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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 508 397
Rank change year-on-year +231 -111 +107
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 392 213 313
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.85% 0.35% 0.68%
As % of the General category 1.35% 0.59% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 260 111 268
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,875 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +18.18% -7.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £77,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,348 £90,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £64,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.41% +16.36% -8.33%

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 common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 29,088 36,375 30,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 62.98% 60.05% 64.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17,104 17,672 22,279
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,684 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,975 £102,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 24 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +85 130 £77,500 +6.90% 67
South East +95 78 £48,000 +20.00% 66
Midlands +99 72 £45,000 - 19
North of England +70 61 £47,500 -8.21% 29
West Midlands +76 41 £52,500 -17.65% 17
East Midlands +44 30 £42,500 +6.25% 1
North West +60 29 £42,500 -16.67% 18
East of England +53 28 £32,500 -19.25% 10
Yorkshire +34 28 £47,500 -9.52% 9
South West +39 18 £55,000 +29.41% 16
North East +18 4 £25,000 -26.47% 3
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 29 (7.40%) SharePoint
2 24 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.32%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) WordPress
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 61 (15.56%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.83%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.26%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.53%) Oracle Cash Management
2 6 (1.53%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.02%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.77%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 125 (31.89%) Azure
2 64 (16.33%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (9.69%) AWS
4 33 (8.42%) Power Platform
4 33 (8.42%) SaaS
5 25 (6.38%) Entra ID
6 20 (5.10%) IaaS
7 15 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (3.83%) PaaS
8 14 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (3.06%) GCP
10 11 (2.81%) GitHub
11 10 (2.55%) PowerApps
12 9 (2.30%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.53%) iPaaS
14 6 (1.53%) OCI
14 6 (1.53%) OneDrive
15 5 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (11.73%) Firewall
2 35 (8.93%) DNS
3 30 (7.65%) DHCP
4 26 (6.63%) TCP/IP
4 26 (6.63%) VPN
5 22 (5.61%) LAN
6 17 (4.34%) Network Security
7 16 (4.08%) VLAN
8 14 (3.57%) BGP
9 11 (2.81%) WAN
10 10 (2.55%) OSPF
11 8 (2.04%) SAN
12 7 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.53%) DMZ
13 6 (1.53%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (1.53%) MPLS
13 6 (1.53%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.53%) VoIP
13 6 (1.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.65%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.61%) Power BI
3 16 (4.08%) Tableau
4 15 (3.83%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.79%) Metadata
6 5 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.77%) Metabase
8 3 (0.77%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (0.77%) MySQL
8 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.26%) Big Data
10 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (3.83%) JIRA
2 4 (1.02%) Git
2 4 (1.02%) Postman
3 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.51%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 197 (50.26%) Social Skills
2 93 (23.72%) Finance
3 70 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (11.22%) Legal
5 29 (7.40%) Banking
6 27 (6.89%) Law
7 25 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (5.10%) Manufacturing
8 20 (5.10%) Retail
9 17 (4.34%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.57%) Telecoms
11 12 (3.06%) Advertising
11 12 (3.06%) Back Office
12 10 (2.55%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.30%) German Language
13 9 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.79%) Marketing
15 6 (1.53%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.28%) Publishing
17 4 (1.02%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 106 (27.04%) Analyst
2 66 (16.84%) Senior
3 29 (7.40%) Business Analyst
4 26 (6.63%) Lead
5 25 (6.38%) Architect
5 25 (6.38%) Network Engineer
6 22 (5.61%) Data Analyst
7 21 (5.36%) Service Analyst
8 20 (5.10%) Support Engineer
9 19 (4.85%) Developer
9 19 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (4.85%) IT Support
9 19 (4.85%) Quality Analyst
10 18 (4.59%) Data Quality Analyst
11 16 (4.08%) Service Desk Analyst
12 15 (3.83%) Consultant
