Documentation Skills Contracts in the South East

Documentation Skills
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 139 147
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 26 77 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 1.36% 1.55%
As % of the General category 0.91% 2.34% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 43 93
10th Percentile £263 £314 £318
25th Percentile £350 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £563 £578 £600
90th Percentile £608 £670 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 19 4
10th Percentile - £60.80 £45.38
25th Percentile - £61.75 £45.94
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - +43.59% -25.60%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £53.89
90th Percentile - £80.25 £60.88
England median hourly rate £21.70 £71.25 £54.00
% change year-on-year -69.54% +31.94% -15.95%

All General Skills
South East

Documentation Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,850 3,296 4,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 49.54% 58.20% 55.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,560 2,221 2,825
10th Percentile £213 £236 £225
25th Percentile £359 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% - +5.82%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £663
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 156 211
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.24 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.71 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% +161.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.72 £33.81
90th Percentile £70.39 £74.50 £52.50
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Thames Valley -15 8 £550 +15.79% 15
Surrey +10 7 £525 +5.00% 1
Buckinghamshire +23 5 £550 +48.65% 7
West Sussex - 4 £450 -
Middlesex -1 3 £275 -50.00%
Berkshire -30 3 £310 -46.09% 7
Hampshire -33 2 £550 -2.14% 12
Kent - 2 £400 - 7
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (11.54%) NX-OS
3 2 (7.69%) NAS
3 2 (7.69%) SAN
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.85%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) DNS
4 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) WAN
4 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (7.69%) ClearCase
2 2 (7.69%) ClearQuest
3 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Marketing
3 5 (19.23%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) DOORS Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Integration Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Software Integration Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Trainer
5 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Middleware
1 2 (7.69%) YAML
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) ADO
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
1 5 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Tandem
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (23.08%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Unix
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) ITIL
2 7 (26.92%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) Budgeting
4 5 (19.23%) Customer Engagement
4 5 (19.23%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (19.23%) Process Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Requirements Analysis
4 5 (19.23%) Requirements Management
4 5 (19.23%) Risk Management
4 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (19.23%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (19.23%) Test Strategy
4 5 (19.23%) UML
4 5 (19.23%) Validation
4 5 (19.23%) Verification and Validation
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
6 3 (11.54%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) C
2 1 (3.85%) C++
2 1 (3.85%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Degree
2 5 (19.23%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (19.23%) Master's Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.54%) CCNP
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) CCIE
5 1 (3.85%) CEH
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 7 (26.92%) vSphere
3 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (7.69%) Ceph
5 2 (7.69%) Docker
5 2 (7.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.85%) XenApp
6 1 (3.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Ansible
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Netcool
3 2 (7.69%) Pacemaker
3 2 (7.69%) Podman
3 2 (7.69%) Rundeck
3 2 (7.69%) SCCM
4 1 (3.85%) HP ALM
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 8 (30.77%) VMware
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco
2 4 (15.38%) IBM
3 3 (11.54%) CheckPoint
3 3 (11.54%) Dynatrace
3 3 (11.54%) Infoblox
3 3 (11.54%) Nokia
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.69%) Sun
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) FireEye
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Tanium