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 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 402 444
Rank change year-on-year +39 +42 0
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 382 245 461
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.62% 0.50%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.86% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 263 171 386
10th Percentile £31,600 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £39,875 £40,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%

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 38,664 28,494 52,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 47.22% 72.49% 57.43%
Number of salaries quoted 24,366 14,037 36,400
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -50 90 £72,500 +14.62% 54
North of England +4 86 £45,000 +7.14% 34
South East +36 78 £47,500 -29.63% 58
Midlands -3 53 £55,500 -5.13% 20
North West +38 46 £55,000 - 22
South West -25 37 £37,500 -6.25% 11
East of England +6 34 £46,250 -7.50% 12
Yorkshire -34 32 £34,000 -18.07% 8
West Midlands -20 29 £56,000 -4.68% 13
East Midlands -6 24 £55,000 +29.41% 7
North East -39 8 £45,000 +66.67% 4
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 21 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.09%) IIS
4 7 (1.83%) Confluence
5 5 (1.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 41 (10.73%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.52%) CorelDRAW
4 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.26%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.31%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (1.05%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.05%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.52%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.52%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.26%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 112 (29.32%) Azure
2 81 (21.20%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (9.95%) Entra ID
4 37 (9.69%) Power Platform
5 33 (8.64%) AWS
6 25 (6.54%) SaaS
7 21 (5.50%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.93%) dbt
9 9 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.36%) GitHub
9 9 (2.36%) IaaS
9 9 (2.36%) PaaS
9 9 (2.36%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.83%) Azure Stack
11 6 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.57%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.31%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 47 (12.30%) Firewall
2 44 (11.52%) DNS
3 40 (10.47%) VPN
4 34 (8.90%) DHCP
5 29 (7.59%) TCP/IP
6 25 (6.54%) VLAN
7 22 (5.76%) WAN
8 19 (4.97%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (3.66%) Network Security
10 12 (3.14%) VoIP
11 10 (2.62%) LAN
12 9 (2.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.36%) Wireless
13 8 (2.09%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.57%) BGP
14 6 (1.57%) NAS
14 6 (1.57%) OSPF
14 6 (1.57%) SAN
15 5 (1.31%) DMZ
15 5 (1.31%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.64%) Power BI
2 23 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.09%) Metabase
5 6 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.57%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.57%) Looker
5 6 (1.57%) Metadata
6 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.79%) Big Data
8 3 (0.79%) MySQL
8 3 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.79%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.52%) Power Query
10 1 (0.26%) Flink
10 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (6.02%) JIRA
2 15 (3.93%) Git
3 13 (3.40%) GitLab
4 10 (2.62%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.52%) Postman
6 2 (0.52%) Subversion
6 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.26%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.26%) JMeter
7 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 207 (54.19%) Social Skills
2 81 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (18.32%) Finance
4 36 (9.42%) Manufacturing
5 29 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (7.07%) Retail
7 21 (5.50%) Law
8 18 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (4.45%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.93%) Banking
11 14 (3.66%) Electronics
11 14 (3.66%) Legal
12 11 (2.88%) Marketing
13 8 (2.09%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.83%) Front Office
14 7 (1.83%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.31%) Advertising
15 5 (1.31%) Automotive
15 5 (1.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 79 (20.68%) Analyst
2 45 (11.78%) IT Support
2 45 (11.78%) Support Analyst
3 30 (7.85%) Senior
4 26 (6.81%) Architect
5 25 (6.54%) Consultant
6 23 (6.02%) Support Engineer
7 22 (5.76%) Systems Analyst
8 21 (5.50%) Lead
9 20 (5.24%) Security Engineer
9 20 (5.24%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (4.97%) IT Analyst
11 18 (4.71%) Systems Support
11 18 (4.71%) Systems Support Analyst
12 16 (4.19%) Applications Support
12 16 (4.19%) IT Support Analyst
13 15 (3.93%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.40%) Network Engineer
15 12 (3.14%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.36%) ARM Templates
2 7 (1.83%) REST
3 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.31%) CSS
3 5 (1.31%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.31%) HTML
3 5 (1.31%) Jinja
3 5 (1.31%) JSON
3 5 (1.31%) Middleware
3 5 (1.31%) Node.js
3 5 (1.31%) YAML
4 4 (1.05%) .NET
4 4 (1.05%) SOAP
5 3 (0.79%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.79%) PySpark
6 2 (0.52%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.52%) WPF
7 1 (0.26%) Kafka
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.07%) Driving Licence
2 23 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.93%) CCTV
4 14 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.62%) Low-Code
6 10 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.09%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.09%) CMDB
9 7 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.57%) Blog
10 6 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.31%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.31%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (1.05%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.05%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 83 (21.73%) Windows
2 55 (14.40%) Windows Server
3 37 (9.69%) Linux
4 10 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.09%) CentOS
5 8 (2.09%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.83%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.31%) Debian
8 5 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.05%) VMS
10 1 (0.26%) Android
10 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.27%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (26.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 46 (12.04%) Agile
3 46 (12.04%) ITIL
4 39 (10.21%) Project Delivery
5 38 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (9.42%) Incident Management
7 35 (9.16%) Analytics
7 35 (9.16%) CI/CD
8 34 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
8 34 (8.90%) ERP
9 31 (8.12%) Change Management
9 31 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (7.59%) AI
11 26 (6.81%) DevOps
12 25 (6.54%) Customer Service
12 25 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (6.28%) Business Analysis
14 23 (6.02%) Root Cause Analysis
15 22 (5.76%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (20.42%) SQL
2 51 (13.35%) Python
3 47 (12.30%) PowerShell
4 19 (4.97%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.19%) Bash
6 7 (1.83%) C#
6 7 (1.83%) Java
7 6 (1.57%) PHP
8 5 (1.31%) C++
9 3 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.52%) ABAP
10 2 (0.52%) Bicep
10 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.52%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.26%) VB
11 1 (0.26%) VB6
11 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (16.75%) Degree
2 49 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.83%) CISSP
8 6 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.31%) HND
9 5 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.31%) PMP
10 4 (1.05%) CCNA
10 4 (1.05%) CCNP
10 4 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.05%) CISM
10 4 (1.05%) IIBA
10 4 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.05%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (4.97%) QA
3 18 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.71%) SLA
4 8 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.83%) GDPR
5 7 (1.83%) GRC
6 6 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (1.57%) NIST
7 5 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.05%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.79%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.52%) NCSC
10 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 67 (17.54%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.66%) Docker
3 14 (3.66%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.57%) Firmware
4 6 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.57%) vSphere
5 3 (0.79%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.79%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.26%) KVM
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (5.24%) Terraform
2 19 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (3.66%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.62%) Ansible
4 10 (2.62%) Nagios
5 8 (2.09%) SCCM
6 6 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.57%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.31%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.31%) Podman
7 5 (1.31%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.31%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.05%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.52%) Argo
9 2 (0.52%) Grafana
9 2 (0.52%) Puppet
10 1 (0.26%) Netcool
Vendors
1 125 (32.72%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.42%) Cisco
3 32 (8.38%) VMware
4 21 (5.50%) SAP
5 16 (4.19%) Citrix
5 16 (4.19%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.88%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.62%) SolarWinds
8 9 (2.36%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.09%) Splunk
9 8 (2.09%) Veeam
10 7 (1.83%) Google
10 7 (1.83%) Pega
11 6 (1.57%) Databricks
11 6 (1.57%) iManage
11 6 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.57%) UiPath
12 5 (1.31%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.31%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.31%) Nexthink