Documentation Skills Contracts in England

Documentation Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. 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 350 293 345
Rank change year-on-year -57 +52 -52
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 193 412 557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.86% 0.79%
As % of the General category 0.91% 1.46% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 261 369
10th Percentile £260 £350 £350
25th Percentile £383 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -2.72% +4.90%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.08% +9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 24 10
10th Percentile £15.13 £60.30 £44.46
25th Percentile £16.16 £62.13 £47.19
Median hourly rate £20.50 £72.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.72% +34.26% -14.29%
75th Percentile £27.00 £76.31 £57.42
90th Percentile £31.88 £80.78 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -77.33% +37.61% -12.80%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,251 28,243 40,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.55% 59.16% 57.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,633 19,891 28,416
10th Percentile £280 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,819 896 1,282
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.68 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.92 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +48.47% +2.14%
75th Percentile £52.20 £60.03 £46.23
90th Percentile £67.38 £70.00 £59.94
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +4.65%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Documentation Skills in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London -13 94 £550 - 42
North of England +20 30 £488 -2.50% 29
South East -32 29 £475 -5.00% 30
Midlands +23 21 £469 +19.05% 21
North West +6 17 £488 -2.50% 19
West Midlands +12 16 £488 +21.88% 14
South West +6 12 £463 -7.50% 12
Yorkshire +17 9 £500 - 6
North East +13 4 £897 +79.39% 4
East Midlands +11 4 £368 +5.00% 7
East of England -20 4 £450 +3.45% 13
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.52%) Smallworld
Applications
1 17 (8.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.52%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.55%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.04%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.04%) SAP EWM
4 2 (1.04%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.52%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.12%) Azure
2 32 (16.58%) AWS
3 31 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (10.36%) Entra ID
5 15 (7.77%) GCP
5 15 (7.77%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.70%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (4.66%) PaaS
8 8 (4.15%) IaaS
9 7 (3.63%) GitHub
10 6 (3.11%) Mimecast
11 4 (2.07%) SaaS
11 4 (2.07%) Serverless
12 3 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.55%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (1.55%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.58%) Firewall
2 16 (8.29%) DNS
3 12 (6.22%) WAN
4 11 (5.70%) VPN
4 11 (5.70%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (5.18%) LAN
6 9 (4.66%) VoIP
7 8 (4.15%) DHCP
8 7 (3.63%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.11%) VLAN
10 5 (2.59%) SAN
11 4 (2.07%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (2.07%) Network Security
11 4 (2.07%) NX-OS
12 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
13 2 (1.04%) BGP
13 2 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (1.04%) NAS
13 2 (1.04%) OSPF
13 2 (1.04%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.18%) Power BI
3 7 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.59%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.55%) Big Data
6 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.55%) OLAP
6 3 (1.55%) OLTP
6 3 (1.55%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.52%) GIS
7 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.55%) GitLab
2 3 (1.55%) JIRA
3 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.52%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.52%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.52%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 104 (53.89%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.32%) Finance
3 26 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.92%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (7.25%) Banking
6 10 (5.18%) Marketing
7 5 (2.59%) Advertising
8 4 (2.07%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.04%) Automotive
10 2 (1.04%) Local Government
10 2 (1.04%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.04%) Retail
11 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (20.21%) Architect
2 22 (11.40%) Analyst
2 22 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (9.84%) Senior
4 16 (8.29%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.25%) Business Analyst
5 14 (7.25%) Consultant
6 11 (5.70%) Network Engineer
6 11 (5.70%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 10 (5.18%) 2nd Line Support
7 10 (5.18%) Developer
7 10 (5.18%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.66%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Functional Consultant
11 6 (3.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 6 (3.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.70%) SailPoint
2 9 (4.66%) .NET
2 9 (4.66%) XML
3 8 (4.15%) Middleware
4 7 (3.63%) HTML
4 7 (3.63%) LDAP
5 6 (3.11%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.11%) JSP
5 6 (3.11%) Servlets
5 6 (3.11%) SOAP
5 6 (3.11%) SPML
6 3 (1.55%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.55%) REST
6 3 (1.55%) YAML
7 2 (1.04%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.04%) CSS
7 2 (1.04%) HATEOAS
7 2 (1.04%) IDoc
7 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.29%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.63%) Clustering
5 6 (3.11%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.11%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.59%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.55%) PMI
8 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Equities
8 2 (1.04%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.04%) Tandem
9 1 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 46 (23.83%) Windows
2 26 (13.47%) Windows Server
3 16 (8.29%) Windows 10
4 14 (7.25%) Linux
5 8 (4.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (3.63%) Unix
6 7 (3.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (3.11%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.59%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.59%) Solaris
8 5 (2.59%) VMS
9 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.52%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.52%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (19.69%) Migration
3 29 (15.03%) Agile
4 27 (13.99%) ITIL
5 26 (13.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (13.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (10.36%) Collaborative Working
7 19 (9.84%) Change Management
7 19 (9.84%) Computer Science
8 17 (8.81%) Project Management
9 16 (8.29%) DevOps
10 15 (7.77%) Data Migration
10 15 (7.77%) Roadmaps
11 13 (6.74%) Cloud Security
12 12 (6.22%) Architectural Design
12 12 (6.22%) Business Case
12 12 (6.22%) Customer Service
12 12 (6.22%) Data Modelling
12 12 (6.22%) Validation
12 12 (6.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.88%) PowerShell
1 21 (10.88%) SQL
2 8 (4.15%) JavaScript
2 8 (4.15%) Python
3 7 (3.63%) Java
4 2 (1.04%) C#
5 1 (0.52%) Bicep
5 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.52%) Scala
5 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (21.76%) Degree
2 19 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.77%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.11%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.07%) CCNP
8 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.55%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.04%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.52%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.52%) CBAP
11 1 (0.52%) CCIE
11 1 (0.52%) CCNA
11 1 (0.52%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.74%) QA
2 5 (2.59%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.04%) PMO
4 2 (1.04%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) GRC
System Software
1 52 (26.94%) Active Directory
2 25 (12.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (4.66%) vSphere
4 7 (3.63%) KVM
5 6 (3.11%) ACF2
5 6 (3.11%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.11%) IAG
5 6 (3.11%) RACF
6 4 (2.07%) Docker
6 4 (2.07%) XenApp
7 3 (1.55%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.55%) XenDesktop
8 2 (1.04%) Ceph
8 2 (1.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (8.29%) SCCM
2 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.15%) Terraform
4 6 (3.11%) Ansible
4 6 (3.11%) Autotask
4 6 (3.11%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (3.11%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (2.07%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.55%) Netcool
7 2 (1.04%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (1.04%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.04%) Nessus
7 2 (1.04%) Pacemaker
7 2 (1.04%) Podman
7 2 (1.04%) Rundeck
7 2 (1.04%) WSUS
8 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.52%) SCOM
8 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (32.64%) Microsoft
2 36 (18.65%) VMware
3 18 (9.33%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.22%) Cisco
5 11 (5.70%) BeyondTrust
5 11 (5.70%) CyberArk
6 10 (5.18%) Citrix
6 10 (5.18%) Oracle
7 8 (4.15%) SAP
8 6 (3.11%) Apple
8 6 (3.11%) Datto
9 5 (2.59%) Databricks
9 5 (2.59%) HP
9 5 (2.59%) IBM
10 4 (2.07%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.07%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.55%) FireEye
11 3 (1.55%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.55%) Qualys