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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 519 396
Rank change year-on-year +235 -123 +100
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 396 211 308
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.84% 0.35% 0.68%
As % of the General category 1.35% 0.58% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 261 110 264
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,348 £90,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.15% +18.18% -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 29,257 36,476 29,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 62.36% 60.93% 64.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17,241 17,606 21,990
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £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 28 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 28 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 +90 139 £77,500 +6.90% 72
South East +103 77 £48,500 +21.25% 61
Midlands +93 72 £45,000 - 21
North of England +59 58 £47,500 -9.52% 28
West Midlands +75 41 £52,500 -17.65% 19
East Midlands +35 30 £42,500 +6.25% 2
North West +61 29 £42,500 -16.67% 18
East of England +52 27 £32,500 -19.25% 10
Yorkshire +33 25 £47,500 -9.52% 8
South West +27 18 £55,000 +29.41% 17
North East +15 4 £25,000 -42.20% 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 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 25 (6.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.28%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 60 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.79%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.26%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.01%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.76%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.25%) Endur
6 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 127 (32.07%) Azure
2 66 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (9.60%) AWS
4 34 (8.59%) SaaS
5 32 (8.08%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.81%) Entra ID
7 20 (5.05%) IaaS
8 17 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (4.04%) PaaS
10 14 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (3.03%) GCP
12 11 (2.78%) GitHub
13 10 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 9 (2.27%) Power Automate
15 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (1.52%) iPaaS
16 6 (1.52%) OneDrive
17 5 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
17 5 (1.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 45 (11.36%) Firewall
2 34 (8.59%) DNS
3 29 (7.32%) DHCP
4 26 (6.57%) VPN
5 25 (6.31%) TCP/IP
6 22 (5.56%) LAN
7 17 (4.29%) Network Security
8 16 (4.04%) VLAN
9 14 (3.54%) BGP
10 11 (2.78%) WAN
11 10 (2.53%) OSPF
12 9 (2.27%) SAN
13 6 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.52%) DMZ
13 6 (1.52%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (1.52%) MPLS
13 6 (1.52%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.52%) VoIP
13 6 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.30%) Power BI
3 16 (4.04%) Tableau
4 15 (3.79%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.02%) Metadata
6 5 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.01%) Metadata Repository
7 4 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.76%) Metabase
8 3 (0.76%) MySQL
8 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.25%) Big Data
10 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (3.54%) JIRA
2 6 (1.52%) Git
3 4 (1.01%) Postman
4 3 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.51%) GitLab
5 2 (0.51%) Selenium
5 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.51%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 197 (49.75%) Social Skills
2 97 (24.49%) Finance
3 75 (18.94%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.36%) Legal
5 29 (7.32%) Banking
6 28 (7.07%) Law
7 23 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (5.05%) Manufacturing
8 20 (5.05%) Retail
9 17 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.54%) Telecoms
11 12 (3.03%) Advertising
11 12 (3.03%) Back Office
12 10 (2.53%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.27%) German Language
13 9 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.77%) Marketing
15 6 (1.52%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.26%) Publishing
17 4 (1.01%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 106 (26.77%) Analyst
2 66 (16.67%) Senior
3 31 (7.83%) Business Analyst
4 27 (6.82%) Architect
4 27 (6.82%) Lead
5 25 (6.31%) Network Engineer
6 21 (5.30%) Service Analyst
6 21 (5.30%) Support Engineer
7 20 (5.05%) Data Analyst
7 20 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (4.80%) Developer
9 18 (4.55%) IT Support
9 18 (4.55%) Quality Analyst
10 17 (4.29%) Data Quality Analyst
11 16 (4.04%) Service Desk Analyst
12 15 (3.79%) Consultant
12 15 (3.79%) IT Analyst
12 15 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (3.54%) Infrastructure Support
