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 remote or hybrid contract work. 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 250 246 326
Rank change year-on-year -4 +80 -39
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 92 222 326
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.93% 0.74%
As % of the General category 1.07% 1.59% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 144 231
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £623
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 23 7
10th Percentile - £63.25 £45.75
25th Percentile £16.50 £70.00 £48.13
Median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.33% +27.12% -7.45%
75th Percentile £17.50 £76.88 £65.54
90th Percentile £28.00 £80.25 -
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £72.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -76.55% +33.03% -13.49%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,623 13,983 24,165
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.44% 58.57% 55.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 9,896 17,664
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 316 342
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.66 £13.53
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £34.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +42.24% +55.04%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.38 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

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 12 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Documentation Skills hourly rate histogram 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 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.09%) IIS
3 1 (1.09%) Smallworld
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.09%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.09%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.52%) Azure
2 13 (14.13%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (13.04%) AWS
4 11 (11.96%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.78%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (8.70%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.52%) GCP
9 4 (4.35%) IaaS
9 4 (4.35%) PaaS
9 4 (4.35%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.35%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.26%) Mimecast
11 2 (2.17%) GitHub
12 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (1.09%) IBM Watson
12 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.39%) Firewall
2 9 (9.78%) DNS
3 4 (4.35%) Network Security
3 4 (4.35%) SAN
3 4 (4.35%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.17%) BGP
4 2 (2.17%) DHCP
4 2 (2.17%) NAS
4 2 (2.17%) OSPF
4 2 (2.17%) SNMP
4 2 (2.17%) VoIP
4 2 (2.17%) VPN
5 1 (1.09%) DSL
5 1 (1.09%) DWDM
5 1 (1.09%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.09%) Internet
5 1 (1.09%) LAN
5 1 (1.09%) SDH
5 1 (1.09%) WAN
5 1 (1.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.09%) GIS
3 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Rational DOORS
1 5 (5.43%) Selenium
1 5 (5.43%) WebDriver
2 4 (4.35%) JIRA
3 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.26%) GitLab
4 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.00%) Finance
3 12 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.70%) Marketing
6 7 (7.61%) Banking
7 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Front Office
10 1 (1.09%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (17.39%) Architect
2 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (11.96%) Senior
4 6 (6.52%) Analyst
4 6 (6.52%) Project Manager
4 6 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.43%) Consultant
5 5 (5.43%) Coordinator
5 5 (5.43%) Developer
5 5 (5.43%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Network Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Security Manager
5 5 (5.43%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Software Integration Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.43%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Systems Integration Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.35%) .NET
1 4 (4.35%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.26%) Middleware
3 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.17%) YAML
4 1 (1.09%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.09%) ADO
4 1 (1.09%) Ajax
4 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.09%) CSS
4 1 (1.09%) HATEOAS
4 1 (1.09%) HTML
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.09%) React
4 1 (1.09%) REST
4 1 (1.09%) WCF
4 1 (1.09%) Web Services
4 1 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.96%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.17%) Cyberattack
3 2 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.17%) Tandem
4 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.09%) PKI
4 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.09%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.74%) Windows
2 10 (10.87%) Unix
3 7 (7.61%) Linux
4 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.26%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.09%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.83%) Migration
2 20 (21.74%) DevOps
2 20 (21.74%) ITIL
3 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (10.87%) Agile
4 10 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (9.78%) Data Migration
6 8 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (8.70%) Change Management
6 8 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (8.70%) Test Automation
6 8 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (7.61%) Application Security
7 7 (7.61%) High Availability
8 6 (6.52%) Computer Science
8 6 (6.52%) Security Testing
8 6 (6.52%) Test Scripting
8 6 (6.52%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.87%) SQL
2 7 (7.61%) C#
3 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.35%) Python
5 2 (2.17%) Ruby
6 1 (1.09%) Bicep
6 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Degree
2 7 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (5.43%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.09%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.09%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.09%) MCP
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.26%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.17%) GDPR
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) PSD2
4 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (15.22%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.70%) Docker
3 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.35%) vSphere
4 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.17%) Ceph
5 2 (2.17%) KVM
5 2 (2.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.09%) XenApp
6 1 (1.09%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) Ansible
1 5 (5.43%) SCCM
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.26%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.17%) Pacemaker
3 2 (2.17%) Podman
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.09%) Nessus
4 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.09%) Puppet
4 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.87%) VMware
3 6 (6.52%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
4 4 (4.35%) Citrix
4 4 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.35%) Nintex
4 4 (4.35%) Tanium
5 3 (3.26%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.26%) CA
5 3 (3.26%) Qualys
6 2 (2.17%) Cisco
6 2 (2.17%) F5
6 2 (2.17%) IBM
6 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.17%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.17%) Sun
7 1 (1.09%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.09%) Juniper
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle