Documentation Skills Contracts

Documentation Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 358 277
Rank change year-on-year +158 -81 +58
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 438 244 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 0.56% 0.92%
As % of the General category 2.19% 0.98% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 174 323
10th Percentile £260 £261 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £587 £600
90th Percentile £725 £671 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 31
10th Percentile £24.95 £15.13 £55.00
25th Percentile £26.88 £16.50 £61.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £17.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -76.55% +34.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £28.75 £79.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £36.50 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.04 £17.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +100.21% -75.71% +34.62%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,963 24,787 32,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.17% 57.06% 58.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,522 15,498 22,682
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -4.08% -2.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 1,949 1,051
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.62 £16.85
Median hourly rate £27.22 £31.80 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +4.13% +25.42%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.05 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £30.91 £25.95
% change year-on-year -25.60% +19.12% +29.75%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 July 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
England +159 365 £500 -0.25% 1,358
UK excluding London +97 207 £458 -3.68% 982
London +112 187 £522 -7.29% 468
Work from Home +67 116 £500 -0.50% 670
North of England +35 65 £525 +5.00% 220
North West +24 43 £563 +15.38% 127
South East +48 40 £450 -7.69% 255
Scotland +14 31 £513 +36.67% 62
Midlands +13 31 £425 -12.82% 158
West Midlands +16 25 £400 -17.95% 102
Yorkshire +14 19 £600 +14.29% 74
East of England +37 18 £450 - 131
South West +38 13 £505 +9.19% 114
Wales +12 8 £325 -27.78% 22
East Midlands +5 6 £450 +22.45% 56
North East +1 4 £313 -65.16% 19
Northern Ireland - 3 £200 - 25

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (6.39%) Confluence
2 24 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.91%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (0.68%) Apache
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.46%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) CICS
7 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.23%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 20 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.34%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.23%) InDesign
6 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.23%) Simulink
6 1 (0.23%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 13 (2.97%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.14%) SAP PP
4 5 (1.14%) SAP R/3
5 4 (0.91%) CA PPM
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.68%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.68%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (17.81%) Azure
2 54 (12.33%) AWS
3 51 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (6.39%) SaaS
5 27 (6.16%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (4.57%) Amazon S3
7 19 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (4.34%) Entra ID
8 18 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (3.65%) GitHub
10 13 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (2.97%) Serverless
11 12 (2.74%) GCP
12 7 (1.60%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.37%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.25%) Firewall
2 20 (4.57%) WAN
3 19 (4.34%) DNS
4 18 (4.11%) LAN
4 18 (4.11%) VPN
5 15 (3.42%) Network Security
6 13 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (2.74%) BGP
8 11 (2.51%) OSPF
9 8 (1.83%) DHCP
9 8 (1.83%) MPLS
9 8 (1.83%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.37%) DMZ
10 6 (1.37%) Multicast
10 6 (1.37%) SD-WAN
10 6 (1.37%) Wireless
11 5 (1.14%) IPsec
12 4 (0.91%) SSL
13 3 (0.68%) DWDM
13 3 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.25%) Power BI
2 16 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (2.05%) Tableau
5 7 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (1.60%) Metadata
5 7 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.37%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.14%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (1.14%) DB2
8 4 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.68%) Big Data
10 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.46%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.46%) Looker
Development Applications
1 42 (9.59%) JIRA
2 18 (4.11%) Git
3 10 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.83%) GitLab
5 7 (1.60%) JUnit
6 6 (1.37%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.91%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.91%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.91%) ERwin
7 4 (0.91%) MSI
7 4 (0.91%) Selenium
8 3 (0.68%) Mockito
8 3 (0.68%) TestNG
8 3 (0.68%) TestRail
8 3 (0.68%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.68%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.46%) MLflow
9 2 (0.46%) TestPartner
10 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 243 (55.48%) Social Skills
2 96 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (21.00%) Finance
4 49 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 39 (8.90%) Banking
6 28 (6.39%) Legal
6 28 (6.39%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.60%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.60%) Retail
