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 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 432 397
Rank change year-on-year +100 -35 +79
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 389 193 507
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.75% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 258 124 440
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,375 £26,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £40,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +3.38% -13.75%
75th Percentile £72,188 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £53,500 £51,200
% change year-on-year +1.87% +4.49% -14.67%

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 39,385 25,850 48,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 51.95% 70.31% 59.74%
Number of salaries quoted 21,773 14,266 35,222
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,445
25th Percentile £37,375 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -13.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 +36 131 £75,000 +19.05% 41
South East +29 80 £50,250 +11.67% 43
Midlands -27 54 £55,000 +6.91% 30
North of England -38 54 £45,000 +7.14% 22
East of England +4 41 £32,500 -33.33% 18
West Midlands -20 32 £60,000 +16.62% 21
North West -5 28 £45,000 -18.18% 12
South West -41 28 £45,000 +12.50% 13
East Midlands -33 21 £55,000 +13.40% 9
Yorkshire -51 20 £34,000 -19.05% 6
North East -25 6 £45,000 +42.86% 6
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 24 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.03%) IIS
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.77%) Confluence
5 2 (0.51%) WordPress
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 45 (11.57%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.51%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.26%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.51%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.26%) C-CURE
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 138 (35.48%) Azure
2 90 (23.14%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (11.05%) Power Platform
4 40 (10.28%) Entra ID
5 35 (9.00%) AWS
6 26 (6.68%) Power Automate
7 23 (5.91%) SaaS
8 16 (4.11%) dbt
9 14 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.60%) PaaS
10 12 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (2.83%) IaaS
11 11 (2.83%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.57%) ChatGPT
12 10 (2.57%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.31%) GCP
14 8 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.54%) OpenShift
16 4 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (11.83%) DNS
2 44 (11.31%) Firewall
3 34 (8.74%) DHCP
4 30 (7.71%) VPN
5 25 (6.43%) TCP/IP
6 23 (5.91%) VLAN
7 18 (4.63%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (4.11%) WAN
9 12 (3.08%) LAN
9 12 (3.08%) Network Security
10 10 (2.57%) VoIP
11 8 (2.06%) NAS
12 7 (1.80%) SAN
13 6 (1.54%) DMZ
14 5 (1.29%) NetScaler
14 5 (1.29%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (1.29%) STUN
15 4 (1.03%) Internet
15 4 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.00%) Power BI
2 30 (7.71%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (3.60%) Metadata
4 12 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 12 (3.08%) Metabase
5 6 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.03%) Big Data
7 4 (1.03%) Metadata Repository
7 4 (1.03%) MySQL
8 3 (0.77%) Looker
8 3 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.51%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.26%) Flink
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (4.11%) Git
2 15 (3.86%) Visual Studio
3 14 (3.60%) JIRA
4 9 (2.31%) GitLab
5 6 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.29%) Subversion
7 3 (0.77%) Selenium
8 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.51%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.26%) JMeter
9 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.26%) Postman
9 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
General
1 216 (55.53%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.05%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (19.28%) Finance
4 36 (9.25%) Retail
5 33 (8.48%) Legal
6 31 (7.97%) Manufacturing
7 30 (7.71%) Banking
8 23 (5.91%) Law
9 19 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (4.37%) Electronics
12 15 (3.86%) Telecoms
13 13 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (2.83%) German Language
15 8 (2.06%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.80%) Advertising
16 7 (1.80%) Automotive
17 6 (1.54%) Billing
17 6 (1.54%) Front Office
18 5 (1.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 80 (20.57%) Analyst
2 50 (12.85%) IT Support
2 50 (12.85%) Senior
3 35 (9.00%) Lead
3 35 (9.00%) Support Analyst
4 29 (7.46%) Architect
5 24 (6.17%) IT Analyst
6 23 (5.91%) Support Engineer
7 22 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 20 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (4.88%) IT Support Analyst
10 17 (4.37%) Security Engineer
11 16 (4.11%) Financial Analyst
11 16 (4.11%) Systems Analyst
11 16 (4.11%) Systems Support
11 16 (4.11%) Systems Support Analyst
12 15 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (3.60%) Consultant
13 14 (3.60%) Project Manager
14 13 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.31%) REST
2 7 (1.80%) JSON
3 6 (1.54%) .NET
4 5 (1.29%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.29%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.29%) Jinja
4 5 (1.29%) Middleware
4 5 (1.29%) PySpark
4 5 (1.29%) YAML
5 4 (1.03%) SOAP
6 3 (0.77%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.77%) CSS
6 3 (0.77%) HTML
6 3 (0.77%) React
7 2 (0.51%) Kafka
7 2 (0.51%) Laravel
7 2 (0.51%) WPF
8 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.26%) jQuery
8 1 (0.26%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.37%) Analytical Mindset
1 17 (4.37%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.11%) Driving Licence
3 14 (3.60%) Low-Code
4 13 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.83%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.83%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.57%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.31%) Life Science
8 8 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 8 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.80%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.54%) CCTV
10 6 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.29%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.29%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 72 (18.51%) Windows
2 51 (13.11%) Windows Server
3 29 (7.46%) Linux
4 7 (1.80%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.29%) Debian
6 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.29%) VMS
6 5 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.03%) CentOS
8 2 (0.51%) Unix
9 1 (0.26%) Android
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 102 (26.22%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (15.42%) Agile
3 60 (15.42%) ITIL
4 53 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 49 (12.60%) Cybersecurity
6 43 (11.05%) Change Management
7 42 (10.80%) AI
8 40 (10.28%) Analytics
9 37 (9.51%) Business Intelligence
10 36 (9.25%) Project Delivery
11 32 (8.23%) Incident Management
11 32 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 30 (7.71%) Data Analysis
13 29 (7.46%) Process Improvement
14 28 (7.20%) ERP
15 26 (6.68%) CI/CD
15 26 (6.68%) Customer Service
16 25 (6.43%) Project Management
16 25 (6.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 63 (16.20%) SQL
2 46 (11.83%) PowerShell
3 43 (11.05%) Python
4 14 (3.60%) Bash
5 13 (3.34%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.31%) C#
7 7 (1.80%) VBA
8 6 (1.54%) C++
8 6 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.54%) PHP
9 5 (1.29%) Java
10 3 (0.77%) Bicep
11 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.26%) ABAP
12 1 (0.26%) C
12 1 (0.26%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) R
12 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) VB
12 1 (0.26%) VB6
Qualifications
1 90 (23.14%) Degree
2 42 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.66%) CISSP
5 16 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.34%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.34%) CISM
7 12 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.83%) CEH
9 10 (2.57%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (2.06%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.06%) IIBA
10 8 (2.06%) PMI Certification
10 8 (2.06%) PMP
11 7 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.29%) CCIE
13 5 (1.29%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.77%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.91%) SLA
4 12 (3.08%) QA
5 9 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.31%) NIST
6 7 (1.80%) GDPR
6 7 (1.80%) GRC
6 7 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (1.54%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.03%) MiFID
9 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.77%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (17.99%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.08%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.06%) Docker
5 6 (1.54%) vSphere
6 5 (1.29%) Firmware
6 5 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.77%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.77%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
9 1 (0.26%) Lustre
9 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.26%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 15 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.60%) Terraform
3 12 (3.08%) SCCM
4 11 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (2.57%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.54%) Ansible
6 6 (1.54%) Nagios
6 6 (1.54%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.29%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.29%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.03%) Grafana
8 4 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.03%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (0.77%) cPanel
9 3 (0.77%) Plesk
10 2 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.51%) Nessus
10 2 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 132 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.23%) VMware
3 22 (5.66%) Cisco
4 19 (4.88%) Citrix
4 19 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.11%) SAP
6 13 (3.34%) SolarWinds
7 12 (3.08%) Pega
8 10 (2.57%) iManage
9 9 (2.31%) Alteryx
9 9 (2.31%) Databricks
9 9 (2.31%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.06%) Anaplan
10 8 (2.06%) Blue Prism
10 8 (2.06%) UiPath
10 8 (2.06%) Veeam
11 6 (1.54%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.29%) Epicor
12 5 (1.29%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.29%) NetApp