Documentation Skills Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Documentation Skills
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 72 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 14 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.85% 0.12% 0.58%
As % of the General category 3.14% 0.25% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile £344 - £397
25th Percentile £500 £275 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -40.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £325 £575
90th Percentile - - £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £466 £300 £450
% change year-on-year +55.42% -33.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £77.50 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +93.75% - -

All General Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 446 400 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 58.84% 47.34% 60.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 236 534
10th Percentile £219 £350 £325
25th Percentile £375 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year - -8.05% +8.75%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £651 £638 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 19
10th Percentile £18.87 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile - £13.97 £13.17
Median hourly rate £22.14 £16.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.18% -8.33% -3.74%
75th Percentile £81.25 £36.25 £21.31
90th Percentile - £41.00 £27.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.09 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +5.71% - +1.60%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in West Yorkshire

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in West Yorkshire

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Leeds +5 8 £540 +80.00% 3
Documentation Skills
Yorkshire

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) OCI
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Legal
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Retail
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Games
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Consultant
2 5 (35.71%) EMC Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Implementation Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Implementation Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior SAP Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Runbook
3 3 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) COBIT
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 22301
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) EMC
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Brio
3 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 2 (14.29%) Dell
3 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 2 (14.29%) F5
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) DocuSign
4 1 (7.14%) SAP