Documentation Skills Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Documentation Skills
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 226 247 256
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +86
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 78 98 237
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 0.64% 0.92%
As % of the General category 1.26% 1.08% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 76 152
10th Percentile £381 £351 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -6.90% -
75th Percentile £606 £575 £582
90th Percentile £650 £650 £673
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.97% -0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 18
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - £16.50 £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +282.35% -77.33% +14.50%
75th Percentile - £20.69 £79.88
90th Percentile - £21.75 £80.48
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £17.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +69.12% -77.33% +50.00%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Documentation Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Documentation Skills trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Documentation Skills.

Documentation Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Documentation Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Documentation Skills.

Documentation Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 7 (8.97%) Confluence
3 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (3.85%) OpenStack
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.41%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.28%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) CA PPM
2 3 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.64%) Azure
2 11 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.41%) AWS
5 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.13%) Mimecast
5 4 (5.13%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.56%) GCP
6 2 (2.56%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.56%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.28%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.28%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.28%) Dialogflow
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) BGP
1 3 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (3.85%) DNS
1 3 (3.85%) NAS
1 3 (3.85%) OSPF
1 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.85%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (2.56%) HTTP
2 2 (2.56%) Multicast
2 2 (2.56%) NX-OS
2 2 (2.56%) POP3
2 2 (2.56%) SMTP
2 2 (2.56%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.28%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.28%) DHCP
3 1 (1.28%) NGFW
3 1 (1.28%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.28%) VPN
3 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.13%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.85%) Big Data
4 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.28%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.28%) Looker
5 1 (1.28%) Metadata
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (12.82%) JIRA
2 4 (5.13%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.56%) AdminStudio
3 2 (2.56%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.56%) ERwin
3 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.56%) MSI
3 2 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
General
1 47 (60.26%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Presentation Skills
3 13 (16.67%) Finance
4 9 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.13%) Arabic Language
5 4 (5.13%) Banking
5 4 (5.13%) Czech Language
6 3 (3.85%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.28%) Automotive
7 1 (1.28%) Electronics
7 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.28%) Law
7 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.28%) Marketing
7 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (14.10%) Analyst
2 9 (11.54%) Architect
3 8 (10.26%) Consultant
3 8 (10.26%) Developer
4 7 (8.97%) Senior
5 6 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Incident Manager
6 4 (5.13%) Remote Support Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Solutions Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Tester
7 3 (3.85%) Agile C# Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Agile Developer
7 3 (3.85%) C# Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Unified Communications Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
8 2 (2.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.69%) REST
2 3 (3.85%) Kafka
2 3 (3.85%) LDAP
2 3 (3.85%) SailPoint
3 2 (2.56%) .NET
3 2 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.56%) Bootstrap
3 2 (2.56%) CSS
3 2 (2.56%) CSS3
3 2 (2.56%) HTML
3 2 (2.56%) JSON
3 2 (2.56%) Middleware
3 2 (2.56%) PySpark
3 2 (2.56%) SOAP
3 2 (2.56%) Web Services
4 1 (1.28%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.56%) PKI
5 2 (2.56%) SCADA
5 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.28%) NHS
6 1 (1.28%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Linux
2 5 (6.41%) Windows
3 4 (5.13%) Unix
4 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.28%) AIX
6 1 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (29.49%) Agile
3 16 (20.51%) DevOps
4 11 (14.10%) Scrum
4 11 (14.10%) User Experience
5 10 (12.82%) Data Modelling
5 10 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (11.54%) Change Management
7 8 (10.26%) Migration
7 8 (10.26%) Roadmaps
8 7 (8.97%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.97%) Strategic Planning
8 7 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (7.69%) Computer Science
9 6 (7.69%) Decision-Making
9 6 (7.69%) Information Security
9 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
9 6 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (6.41%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.38%) SQL
2 6 (7.69%) Python
3 5 (6.41%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.13%) C#
5 3 (3.85%) Bash
5 3 (3.85%) Java
5 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.28%) Perl
7 1 (1.28%) R
7 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.28%) VB
7 1 (1.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.54%) Degree
4 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.85%) CISSP
6 2 (2.56%) CCIE
6 2 (2.56%) CCIE Data Center
6 2 (2.56%) CCNP
6 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.56%) GIAC
7 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.28%) CCDE
7 1 (1.28%) NCDA
7 1 (1.28%) NCSIE
7 1 (1.28%) VCAP
7 1 (1.28%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.56%) NIST
3 2 (2.56%) QA
4 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.28%) COBIT
4 1 (1.28%) COSO
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.28%) ITGC
4 1 (1.28%) NCSC
4 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.85%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.56%) vSphere
5 1 (1.28%) Docker
5 1 (1.28%) KVM
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Ansible
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.85%) Terraform
3 2 (2.56%) HP ALM
3 2 (2.56%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.56%) SCCM
3 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.56%) ThinApp
4 1 (1.28%) Grafana
4 1 (1.28%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.28%) Nagios
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.28%) vRealize
4 1 (1.28%) VxRail
4 1 (1.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.82%) Oracle
3 8 (10.26%) Cisco
4 7 (8.97%) SAP
4 7 (8.97%) VMware
5 6 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.13%) Broadcom
6 4 (5.13%) Proofpoint
7 3 (3.85%) HP
7 3 (3.85%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.56%) Ariba
8 2 (2.56%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.56%) Dell
8 2 (2.56%) Google
8 2 (2.56%) IBM
8 2 (2.56%) Ivanti
8 2 (2.56%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.56%) NetApp
8 2 (2.56%) Planview
8 2 (2.56%) Salesforce