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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 357 457
Rank change year-on-year -8 +100 -20
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 424 328 376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.76% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.02% 1.10% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 277 229 298
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £87,393
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 41,415 29,932 45,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 46.47% 69.17% 57.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26,475 15,796 29,618
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,046
% change year-on-year - +3.68% -11.59%

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 24 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 24 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 +59 107 £50,000 -31.03% 57
London -66 91 £67,500 +3.85% 51
North of England -21 81 £52,500 +23.53% 21
Midlands -22 60 £55,000 +25.09% 18
North West +24 54 £55,000 +18.92% 13
South West -32 46 £42,500 +6.25% 21
West Midlands -31 38 £53,250 +6.50% 8
East of England -4 36 £48,750 -7.14% 11
East Midlands -16 22 £60,000 +54.84% 10
Yorkshire -46 21 £57,500 +36.09% 7
North East -46 6 £45,000 +80.00% 1
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 (8.73%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.30%) IIS
4 11 (2.59%) Confluence
5 5 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 38 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.18%) CorelDRAW
5 2 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.65%) SAP CO
1 7 (1.65%) SAP FI
1 7 (1.65%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (1.18%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.94%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.71%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.71%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.24%) C-CURE
6 1 (0.24%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 113 (26.65%) Azure
2 87 (20.52%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (10.14%) AWS
3 43 (10.14%) Entra ID
4 39 (9.20%) Power Platform
5 23 (5.42%) SaaS
6 17 (4.01%) Power Automate
7 14 (3.30%) dbt
8 13 (3.07%) GitHub
9 12 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.89%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.65%) Azure Stack
12 7 (1.65%) GCP
13 6 (1.42%) IaaS
13 6 (1.42%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.94%) Boomi
15 4 (0.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 57 (13.44%) Firewall
2 50 (11.79%) DNS
3 44 (10.38%) VPN
4 33 (7.78%) DHCP
5 31 (7.31%) TCP/IP
6 25 (5.90%) VLAN
7 24 (5.66%) WAN
8 18 (4.25%) Network Security
9 17 (4.01%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (3.54%) Wireless
11 14 (3.30%) LAN
12 11 (2.59%) VoIP
13 9 (2.12%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (2.12%) SD-WAN
14 8 (1.89%) SAN
15 7 (1.65%) BGP
15 7 (1.65%) OSPF
16 6 (1.42%) NAS
17 4 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
17 4 (0.94%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.55%) Power BI
2 27 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.65%) Metabase
5 6 (1.42%) Looker
5 6 (1.42%) Metadata
6 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.71%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.47%) Big Data
8 2 (0.47%) Power Query
9 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.24%) Redis
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (5.90%) JIRA
2 16 (3.77%) Git
3 14 (3.30%) GitLab
4 8 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.71%) Postman
7 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.24%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.24%) Hudson
8 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.24%) JMeter
8 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 233 (54.95%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (17.92%) Finance
4 43 (10.14%) Manufacturing
5 34 (8.02%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
6 26 (6.13%) Retail
7 21 (4.95%) Law
7 21 (4.95%) Legal
8 18 (4.25%) Telecoms
9 17 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (3.07%) Electronics
11 12 (2.83%) Marketing
12 11 (2.59%) Banking
13 10 (2.36%) Aerospace
13 10 (2.36%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.65%) Front Office
15 6 (1.42%) Military
16 5 (1.18%) Advertising
16 5 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 96 (22.64%) Analyst
2 51 (12.03%) Support Analyst
3 43 (10.14%) IT Support
4 40 (9.43%) Support Engineer
5 39 (9.20%) Senior
6 37 (8.73%) Consultant
7 29 (6.84%) Lead
8 23 (5.42%) Applications Support
9 21 (4.95%) Architect
9 21 (4.95%) Business Analyst
9 21 (4.95%) Systems Analyst
9 21 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
10 20 (4.72%) IT Engineer
10 20 (4.72%) Systems Support
11 19 (4.48%) Security Engineer
12 18 (4.25%) IT Analyst
12 18 (4.25%) IT Support Engineer
13 17 (4.01%) Applications Support Analyst
13 17 (4.01%) Systems Support Analyst
14 15 (3.54%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.12%) ARM Templates
2 8 (1.89%) Middleware
2 8 (1.89%) REST
3 6 (1.42%) JSON
3 6 (1.42%) Node.js
4 5 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.18%) CSS
4 5 (1.18%) HTML
4 5 (1.18%) Jinja
4 5 (1.18%) YAML
5 4 (0.94%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (0.94%) SOAP
6 3 (0.71%) .NET
6 3 (0.71%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (0.47%) Kafka
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.24%) PySpark
8 1 (0.24%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 30 (7.08%) Driving Licence
3 16 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.07%) CCTV
5 13 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.83%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.12%) PKI
9 8 (1.89%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.89%) CMDB
9 8 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.42%) Blog
11 5 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.18%) Mobile Computing
11 5 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 100 (23.58%) Windows
2 59 (13.92%) Windows Server
3 39 (9.20%) Linux
4 14 (3.30%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.59%) CentOS
7 9 (2.12%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.89%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.94%) Debian
11 3 (0.71%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.47%) Android
12 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.47%) Rocky
12 2 (0.47%) Unix
12 2 (0.47%) VMS
13 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (25.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 57 (13.44%) Agile
4 54 (12.74%) ITIL
5 44 (10.38%) Change Management
5 44 (10.38%) Project Delivery
6 43 (10.14%) ERP
7 39 (9.20%) Root Cause Analysis
8 37 (8.73%) DevOps
9 36 (8.49%) Customer Service
10 35 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (8.02%) AI
12 33 (7.78%) Analytics
12 33 (7.78%) Business Analysis
12 33 (7.78%) CI/CD
12 33 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (7.08%) Incident Management
15 29 (6.84%) Disaster Recovery
15 29 (6.84%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 92 (21.70%) SQL
2 51 (12.03%) Python
3 49 (11.56%) PowerShell
4 19 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.01%) Bash
6 10 (2.36%) C++
7 7 (1.65%) Java
8 6 (1.42%) C
8 6 (1.42%) C#
8 6 (1.42%) PHP
9 5 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.47%) ABAP
11 2 (0.47%) Bicep
11 2 (0.47%) Groovy
11 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.24%) RPG
12 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (15.80%) Degree
2 48 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.59%) HND
8 9 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.89%) CISSP
10 7 (1.65%) CCNA
10 7 (1.65%) CCNP
10 7 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.65%) SAP Certification
11 5 (1.18%) HNC
11 5 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.94%) ACCA
12 4 (0.94%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.95%) QA
3 19 (4.48%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (3.07%) SLA
5 11 (2.59%) GDPR
6 10 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (1.65%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.65%) ISO 9001
8 6 (1.42%) NIST
9 5 (1.18%) GRC
9 5 (1.18%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.94%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.94%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.94%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.71%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.47%) NCSC
12 2 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 70 (16.51%) Active Directory
2 28 (6.60%) Hyper-V
3 22 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.54%) Docker
5 8 (1.89%) Firmware
6 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.94%) vSphere
7 3 (0.71%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.71%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.47%) KVM
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (6.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (5.19%) Terraform
3 16 (3.77%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.07%) Ansible
5 8 (1.89%) Nagios
6 7 (1.65%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.65%) SCCM
6 7 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.18%) Podman
7 5 (1.18%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.18%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.71%) Argo
8 3 (0.71%) Backup Exec
8 3 (0.71%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) Grafana
9 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.47%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 148 (34.91%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.20%) Cisco
3 30 (7.08%) VMware
4 21 (4.95%) SAP
5 18 (4.25%) Fortinet
6 12 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.59%) Google
7 11 (2.59%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.36%) Citrix
8 10 (2.36%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.89%) Aruba
9 8 (1.89%) JD Edwards
9 8 (1.89%) Juniper
9 8 (1.89%) Sophos
9 8 (1.89%) Veeam
10 7 (1.65%) Splunk
11 6 (1.42%) iManage
11 6 (1.42%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.42%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.18%) IBM