Documentation Skills Contracts 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 111 107
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 19 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.13% 0.64% 1.46%
As % of the General category 1.81% 1.19% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 30
10th Percentile £355 £400 £369
25th Percentile £400 £456 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £563 £488
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +15.38% -11.36%
75th Percentile £498 £586 £623
90th Percentile £683 £590 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £29.73
25th Percentile £27.25 - £37.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £51.75
75th Percentile £27.75 - £66.56
90th Percentile - - £74.78
South East median hourly rate £27.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +47.37%

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 1,049 1,257 1,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 62.63% 53.29% 60.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 668 1,096
10th Percentile £250 £225 £268
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £607
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 92 54
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.64 £14.68
25th Percentile £14.48 £26.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.33 £58.17 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -65.05% +80.10% +53.81%
75th Percentile £59.62 £67.58 £61.09
90th Percentile £87.38 £87.46 £69.33
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -67.18% +14.70% +138.10%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley

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 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley

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 2 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
Berkshire +14 13 £400 -30.74% 16
Buckinghamshire +9 6 £450 -14.29% 8
Documentation Skills
South East

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (21.05%) Confluence
2 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (5.26%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle ASCP
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.53%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) BGP
1 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (5.26%) iSCSI
1 1 (5.26%) LAN
1 1 (5.26%) MPLS
1 1 (5.26%) OSPF
1 1 (5.26%) SNMP
1 1 (5.26%) TACACS
1 1 (5.26%) WAN
1 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (5.26%) GIS
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) AdminStudio
2 2 (10.53%) MSI
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Automotive
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Architect
1 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) Administrator
2 2 (10.53%) Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA Administrator
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Test Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Customer Support Representative
3 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.26%) GIS Business Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) IP Designer
3 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) FlexPod
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) VMS
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Agile
1 3 (15.79%) Change Management
1 3 (15.79%) Migration
1 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (15.79%) Test Management
1 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy
1 3 (15.79%) Validation
2 2 (10.53%) Application Packaging
2 2 (10.53%) BCP
2 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
2 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
2 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (10.53%) High Availability
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (10.53%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) CCIE
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.26%) JNCIE
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) SOC 2
2 1 (5.26%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Data Guard
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
1 2 (10.53%) ThinApp
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco
4 2 (10.53%) Ivanti
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.53%) SAP
5 1 (5.26%) Commvault
5 1 (5.26%) ESRI
5 1 (5.26%) F5
5 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.26%) Juniper
5 1 (5.26%) NetApp
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce