Documentation Skills Contracts in the South West

Documentation Skills
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the South West. 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 145 143 142
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 12 16 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.47% 0.71%
As % of the General category 0.73% 0.99% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 12
10th Percentile £257 £220 £426
25th Percentile £260 £239 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £458 £457
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% +0.22% +7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £546 £547
90th Percentile £650 £600 £586
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £67.50 £52.00
Median hourly rate - £81.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -
75th Percentile - £94.50 £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.70 £71.25 £54.00
% change year-on-year -69.54% +31.94% -15.95%

All General Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,654 1,609 1,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 50.14% 47.49% 51.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 1,173 1,330
10th Percentile £250 £286 £250
25th Percentile £413 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £675
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 112 139
10th Percentile £12.84 £17.28 -
25th Percentile £18.16 £37.50 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +36.90% -1.75%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £55.92
90th Percentile £73.75 £89.75 £62.52
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the South West

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the South West

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the South West

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the South West

Documentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +10 7 £270 -34.94% 1
Wiltshire -4 3 £600 - 4
Gloucestershire -1 2 £463 -13.95% 2
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) SNMP
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (8.33%) VoIP
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Wireless
4 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
4 1 (8.33%) WLAN
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Advertising
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) IT Trainer
2 3 (25.00%) Trainer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) LAN Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Technician
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Support
4 1 (8.33%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (25.00%) Focus Group
2 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (16.67%) Inventory Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) Compliance Management
4 1 (8.33%) Data Mapping
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Server Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk