Documentation Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 236 268
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 -9
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 120 230 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.96% 0.87%
As % of the General category 1.06% 1.71% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 155 167
10th Percentile £212 £327 £303
25th Percentile £301 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £559 £565 £555
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £507 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.55% +11.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 9
10th Percentile £15.13 £60.80 £35.84
25th Percentile £16.50 £61.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £72.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.55% +52.63% -23.39%
75th Percentile £21.75 £75.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £30.75 £80.40 £65.51
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -77.33% +50.00% -13.79%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Documentation Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,278 13,477 17,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.64% 56.43% 55.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,441 9,211 11,855
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,653 776 1,041
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -4.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.57 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
South East -22 33 £475 -5.00% 31
North of England +24 30 £488 -5.16% 25
Scotland +31 24 £388 -26.19% 10
Midlands +18 19 £425 +6.25% 28
North West +18 17 £475 -7.59% 16
West Midlands +8 15 £450 +2.86% 17
South West +16 14 £375 -6.25% 12
Yorkshire +23 9 £500 -16.67% 6
North East +20 4 £897 +124.24% 3
East Midlands +18 3 £310 -11.43% 11
East of England -22 2 £425 -2.30% 13
Wales +15 1 £450 -18.18% 2
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (1.67%) SAP EWM
1 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.83%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.17%) Azure
2 23 (19.17%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 8 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.83%) AWS
5 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) GCP
8 1 (0.83%) IaaS
8 1 (0.83%) OCI
8 1 (0.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.50%) Firewall
2 9 (7.50%) LAN
2 9 (7.50%) WAN
3 8 (6.67%) HTTP
3 8 (6.67%) NetScaler
3 8 (6.67%) SSL
3 8 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 8 (6.67%) VoIP
3 8 (6.67%) VPN
4 7 (5.83%) DHCP
4 7 (5.83%) DNS
4 7 (5.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (5.00%) VLAN
6 4 (3.33%) SAN
7 3 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (2.50%) Network Security
7 3 (2.50%) NX-OS
7 3 (2.50%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.33%) Power BI
3 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.67%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Git
2 7 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (4.17%) Selenium
4 5 (4.17%) WebDriver
5 3 (2.50%) JIRA
6 1 (0.83%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.83%) ClearQuest
6 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.50%) Finance
3 16 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (7.50%) Marketing
6 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.17%) Banking
8 4 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.50%) Advertising
9 3 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.67%) Automotive
10 2 (1.67%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Back Office
11 1 (0.83%) German Language
11 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Legal
11 1 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.83%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 14 (11.67%) Developer
2 13 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 10 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 10 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 10 (8.33%) Analyst
5 9 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 9 (7.50%) Network Engineer
5 9 (7.50%) Senior
6 8 (6.67%) Consultant
7 6 (5.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 6 (5.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) DOORS Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Software Integration Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) REST
2 6 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.17%) Twisted
4 4 (3.33%) Middleware
5 3 (2.50%) .NET
6 2 (1.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.67%) XML
6 2 (1.67%) YAML
7 1 (0.83%) .NET Remoting
7 1 (0.83%) ADO
7 1 (0.83%) CSS
7 1 (0.83%) Flutter
7 1 (0.83%) HTML
7 1 (0.83%) JSON
7 1 (0.83%) JSP
7 1 (0.83%) LDAP
7 1 (0.83%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.83%) Servlets
7 1 (0.83%) SOAP
7 1 (0.83%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.83%) Clustering
3 6 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 6 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.67%) Tandem
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Life Science
7 1 (0.83%) LIMS
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.17%) Windows
2 19 (15.83%) Windows Server
3 14 (11.67%) Unix
4 13 (10.83%) Linux
4 13 (10.83%) Windows 10
5 7 (5.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (5.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (5.00%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.83%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.83%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (19.17%) Migration
3 18 (15.00%) Agile
4 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (11.67%) ITIL
6 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (9.17%) Change Management
7 11 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (8.33%) Customer Service
8 10 (8.33%) Project Management
9 9 (7.50%) DevOps
9 9 (7.50%) Risk Management
10 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (6.67%) Process Improvement
11 7 (5.83%) CI/CD
11 7 (5.83%) Customer Requirements
11 7 (5.83%) Data Modelling
11 7 (5.83%) Decision-Making
11 7 (5.83%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (5.83%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.83%) Python
2 12 (10.00%) SQL
3 11 (9.17%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.33%) Java
5 8 (6.67%) Bash
5 8 (6.67%) Perl
6 6 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.17%) C#
8 1 (0.83%) Dart
Qualifications
1 26 (21.67%) Degree
2 11 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.50%) CCNP
6 3 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.67%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CBAP
8 1 (0.83%) CCIE
8 1 (0.83%) CEH
8 1 (0.83%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 6 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.67%) PMO
3 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.67%) vSphere
4 6 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.17%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.33%) XenApp
7 3 (2.50%) XenDesktop
8 2 (1.67%) Ceph
8 2 (1.67%) Docker
8 2 (1.67%) KVM
8 2 (1.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.83%) ACF2
9 1 (0.83%) IAG
9 1 (0.83%) RACF
9 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (10.00%) SCCM
2 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.00%) Autotask
3 6 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (4.17%) Ansible
4 5 (4.17%) Terraform
5 3 (2.50%) Netcool
6 2 (1.67%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.67%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (1.67%) Pacemaker
6 2 (1.67%) Podman
6 2 (1.67%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (35.83%) Microsoft
2 25 (20.83%) VMware
3 7 (5.83%) Cisco
3 7 (5.83%) F5
4 6 (5.00%) Apple
4 6 (5.00%) Datto
5 5 (4.17%) SAP
6 4 (3.33%) Citrix
6 4 (3.33%) HP
6 4 (3.33%) IBM
6 4 (3.33%) Nintex
6 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.50%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.50%) FireEye
7 3 (2.50%) Infoblox
7 3 (2.50%) Nokia
7 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.50%) Tanium
8 2 (1.67%) Red Hat