Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in West Lothian

Documentation Skills
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in West Lothian. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Lothian 2.50% - -
As % of the General category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £358 £425 £375
% change year-on-year -15.76% +13.33% -25.00%

All General Skills
West Lothian

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 general skills in West Lothian.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 7 13 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 17.50% 72.22% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 14
10th Percentile £263 £131 £75
25th Percentile £283 £133 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £188 £184
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% +2.04% -34.38%
75th Percentile £358 £194 £432
90th Percentile £379 £393 £552
Scotland median daily rate £467 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +0.54% +3.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £16.40 £17.05
25th Percentile - £16.63 £19.00
Median hourly rate - £17.30 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - -34.72% -65.13%
75th Percentile - £18.75 £39.38
90th Percentile - £18.83 £44.55
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £19.99 £18.07
% change year-on-year -18.69% +10.63% -5.81%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in West Lothian

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

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 West Lothian region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Livingston - 1 - -
Documentation Skills
Scotland

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft