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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 496 404
Rank change year-on-year +199 -92 +71
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 358 179 310
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.37% 0.63%
As % of the General category 1.16% 0.56% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 240 92 276
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,563 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,975 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.49% -1.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £89,375
UK median annual salary £54,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.80% +8.70% -4.17%

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 30,986 32,075 30,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.29% 66.43% 61.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,132 14,743 22,469
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.69% -4.07%

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 January 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 January 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 +86 121 £77,125 +6.38% 47
South East +93 77 £49,000 -12.89% 54
Midlands +47 66 £52,500 -4.11% 26
North of England +40 44 £42,500 -19.05% 36
West Midlands +40 33 £60,000 -4.00% 14
East Midlands +12 32 £45,000 - 11
East of England +38 30 £30,370 -23.25% 18
Yorkshire +2 23 £42,500 +1.19% 20
North West +29 21 £42,500 -25.11% 13
South West +11 17 £55,000 +74.60% 19
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 22 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.51%) Confluence
4 2 (0.56%) WordPress
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 63 (17.60%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.35%) MS Visio
3 11 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.28%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.40%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.56%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.28%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 119 (33.24%) Azure
2 66 (18.44%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (8.66%) AWS
4 30 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.70%) SaaS
6 21 (5.87%) Entra ID
7 17 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.91%) Power Automate
9 13 (3.63%) PowerApps
10 12 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.35%) IaaS
10 12 (3.35%) PaaS
11 10 (2.79%) GCP
11 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (2.51%) ChatGPT
13 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 6 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 41 (11.45%) Firewall
2 32 (8.94%) DNS
3 27 (7.54%) DHCP
4 26 (7.26%) VPN
5 23 (6.42%) TCP/IP
6 20 (5.59%) LAN
7 18 (5.03%) VLAN
8 15 (4.19%) Network Security
9 12 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (3.07%) BGP
10 11 (3.07%) WAN
11 10 (2.79%) SAN
12 8 (2.23%) OSPF
13 6 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.68%) DMZ
13 6 (1.68%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.68%) VoIP
13 6 (1.68%) Wireshark
14 5 (1.40%) STUN
14 5 (1.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.31%) Power BI
3 11 (3.07%) Tableau
4 10 (2.79%) BigQuery
4 10 (2.79%) Metadata
5 9 (2.51%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.12%) Metabase
8 4 (1.12%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.84%) MySQL
9 3 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.56%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.28%) Big Data
11 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.28%) QlikView
11 1 (0.28%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (3.63%) JIRA
2 6 (1.68%) Git
3 5 (1.40%) Subversion
3 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.12%) Postman
5 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 188 (52.51%) Social Skills
2 81 (22.63%) Finance
3 71 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.61%) Legal
5 28 (7.82%) Banking
6 25 (6.98%) Retail
7 22 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (5.87%) Law
9 19 (5.31%) Manufacturing
10 13 (3.63%) German Language
11 11 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.23%) Advertising
13 8 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.96%) Electronics
15 6 (1.68%) Marketing
16 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.40%) Public Sector
16 5 (1.40%) Publishing
17 4 (1.12%) Billing
Job Titles
1 85 (23.74%) Analyst
2 57 (15.92%) Senior
3 28 (7.82%) Architect
4 26 (7.26%) Business Analyst
4 26 (7.26%) IT Support
4 26 (7.26%) Lead
5 25 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (5.87%) Support Engineer
7 20 (5.59%) Network Engineer
8 18 (5.03%) Service Analyst
9 16 (4.47%) IT Analyst
10 14 (3.91%) Service Desk Analyst
11 13 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (3.35%) Data Analyst
12 12 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.07%) Consultant
13 11 (3.07%) Project Manager
14 10 (2.79%) Data Quality Analyst
14 10 (2.79%) Quality Analyst
14 10 (2.79%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.96%) .NET
