Documentation Skills Job Trends in England

Documentation Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 327 506
Rank change year-on-year -61 +179 -91
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 450 359 236
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.84% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.96% 1.22% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 299 251 140
10th Percentile £34,950 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,772 £53,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -17.69% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £88,500
UK median annual salary £51,500 £54,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% -13.60% +9.65%

All General Skills
England

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 general skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 46,996 29,360 38,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 45.71% 68.58% 57.63%
Number of salaries quoted 30,052 15,531 19,805
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,573 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £56,988
% change year-on-year +1.85% -5.24% -5.02%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in England

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in England over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in England

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 23 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -85 99 £63,500 -9.29% 226
South East -17 96 £50,000 -12.66% 111
North of England -43 83 £52,136 +22.67% 75
South West -19 75 £43,000 +7.50% 41
Midlands -56 59 £55,000 +22.22% 51
North West -2 56 £55,000 +38.36% 48
West Midlands -36 40 £51,500 +0.10% 38
East of England -27 35 £55,000 +1.85% 39
Yorkshire -53 22 £57,500 +35.29% 19
East Midlands -36 19 £60,000 +41.18% 13
North East -68 5 £36,000 +44.00% 8
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 36 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (4.44%) Confluence
4 11 (2.44%) IIS
5 5 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 35 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.33%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.11%) CorelDRAW
6 4 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.56%) SAP CO
1 7 (1.56%) SAP FI
1 7 (1.56%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (1.11%) Infor CloudSuite
2 5 (1.11%) Infor LN
2 5 (1.11%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.67%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.67%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.22%) C-CURE
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.22%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 122 (27.11%) Azure
2 78 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (12.22%) Power Platform
4 46 (10.22%) Entra ID
5 45 (10.00%) AWS
6 32 (7.11%) SaaS
7 20 (4.44%) Power Automate
8 13 (2.89%) GitHub
9 12 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.22%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (1.78%) Azure Stack
11 8 (1.78%) dbt
11 8 (1.78%) GCP
11 8 (1.78%) n8n
11 8 (1.78%) Zapier
12 7 (1.56%) Boomi
12 7 (1.56%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 58 (12.89%) Firewall
2 48 (10.67%) VPN
3 46 (10.22%) DNS
4 31 (6.89%) TCP/IP
5 28 (6.22%) DHCP
6 24 (5.33%) Network Security
6 24 (5.33%) VLAN
7 22 (4.89%) Wireless
8 21 (4.67%) WAN
9 17 (3.78%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (3.11%) LAN
11 11 (2.44%) BGP
12 10 (2.22%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.00%) HTTP
13 9 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (2.00%) SAN
14 8 (1.78%) OSPF
15 7 (1.56%) VoIP
16 5 (1.11%) Internet
17 4 (0.89%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.67%) Power BI
2 17 (3.78%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.00%) Metadata
4 8 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.33%) Big Data
6 5 (1.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.11%) Looker
7 4 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.44%) EDMS
8 2 (0.44%) Redis
9 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.22%) Flink
9 1 (0.22%) GIS
9 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.22%) Parquet
9 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (6.67%) JIRA
2 8 (1.78%) Git
3 5 (1.11%) GitLab
4 4 (0.89%) Postman
5 2 (0.44%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.22%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.22%) Hudson
6 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) JMeter
6 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.22%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 244 (54.22%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (16.89%) Finance
4 46 (10.22%) Manufacturing
5 37 (8.22%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (6.89%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (6.00%) Legal
8 22 (4.89%) Law
9 19 (4.22%) Retail
10 17 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (3.56%) Banking
12 15 (3.33%) Aerospace
13 13 (2.89%) Marketing
13 13 (2.89%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.44%) Electronics
15 10 (2.22%) Public Sector
16 8 (1.78%) Military
17 7 (1.56%) Front Office
18 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (21.78%) Analyst
2 48 (10.67%) Support Engineer
3 45 (10.00%) Senior
4 42 (9.33%) Consultant
5 37 (8.22%) Support Analyst
6 35 (7.78%) Business Analyst
7 31 (6.89%) IT Support
