Documentation Skills Contracts in Yorkshire

Documentation Skills
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 97 111
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 +17
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 13 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.21% 0.53% 0.41%
As % of the General category 1.94% 0.93% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 7
10th Percentile £240 £385 £213
25th Percentile £483 £431 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £780 £575 £650
90th Percentile - - £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%

All General Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 671 969 1,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 62.30% 57.58% 61.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 548 902
10th Percentile £237 £199 £300
25th Percentile £357 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 85 19
10th Percentile £11.60 - £12.00
25th Percentile £17.06 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.35 £14.63 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year +39.11% -24.56% +3.66%
75th Percentile £22.14 £18.27 £26.26
90th Percentile £31.45 £34.33 £53.52
England median hourly rate £27.70 £30.44 £32.00
% change year-on-year -8.99% -4.89% +48.84%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Yorkshire

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in Yorkshire

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Yorkshire

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in Yorkshire

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
West Yorkshire +13 10 £703 +37.07% 60
South Yorkshire +14 7 £780 - 35
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Collibra
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) BGP
1 1 (7.69%) EIGRP
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) OSPF
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Games
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Project Officer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
1 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 5 (38.46%) Data Governance
2 5 (38.46%) Monte Carlo Method
2 5 (38.46%) Observability
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.69%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Network Management
4 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (7.69%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Runbook
4 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
4 1 (7.69%) Swim Lanes
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) COBOL
1 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 22301
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Grafana
3 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) Perforce
3 1 (7.69%) VMware