2 6 (1.68%) REST
3 5 (1.40%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.40%) HTML
4 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.12%) OAuth
4 4 (1.12%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.12%) OpenID
4 4 (1.12%) PySpark
4 4 (1.12%) React
4 4 (1.12%) SAML
4 4 (1.12%) XML
5 3 (0.84%) CSS
6 2 (0.56%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.56%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.56%) JSON
6 2 (0.56%) Laravel
6 2 (0.56%) Middleware
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.75%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.47%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.19%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.35%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.79%) Low-Code
7 10 (2.79%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.51%) Life Science
8 9 (2.51%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.23%) Clustering
9 8 (2.23%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.40%) NHS
13 4 (1.12%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 62 (17.32%) Windows
2 31 (8.66%) Windows Server
3 23 (6.42%) Linux
4 5 (1.40%) Debian
5 4 (1.12%) Unix
5 4 (1.12%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.84%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.56%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 63 (17.60%) Agile
4 53 (14.80%) ITIL
5 43 (12.01%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (10.89%) Validation
7 38 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (8.94%) AI
9 31 (8.66%) Change Management
10 30 (8.38%) Migration
11 29 (8.10%) Analytics
12 27 (7.54%) Customer Service
12 27 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (7.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (6.98%) DevOps
13 25 (6.98%) Incident Response
14 24 (6.70%) Business Analysis
14 24 (6.70%) Data Analysis
14 24 (6.70%) Process Improvement
14 24 (6.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (13.13%) SQL
2 29 (8.10%) PowerShell
3 27 (7.54%) Python
4 11 (3.07%) C#
5 8 (2.23%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.68%) VBA
7 5 (1.40%) Java
8 4 (1.12%) PHP
9 3 (0.84%) Bash
9 3 (0.84%) Bicep
10 2 (0.56%) C
10 2 (0.56%) C++
10 2 (0.56%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) Perl
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 85 (23.74%) Degree
2 37 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.98%) CISSP
4 23 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (6.42%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (5.31%) CCNP
7 15 (4.19%) CISM
8 13 (3.63%) Numerate Degree
9 11 (3.07%) CCIE
9 11 (3.07%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.23%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.23%) CCSA
11 8 (2.23%) CCSE
11 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.96%) CEH
12 7 (1.96%) IIBA
12 7 (1.96%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.06%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.59%) SLA
4 15 (4.19%) GDPR
5 13 (3.63%) QA
6 11 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.07%) NIST
7 7 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.96%) GRC
7 7 (1.96%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.68%) ISO 9001
8 6 (1.68%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.40%) MiFID
9 5 (1.40%) PMO
9 5 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.56%) COBIT
11 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
System Software
1 55 (15.36%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.19%) Hyper-V
3 14 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.40%) Firmware
4 5 (1.40%) Kamailio
5 4 (1.12%) Docker
5 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.28%) Ceph
7 1 (0.28%) Lustre
7 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 16 (4.47%) SCCM
2 13 (3.63%) Terraform
3 9 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.96%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (1.40%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (1.40%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.12%) Ansible
9 3 (0.84%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.84%) cPanel
9 3 (0.84%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.84%) Grafana
9 3 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.84%) Nessus
9 3 (0.84%) Plesk
10 2 (0.56%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.56%) VxRail
11 1 (0.28%) Argo
11 1 (0.28%) CASB
Vendors
1 118 (32.96%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.98%) Cisco
3 23 (6.42%) VMware
4 14 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.35%) CheckPoint
5 12 (3.35%) F5
5 12 (3.35%) Oracle
6 11 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.79%) Citrix
7 10 (2.79%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.51%) Veeam
9 8 (2.23%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.23%) Pega
10 7 (1.96%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.96%) Anaplan
10 7 (1.96%) Blue Prism
10 7 (1.96%) iManage
10 7 (1.96%) SAP
10 7 (1.96%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.96%) UiPath