Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends 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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 232 217
Rank change year-on-year +127 -15 +38
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 418 122 200
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 2.31% 0.82% 1.02%
As % of the General category 3.96% 1.37% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 61 150
10th Percentile £313 £220 £215
25th Percentile £406 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £519
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -10.36% -2.12%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £597
90th Percentile £639 £623 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 8
10th Percentile £20.73 £22.70 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.94 £29.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +142.42% -73.81%
75th Percentile £67.69 £42.50 £21.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £57.91 £29.85
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +142.42% -73.81%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10,548 8,875 11,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 58.30% 59.33% 56.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 5,011 6,951
10th Percentile £204 £210 £213
25th Percentile £361 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% -2.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,168 572 892
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £26.23 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -12.57% +39.53%
75th Percentile £44.94 £55.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.75 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.27% -15.38% +30.00%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Documentation Skills

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 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Documentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Documentation Skills

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 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
North of England +45 108 £474 -1.25% 27
South East +43 99 £450 -11.76% 44
Midlands +8 71 £500 +14.29% 24
North West +21 63 £450 -18.18% 13
West Midlands +6 53 £509 +25.35% 16
South West +20 51 £525 +7.69% 14
Scotland +44 48 £525 +23.53% 3
Yorkshire -12 37 £500 +10.50% 13
East of England +2 32 £545 +113.73% 13
East Midlands -7 17 £360 -20.00% 8
Wales - 12 £438 - 5
North East -4 8 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £325 -
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (5.50%) Confluence
2 17 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.67%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.44%) TPMS
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.72%) NetWeaver
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.72%) SAS
5 3 (0.72%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 29 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.39%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.48%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (1.67%) Advent Geneva
3 6 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.20%) Oracle Assets
4 5 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.96%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.48%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.48%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.48%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.48%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 109 (26.08%) Azure
2 86 (20.57%) AWS
3 43 (10.29%) GCP
4 30 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (6.46%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.07%) Entra ID
8 13 (3.11%) SaaS
9 12 (2.87%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.39%) OCI
11 8 (1.91%) GitHub
11 8 (1.91%) Snowflake
12 7 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.44%) Azure AI
13 6 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.44%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.29%) Firewall
2 28 (6.70%) DNS
3 24 (5.74%) LAN
4 23 (5.50%) BGP
4 23 (5.50%) WAN
5 21 (5.02%) OSPF
6 12 (2.87%) DHCP
6 12 (2.87%) SNMP
7 11 (2.63%) Network Security
7 11 (2.63%) SSH
7 11 (2.63%) VPN
8 9 (2.15%) Structured Cabling
8 9 (2.15%) Wireless
9 8 (1.91%) IPsec
9 8 (1.91%) MPLS
9 8 (1.91%) SSL
10 7 (1.67%) RS-232
10 7 (1.67%) SpaceWire
11 6 (1.44%) PABX
11 6 (1.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.22%) Power BI
2 20 (4.78%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.11%) MySQL
3 13 (3.11%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.87%) Metadata
5 11 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.15%) DB2
8 7 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.44%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.20%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.96%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.96%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (8.85%) JIRA
2 16 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.63%) Postman
4 7 (1.67%) Git
4 7 (1.67%) GitLab
5 4 (0.96%) Selenium
5 4 (0.96%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.48%) Babel
6 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.48%) ERwin
6 2 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.48%) Snyk
6 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.48%) TestPartner
6 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 236 (56.46%) Social Skills
2 91 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (21.29%) Finance
4 51 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 45 (10.77%) Banking
6 20 (4.78%) Manufacturing
7 19 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.35%) Legal
9 13 (3.11%) Retail
10 10 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.15%) General Ledger
11 9 (2.15%) Marketing
11 9 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.91%) Electronics
12 8 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.67%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.20%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.96%) Automotive
