Documentation Skills Contracts

Documentation Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 295 341
Rank change year-on-year -65 +46 -26
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 238 533 687
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.92% 0.78%
As % of the General category 0.96% 1.58% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 321 454
10th Percentile £260 £369 £350
25th Percentile £363 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £507 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% -1.55% +8.59%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £599
90th Percentile £671 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.09% +13.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 27 15
10th Percentile £15.13 £60.60 £40.73
25th Percentile £16.50 £65.00 £45.63
Median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.33% +38.89% -6.90%
75th Percentile £21.75 £80.25 £63.27
90th Percentile £23.15 £82.62 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £72.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -76.55% +48.72% -23.53%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,779 33,735 49,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.07% 58.52% 56.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,628 23,387 34,464
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,929 1,026 1,428
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +53.22% -1.38%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £65.40 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +57.89% -4.76%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England -48 200 £500 - 141
UK excluding London -33 112 £450 -10.00% 109
London -24 99 £550 - 40
Work from Home -8 90 £495 -2.37% 54
South East -20 33 £475 -5.00% 27
North of England +20 29 £488 -2.50% 21
Midlands +13 20 £438 +9.38% 30
Scotland +23 17 £375 -28.57% 8
North West +18 16 £475 -5.00% 13
West Midlands +11 16 £469 +7.14% 19
South West +3 11 £360 -28.00% 11
Yorkshire +23 9 £500 -16.67% 5
North East +15 4 £897 +124.24% 3
East of England -14 4 £450 +3.45% 9
East Midlands +17 3 £310 -11.43% 11
Wales +19 1 £450 -18.18% 3

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.84%) Confluence
3 2 (0.84%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.26%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.84%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.84%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.84%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.42%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 74 (31.09%) Azure
2 38 (15.97%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (14.29%) AWS
4 21 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 20 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 15 (6.30%) GCP
7 11 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.20%) GitHub
8 10 (4.20%) PaaS
9 9 (3.78%) IaaS
10 7 (2.94%) Mimecast
11 6 (2.52%) Serverless
12 5 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.10%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.10%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.10%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (13.45%) Firewall
2 17 (7.14%) DNS
3 12 (5.04%) VPN
3 12 (5.04%) WAN
4 10 (4.20%) LAN
5 9 (3.78%) DHCP
5 9 (3.78%) VoIP
6 8 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (2.94%) Network Security
8 6 (2.52%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.52%) VLAN
9 4 (1.68%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (1.68%) NX-OS
9 4 (1.68%) SAN
10 3 (1.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (1.26%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.84%) NAS
11 2 (0.84%) OSPF
11 2 (0.84%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.72%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.62%) Power BI
3 7 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.10%) Amazon QuickSight
4 5 (2.10%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.26%) Big Data
6 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.26%) OLAP
6 3 (1.26%) OLTP
6 3 (1.26%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.84%) Tableau
8 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Rational DOORS
1 6 (2.52%) Selenium
2 5 (2.10%) JIRA
2 5 (2.10%) WebDriver
3 3 (1.26%) Git
3 3 (1.26%) GitLab
4 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.42%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.42%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.42%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 128 (53.78%) Social Skills
2 53 (22.27%) Finance
3 28 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.08%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (6.72%) Banking
6 11 (4.62%) Marketing
7 8 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.36%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.10%) Advertising
9 4 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.26%) Retail
11 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.84%) Automotive
11 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
11 2 (0.84%) Local Government
11 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 45 (18.91%) Architect
2 29 (12.18%) Analyst
3 21 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (8.40%) Senior
4 20 (8.40%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.56%) Business Analyst
6 15 (6.30%) Consultant
7 13 (5.46%) Developer
7 13 (5.46%) Network Engineer
8 12 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 12 (5.04%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 10 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
10 9 (3.78%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 8 (3.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.94%) Functional Consultant
12 7 (2.94%) Security Manager
12 7 (2.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.72%) SailPoint
2 9 (3.78%) .NET
2 9 (3.78%) XML
3 8 (3.36%) Middleware
4 7 (2.94%) HTML
4 7 (2.94%) LDAP
5 6 (2.52%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.52%) JSP
5 6 (2.52%) Servlets
5 6 (2.52%) SOAP
5 6 (2.52%) SPML
6 5 (2.10%) REST
7 4 (1.68%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.26%) YAML
9 2 (0.84%) CSS
9 2 (0.84%) HATEOAS
9 2 (0.84%) IDoc
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.84%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.94%) Clustering
5 6 (2.52%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.52%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.10%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.68%) PMI
8 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Equities
9 2 (0.84%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.84%) PKI
9 2 (0.84%) Tandem
10 1 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.01%) Windows
2 27 (11.34%) Windows Server
3 17 (7.14%) Linux
4 16 (6.72%) Windows 10
5 10 (4.20%) Unix
6 9 (3.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (2.52%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.10%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (2.10%) Solaris
9 5 (2.10%) VMS
10 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.42%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.42%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (20.17%) Migration
3 43 (18.07%) Agile
4 30 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (12.18%) DevOps
5 29 (12.18%) ITIL
6 26 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (10.08%) Change Management
8 23 (9.66%) Collaborative Working
9 21 (8.82%) Computer Science
10 17 (7.14%) Project Management
10 17 (7.14%) Roadmaps
11 16 (6.72%) Architectural Design
11 16 (6.72%) CI/CD
11 16 (6.72%) Cloud Security
11 16 (6.72%) Data Migration
12 14 (5.88%) Secrets Management
12 14 (5.88%) Validation
13 13 (5.46%) Customer Service
14 12 (5.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.92%) SQL
2 20 (8.40%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.62%) Python
4 10 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.78%) Java
6 7 (2.94%) C#
7 2 (0.84%) Bash
7 2 (0.84%) Perl
8 1 (0.42%) Bicep
8 1 (0.42%) Dart
8 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.42%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.42%) Scala
8 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (21.43%) Degree
2 23 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.98%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.78%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.52%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.68%) CCNP
7 4 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.84%) CBAP
9 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.84%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CCNA
10 1 (0.42%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.40%) QA
2 8 (3.36%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.68%) PMO
4 3 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) GRC
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.84%) NIST
5 2 (0.84%) PSD2
5 2 (0.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (22.69%) Active Directory
2 27 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (3.78%) vSphere
4 7 (2.94%) KVM
5 6 (2.52%) ACF2
5 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.52%) IAG
5 6 (2.52%) RACF
5 6 (2.52%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.68%) Docker
6 4 (1.68%) XenApp
7 3 (1.26%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.84%) Ceph
8 2 (0.84%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (6.30%) SCCM
2 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.78%) Terraform
4 6 (2.52%) Ansible
4 6 (2.52%) Autotask
4 6 (2.52%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (2.52%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.26%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.26%) Netcool
6 2 (0.84%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.84%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.84%) Pacemaker
6 2 (0.84%) Podman
6 2 (0.84%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.42%) Nessus
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (30.25%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.55%) VMware
3 21 (8.82%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.30%) CyberArk
5 14 (5.88%) BeyondTrust
6 13 (5.46%) Cisco
7 12 (5.04%) Oracle
8 11 (4.62%) Citrix
9 10 (4.20%) SAP
10 6 (2.52%) Apple
10 6 (2.52%) Datto
11 5 (2.10%) Databricks
11 5 (2.10%) HP
11 5 (2.10%) IBM
12 4 (1.68%) F5
12 4 (1.68%) Nintex
12 4 (1.68%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.26%) FireEye
13 3 (1.26%) Tanium