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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 365 444
Rank change year-on-year -11 +79 -5
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 423 316 419
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.73% 0.49%
As % of the General category 1.03% 1.06% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 280 220 338
10th Percentile £34,175 £33,425 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £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 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,025 £90,000 £86,579
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 41,083 29,939 49,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 46.65% 69.26% 57.66%
Number of salaries quoted 26,323 15,653 32,636
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,761
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 18 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 18 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 +51 105 £50,000 -31.03% 48
London -53 91 £70,000 +8.95% 38
North of England -29 82 £51,772 +21.82% 27
Midlands -20 58 £55,000 +24.29% 19
North West +29 52 £55,000 +18.92% 18
South West -32 45 £42,500 +6.25% 12
East of England +3 38 £50,000 -2.44% 9
West Midlands -21 36 £52,500 +5.00% 9
East Midlands -3 22 £60,000 +71.43% 10
Yorkshire -44 22 £56,250 +33.93% 8
North East -50 8 £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 39 (9.22%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.31%) IIS
4 9 (2.13%) Confluence
5 5 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 39 (9.22%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.18%) CorelDRAW
4 5 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.24%) 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 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.47%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.24%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 116 (27.42%) Azure
2 90 (21.28%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (10.87%) Entra ID
4 45 (10.64%) AWS
5 38 (8.98%) Power Platform
6 22 (5.20%) SaaS
7 17 (4.02%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.31%) dbt
9 13 (3.07%) GitHub
10 12 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.89%) IaaS
11 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.65%) Azure Stack
12 7 (1.65%) GCP
12 7 (1.65%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.42%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.95%) OneDrive
15 4 (0.95%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.95%) Firewall
2 54 (12.77%) DNS
3 47 (11.11%) VPN
4 37 (8.75%) DHCP
5 34 (8.04%) TCP/IP
6 28 (6.62%) VLAN
7 25 (5.91%) WAN
8 17 (4.02%) Network Security
8 17 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (3.78%) Wireless
10 14 (3.31%) LAN
11 12 (2.84%) VoIP
12 10 (2.36%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
14 8 (1.89%) SAN
15 7 (1.65%) BGP
15 7 (1.65%) OSPF
16 6 (1.42%) NAS
17 5 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
17 5 (1.18%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.57%) Power BI
2 28 (6.62%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.65%) Metabase
5 6 (1.42%) Looker
6 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.18%) Metadata
7 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.71%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.47%) Big Data
9 2 (0.47%) Power Query
10 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Flink
10 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.24%) Parquet
10 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (5.20%) JIRA
2 16 (3.78%) Git
3 14 (3.31%) GitLab
4 8 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.18%) 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 84 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (17.49%) Finance
4 41 (9.69%) Manufacturing
5 34 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (6.38%) Retail
7 25 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (4.96%) Law
9 20 (4.73%) Legal
10 18 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (4.26%) Telecoms
11 13 (3.07%) Electronics
12 11 (2.60%) Marketing
13 10 (2.36%) Banking
14 9 (2.13%) Aerospace
14 9 (2.13%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.65%) Front Office
16 6 (1.42%) Military
17 5 (1.18%) Advertising
17 5 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 92 (21.75%) Analyst
2 50 (11.82%) Support Analyst
3 45 (10.64%) IT Support
4 40 (9.46%) Support Engineer
5 37 (8.75%) Senior
6 36 (8.51%) Consultant
7 28 (6.62%) Lead
8 23 (5.44%) Architect
9 22 (5.20%) Applications Support
10 21 (4.96%) Systems Analyst
10 21 (4.96%) Systems Engineer
11 20 (4.73%) IT Engineer
11 20 (4.73%) Systems Support
12 19 (4.49%) Business Analyst
12 19 (4.49%) Security Engineer
13 18 (4.26%) IT Analyst
13 18 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
14 17 (4.02%) Systems Support Analyst
15 16 (3.78%) Applications Support Analyst
16 15 (3.55%) IT Support Analyst
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%) 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%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.24%) Web Services
8 1 (0.24%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.09%) Driving Licence
1 30 (7.09%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (3.07%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.84%) CCTV
4 12 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.13%) PKI
6 8 (1.89%) Client/Server
6 8 (1.89%) CMDB
6 8 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.42%) Blog
8 5 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.18%) Mobile Computing
8 5 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 106 (25.06%) Windows
2 63 (14.89%) Windows Server
3 40 (9.46%) Linux
4 14 (3.31%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.60%) CentOS
7 9 (2.13%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.65%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.18%) Debian
11 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.71%) VMS
12 3 (0.71%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.47%) Rocky
13 2 (0.47%) Unix
14 1 (0.24%) Android
14 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
2 108 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 57 (13.48%) ITIL
4 54 (12.77%) Agile
5 46 (10.87%) Change Management
6 44 (10.40%) Project Delivery
7 42 (9.93%) ERP
8 37 (8.75%) Root Cause Analysis
9 35 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
9 35 (8.27%) Customer Service
10 34 (8.04%) CI/CD
10 34 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (8.04%) DevOps
11 33 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (7.57%) AI
12 32 (7.57%) Incident Management
13 31 (7.33%) Analytics
14 30 (7.09%) Business Analysis
14 30 (7.09%) Disaster Recovery
15 28 (6.62%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 91 (21.51%) SQL
2 53 (12.53%) Python
3 52 (12.29%) PowerShell
4 20 (4.73%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.26%) 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 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
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 III
12 1 (0.24%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 68 (16.08%) Degree
2 49 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.20%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.60%) HND
7 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.89%) CISSP
8 8 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.65%) CCNA
9 7 (1.65%) CCNP
9 7 (1.65%) SAP Certification
10 5 (1.18%) HNC
10 5 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.95%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.96%) QA
3 17 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (3.07%) SLA
5 12 (2.84%) GDPR
6 10 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (1.65%) ISO 9001
7 7 (1.65%) NIST
8 6 (1.42%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.18%) GRC
9 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.95%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.95%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
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 76 (17.97%) Active Directory
2 29 (6.86%) Hyper-V
3 24 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.55%) Docker
5 7 (1.65%) Firmware
6 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.18%) 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 25 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (5.20%) Terraform
3 16 (3.78%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.07%) Ansible
5 9 (2.13%) Nagios
6 8 (1.89%) SCCM
7 7 (1.65%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.42%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.18%) Podman
9 5 (1.18%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.95%) Backup Exec
11 3 (0.71%) Argo
11 3 (0.71%) Puppet
11 3 (0.71%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (0.47%) Grafana
12 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.47%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 151 (35.70%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.69%) Cisco
3 32 (7.57%) VMware
4 23 (5.44%) SAP
5 18 (4.26%) Fortinet
6 12 (2.84%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.60%) Citrix
7 11 (2.60%) Google
8 10 (2.36%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.36%) Salesforce
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%) SolarWinds
10 8 (1.89%) Sophos
11 7 (1.65%) Splunk
12 6 (1.42%) iManage
12 6 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.18%) Nexthink