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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 495 381
Rank change year-on-year +177 -114 +80
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 364 176 414
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 0.40% 0.62%
As % of the General category 1.08% 0.59% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 254 88 370
10th Percentile £31,075 £35,272 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,829 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £72,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -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 general skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 33,596 29,997 40,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 56.48% 67.97% 60.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,781 13,720 30,793
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -10.51%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +60 116 £75,875 +8.39% 66
South East +81 80 £47,500 +2.70% 64
Midlands +38 62 £55,000 +10.00% 32
North of England +11 48 £45,000 -0.84% 42
West Midlands +28 33 £60,000 +20.00% 19
East of England +42 31 £30,370 -23.25% 8
East Midlands +9 28 £45,000 - 13
South West +7 25 £51,500 +63.49% 24
North West +13 23 £45,000 -6.62% 20
Yorkshire -22 20 £34,000 -19.05% 18
North East -3 5 £45,000 +55.17% 5
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 27 (7.42%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.65%) Confluence
4 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.82%) IIS
6 2 (0.55%) WordPress
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 54 (14.84%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.55%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.27%) Postilion
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 138 (37.91%) Azure
2 75 (20.60%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (9.62%) AWS
4 32 (8.79%) Entra ID
5 30 (8.24%) Power Platform
6 24 (6.59%) SaaS
7 20 (5.49%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.85%) PaaS
9 12 (3.30%) GCP
9 12 (3.30%) PowerApps
10 11 (3.02%) IaaS
10 11 (3.02%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (2.75%) ChatGPT
12 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (2.20%) dbt
14 6 (1.65%) iPaaS
14 6 (1.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 50 (13.74%) Firewall
2 43 (11.81%) DNS
3 39 (10.71%) DHCP
4 32 (8.79%) VPN
5 31 (8.52%) TCP/IP
6 28 (7.69%) VLAN
7 17 (4.67%) LAN
8 15 (4.12%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (3.85%) Network Security
9 14 (3.85%) WAN
10 10 (2.75%) BGP
10 10 (2.75%) SAN
11 7 (1.92%) OSPF
11 7 (1.92%) SD-WAN
11 7 (1.92%) Wireless
12 6 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.65%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.37%) DMZ
13 5 (1.37%) VoIP
14 4 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.77%) Power BI
3 11 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.02%) Metadata
4 10 (2.75%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.20%) Metabase
6 6 (1.65%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.10%) Big Data
8 4 (1.10%) Metadata Repository
8 4 (1.10%) MySQL
9 3 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.55%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.55%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (3.30%) JIRA
2 10 (2.75%) Visual Studio
3 9 (2.47%) Git
4 5 (1.37%) Postman
4 5 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.37%) Subversion
5 4 (1.10%) GitLab
6 3 (0.82%) Selenium
7 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.55%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 207 (56.87%) Social Skills
2 85 (23.35%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (20.33%) Finance
4 35 (9.62%) Legal
5 29 (7.97%) Banking
6 27 (7.42%) Retail
7 22 (6.04%) Manufacturing
8 20 (5.49%) Law
9 17 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (3.57%) German Language
11 11 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.47%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.20%) Automotive
14 7 (1.92%) Electronics
15 5 (1.37%) Advertising
15 5 (1.37%) Billing
15 5 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.37%) Public Sector
16 4 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (19.23%) Analyst
2 59 (16.21%) Senior
3 42 (11.54%) IT Support
4 31 (8.52%) Architect
5 26 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (7.14%) Lead
6 23 (6.32%) Business Analyst
7 19 (5.22%) Support Engineer
8 18 (4.95%) IT Analyst
8 18 (4.95%) Network Engineer
9 17 (4.67%) Support Analyst
10 15 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support
11 14 (3.85%) Security Engineer
12 12 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.02%) Consultant
13 11 (3.02%) Data Engineer
13 11 (3.02%) IT Support Analyst
14 10 (2.75%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.47%) REST
2 7 (1.92%) .NET
3 6 (1.65%) PySpark
4 5 (1.37%) Middleware
5 4 (1.10%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.10%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (1.10%) HTML
5 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.10%) OAuth