16 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 92 (22.01%) Analyst
2 43 (10.29%) Architect
3 32 (7.66%) Business Analyst
4 28 (6.70%) Consultant
5 23 (5.50%) Senior
6 22 (5.26%) Network Engineer
7 21 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.07%) Developer
9 14 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (2.63%) Lead
10 11 (2.63%) Project Manager
10 11 (2.63%) Test Analyst
11 10 (2.39%) Fraud Analyst
12 9 (2.15%) Deployment Engineer
12 9 (2.15%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (1.91%) Administrator
13 8 (1.91%) Applications Engineer
13 8 (1.91%) Implementation Specialist
13 8 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (1.91%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.46%) LDAP
2 21 (5.02%) REST
3 17 (4.07%) SAML
4 15 (3.59%) OAuth
5 13 (3.11%) .NET
5 13 (3.11%) OpenID
6 9 (2.15%) SOAP
7 8 (1.91%) ADO
7 8 (1.91%) JSON
7 8 (1.91%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.67%) Middleware
8 7 (1.67%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.67%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.44%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.44%) Web Services
10 5 (1.20%) RESTful
11 4 (0.96%) CSS
11 4 (0.96%) Flash
11 4 (0.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.46%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 15 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.15%) NHS
6 9 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.91%) Replication
7 8 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.67%) CAN bus
8 7 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.44%) CMDB
9 6 (1.44%) SCADA
9 6 (1.44%) Smartphone
10 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.20%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 85 (20.33%) Windows
2 38 (9.09%) Linux
3 26 (6.22%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.35%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.20%) Unix
7 4 (0.96%) AIX
7 4 (0.96%) Android
7 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.96%) Solaris
8 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.48%) VMS
9 2 (0.48%) zOS
10 1 (0.24%) CatOS
10 1 (0.24%) CentOS
10 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (22.01%) Migration
2 86 (20.57%) Agile
3 77 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (16.03%) DevOps
5 60 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 57 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
7 56 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 50 (11.96%) CI/CD
10 41 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (9.57%) Incident Response
11 40 (9.57%) Validation
12 34 (8.13%) SIEM
13 32 (7.66%) ITIL
13 32 (7.66%) Scenario Testing
14 28 (6.70%) User Acceptance Testing
15 26 (6.22%) Data Governance
15 26 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (6.22%) Regulatory Compliance
16 25 (5.98%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 73 (17.46%) Python
2 54 (12.92%) PowerShell
3 43 (10.29%) SQL
4 19 (4.55%) Bash
5 15 (3.59%) Java
6 14 (3.35%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.67%) C#
8 6 (1.44%) C
9 4 (0.96%) Bicep
9 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.96%) Tcl
9 4 (0.96%) VBA
9 4 (0.96%) VBScript
10 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.48%) C++
11 2 (0.48%) JCL
11 2 (0.48%) Perl
11 2 (0.48%) PHP
11 2 (0.48%) REXX
11 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 100 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.85%) Degree
4 23 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (5.26%) CISSP
6 18 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (4.07%) CCNP
7 17 (4.07%) CISM
8 12 (2.87%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.63%) CCIE
10 8 (1.91%) ISTQB
10 8 (1.91%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.67%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.44%) CBAP
12 6 (1.44%) FFIEC
12 6 (1.44%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.29%) GDPR
2 39 (9.33%) NIST
3 38 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (6.22%) QA
5 18 (4.31%) Data Quality
6 16 (3.83%) PCI DSS
7 13 (3.11%) SLA
8 6 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.44%) COBIT
8 6 (1.44%) GLBA
8 6 (1.44%) PMO
9 5 (1.20%) ISO 8583
9 5 (1.20%) PSD2
10 4 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.96%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.72%) NCSC
12 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.48%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.48%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.48%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 54 (12.92%) Active Directory
2 28 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.55%) Docker
4 8 (1.91%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.44%) vSphere
6 5 (1.20%) GPFS
6 5 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.96%) NFS
7 4 (0.96%) UAG
8 2 (0.48%) RACF
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.24%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (6.22%) Kubernetes
1 26 (6.22%) Terraform
2 25 (5.98%) Ansible
3 15 (3.59%) SCCM
4 12 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.20%) Argo
6 4 (0.96%) Istio
6 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.96%) vRealize
7 3 (0.72%) Kibana
7 3 (0.72%) logstash
7 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 3 (0.72%) Nagios
8 2 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.48%) Grafana
8 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.48%) zSecure
9 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 84 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.48%) Oracle
3 35 (8.37%) Cisco
4 32 (7.66%) VMware
5 27 (6.46%) CyberArk
6 25 (5.98%) ServiceNow
7 24 (5.74%) SAP
8 22 (5.26%) BeyondTrust
9 17 (4.07%) F5
10 15 (3.59%) CheckPoint
11 14 (3.35%) IBM
11 14 (3.35%) Palo Alto
12 13 (3.11%) Juniper
13 12 (2.87%) Salesforce
14 10 (2.39%) Aruba
14 10 (2.39%) Dell
14 10 (2.39%) Splunk
15 9 (2.15%) Fortinet
15 9 (2.15%) Google
15 9 (2.15%) HP