8 26 (5.78%) Applications Support
9 25 (5.56%) IT Engineer
10 24 (5.33%) Lead
11 23 (5.11%) Architect
12 19 (4.22%) IT Support Engineer
13 18 (4.00%) Systems Support
14 16 (3.56%) IT Analyst
14 16 (3.56%) Security Engineer
14 16 (3.56%) Systems Analyst
14 16 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (3.56%) Test Engineer
15 15 (3.33%) Developer
16 13 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.22%) REST
1 19 (4.22%) Terraform
2 8 (1.78%) Middleware
2 8 (1.78%) Playwright
3 7 (1.56%) CSS
3 7 (1.56%) HTML
3 7 (1.56%) JSON
3 7 (1.56%) XML
4 6 (1.33%) .NET
4 6 (1.33%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.33%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.33%) Node.js
4 6 (1.33%) SOAP
5 5 (1.11%) EDI
6 3 (0.67%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (0.67%) Matplotlib
6 3 (0.67%) NumPy
6 3 (0.67%) Pandas
7 2 (0.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.11%) Driving Licence
2 35 (7.78%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.56%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (3.11%) CCTV
4 14 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.78%) Client/Server
7 8 (1.78%) CMDB
7 8 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.78%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.78%) PKI
8 7 (1.56%) IoT
8 7 (1.56%) Replication
9 6 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 89 (19.78%) Windows
2 48 (10.67%) Windows Server
3 27 (6.00%) Linux
4 13 (2.89%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.89%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.00%) CentOS
6 8 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.11%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.89%) Rocky
9 3 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.44%) Android
10 2 (0.44%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.22%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
11 1 (0.22%) Unix
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 66 (14.67%) Agile
4 60 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 55 (12.22%) Business Analysis
6 51 (11.33%) Business Intelligence
7 49 (10.89%) ITIL
8 48 (10.67%) AI
9 46 (10.22%) Requirements Gathering
10 45 (10.00%) DevOps
10 45 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 43 (9.56%) ERP
12 42 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 40 (8.89%) Migration
13 40 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
13 40 (8.89%) Validation
14 39 (8.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 38 (8.44%) Change Management
15 38 (8.44%) Process Improvement
15 38 (8.44%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 101 (22.44%) SQL
2 55 (12.22%) PowerShell
3 39 (8.67%) Python
4 18 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.44%) Bash
6 9 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (1.56%) C++
9 6 (1.33%) C#
10 5 (1.11%) C
10 5 (1.11%) Java
11 4 (0.89%) PHP
12 3 (0.67%) Bicep
12 3 (0.67%) VBA
13 2 (0.44%) ABAP
13 2 (0.44%) Go
13 2 (0.44%) Groovy
13 2 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (12.22%) Degree
2 52 (11.56%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.67%) CCNP
6 10 (2.22%) CCNA
6 10 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.00%) HND
8 8 (1.78%) SAP Certification
9 7 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.11%) ACCA
11 5 (1.11%) CISSP
11 5 (1.11%) HNC
12 4 (0.89%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.89%) CIMA
13 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.22%) QA
2 28 (6.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 25 (5.56%) GDPR
4 13 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.00%) NIST
5 9 (2.00%) SLA
6 8 (1.78%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.11%) ISO 9001
8 5 (1.11%) Software Quality Assurance
9 4 (0.89%) GRC
9 4 (0.89%) ISO 22301
9 4 (0.89%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.22%) COBIT
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (10.89%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 22 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.67%) Docker
4 12 (2.67%) Firmware
5 7 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.89%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.89%) vSphere
7 2 (0.44%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.44%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (6.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.11%) Ansible
3 12 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (2.44%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.78%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.56%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.89%) Nagios
8 4 (0.89%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.89%) Podman
8 4 (0.89%) VxRail
9 3 (0.67%) SCCM
10 2 (0.44%) Grafana
10 2 (0.44%) Puppet
11 1 (0.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
11 1 (0.22%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 149 (33.11%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.56%) Cisco
3 29 (6.44%) VMware
4 24 (5.33%) SAP
5 20 (4.44%) Fortinet
6 17 (3.78%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.89%) Veeam
9 12 (2.67%) Dell
9 12 (2.67%) JD Edwards
9 12 (2.67%) Palo Alto
10 9 (2.00%) Aruba
10 9 (2.00%) Google
11 8 (1.78%) Juniper
12 6 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.33%) Oracle
12 6 (1.33%) Sophos
13 5 (1.11%) Adobe
13 5 (1.11%) Sage
13 5 (1.11%) Splunk