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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 353 473
Rank change year-on-year -18 +120 -39
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 433 341 335
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.78% 0.44%
As % of the General category 1.02% 1.13% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 280 239 258
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,350 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -10.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,375 £75,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -10.71%

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 42,397 30,103 43,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 46.44% 69.19% 57.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27,153 15,964 27,438
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,014
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 31 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 31 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 +39 109 £50,000 -28.57% 54
London -71 95 £70,000 +7.69% 62
North of England -17 79 £53,750 +26.47% 24
Midlands -32 62 £55,000 +29.41% 21
North West +29 52 £55,000 +18.92% 15
South West -34 48 £42,500 +6.25% 16
West Midlands -20 38 £53,250 +6.50% 11
East of England -11 37 £50,000 -6.10% 8
East Midlands -15 24 £60,000 +54.84% 10
Yorkshire -48 22 £56,250 +32.35% 8
North East -49 5 £45,000 +80.00% 2
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 39 (9.01%) SharePoint
2 32 (7.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.23%) IIS
4 12 (2.77%) Confluence
5 5 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 38 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.15%) CorelDRAW
6 2 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.85%) SAP CO
1 8 (1.85%) SAP FI
1 8 (1.85%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.92%) Infor CloudSuite
3 4 (0.92%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.46%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.46%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.23%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 114 (26.33%) Azure
2 88 (20.32%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (9.93%) Entra ID
4 42 (9.70%) AWS
5 40 (9.24%) Power Platform
6 26 (6.00%) SaaS
7 17 (3.93%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.23%) GitHub
9 13 (3.00%) dbt
10 12 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (2.08%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.85%) Azure Stack
13 6 (1.39%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.15%) Boomi
14 5 (1.15%) GCP
14 5 (1.15%) Lucidchart
14 5 (1.15%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 57 (13.16%) Firewall
2 50 (11.55%) DNS
3 45 (10.39%) VPN
4 32 (7.39%) DHCP
5 31 (7.16%) TCP/IP
6 25 (5.77%) WAN
7 24 (5.54%) VLAN
8 19 (4.39%) Network Security
9 18 (4.16%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (3.70%) Wireless
11 15 (3.46%) LAN
12 10 (2.31%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.31%) VoIP
13 9 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
14 8 (1.85%) BGP
14 8 (1.85%) OSPF
14 8 (1.85%) SAN
15 6 (1.39%) NAS
16 4 (0.92%) ATM
16 4 (0.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.39%) Power BI
2 25 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.62%) Metadata
5 6 (1.39%) Looker
5 6 (1.39%) Metabase
6 4 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.46%) Power Query
8 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.23%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.23%) Flink
9 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.23%) Parquet
9 1 (0.23%) Redis
9 1 (0.23%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (6.00%) JIRA
2 16 (3.70%) Git
3 14 (3.23%) GitLab
4 7 (1.62%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.69%) Postman
5 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.23%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.23%) Hudson
7 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.23%) JMeter
7 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 237 (54.73%) Social Skills
2 87 (20.09%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (17.32%) Finance
4 46 (10.62%) Manufacturing
5 34 (7.85%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (6.24%) Presentation Skills
6 27 (6.24%) Retail
7 23 (5.31%) Law
8 21 (4.85%) Legal
9 17 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.93%) Telecoms
10 13 (3.00%) Electronics
10 13 (3.00%) Marketing
11 10 (2.31%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.08%) Banking
13 7 (1.62%) Front Office
14 6 (1.39%) Military
15 5 (1.15%) Advertising
15 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 100 (23.09%) Analyst
2 53 (12.24%) Support Analyst
3 42 (9.70%) IT Support
4 40 (9.24%) Support Engineer
5 39 (9.01%) Senior
6 37 (8.55%) Consultant
7 30 (6.93%) Lead
8 24 (5.54%) Applications Support
9 23 (5.31%) Architect
9 23 (5.31%) Business Analyst
10 21 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
11 20 (4.62%) IT Engineer
11 20 (4.62%) Systems Analyst
12 19 (4.39%) Systems Support
13 18 (4.16%) Applications Support Analyst