13 14 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.03%) XML
2 8 (2.02%) .NET
3 6 (1.52%) React
4 5 (1.26%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.26%) HTML
4 5 (1.26%) REST
5 4 (1.01%) Kafka
5 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.01%) OAuth
5 4 (1.01%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.01%) OpenID
5 4 (1.01%) SAML
6 3 (0.76%) CSS
6 3 (0.76%) JSON
6 3 (0.76%) PySpark
7 2 (0.51%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.51%) Laravel
7 2 (0.51%) Middleware
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.04%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.28%) Driving Licence
6 12 (3.03%) NHS
7 11 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.53%) CMDB
8 10 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.53%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.27%) Life Science
9 9 (2.27%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.77%) Clustering
12 6 (1.52%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.26%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 70 (17.68%) Windows
2 32 (8.08%) Windows Server
3 25 (6.31%) Linux
4 5 (1.26%) Debian
4 5 (1.26%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.26%) Unix
5 4 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.51%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (17.68%) Agile
3 59 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (13.64%) ITIL
5 48 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
5 48 (12.12%) Validation
6 40 (10.10%) Migration
7 37 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (8.84%) DevOps
9 33 (8.33%) Project Delivery
10 31 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 30 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (7.32%) Change Management
12 29 (7.32%) Customer Service
12 29 (7.32%) Project Management
13 28 (7.07%) Computer Science
13 28 (7.07%) Incident Response
14 27 (6.82%) Analytics
14 27 (6.82%) Business Analysis
15 25 (6.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.41%) SQL
2 33 (8.33%) Python
3 29 (7.32%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.55%) C#
5 14 (3.54%) Java
6 10 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.27%) C
8 8 (2.02%) PHP
9 6 (1.52%) Bash
9 6 (1.52%) VBA
10 3 (0.76%) Bicep
10 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.51%) C++
11 2 (0.51%) Go
11 2 (0.51%) Perl
12 1 (0.25%) R
12 1 (0.25%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 98 (24.75%) Degree
2 48 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (6.57%) CISSP
6 25 (6.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (5.56%) CCNP
8 18 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (4.04%) CISM
10 15 (3.79%) DV Cleared
10 15 (3.79%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (3.28%) CCIE
12 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (2.02%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.02%) CCSA
13 8 (2.02%) CCSE
14 7 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (1.77%) HNC
15 5 (1.26%) MCP
15 5 (1.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.35%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.79%) GDPR
3 15 (3.79%) NIST
4 14 (3.54%) SLA
5 13 (3.28%) ISO 9001
5 13 (3.28%) QA
6 11 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.02%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (2.02%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.77%) MiFID
9 6 (1.52%) PMO
10 5 (1.26%) GRC
11 4 (1.01%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.51%) UCITS
14 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.56%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.52%) Docker
4 6 (1.52%) Firmware
5 5 (1.26%) Kamailio
5 5 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.25%) Ceph
7 1 (0.25%) Lustre
7 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.25%) vCloud
7 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (4.04%) SCCM
2 14 (3.54%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.54%) Terraform
3 7 (1.77%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.26%) Ansible
4 5 (1.26%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.01%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (1.01%) CSIRT
5 4 (1.01%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (1.01%) Grafana
6 3 (0.76%) cPanel
6 3 (0.76%) Nessus
6 3 (0.76%) Plesk
7 2 (0.51%) Nagios
8 1 (0.25%) Netcool
8 1 (0.25%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.25%) SCOM
8 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 133 (33.59%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.07%) Cisco
3 26 (6.57%) VMware
4 16 (4.04%) Oracle
5 14 (3.54%) CheckPoint
5 14 (3.54%) F5
6 9 (2.27%) Fortinet
6 9 (2.27%) SolarWinds
7 8 (2.02%) iManage
7 8 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.02%) Veeam
8 7 (1.77%) Blue Prism
8 7 (1.77%) Intapp
8 7 (1.77%) Juniper
8 7 (1.77%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.77%) Pega
8 7 (1.77%) Qualys
9 6 (1.52%) Citrix
9 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.26%) Meraki