Documentation Skills Contracts in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 131 159
Rank change year-on-year +32 +28 -26
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 28 36 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.30% 1.03% 0.83%
As % of the General category 1.94% 1.64% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 23
10th Percentile £425 £454 £183
25th Percentile £475 £500 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £360
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +52.78% -34.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £520
90th Percentile £788 £916 £595
Central London median daily rate £594 £550 £384
% change year-on-year +7.95% +43.32% -30.23%

All General Skills
City of London

Documentation Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,442 2,190 2,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.85% 62.79% 57.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 1,545 1,759
10th Percentile £338 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £501 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £692 £738 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 29
10th Percentile £18.35 - £18.50
25th Percentile £20.07 £14.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £20.82 £18.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.64% -55.56% +116.00%
75th Percentile £38.63 £42.32 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.65 £53.55 £61.90
Central London median hourly rate £25.18 £20.71 £40.50
% change year-on-year +21.61% -48.88% +102.50%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the City of London

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (17.86%) Mimecast
2 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (10.71%) IaaS
4 3 (10.71%) PaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) DNS
3 3 (10.71%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Katalon Studio
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Advertising
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Integration Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Equities
2 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Solaris
2 2 (7.14%) VMS
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Migration
2 8 (28.57%) Agile
3 7 (25.00%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (25.00%) ITIL
4 6 (21.43%) Data Migration
4 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.29%) Analytics
6 4 (14.29%) Change Management
6 4 (14.29%) Data Analytics
6 4 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.29%) SDLC
6 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.71%) B2B
7 3 (10.71%) PRINCE2
7 3 (10.71%) Scrum
7 3 (10.71%) TOGAF
7 3 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Bicep
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) PMO
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) KVM
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Citrix
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.14%) Proofpoint
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks