Documentation Skills Job Trends in Edinburgh

Documentation Skills
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 6 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.60% - 0.10%
As % of the General category 0.89% - 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,500 - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £30,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.83%
75th Percentile £36,500 - £32,500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £35,000 £57,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -39.13% +35.29% -29.17%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 672 861 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.54% 71.63% 76.68%
Number of salaries quoted 253 334 634
10th Percentile £25,100 £35,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £56,509 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.21% -13.06% +4.84%
75th Percentile £61,250 £74,786 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,831 £95,000 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -36.36% +4.76% -8.70%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Documentation Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) 802.11
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) HSRP
1 1 (16.67%) IPsec
1 1 (16.67%) OSPF
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (83.33%) Retail
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Legal
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Operations Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Batch Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Network Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Blue Prism
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Pega
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco