Documentation Skills Contracts

Documentation Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in contract job vacancies. 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 358 290 326
Rank change year-on-year -68 +36 -5
Contract jobs citing Documentation Skills 233 512 700
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.92% 0.80%
As % of the General category 0.93% 1.58% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 322 468
10th Percentile £260 £350 £350
25th Percentile £378 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £601
90th Percentile £671 £686 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 32 14
10th Percentile £15.13 £60.10 £43.25
25th Percentile £16.16 £65.31 £47.19
Median hourly rate £17.00 £72.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.55% +33.03% -13.49%
75th Percentile £20.31 £79.13 £60.44
90th Percentile £30.63 £81.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -75.71% +34.62% -20.61%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,967 32,502 49,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.17% 58.52% 56.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,678 22,562 34,571
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £768 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,003 996 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £71.89 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £27.50 £19.59
% change year-on-year +7.27% +40.36% +3.12%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England -65 197 £500 - 146
UK excluding London -60 114 £475 -5.00% 110
London -28 94 £543 -1.36% 37
Work from Home -4 92 £500 - 68
North of England +13 35 £500 +2.56% 30
South East -35 26 £475 -5.00% 38
Midlands +20 24 £488 +25.81% 18
North West +11 22 £488 -2.50% 19
West Midlands +19 18 £488 +23.81% 11
Scotland +36 15 £375 -25.00% 1
South West -2 12 £463 +1.09% 12
Yorkshire +8 8 £525 +5.00% 9
North East +11 5 £897 +79.39% 2
East Midlands +9 5 £368 +5.00% 7
East of England -26 4 £450 +3.45% 10
Wales +21 1 £450 -18.18% 3

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.00%) Confluence
4 2 (0.86%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) Smallworld
Applications
1 18 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.72%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.86%) Maya
4 2 (0.86%) NUKE
5 1 (0.43%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.43%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.29%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.86%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.86%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.86%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.43%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 78 (33.48%) Azure
2 35 (15.02%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (14.59%) AWS
4 20 (8.58%) Entra ID
4 20 (8.58%) Power Platform
5 18 (7.73%) GCP
6 12 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.86%) PaaS
9 8 (3.43%) IaaS
10 7 (3.00%) GitHub
11 6 (2.58%) Mimecast
12 5 (2.15%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.72%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.72%) SaaS
14 3 (1.29%) OneDrive
14 3 (1.29%) Serverless
15 2 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 2 (0.86%) AWS CodePipeline
15 2 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.16%) Firewall
2 15 (6.44%) DNS
3 13 (5.58%) VPN
3 13 (5.58%) WAN
4 11 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (4.29%) LAN
5 10 (4.29%) VoIP
6 8 (3.43%) SD-WAN
7 7 (3.00%) VLAN
8 6 (2.58%) DHCP
9 5 (2.15%) SAN
10 4 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (1.72%) Network Security
10 4 (1.72%) NX-OS
11 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.86%) BGP
12 2 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.86%) NAS
12 2 (0.86%) OSPF
12 2 (0.86%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.29%) Power BI
3 7 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.15%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.29%) Big Data
6 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.29%) OLAP
6 3 (1.29%) OLTP
6 3 (1.29%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.86%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.43%) GIS
8 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.29%) JIRA
2 6 (2.58%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (2.15%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.15%) GitLab
3 5 (2.15%) Selenium
3 5 (2.15%) WebDriver
4 2 (0.86%) ClearCase
4 2 (0.86%) ClearQuest
4 2 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.43%) Git
5 1 (0.43%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 126 (54.08%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.18%) Finance
3 34 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.87%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (7.30%) Banking
6 11 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.29%) Marketing
8 9 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.15%) Advertising
10 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.29%) Retail
11 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.86%) Automotive
12 2 (0.86%) Games
12 2 (0.86%) Local Government
13 1 (0.43%) Front Office
13 1 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (17.60%) Architect
2 30 (12.88%) Analyst
3 20 (8.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (8.58%) Senior
4 19 (8.15%) Business Analyst
