Documentation Skills Contracts in Scotland

Documentation Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 129 130
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 16 31 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% 1.15% 1.08%
As % of the General category 1.15% 1.72% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 22
10th Percentile £300 £434 £200
25th Percentile £363 £500 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - +22.09%
75th Percentile £448 £559 £538
90th Percentile £500 £577 £606
UK median daily rate £489 £507 £515
% change year-on-year -3.60% -1.55% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43.88
25th Percentile £16.50 - £45.94
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £50.25
75th Percentile £17.50 - £54.94
90th Percentile - - £57.23
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -77.33% +38.89% -6.90%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,387 1,802 2,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.48% 66.67% 71.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 1,304 1,770
10th Percentile £178 £233 £230
25th Percentile £340 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 29 42
10th Percentile £12.00 £12.75 £15.04
25th Percentile £14.59 £15.75 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -20.82% +53.43%
75th Percentile £56.25 £58.75 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 £52.33
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.96% +44.87% -

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in Scotland

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in Scotland

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in Scotland

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in Scotland

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +23 11 £375 -25.96% 4
Dundee - 3 £400 -
Glasgow +9 2 £635 -9.29%
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (25.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Selenium
1 5 (31.25%) WebDriver
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Automation Tester
1 5 (31.25%) Tester
2 4 (25.00%) Coordinator
3 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Project Officer
4 2 (12.50%) Project Support Officer
4 2 (12.50%) Support Officer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Junior
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
2 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
5 2 (12.50%) Business Agility
5 2 (12.50%) Coaching
5 2 (12.50%) Community of Practice
5 2 (12.50%) Epics
5 2 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (6.25%) Budget Management
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) Information Management
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C#
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (12.50%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (25.00%) Nintex
2 1 (6.25%) F5