 2 (3.45%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Automotive
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (10.34%) Analyst
1 6 (10.34%) Designer
1 6 (10.34%) IP Designer
2 5 (8.62%) Test Manager
3 4 (6.90%) Architect
3 4 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 3 (5.17%) Developer
5 2 (3.45%) Administrator
5 2 (3.45%) Business Change Manager
5 2 (3.45%) Business Manager
5 2 (3.45%) Change Manager
5 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
5 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) IT Manager
5 2 (3.45%) Lead
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle Specialist
5 2 (3.45%) Senior
5 2 (3.45%) Test Strategist
6 1 (1.72%) Finance Business Analyst
6 1 (1.72%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.31%) LDAP
2 3 (5.17%) REST
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (3.45%) RESTful
3 2 (3.45%) SOAP
4 1 (1.72%) .NET
4 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.72%) CSS
4 1 (1.72%) CSS3
4 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.72%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) HTML5
4 1 (1.72%) JSR 170
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.72%) OSGi
4 1 (1.72%) React
4 1 (1.72%) Vue
4 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.72%) Clustering
6 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.72%) FlexPod
6 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.72%) PKI
6 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.72%) VMS
3 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.72%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
2 18 (31.03%) DevOps
2 18 (31.03%) SIEM
3 17 (29.31%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (29.31%) DevSecOps
4 16 (27.59%) Agile
5 12 (20.69%) Validation
6 10 (17.24%) ERP
6 10 (17.24%) Incident Response
6 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (13.79%) Change Management
8 8 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (10.34%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (10.34%) Privileged Access Management
11 5 (8.62%) Business Continuity
11 5 (8.62%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) Python
2 19 (32.76%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.62%) SQL
4 3 (5.17%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.45%) Bash
5 2 (3.45%) C#
5 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.72%) Java
6 1 (1.72%) PHP
6 1 (1.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (46.55%) Security Cleared
2 25 (43.10%) SC Cleared
3 17 (29.31%) CISSP
4 16 (27.59%) CISM
5 7 (12.07%) AWS Certification
5 7 (12.07%) CCIE
5 7 (12.07%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (10.34%) JNCIE
7 5 (8.62%) ISTQB
7 5 (8.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (3.45%) APMG
8 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.45%) Degree
8 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.72%) CCNP
9 1 (1.72%) OCP
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (32.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (31.03%) GDPR
2 18 (31.03%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) RMADS
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (31.03%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.72%) Docker
4 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Ansible
1 6 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) BeyondTrust
1 17 (29.31%) CyberArk
2 9 (15.52%) VMware
3 8 (13.79%) Cisco
4 7 (12.07%) Oracle
4 7 (12.07%) ServiceNow
5 6 (10.34%) F5
5 6 (10.34%) Fortinet
5 6 (10.34%) Juniper
6 5 (8.62%) Workday
7 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
8 3 (5.17%) Salesforce
9 2 (3.45%) TIBCO
9 2 (3.45%) webMethods
10 1 (1.72%) Adobe
10 1 (1.72%) Commvault
10 1 (1.72%) HP
10 1 (1.72%) Meraki
10 1 (1.72%) NetApp
10 1 (1.72%) SAP