10 6 (1.37%) Games
10 6 (1.37%) Marketing
10 6 (1.37%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.14%) Military
11 5 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.91%) Automotive
12 4 (0.91%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (18.95%) Analyst
2 65 (14.84%) Architect
3 51 (11.64%) Consultant
4 40 (9.13%) Business Analyst
5 29 (6.62%) Developer
6 23 (5.25%) Security Architect
7 22 (5.02%) Senior
8 21 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (4.34%) Deployment Engineer
10 14 (3.20%) Lead
10 14 (3.20%) Support Engineer
11 13 (2.97%) Network Engineer
11 13 (2.97%) Tester
12 11 (2.51%) Administrator
13 10 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.28%) Systems Analyst
14 9 (2.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 9 (2.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (1.83%) Data Engineer
15 8 (1.83%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.20%) REST
2 13 (2.97%) Middleware
3 12 (2.74%) .NET
3 12 (2.74%) Web Services
4 8 (1.83%) HTML
4 8 (1.83%) SOAP
5 7 (1.60%) CSS
5 7 (1.60%) JSON
5 7 (1.60%) RESTful
5 7 (1.60%) Spring
6 6 (1.37%) Node.js
6 6 (1.37%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (0.91%) Kafka
8 4 (0.91%) LDAP
8 4 (0.91%) React
8 4 (0.91%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.68%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.68%) Hibernate
9 3 (0.68%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.45%) Onboarding
2 25 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.02%) Management Information System
4 17 (3.88%) CSOC
4 17 (3.88%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.28%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.05%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 7 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.60%) SCADA
9 6 (1.37%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.37%) CMDB
9 6 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.37%) NHS
9 6 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (18.04%) Windows
2 31 (7.08%) Linux
3 19 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.88%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.14%) Unix
7 5 (1.14%) Windows 8
7 5 (1.14%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.14%) Windows XP
8 4 (0.91%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.68%) AIX
9 3 (0.68%) Android
9 3 (0.68%) Solaris
9 3 (0.68%) VMS
10 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (18.72%) Agile
3 75 (17.12%) Migration
4 62 (14.16%) DevOps
5 45 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
6 40 (9.13%) Validation
7 35 (7.99%) User Acceptance Testing
8 34 (7.76%) ITIL
9 31 (7.08%) CI/CD
9 31 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (6.85%) Roadmaps
10 30 (6.85%) Use Case
11 29 (6.62%) Project Management
12 27 (6.16%) Change Management
13 25 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (5.71%) Data Migration
13 25 (5.71%) Process Improvement
13 25 (5.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 63 (14.38%) SQL
2 28 (6.39%) Python
3 23 (5.25%) Java
4 22 (5.02%) PowerShell
5 17 (3.88%) JavaScript
5 17 (3.88%) PL/SQL
6 11 (2.51%) C#
7 6 (1.37%) ABAP
8 5 (1.14%) Bash
8 5 (1.14%) Perl
8 5 (1.14%) R
9 4 (0.91%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.68%) VBA
11 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.46%) Go
11 2 (0.46%) VB
12 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.23%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (18.04%) Security Cleared
2 61 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.31%) Degree
4 29 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.28%) CCNP
8 9 (2.05%) CISSP
9 7 (1.60%) CCIE
9 7 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.60%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.14%) CISM
10 5 (1.14%) PMP
11 4 (0.91%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.68%) CCNA
12 3 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.68%) GIAC
12 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.71%) QA
2 11 (2.51%) GDPR
2 11 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.51%) NIST
3 7 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.37%) PMO
5 4 (0.91%) GRC
5 4 (0.91%) NCSC
5 4 (0.91%) SLA
6 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.46%) MiFID
7 2 (0.46%) PERC
7 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.46%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 42 (9.59%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.05%) Docker
4 6 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.68%) UAG
7 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.23%) KVM
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (7.08%) SCCM
2 15 (3.42%) Ansible
3 14 (3.20%) Terraform
4 13 (2.97%) Kubernetes
5 12 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.60%) Grafana
6 7 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.14%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.68%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.46%) Nagios
10 2 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.46%) Puppet
10 2 (0.46%) ThinApp
10 2 (0.46%) WMI
10 2 (0.46%) WSUS
11 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 108 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.96%) Oracle
3 34 (7.76%) SAP
4 30 (6.85%) ServiceNow
5 27 (6.16%) Splunk
6 19 (4.34%) Cisco
7 15 (3.42%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.42%) VMware
8 13 (2.97%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.60%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.37%) Arista
10 6 (1.37%) HP
10 6 (1.37%) Workday
11 5 (1.14%) Canon
11 5 (1.14%) Dell
11 5 (1.14%) Duck Creek
11 5 (1.14%) Google
11 5 (1.14%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.14%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.14%) Red Hat