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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 329 512
Rank change year-on-year -57 +183 -108
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 436 354 251
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.81% 0.36%
As % of the General category 0.96% 1.19% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 282 249 157
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,450 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,063 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £88,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -13.60% +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 45,577 29,723 39,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 45.49% 68.39% 57.09%
Number of salaries quoted 29,403 15,782 21,196
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,625 £41,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,950 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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 11 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 11 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 -78 98 £65,000 -3.70% 137
South East -4 94 £50,000 -23.08% 71
North of England -32 77 £53,750 +26.47% 38
South West -27 65 £42,500 +6.25% 33
Midlands -43 61 £53,750 +22.16% 40
North West +2 52 £55,000 +29.41% 22
West Midlands -26 41 £51,500 +0.10% 24
East of England -19 38 £55,000 +4.76% 23
Yorkshire -61 21 £57,500 +35.29% 10
East Midlands -34 20 £60,000 +41.18% 16
North East -56 4 £42,500 +70.00% 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 38 (8.72%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.44%) Confluence
4 11 (2.52%) IIS
5 5 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 35 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (7.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.98%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.15%) CorelDRAW
6 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.46%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.61%) SAP CO
1 7 (1.61%) SAP FI
1 7 (1.61%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (1.15%) Infor CloudSuite
2 5 (1.15%) Infor LN
2 5 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.69%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.69%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.23%) C-CURE
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 118 (27.06%) Azure
2 81 (18.58%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (11.47%) Power Platform
4 47 (10.78%) Entra ID
5 43 (9.86%) AWS
6 29 (6.65%) SaaS
7 17 (3.90%) Power Automate
8 12 (2.75%) GitHub
9 11 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.29%) dbt
10 10 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (2.29%) PowerApps
11 9 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.83%) Azure Stack
13 7 (1.61%) Boomi
13 7 (1.61%) GCP
13 7 (1.61%) Lucidchart
14 6 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.38%) iPaaS
14 6 (1.38%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.53%) Firewall
2 46 (10.55%) VPN
3 45 (10.32%) DNS
4 30 (6.88%) TCP/IP
5 27 (6.19%) DHCP
6 24 (5.50%) WAN
7 22 (5.05%) VLAN
8 21 (4.82%) Network Security
9 19 (4.36%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (4.36%) Wireless
10 15 (3.44%) LAN
11 10 (2.29%) BGP
11 10 (2.29%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.06%) HTTP
12 9 (2.06%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.06%) SAN
13 8 (1.83%) OSPF
13 8 (1.83%) VoIP
14 6 (1.38%) Internet
15 4 (0.92%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.63%) Power BI
2 18 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.83%) Metadata
4 6 (1.38%) Looker
5 5 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.69%) Big Data
8 2 (0.46%) EDMS
8 2 (0.46%) Redis
9 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.23%) Flink
9 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.23%) Parquet
9 1 (0.23%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (5.96%) JIRA
2 11 (2.52%) Git
3 7 (1.61%) GitLab
4 4 (0.92%) Postman
5 2 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.23%) Hudson
6 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.23%) JMeter
6 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 234 (53.67%) Social Skills
2 85 (19.50%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (16.97%) Finance
4 47 (10.78%) Manufacturing
5 35 (8.03%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (5.73%) Legal
8 24 (5.50%) Law
9 22 (5.05%) Retail
10 21 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (3.67%) Aerospace
11 16 (3.67%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.98%) Banking
12 13 (2.98%) Electronics
12 13 (2.98%) Marketing
13 12 (2.75%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.83%) Military
15 7 (1.61%) Front Office
16 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (21.10%) Analyst
2 44 (10.09%) Senior
2 44 (10.09%) Support Engineer
3 41 (9.40%) Consultant
3 41 (9.40%) Support Analyst
4 34 (7.80%) IT Support
5 28 (6.42%) Business Analyst
6 26 (5.96%) Lead
7 24 (5.50%) Applications Support
7 24 (5.50%) Architect
8 23 (5.28%) IT Engineer
9 19 (4.36%) IT Support Engineer
9 19 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
10 17 (3.90%) Systems Analyst
10 17 (3.90%) Systems Support
11 16 (3.67%) Developer
11 16 (3.67%) Security Engineer
12 14 (3.21%) IT Analyst
13 13 (2.98%) Applications Support Analyst
13 13 (2.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.36%) REST
2 16 (3.67%) Terraform