5 18 (7.73%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.44%) Consultant
7 13 (5.58%) Project Manager
8 12 (5.15%) Network Engineer
8 12 (5.15%) Support Engineer
9 11 (4.72%) Developer
10 10 (4.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 10 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (3.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.00%) Functional Consultant
13 7 (3.00%) Lead
13 7 (3.00%) Security Manager
14 6 (2.58%) SailPoint Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.15%) SailPoint
2 9 (3.86%) .NET
2 9 (3.86%) XML
3 8 (3.43%) Middleware
4 7 (3.00%) HTML
4 7 (3.00%) LDAP
5 6 (2.58%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.58%) JSP
5 6 (2.58%) Servlets
5 6 (2.58%) SOAP
5 6 (2.58%) SPML
6 3 (1.29%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.29%) REST
6 3 (1.29%) YAML
7 2 (0.86%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.86%) HATEOAS
7 2 (0.86%) IDoc
7 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.86%) PySide
7 2 (0.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.87%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.58%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.43%) Clustering
5 7 (3.00%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.58%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.15%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.72%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.29%) PMI
10 2 (0.86%) Animation
10 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.86%) Equities
10 2 (0.86%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.86%) Motion Graphics
10 2 (0.86%) PKI
10 2 (0.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 52 (22.32%) Windows
2 25 (10.73%) Windows Server
3 22 (9.44%) Linux
4 18 (7.73%) Windows 10
5 14 (6.01%) Unix
6 7 (3.00%) Mac OS
6 7 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (2.15%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.15%) Solaris
8 5 (2.15%) VMS
9 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.43%) AIX
10 1 (0.43%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (19.31%) Migration
3 36 (15.45%) Agile
4 29 (12.45%) DevOps
4 29 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (12.02%) ITIL
6 26 (11.16%) Computer Science
7 24 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (9.01%) Change Management
9 20 (8.58%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (7.73%) Project Management
11 15 (6.44%) Data Migration
12 14 (6.01%) Cloud Security
12 14 (6.01%) Roadmaps
13 13 (5.58%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (5.58%) Scrum
13 13 (5.58%) Test Automation
13 13 (5.58%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (5.15%) PRINCE2
14 12 (5.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.73%) SQL
2 23 (9.87%) PowerShell
3 13 (5.58%) Python
4 8 (3.43%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.00%) C#
5 7 (3.00%) Java
6 2 (0.86%) Ruby
7 1 (0.43%) Bicep
7 1 (0.43%) C
7 1 (0.43%) C++
7 1 (0.43%) Dart
7 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.43%) Scala
7 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (23.61%) Degree
2 22 (9.44%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.44%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.58%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.72%) CCNP
8 4 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.86%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.43%) ACCA
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.43%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.43%) CBAP
11 1 (0.43%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.44%) QA
2 7 (3.00%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.72%) PMO
4 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.29%) GDPR
5 2 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.86%) PSD2
5 2 (0.86%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
System Software
1 52 (22.32%) Active Directory
2 23 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.72%) Docker
4 9 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.43%) vSphere
6 7 (3.00%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.00%) KVM
7 6 (2.58%) ACF2
7 6 (2.58%) IAG
7 6 (2.58%) RACF
8 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.86%) Ceph
9 2 (0.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.43%) XenApp
10 1 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (6.44%) SCCM
2 11 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.29%) Terraform
4 8 (3.43%) Ansible
5 7 (3.00%) Autotask
5 7 (3.00%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.72%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.29%) Netcool
8 2 (0.86%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.86%) Nessus
8 2 (0.86%) Pacemaker
8 2 (0.86%) Podman
8 2 (0.86%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.86%) SCOM
9 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (28.76%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.59%) VMware
3 17 (7.30%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.15%) BeyondTrust
4 12 (5.15%) CyberArk
5 10 (4.29%) Cisco
5 10 (4.29%) Oracle
6 8 (3.43%) SAP
7 7 (3.00%) Citrix
7 7 (3.00%) Datto
8 6 (2.58%) Apple
8 6 (2.58%) IBM
8 6 (2.58%) Tanium
9 5 (2.15%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.15%) Databricks
9 5 (2.15%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.72%) HP
10 4 (1.72%) Nintex
10 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.29%) Infoblox