12 15 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
13 14 (3.57%) IT Analyst
14 13 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.06%) XML
2 8 (2.04%) .NET
3 6 (1.53%) React
4 5 (1.28%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.28%) HTML
4 5 (1.28%) REST
5 4 (1.02%) Kafka
5 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.02%) OAuth
5 4 (1.02%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.02%) OpenID
5 4 (1.02%) SAML
6 3 (0.77%) CSS
6 3 (0.77%) JSON
6 3 (0.77%) PySpark
7 2 (0.51%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.51%) Laravel
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.51%) Spring
7 2 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.59%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (3.32%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.06%) NHS
6 11 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.55%) CMDB
7 10 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.30%) Life Science
8 9 (2.30%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.53%) Clustering
11 5 (1.28%) IoT
12 4 (1.02%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.11%) Windows
2 33 (8.42%) Windows Server
3 24 (6.12%) Linux
4 5 (1.28%) Debian
4 5 (1.28%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.28%) Unix
5 4 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.51%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (16.84%) Agile
3 57 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (13.52%) ITIL
5 50 (12.76%) Validation
6 48 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (10.46%) Migration
8 33 (8.42%) DevOps
9 32 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (7.91%) Project Delivery
11 30 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (7.40%) Customer Service
12 29 (7.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (7.14%) Incident Response
14 27 (6.89%) Computer Science
15 26 (6.63%) Change Management
15 26 (6.63%) ERP
15 26 (6.63%) Project Management
16 25 (6.38%) Inventory Management
17 24 (6.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (16.84%) SQL
2 33 (8.42%) Python
3 28 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.59%) C#
5 12 (3.06%) Java
6 10 (2.55%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.30%) C
8 8 (2.04%) PHP
9 6 (1.53%) Bash
9 6 (1.53%) VBA
10 3 (0.77%) Bicep
10 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.51%) C++
11 2 (0.51%) Go
11 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.51%) Perl
12 1 (0.26%) R
12 1 (0.26%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 96 (24.49%) Degree
2 49 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.89%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (6.63%) CISSP
6 25 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (5.61%) CCNP
8 18 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (4.08%) CISM
10 15 (3.83%) DV Cleared
10 15 (3.83%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (3.32%) CCIE
12 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (2.04%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.04%) CCSA
13 8 (2.04%) CCSE
14 7 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (1.79%) HNC
15 5 (1.28%) MCP
15 5 (1.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.20%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.08%) GDPR
4 15 (3.83%) NIST
5 14 (3.57%) SLA
6 13 (3.32%) ISO 9001
7 12 (3.06%) QA
8 11 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (2.04%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (1.79%) PMO
11 6 (1.53%) MiFID
12 5 (1.28%) GRC
13 4 (1.02%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.51%) UCITS
16 1 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 56 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.61%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.79%) Firmware
5 6 (1.53%) Docker
6 5 (1.28%) Kamailio
6 5 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.26%) Ceph
8 1 (0.26%) Lustre
8 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.26%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 17 (4.34%) SCCM
2 15 (3.83%) Terraform
3 14 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.28%) Ansible
5 5 (1.28%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.02%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (1.02%) CSIRT
6 4 (1.02%) Grafana
6 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.77%) cPanel
7 3 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (0.77%) Nessus
7 3 (0.77%) Plesk
8 2 (0.51%) Nagios
9 1 (0.26%) Netcool
9 1 (0.26%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.26%) SCOM
9 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 132 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.40%) Cisco
3 26 (6.63%) VMware
4 17 (4.34%) Oracle
5 14 (3.57%) CheckPoint
5 14 (3.57%) F5
6 9 (2.30%) Fortinet
6 9 (2.30%) SolarWinds
7 8 (2.04%) Juniper
7 8 (2.04%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.79%) Blue Prism
8 7 (1.79%) iManage
8 7 (1.79%) Pega
8 7 (1.79%) Qualys
8 7 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.79%) Veeam
9 6 (1.53%) Citrix
9 6 (1.53%) Intapp
10 5 (1.28%) Darktrace