3 8 (1.83%) JSON
3 8 (1.83%) Middleware
4 7 (1.61%) CSS
4 7 (1.61%) HTML
5 6 (1.38%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.38%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.38%) Node.js
5 6 (1.38%) SOAP
6 5 (1.15%) .NET
6 5 (1.15%) EDI
6 5 (1.15%) Playwright
6 5 (1.15%) XML
7 3 (0.69%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 2 (0.46%) Jinja
8 2 (0.46%) Kafka
8 2 (0.46%) React
8 2 (0.46%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.26%) Driving Licence
2 34 (7.80%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.44%) CCTV
3 15 (3.44%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.06%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.83%) CMDB
8 8 (1.83%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.83%) PKI
9 7 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.61%) IoT
9 7 (1.61%) Replication
9 7 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.38%) Blog
11 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.15%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 89 (20.41%) Windows
2 48 (11.01%) Windows Server
3 27 (6.19%) Linux
4 14 (3.21%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.75%) Apple iOS
6 9 (2.06%) CentOS
7 8 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.92%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.92%) Rocky
10 3 (0.69%) Android
10 3 (0.69%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.46%) VMS
12 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.23%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.23%) Solaris
12 1 (0.23%) Unix
12 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (24.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 58 (13.30%) Agile
4 54 (12.39%) ITIL
5 51 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (11.47%) Business Analysis
7 45 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (10.09%) ERP
8 44 (10.09%) Root Cause Analysis
9 41 (9.40%) AI
10 40 (9.17%) DevOps
11 38 (8.72%) Validation
12 37 (8.49%) Change Management
12 37 (8.49%) Project Delivery
12 37 (8.49%) Requirements Gathering
13 36 (8.26%) Customer Service
13 36 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
14 34 (7.80%) Process Improvement
15 33 (7.57%) Analytics
15 33 (7.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 96 (22.02%) SQL
2 50 (11.47%) PowerShell
3 36 (8.26%) Python
4 20 (4.59%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.06%) Bash
6 8 (1.83%) C++
6 8 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.38%) C
8 6 (1.38%) C#
9 5 (1.15%) Java
9 5 (1.15%) PHP
10 3 (0.69%) VBA
11 2 (0.46%) Bicep
11 2 (0.46%) Go
11 2 (0.46%) Groovy
11 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.23%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.23%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 58 (13.30%) Degree
2 50 (11.47%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.52%) HND
7 10 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.06%) CCNA
8 9 (2.06%) CCNP
8 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.83%) SAP Certification
10 6 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.15%) ACCA
11 5 (1.15%) HNC
12 4 (0.92%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.92%) CIMA
12 4 (0.92%) CISSP
12 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.69%) CCIE
13 3 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.88%) QA
2 26 (5.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.28%) Data Quality
4 20 (4.59%) GDPR
5 11 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.29%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.06%) SLA
8 8 (1.83%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.61%) NIST
10 5 (1.15%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.92%) GRC
11 4 (0.92%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.92%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.92%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.46%) NCSC
14 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (12.16%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.73%) Hyper-V
3 23 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.44%) Firmware
5 10 (2.29%) Docker
6 7 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.92%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.92%) vSphere
8 3 (0.69%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) KVM
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.75%) Ansible
3 11 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.06%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.83%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.61%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.92%) Nagios
8 4 (0.92%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.92%) Podman
8 4 (0.92%) VxRail
9 3 (0.69%) SCCM
10 2 (0.46%) Puppet
11 1 (0.23%) Argo
11 1 (0.23%) Grafana
11 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.23%) QRadar
11 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.23%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 148 (33.94%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.03%) Cisco
3 30 (6.88%) VMware
4 22 (5.05%) SAP
5 20 (4.59%) Fortinet
6 16 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.98%) Veeam
8 12 (2.75%) Dell
8 12 (2.75%) JD Edwards
8 12 (2.75%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.06%) Aruba
10 8 (1.83%) Google
10 8 (1.83%) Juniper
11 7 (1.61%) Sophos
12 6 (1.38%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.15%) Adobe
13 5 (1.15%) Citrix
13 5 (1.15%) Sage
13 5 (1.15%) Splunk