13 18 (4.16%) IT Analyst
13 18 (4.16%) IT Support Engineer
13 18 (4.16%) Security Engineer
14 16 (3.70%) Systems Support Analyst
15 15 (3.46%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.08%) ARM Templates
1 9 (2.08%) REST
2 8 (1.85%) Middleware
3 6 (1.39%) JSON
3 6 (1.39%) Node.js
4 5 (1.15%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.15%) CSS
4 5 (1.15%) HTML
4 5 (1.15%) Jinja
4 5 (1.15%) SOAP
4 5 (1.15%) YAML
5 3 (0.69%) .NET
5 3 (0.69%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (0.69%) EDI
5 3 (0.69%) FreeSWITCH
6 2 (0.46%) Kafka
6 2 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.23%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.62%) Onboarding
2 31 (7.16%) Driving Licence
3 17 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.77%) CCTV
7 12 (2.77%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.08%) PKI
10 8 (1.85%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.85%) CMDB
10 8 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.39%) Blog
12 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.15%) Mobile Computing
13 4 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 100 (23.09%) Windows
2 57 (13.16%) Windows Server
3 36 (8.31%) Linux
4 14 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.54%) CentOS
7 9 (2.08%) Apple iOS
7 9 (2.08%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.69%) Debian
9 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.69%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.46%) Android
10 2 (0.46%) Rocky
10 2 (0.46%) Unix
10 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.23%) Solaris
11 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (13.63%) Agile
4 53 (12.24%) ITIL
5 46 (10.62%) ERP
6 45 (10.39%) Change Management
6 45 (10.39%) Project Delivery
7 41 (9.47%) Root Cause Analysis
8 39 (9.01%) DevOps
9 38 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (8.55%) Business Analysis
10 37 (8.55%) Customer Service
11 36 (8.31%) AI
12 35 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (7.85%) CI/CD
14 33 (7.62%) Analytics
15 32 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
15 32 (7.39%) Process Improvement
16 31 (7.16%) Incident Management
17 30 (6.93%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 93 (21.48%) SQL
2 48 (11.09%) PowerShell
2 48 (11.09%) Python
3 19 (4.39%) JavaScript
4 16 (3.70%) Bash
5 10 (2.31%) C++
6 6 (1.39%) C
6 6 (1.39%) C#
6 6 (1.39%) Java
6 6 (1.39%) PHP
7 5 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.46%) Bicep
9 2 (0.46%) Groovy
9 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.46%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.46%) VBA
10 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.23%) VB6
Qualifications
1 66 (15.24%) Degree
2 48 (11.09%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.54%) HND
7 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.85%) CCNA
8 8 (1.85%) CCNP
8 8 (1.85%) CISSP
8 8 (1.85%) SAP Certification
9 7 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.15%) HNC
10 5 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.92%) ACCA
11 4 (0.92%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.85%) QA
3 19 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.77%) GDPR
5 12 (2.77%) SLA
6 10 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (1.62%) ISO 9001
8 6 (1.39%) NIST
9 5 (1.15%) GRC
9 5 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.15%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.92%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.92%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.69%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.46%) NCSC
12 2 (0.46%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (15.01%) Active Directory
2 28 (6.47%) Hyper-V
3 21 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.46%) Docker
5 9 (2.08%) Firmware
6 4 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.92%) vSphere
7 3 (0.69%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.46%) KVM
9 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (6.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (5.08%) Terraform
3 16 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.00%) Ansible
5 8 (1.85%) FortiGate
5 8 (1.85%) Nagios
6 7 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.15%) Podman
7 5 (1.15%) SCCM
7 5 (1.15%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.15%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.69%) Argo
8 3 (0.69%) Backup Exec
8 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.69%) Puppet
9 2 (0.46%) Grafana
9 2 (0.46%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.23%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 149 (34.41%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.01%) Cisco
3 28 (6.47%) VMware
4 21 (4.85%) SAP
5 20 (4.62%) Fortinet
6 13 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.54%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.31%) Google
9 9 (2.08%) Citrix
9 9 (2.08%) JD Edwards
9 9 (2.08%) Veeam
10 8 (1.85%) Aruba
10 8 (1.85%) Juniper
10 8 (1.85%) Sophos
11 7 (1.62%) Dell
11 7 (1.62%) Splunk
12 6 (1.39%) iManage
12 6 (1.39%) Oracle
12 6 (1.39%) Red Hat