Documentation Skills Contracts in the West Midlands

Documentation Skills
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 96 108
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 +50
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 20 15 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.49% 0.77% 1.30%
As % of the General category 2.38% 1.36% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 17
10th Percentile £255 £190 £243
25th Percentile £338 £300 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £456 £494 £675
90th Percentile £481 £564 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.90 -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £20.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +40.24% -71.72% +48.72%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 841 1,101 1,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.53% 56.55% 58.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 758 972
10th Percentile £185 £263 £237
25th Percentile £360 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 111 42
10th Percentile - £11.06 £11.10
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.90 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%
75th Percentile £28.18 £39.34 £26.82
90th Percentile £33.91 £56.25 £56.63
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the West Midlands

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the West Midlands

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the West Midlands

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the West Midlands

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwickshire +11 9 £325 -36.59% 6
Coventry +11 4 £438 +12.18% 2
Staffordshire +1 4 £400 +14.29% 12
Shropshire - 2 £360 - 1
Birmingham +10 1 £600 +23.08% 8
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Mimecast
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Akamai
3 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 4 (20.00%) LAN
2 4 (20.00%) WAN
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 2 (10.00%) Network Security
4 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (10.00%) VoIP
4 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.00%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (5.00%) ERwin
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (15.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Network Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Messaging Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Build Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 5 (25.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Change Management
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) User Stories
3 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 5 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (25.00%) Scrum
3 5 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Test Assurance
3 5 (25.00%) Test Management
3 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (25.00%) User Experience
4 4 (20.00%) Information Security
4 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (20.00%) PLM
4 4 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (20.00%) System Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CEH
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) HP
2 5 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle
3 4 (20.00%) Proofpoint
4 2 (10.00%) Aruba
4 2 (10.00%) Mitel
5 1 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (5.00%) Imperva