Documentation Skills Contracts in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 116 113
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 10 29 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.38% 1.01% 1.52%
As % of the General category 0.68% 1.66% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 38
10th Percentile £301 £348 £450
25th Percentile £310 £370 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £539
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -9.51% +23.14%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £650
90th Percentile £578 £653 -
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
South East median hourly rate £20.50 £73.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -72.20% +55.26% -27.48%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,461 1,747 2,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 55.40% 61.04% 60.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 1,126 1,396
10th Percentile £205 £278 £213
25th Percentile £333 £400 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 43 68
10th Percentile £17.62 £14.45 £11.18
25th Percentile £22.58 £20.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.16 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.56% +60.91% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.56 £23.75
90th Percentile £77.19 £75.40 £49.88
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £48.54 £20.00
% change year-on-year -7.29% +142.70% -24.70%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the Thames Valley

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Buckinghamshire +26 5 £550 +48.65% 6
Berkshire -23 5 £310 -50.40% 3
Documentation Skills
South East

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Server Building
2 3 (30.00%) Software Distribution
2 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CCNP
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
2 1 (10.00%) CEH
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) XenApp
2 3 (30.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Netcool
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 3 (30.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (30.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (30.00%) FireEye
2 3 (30.00%) Infoblox
2 3 (30.00%) Nokia
2 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Tanium
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft