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 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 507 392
Rank change year-on-year +211 -115 +67
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 357 180 310
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.37% 0.62%
As % of the General category 1.14% 0.56% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 239 93 275
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,383 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +6.84% -2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £54,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.80% +8.70% -4.17%

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 31,407 32,038 30,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 58.81% 66.67% 61.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,431 14,670 22,535
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.51% -6.64%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +92 121 £77,500 +6.90% 47
South East +93 77 £48,000 -14.67% 46
Midlands +58 66 £52,500 -4.11% 22
North of England +38 43 £42,500 -19.05% 29
West Midlands +34 33 £60,000 -4.00% 13
East Midlands +12 32 £45,000 - 9
East of England +48 30 £30,370 -23.25% 15
Yorkshire +12 23 £41,750 -0.60% 12
North West +28 20 £45,000 -20.70% 14
South West +19 18 £55,000 +74.60% 16
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 23 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.52%) Confluence
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.56%) WordPress
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 64 (17.93%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.36%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.28%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.40%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.56%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.28%) Postilion
7 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 123 (34.45%) Azure
2 70 (19.61%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (9.52%) AWS
4 29 (8.12%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.72%) SaaS
6 23 (6.44%) Entra ID
7 16 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.20%) Power Automate
9 14 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.64%) PowerApps
11 12 (3.36%) PaaS
12 11 (3.08%) GCP
12 11 (3.08%) IaaS
13 10 (2.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (2.52%) ChatGPT
15 8 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 6 (1.68%) iPaaS
17 6 (1.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.61%) Firewall
2 36 (10.08%) DNS
3 31 (8.68%) DHCP
4 30 (8.40%) VPN
5 27 (7.56%) TCP/IP
6 21 (5.88%) LAN
7 20 (5.60%) VLAN
8 15 (4.20%) Network Security
9 13 (3.64%) WAN
9 13 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (3.08%) BGP
11 10 (2.80%) SAN
12 8 (2.24%) OSPF
13 7 (1.96%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (1.68%) Wireless
14 6 (1.68%) Wireshark
15 5 (1.40%) DMZ
15 5 (1.40%) VoIP
16 4 (1.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.32%) Power BI
3 11 (3.08%) Metadata
4 9 (2.52%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.96%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.96%) Tableau
6 6 (1.68%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.12%) Metabase
7 4 (1.12%) Metadata Repository
7 4 (1.12%) MySQL
7 4 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.56%) Big Data
8 2 (0.56%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.28%) DB2
9 1 (0.28%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (3.36%) JIRA
2 6 (1.68%) Git
3 5 (1.40%) Subversion
3 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.12%) Postman
5 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 190 (53.22%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.41%) Finance
3 72 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.36%) Legal
5 31 (8.68%) Banking
6 26 (7.28%) Retail
7 22 (6.16%) Law
8 21 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (5.32%) Manufacturing
10 13 (3.64%) German Language
11 10 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (2.24%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.96%) Automotive
14 7 (1.96%) Electronics
15 6 (1.68%) Advertising
16 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.40%) Marketing
16 5 (1.40%) Publishing
17 4 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 81 (22.69%) Analyst
2 58 (16.25%) Senior
3 29 (8.12%) IT Support
4 28 (7.84%) Architect
5 26 (7.28%) Business Analyst
5 26 (7.28%) Lead
6 25 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 20 (5.60%) Support Engineer
9 18 (5.04%) Service Analyst
10 16 (4.48%) IT Analyst
11 14 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
12 13 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.08%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.08%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (2.80%) Consultant
14 10 (2.80%) Infrastructure Support
14 10 (2.80%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.96%) .NET
1 7 (1.96%) REST
2 6 (1.68%) PySpark
3 5 (1.40%) HTML
4 4 (1.12%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.12%) OAuth
4 4 (1.12%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.12%) OpenID
4 4 (1.12%) React
4 4 (1.12%) SAML
4 4 (1.12%) XML
5 3 (0.84%) CSS
6 2 (0.56%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.56%) JSON
6 2 (0.56%) Kafka
6 2 (0.56%) Laravel
6 2 (0.56%) Middleware
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.48%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.48%) Driving Licence
3 14 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.08%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.08%) Low-Code
6 10 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.52%) Life Science
7 9 (2.52%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.24%) Clustering
9 7 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.40%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.40%) NHS
12 4 (1.12%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.21%) Windows
2 34 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 22 (6.16%) Linux
4 4 (1.12%) Debian
4 4 (1.12%) Unix
4 4 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.84%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.84%) VMS
6 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (21.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 61 (17.09%) Agile
4 57 (15.97%) ITIL
5 44 (12.32%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (10.08%) Validation
8 32 (8.96%) AI
8 32 (8.96%) Change Management
9 30 (8.40%) Analytics
10 27 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (7.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (7.28%) Customer Service
11 26 (7.28%) Migration
12 25 (7.00%) Incident Response
12 25 (7.00%) Project Management
13 24 (6.72%) Business Analysis
13 24 (6.72%) Data Analysis
13 24 (6.72%) Process Improvement
13 24 (6.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (12.32%) SQL
2 31 (8.68%) PowerShell
3 27 (7.56%) Python
4 11 (3.08%) C#
5 9 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.68%) VBA
7 5 (1.40%) Java
8 4 (1.12%) PHP
9 3 (0.84%) Bash
9 3 (0.84%) Bicep
10 2 (0.56%) C
10 2 (0.56%) C++
10 2 (0.56%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) Perl
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 86 (24.09%) Degree
2 38 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.00%) CISSP
4 23 (6.44%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (6.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (6.16%) SC Cleared
6 19 (5.32%) CCNP
7 16 (4.48%) CISM
8 12 (3.36%) Numerate Degree
9 11 (3.08%) CCIE
10 10 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (2.80%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.52%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (2.24%) CCSA
12 8 (2.24%) CCSE
13 7 (1.96%) CEH
13 7 (1.96%) IIBA
13 7 (1.96%) PMI Certification
13 7 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.60%) SLA
4 17 (4.76%) GDPR
5 14 (3.92%) QA
6 12 (3.36%) NIST
7 10 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (2.24%) GRC
9 7 (1.96%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.96%) SOC 2
10 6 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (1.40%) ISO 9001
11 5 (1.40%) MiFID
11 5 (1.40%) PMO
12 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.56%) COBIT
13 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 57 (15.97%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.48%) Hyper-V
3 15 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.40%) Firmware
4 5 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.12%) Docker
5 4 (1.12%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.28%) Ceph
7 1 (0.28%) Lustre
7 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.28%) vCloud
7 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (4.48%) SCCM
2 13 (3.64%) Terraform
3 9 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (1.68%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.40%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (1.40%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.12%) Ansible
8 3 (0.84%) cPanel
8 3 (0.84%) Grafana
8 3 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.84%) Nessus
8 3 (0.84%) Plesk
8 3 (0.84%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.56%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.56%) Nagios
9 2 (0.56%) VxRail
10 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 122 (34.17%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.28%) Cisco
3 25 (7.00%) VMware
4 15 (4.20%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.36%) CheckPoint
5 12 (3.36%) F5
5 12 (3.36%) Oracle
5 12 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.08%) Citrix
7 10 (2.80%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.80%) Veeam
8 9 (2.52%) Pega
8 9 (2.52%) SolarWinds
9 8 (2.24%) Alteryx
9 8 (2.24%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.24%) SAP
10 7 (1.96%) Anaplan
10 7 (1.96%) Blue Prism
10 7 (1.96%) Databricks
10 7 (1.96%) iManage