Documentation Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Documentation Skills
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 256 255 326
Rank change year-on-year -1 +71 -35
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 91 226 321
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.92% 0.73%
As % of the General category 1.04% 1.57% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 142 228
10th Percentile £345 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -3.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £622
90th Percentile £650 £673 £688
UK median daily rate £489 £507 £515
% change year-on-year -3.60% -1.55% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 9
10th Percentile - £54.90 £40.20
25th Percentile £16.50 £71.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.33% +27.12% -4.84%
75th Percentile £20.69 £79.50 £65.54
90th Percentile £21.75 £80.40 -
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -77.33% +38.89% -6.90%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,717 14,425 23,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.90% 58.53% 54.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 10,165 17,422
10th Percentile £330 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 325 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.85 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.95 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +42.86% +51.48%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.96% +44.87% -

Documentation Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Documentation Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Documentation Skills.

Documentation Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Documentation Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Documentation Skills.

Documentation Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.97%) Azure
2 15 (16.48%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
4 10 (10.99%) AWS
4 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.89%) Entra ID
6 7 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.49%) IaaS
7 5 (5.49%) PaaS
8 4 (4.40%) GCP
8 4 (4.40%) Mimecast
8 4 (4.40%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.40%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.20%) GitHub
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.10%) IBM Watson
10 1 (1.10%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.10%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.58%) Firewall
2 11 (12.09%) DNS
3 4 (4.40%) DHCP
3 4 (4.40%) Network Security
3 4 (4.40%) SAN
4 3 (3.30%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.20%) BGP
5 2 (2.20%) NAS
5 2 (2.20%) OSPF
5 2 (2.20%) SNMP
5 2 (2.20%) VoIP
5 2 (2.20%) VPN
6 1 (1.10%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.10%) IPsec
6 1 (1.10%) LAN
6 1 (1.10%) MPLS
6 1 (1.10%) WAN
6 1 (1.10%) Wireless
6 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.20%) Power BI
4 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Rational DOORS
1 6 (6.59%) Selenium
2 5 (5.49%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.98%) Finance
3 13 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (9.89%) Marketing
5 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.40%) Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.10%) Front Office
9 1 (1.10%) German Language
9 1 (1.10%) International Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (16.48%) Architect
2 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) Senior
4 7 (7.69%) Analyst
4 7 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.59%) Automation Tester
5 6 (6.59%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.59%) DOORS Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Integration Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Software Integration Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Systems Integration Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Tester
6 5 (5.49%) Consultant
6 5 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Security Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.40%) .NET
1 4 (4.40%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.30%) Middleware
3 2 (2.20%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.20%) YAML
4 1 (1.10%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.10%) ADO
4 1 (1.10%) Ajax
4 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.10%) CSS
4 1 (1.10%) HATEOAS
4 1 (1.10%) HTML
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.10%) React
4 1 (1.10%) REST
4 1 (1.10%) WCF
4 1 (1.10%) Web Services
4 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.19%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.20%) Tandem
4 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.10%) PKI
4 1 (1.10%) PMI
4 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.10%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.27%) Windows
2 9 (9.89%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.59%) Unix
4 3 (3.30%) Linux
4 3 (3.30%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.18%) ITIL
1 22 (24.18%) Migration
2 18 (19.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (18.68%) DevOps
4 13 (14.29%) Agile
4 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (10.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (10.99%) Data Migration
7 9 (9.89%) Vulnerability Management
8 8 (8.79%) Change Management
8 8 (8.79%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (7.69%) Application Security
9 7 (7.69%) Risk Management
9 7 (7.69%) Test Scripting
9 7 (7.69%) Test Strategy
10 6 (6.59%) Process Improvement
10 6 (6.59%) Requirements Analysis
10 6 (6.59%) Requirements Management
10 6 (6.59%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.99%) SQL
2 7 (7.69%) C#
3 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.20%) Python
5 1 (1.10%) Bicep
5 1 (1.10%) Scala
5 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (17.58%) Degree
2 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (6.59%) Master's Degree
3 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.40%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.10%) CBAP
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.49%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.20%) NIST
3 2 (2.20%) PSD2
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.40%) vSphere
4 3 (3.30%) Docker
4 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.30%) XenApp
4 3 (3.30%) XenDesktop
5 2 (2.20%) Ceph
5 2 (2.20%) KVM
5 2 (2.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 6 (6.59%) SCCM
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.30%) Ansible
4 2 (2.20%) Pacemaker
4 2 (2.20%) Podman
4 2 (2.20%) Terraform
5 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.09%) VMware
3 8 (8.79%) Citrix
3 8 (8.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.40%) BeyondTrust
4 4 (4.40%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.40%) Nintex
5 3 (3.30%) CA
5 3 (3.30%) Cisco
5 3 (3.30%) FireEye
5 3 (3.30%) Qualys
5 3 (3.30%) Tanium
6 2 (2.20%) F5
6 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.20%) Sun
7 1 (1.10%) Databricks
7 1 (1.10%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.10%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) Zscaler