Documentation Skills Contracts in the North West

Documentation Skills
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 124 159
Rank change year-on-year +11 +35 -36
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 22 26 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.79% 0.86% 0.57%
As % of the General category 1.50% 1.64% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 13
10th Percentile £207 £334 £413
25th Percentile £214 £414 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £524 £554 £630
90th Percentile £549 £567 £632
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £27.13 - -
25th Percentile £28.44 - -
Median hourly rate £31.25 £15.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +98.79% - -
75th Percentile £33.44 - -
90th Percentile £34.38 - -
England median hourly rate £21.70 £71.25 £54.00
% change year-on-year -69.54% +31.94% -15.95%

All General Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,468 1,586 2,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 52.58% 52.66% 50.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 1,099 1,403
10th Percentile £300 £312 £230
25th Percentile £392 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £577 £588 £586
90th Percentile £659 £675 £662
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 81 112
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.75 £10.69
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.47 £23.15 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -0.31% +13.28%
75th Percentile £37.94 £35.00 £50.68
90th Percentile £51.88 £53.35 £64.80
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the North West

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +9 9 £475 +26.67% 16
Cheshire -7 6 £503 -11.15% 2
Lancashire +2 4 £200 -60.00% 2
Merseyside - 3 £488 - 1
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (22.73%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) ArcGIS
2 1 (4.55%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.55%) MicroStation
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) LAN
1 4 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) VLAN
2 3 (13.64%) VoIP
2 3 (13.64%) VPN
2 3 (13.64%) WAN
3 2 (9.09%) DHCP
3 2 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (4.55%) DWDM
4 1 (4.55%) Internet
4 1 (4.55%) SDH
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.55%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Bitbucket
1 5 (22.73%) JIRA
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Functional Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Service Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Change Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cyberattack
2 3 (13.64%) Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Windows 10
3 5 (22.73%) Unix
4 4 (18.18%) Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
5 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.55%) Windows 8
6 1 (4.55%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Migration
2 7 (31.82%) Change Management
3 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
4 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Analytics
6 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Data Reconciliation
6 3 (13.64%) Data Science
6 3 (13.64%) Database Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Database Security
6 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.64%) GAP Analysis
6 3 (13.64%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (13.64%) Quality Management
6 3 (13.64%) RBAC
6 3 (13.64%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) Docker
3 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) SCCM
2 3 (13.64%) Autotask
2 3 (13.64%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Atlassian
2 5 (22.73%) Tanium
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) Apple
4 3 (13.64%) Datto
5 1 (4.55%) Autodesk
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce