Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends

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 28 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	177	147	297
Rank change year-on-year	-30	+150	-3
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills	943	694	294
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	1.72%	2.05%	0.80%
As % of the General category	2.96%	3.24%	1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted	607	417	153
10^th Percentile	£320	£312	£270
25^th Percentile	£413	£413	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£500	£520
Median % change year-on-year	-	-3.85%	+4.00%
75^th Percentile	£607	£575	£600
90^th Percentile	£700	£688	£645
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£483	£500
% change year-on-year	+3.63%	-3.50%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	32	34	6
10^th Percentile	£21.03	£20.60	£22.38
25^th Percentile	£40.11	£26.31	£28.44
Median hourly rate	£62.50	£42.50	£37.50
Median % change year-on-year	+47.06%	+13.33%	+127.27%
75^th Percentile	£77.50	£65.30	£42.50
90^th Percentile	£84.37	£81.25	£55.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£62.50	£42.50	£37.50
% change year-on-year	+47.06%	+13.33%	+127.27%

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 citing general skills.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing general skills	31,849	21,413	21,512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	58.10%	63.13%	58.78%
Number of daily rates quoted	18,483	13,346	12,655
10^th Percentile	£313	£275	£283
25^th Percentile	£420	£400	£410
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£625	£644
90^th Percentile	£740	£738	£756
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£479
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-0.84%	-4.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3,008	1,311	824
10^th Percentile	£13.45	£13.60	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£15.57	£16.17	£16.90
Median hourly rate	£26.78	£24.34	£30.00
Median % change year-on-year	+10.02%	-18.87%	+1.32%
75^th Percentile	£53.90	£43.75	£57.50
90^th Percentile	£77.50	£67.25	£70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£26.02	£21.25	£28.00
% change year-on-year	+22.45%	-24.11%	+4.15%

Documentation Skills Job Vacancy Trend

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

Documentation Skills Daily Rate Trend

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

Documentation Skills Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 28 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills Hourly Rate Trend

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

Documentation Skills Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 28 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills Top 17 Contract Job 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 28 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-27	774	£525	+6.71%	121
UK excluding London	-43	458	£500	+3.63%	106
London	-14	351	£550	+10.00%	33
Work from Home	-25	288	£500	+5.26%	51
South East	+14	153	£525	+16.67%	32
North of England	-63	95	£510	-2.94%	21
North West	-40	60	£500	-4.76%	17
South West	-30	56	£525	+10.53%	16
East of England	-1	48	£463	+2.78%	10
Midlands	-60	48	£477	-2.15%	20
Scotland	-31	45	£419	-20.24%	2
West Midlands	-54	30	£500	-	13
Yorkshire	-28	28	£525	+2.44%	4
East Midlands	-18	18	£463	+15.81%	7
Wales	-13	12	£313	-24.24%	5
North East	-37	7	£413	-
Northern Ireland	+5	2	£302	-30.97%	2

Documentation Skills Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Documentation Skills also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads citing Documentation Skills.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Cleared	34.7%	327
2	Stakeholder Management	33.6%	317
3	SC Cleared	25.2%	238
4	Microsoft	24.9%	235
5	Stakeholder Engagement	22.2%	209
6	Azure	21.3%	201
6	Problem-Solving	21.3%	201
8	Agile	18.5%	174
9	Workshop Facilitation	16.5%	156
10	Migration	16.3%	154
11	Requirements Gathering	15.4%	145
12	Validation	14.3%	135
13	Business Analysis	13.8%	130
14	Active Directory	12.8%	121
15	Continuous Improvement	12.4%	117
16	Windows	12.0%	113
17	Cybersecurity	11.1%	105
17	User Acceptance Testing	11.1%	105
19	AI	10.8%	102
20	AWS	10.6%	100
21	User Stories	10.4%	98
22	Project Delivery	9.8%	92
23	Entra ID	9.5%	90
23	Runbook	9.5%	90
25	Python	9.0%	85
26	PowerShell	8.9%	84
27	SQL	8.8%	83
28	CI/CD	8.7%	82
29	Analytics	8.6%	81
29	DevOps	8.6%	81

Documentation Skills Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Social Skills	56.8%	536
2	Finance	22.8%	215
3	Analytical Skills	19.7%	186
4	Public Sector	14.2%	134
5	Banking	8.1%	76
6	Organisational Skills	5.9%	56
7	Telecoms	3.7%	35
8	Legal	3.5%	33
9	Manufacturing	3.2%	30
10	Presentation Skills	2.8%	26
11	Influencing Skills	2.2%	21
12	Marketing	2.1%	20
12	Military	2.1%	20
14	Inclusion and Diversity	1.9%	18
15	Investment Banking	1.6%	15
16	Aerospace	1.3%	12
16	Back Office	1.3%	12
16	Billing	1.3%	12
19	Front Office	1.1%	10
20	Local Government	1.0%	9