Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Documentation Skills
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -40 - -
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.57% 1.38% -
As % of the General category 1.11% 2.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £243 -
25th Percentile - £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £413 £531 -
90th Percentile £420 £588 -
North East median daily rate £400 £425 £897
% change year-on-year -5.88% -52.62% +79.39%

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 general skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 359 108 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 50.78% 49.77% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 71 47
10th Percentile £313 £200 £304
25th Percentile £389 £410 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £555
90th Percentile £633 £594 £636
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 7 4
10th Percentile £16.71 £13.60 £14.03
25th Percentile £23.17 £15.38 £14.46
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% +14.28% -13.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 £20.63 £20.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £33.18 £20.53
North East median hourly rate £43.96 £15.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year +179.11% -7.35% -12.82%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -41 4 £400 -5.88% 6
Documentation Skills
North East

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (50.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker