Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Wales

Documentation Skills
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.56% - 0.20%
As % of the General category 4.57% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £218 - -
25th Percentile £230 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £390
75th Percentile £453 - £395
90th Percentile £568 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

All General Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 197 217 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 56.13% 54.80% 46.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 100 154
10th Percentile £204 £126 £163
25th Percentile £293 £166 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £488 £518 £584
90th Percentile £608 £601 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 36 21
10th Percentile £13.08 £16.58 -
25th Percentile £13.94 £20.12 £10.92
Median hourly rate £15.50 £28.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.13% +25.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £21.50 £52.50 £33.75
90th Percentile £27.29 £60.00 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% +36.36% +10.93%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Wales

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Wales over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Wales

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
South Wales - 6 £325 - 2
Dyfed - 1 £475 -
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Police
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Android
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ITSM
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) NIST 800
2 1 (11.11%) RMADS
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Remedy
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian