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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 395 440
Rank change year-on-year +40 +45 +8
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 423 288 459
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.68% 0.50%
As % of the General category 1.05% 0.97% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 281 200 379
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,725 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -12.28%

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 40,371 29,609 52,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 47.00% 70.36% 57.32%
Number of salaries quoted 25,790 15,193 35,791
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 4 July 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 4 July 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
South East +42 100 £48,000 -31.43% 55
London -57 89 £71,250 +10.89% 58
North of England +2 88 £45,000 +7.14% 36
Midlands -7 58 £55,000 +10.00% 27
North West +22 54 £55,000 - 24
South West -42 43 £42,500 +6.25% 15
East of England +1 41 £50,000 - 9
West Midlands -24 34 £52,500 +3.50% 13
Yorkshire -33 26 £42,500 +1.19% 9
East Midlands -1 24 £60,000 +77.78% 14
North East -40 8 £45,000 +66.67% 3
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 37 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.31%) IIS
4 7 (1.65%) Confluence
5 5 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 44 (10.40%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (6.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.18%) CorelDRAW
5 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.47%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) SAP CO
1 5 (1.18%) SAP FI
1 5 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
1 5 (1.18%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.47%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) C-CURE
4 1 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 124 (29.31%) Azure
2 96 (22.70%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (10.87%) AWS
4 45 (10.64%) Entra ID
5 42 (9.93%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.44%) SaaS
7 21 (4.96%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.55%) dbt
9 12 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (2.60%) GitHub
11 10 (2.36%) PowerApps
12 9 (2.13%) IaaS
12 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.89%) GCP
14 7 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.65%) Azure Stack
14 7 (1.65%) PaaS
15 6 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.42%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 64 (15.13%) Firewall
2 56 (13.24%) DNS
3 51 (12.06%) VPN
4 41 (9.69%) DHCP
5 38 (8.98%) TCP/IP
6 30 (7.09%) VLAN
7 27 (6.38%) WAN
8 17 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (3.55%) LAN
9 15 (3.55%) Network Security
9 15 (3.55%) Wireless
10 12 (2.84%) VoIP
11 9 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (2.13%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.65%) SAN
13 6 (1.42%) NAS
14 5 (1.18%) BGP
14 5 (1.18%) DMZ
14 5 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (1.18%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.27%) Power BI
2 32 (7.57%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.89%) Metabase
5 6 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.42%) Looker
6 5 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.18%) Metadata
7 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.71%) Big Data
8 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.71%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.47%) MySQL
9 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.47%) Power Query
10 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (5.20%) JIRA
2 16 (3.78%) Git
3 13 (3.07%) GitLab
4 10 (2.36%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.47%) Postman
6 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.24%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.24%) Hudson
7 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 234 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 80 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (17.49%) Finance
4 42 (9.93%) Manufacturing
5 36 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
6 26 (6.15%) Retail
7 22 (5.20%) Law
8 19 (4.49%) Legal
9 18 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (4.26%) Telecoms
10 13 (3.07%) Banking
11 12 (2.84%) Electronics
12 11 (2.60%) Aerospace
13 10 (2.36%) Marketing
14 7 (1.65%) Front Office
14 7 (1.65%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.18%) Advertising
15 5 (1.18%) Automotive
15 5 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 87 (20.57%) Analyst
2 50 (11.82%) IT Support
3 48 (11.35%) Support Analyst
4 39 (9.22%) Support Engineer
5 37 (8.75%) Consultant
5 37 (8.75%) Senior
6 26 (6.15%) Lead
7 23 (5.44%) Architect
8 22 (5.20%) Systems Analyst
9 21 (4.96%) Applications Support
9 21 (4.96%) Security Engineer
9 21 (4.96%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (4.96%) Systems Support
10 19 (4.49%) IT Analyst
11 18 (4.26%) Systems Support Analyst
12 17 (4.02%) Business Analyst
12 17 (4.02%) IT Engineer
13 16 (3.78%) IT Support Analyst
14 15 (3.55%) Applications Support Analyst
14 15 (3.55%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.60%) Middleware
2 9 (2.13%) ARM Templates
3 6 (1.42%) JSON
3 6 (1.42%) Node.js
3 6 (1.42%) REST
4 5 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.18%) CSS
4 5 (1.18%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.18%) HTML
4 5 (1.18%) Jinja
4 5 (1.18%) YAML
5 4 (0.95%) .NET
6 3 (0.71%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (0.71%) PySpark
6 3 (0.71%) SOAP
7 2 (0.47%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.47%) Kafka
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.80%) Driving Licence
2 31 (7.33%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (3.31%) CCTV
4 14 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.89%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.89%) CMDB
9 8 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.65%) PKI
11 6 (1.42%) Blog
11 6 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.42%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.18%) Mobile Computing
13 4 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 109 (25.77%) Windows
2 69 (16.31%) Windows Server
3 41 (9.69%) Linux
4 13 (3.07%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.36%) CentOS
7 9 (2.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.18%) Debian
9 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.95%) VMS
11 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.71%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.47%) Unix
13 1 (0.24%) Android
13 1 (0.24%) Rocky
13 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
2 108 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 55 (13.00%) ITIL
4 47 (11.11%) Agile
5 45 (10.64%) Change Management
5 45 (10.64%) ERP
6 44 (10.40%) Project Delivery
7 40 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (8.27%) CI/CD
10 34 (8.04%) Analytics
10 34 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (7.57%) Customer Service
11 32 (7.57%) Incident Management
11 32 (7.57%) Root Cause Analysis
12 31 (7.33%) AI
13 30 (7.09%) Business Analysis
13 30 (7.09%) Disaster Recovery
14 29 (6.86%) DevOps
15 26 (6.15%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 92 (21.75%) SQL
2 56 (13.24%) Python
3 54 (12.77%) PowerShell
4 21 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.26%) Bash
6 9 (2.13%) C++
7 7 (1.65%) C#
7 7 (1.65%) Java
8 6 (1.42%) PHP
9 5 (1.18%) C
10 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.47%) ABAP
12 2 (0.47%) Bicep
12 2 (0.47%) Groovy
12 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.24%) RPG III
13 1 (0.24%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 72 (17.02%) Degree
2 49 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.84%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.60%) HND
7 10 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.65%) CISSP
10 5 (1.18%) CCNA
10 5 (1.18%) CCNP
10 5 (1.18%) HNC
10 5 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.18%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.95%) CISM
11 4 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (4.73%) QA
3 18 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.55%) SLA
5 12 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (2.60%) GDPR
7 9 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.65%) NIST
9 6 (1.42%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.42%) ISO 9001
10 5 (1.18%) GRC
10 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.95%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.71%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.71%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.47%) NCSC
13 2 (0.47%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 79 (18.68%) Active Directory
2 30 (7.09%) Hyper-V
3 27 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.55%) Docker
5 6 (1.42%) Firmware
5 6 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.42%) vSphere
6 3 (0.71%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.71%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.47%) KVM
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (4.96%) Terraform
3 15 (3.55%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.84%) Ansible
5 10 (2.36%) Nagios
6 8 (1.89%) SCCM
7 7 (1.65%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.18%) Backup Exec
9 5 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.18%) FortiGate
9 5 (1.18%) Podman
9 5 (1.18%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.95%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (0.71%) Puppet
12 2 (0.47%) Argo
12 2 (0.47%) Grafana
12 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 156 (36.88%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.46%) Cisco
3 37 (8.75%) VMware
4 20 (4.73%) SAP
5 16 (3.78%) Fortinet
6 15 (3.55%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.07%) Citrix
8 10 (2.36%) SolarWinds
9 9 (2.13%) Google
9 9 (2.13%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.13%) Veeam
10 8 (1.89%) Aruba
10 8 (1.89%) JD Edwards
10 8 (1.89%) Juniper
10 8 (1.89%) Sophos
11 7 (1.65%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.65%) Splunk
12 6 (1.42%) iManage
12 6 (1.42%) Pega
12 6 (1.42%) Red Hat