5 4 (1.10%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.10%) OpenID
5 4 (1.10%) React
5 4 (1.10%) SAML
6 3 (0.82%) CSS
6 3 (0.82%) JSON
6 3 (0.82%) SOAP
6 3 (0.82%) XML
7 2 (0.55%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.55%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
1 18 (4.95%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.40%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.57%) Low-Code
4 13 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.30%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.30%) Driving Licence
6 11 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.75%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.47%) Life Science
8 9 (2.47%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.20%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.20%) Clustering
9 8 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.37%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.10%) CCTV
13 4 (1.10%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 68 (18.68%) Windows
2 49 (13.46%) Windows Server
3 22 (6.04%) Linux
4 5 (1.37%) VMS
4 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.10%) Debian
5 4 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.82%) Unix
7 2 (0.55%) CentOS
7 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (24.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 62 (17.03%) Agile
4 52 (14.29%) ITIL
5 46 (12.64%) Cybersecurity
5 46 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (9.89%) AI
7 34 (9.34%) Change Management
8 31 (8.52%) Analytics
9 30 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 28 (7.69%) Data Analysis
10 28 (7.69%) ERP
10 28 (7.69%) Process Improvement
10 28 (7.69%) Project Delivery
10 28 (7.69%) Roadmaps
11 27 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (6.59%) Business Analysis
12 24 (6.59%) Generative AI
13 23 (6.32%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (6.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (12.91%) SQL
2 38 (10.44%) PowerShell
3 32 (8.79%) Python
4 11 (3.02%) C#
5 10 (2.75%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.47%) Bash
7 6 (1.65%) Java
7 6 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.65%) VBA
8 5 (1.37%) PHP
9 2 (0.55%) Bicep
9 2 (0.55%) C++
9 2 (0.55%) Go
10 1 (0.27%) ABAP
10 1 (0.27%) C
10 1 (0.27%) Perl
10 1 (0.27%) R
10 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (23.63%) Degree
2 36 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (6.04%) CISSP
3 22 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (4.40%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.12%) CCNP
7 14 (3.85%) CISM
8 12 (3.30%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.20%) CEH
10 8 (2.20%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.20%) IIBA
10 8 (2.20%) PMI Certification
10 8 (2.20%) PMP
11 7 (1.92%) CCIE
11 7 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.92%) HNC
12 6 (1.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.49%) QA
4 19 (5.22%) SLA
5 18 (4.95%) GDPR
6 11 (3.02%) NIST
7 8 (2.20%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.92%) GRC
9 6 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.65%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.37%) MiFID
11 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.55%) COBIT
12 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.55%) PMO
13 1 (0.27%) GxP
13 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 66 (18.13%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.67%) Hyper-V
3 14 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.92%) Docker
5 6 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.37%) Firmware
7 4 (1.10%) vSphere
8 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.27%) Ceph
9 1 (0.27%) Lustre
9 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.27%) vCloud
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (3.85%) Terraform
2 13 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.02%) SCCM
4 10 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.20%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.65%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (1.65%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.37%) Ansible
7 5 (1.37%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (1.37%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.10%) Grafana
8 4 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.10%) Nagios
8 4 (1.10%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (0.82%) cPanel
9 3 (0.82%) Nessus
9 3 (0.82%) Plesk
10 2 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 127 (34.89%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.97%) VMware
3 27 (7.42%) Cisco
4 18 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.12%) SAP
6 14 (3.85%) Citrix
6 14 (3.85%) SolarWinds
6 14 (3.85%) Veeam
7 11 (3.02%) Pega
8 10 (2.75%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.47%) Alteryx
9 9 (2.47%) Fortinet
9 9 (2.47%) UiPath
10 8 (2.20%) Anaplan
10 8 (2.20%) Blue Prism
10 8 (2.20%) Databricks
10 8 (2.20%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.92%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.92%) F5
11 7 (1.92%) iManage