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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 493 400
Rank change year-on-year +208 -93 +88
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 377 183 291
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.37% 0.64%
As % of the General category 1.20% 0.56% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 253 95 259
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,000 £55,148
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +14.24% -8.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £63,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.70% +14.55% -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 31,428 32,674 28,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 60.29% 65.75% 62.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,299 15,338 21,243
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £30,059
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,075 £100,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -1.93%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 +86 129 £75,000 +3.45% 122
South East +100 78 £50,500 -10.22% 204
Midlands +53 73 £46,500 -10.58% 161
North of England +26 46 £42,500 -19.05% 189
West Midlands +34 37 £59,000 -5.60% 84
East Midlands +11 35 £45,000 - 70
East of England +52 29 £30,370 -24.55% 121
North West +26 22 £39,750 -22.06% 91
Yorkshire +15 22 £47,500 -9.52% 83
South West +24 18 £55,000 +74.60% 76
North East +13 2 - - 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 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.65%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 62 (16.45%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.18%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.86%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.33%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.53%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.53%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.27%) Postilion
6 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (31.83%) Azure
2 62 (16.45%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (8.22%) AWS
4 30 (7.96%) SaaS
5 28 (7.43%) Power Platform
6 22 (5.84%) Entra ID
7 18 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.71%) IaaS
9 13 (3.45%) Power Automate
10 12 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (3.18%) PaaS
10 12 (3.18%) PowerApps
11 10 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.65%) GCP
12 9 (2.39%) GitHub
12 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (1.86%) ChatGPT
13 7 (1.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.59%) iPaaS
14 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.81%) Firewall
2 30 (7.96%) DNS
3 25 (6.63%) DHCP
3 25 (6.63%) VPN
4 21 (5.57%) TCP/IP
5 19 (5.04%) LAN
6 16 (4.24%) VLAN
7 13 (3.45%) Network Security
8 11 (2.92%) BGP
9 10 (2.65%) SAN
9 10 (2.65%) WAN
9 10 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.12%) OSPF
11 6 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.59%) DMZ
11 6 (1.59%) SD-WAN
11 6 (1.59%) VoIP
11 6 (1.59%) Wireshark
12 5 (1.33%) STUN
12 5 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.51%) Power BI
3 14 (3.71%) Tableau
4 13 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 10 (2.65%) Metadata
6 7 (1.86%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.06%) Metabase
9 4 (1.06%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.53%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.27%) Big Data
12 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.27%) DB2
12 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.27%) MySQL
12 1 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (3.98%) JIRA
2 6 (1.59%) Git
3 5 (1.33%) Subversion
3 5 (1.33%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.06%) Postman
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) Selenium
5 2 (0.53%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 195 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 87 (23.08%) Finance
3 77 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.34%) Legal
5 28 (7.43%) Banking
6 22 (5.84%) Retail
7 21 (5.57%) Law
7 21 (5.57%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (4.51%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.45%) German Language
10 12 (3.18%) Advertising
11 11 (2.92%) Back Office
11 11 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.39%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.39%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.86%) Electronics
14 7 (1.86%) Marketing
15 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (24.40%) Analyst
2 56 (14.85%) Senior
3 32 (8.49%) Architect
4 28 (7.43%) Business Analyst
5 26 (6.90%) Lead
6 24 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (5.57%) IT Support
7 21 (5.57%) Network Engineer
7 21 (5.57%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.04%) Service Analyst
9 16 (4.24%) IT Analyst
10 15 (3.98%) Data Analyst
10 15 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.71%) Developer
11 14 (3.71%) Service Desk Analyst
12 13 (3.45%) Data Quality Analyst
12 13 (3.45%) Quality Analyst
12 13 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (3.18%) Consultant
14 11 (2.92%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.65%) XML
2 8 (2.12%) .NET
3 6 (1.59%) REST
4 5 (1.33%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.33%) HTML
5 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.06%) OAuth
5 4 (1.06%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.06%) OpenID
5 4 (1.06%) PySpark
5 4 (1.06%) React
5 4 (1.06%) SAML
6 3 (0.80%) CSS
7 2 (0.53%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.53%) JSON
7 2 (0.53%) Kafka
7 2 (0.53%) Laravel
7 2 (0.53%) Middleware
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.24%) Data Centre
1 16 (4.24%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 13 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.18%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.18%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.92%) NHS
5 11 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.39%) Life Science
6 9 (2.39%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.12%) Clustering
7 8 (2.12%) CMDB
7 8 (2.12%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.33%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.18%) Windows
2 28 (7.43%) Windows Server
3 24 (6.37%) Linux
4 5 (1.33%) Debian
4 5 (1.33%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.33%) Unix
5 4 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.53%) VMS
8 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 68 (18.04%) Agile
4 55 (14.59%) ITIL
5 46 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
6 42 (11.14%) Validation
7 38 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (9.02%) DevOps
8 34 (9.02%) Migration
9 32 (8.49%) Change Management
10 30 (7.96%) AI
11 28 (7.43%) Analytics
12 27 (7.16%) Customer Service
12 27 (7.16%) Incident Response
12 27 (7.16%) Roadmaps
12 27 (7.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (6.90%) Computer Science
13 26 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (6.63%) Business Analysis
14 25 (6.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 53 (14.06%) SQL
2 31 (8.22%) Python
3 29 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 17 (4.51%) C#
5 11 (2.92%) Java
6 8 (2.12%) C
6 8 (2.12%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.59%) VBA
8 4 (1.06%) Bash
8 4 (1.06%) PHP
9 3 (0.80%) Bicep
9 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.53%) C++
10 2 (0.53%) Go
10 2 (0.53%) Perl
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 97 (25.73%) Degree
2 43 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.90%) CISSP
5 23 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (5.04%) CCNP
7 17 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.24%) CISM
9 13 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 13 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
10 11 (2.92%) CCIE
10 11 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.12%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.12%) CCSA
11 8 (2.12%) CCSE
12 7 (1.86%) CEH
12 7 (1.86%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (1.86%) HNC
13 6 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.61%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.04%) SLA
4 14 (3.71%) GDPR
5 12 (3.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (3.18%) ISO 9001
5 12 (3.18%) NIST
5 12 (3.18%) QA
6 8 (2.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (2.12%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.59%) GRC
7 6 (1.59%) MiFID
8 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.33%) PMO
9 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.53%) COBIT
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.53%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.27%) UCITS
System Software
1 51 (13.53%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.98%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.33%) Firmware
4 5 (1.33%) Kamailio
4 5 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.06%) Docker
6 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.27%) Ceph
7 1 (0.27%) Lustre
7 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.27%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 16 (4.24%) SCCM
2 13 (3.45%) Terraform
3 9 (2.39%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (1.33%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.06%) Ansible
8 3 (0.80%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.80%) cPanel
8 3 (0.80%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.80%) Grafana
8 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.80%) Nessus
8 3 (0.80%) Plesk
9 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.53%) VxRail
10 1 (0.27%) CASB
10 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 127 (33.69%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.63%) Cisco
3 22 (5.84%) VMware
4 13 (3.45%) Oracle
5 12 (3.18%) CheckPoint
5 12 (3.18%) F5
5 12 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.65%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.39%) Citrix
8 9 (2.39%) Veeam
9 8 (2.12%) iManage
9 8 (2.12%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.12%) Pega
9 8 (2.12%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.86%) Blue Prism
10 7 (1.86%) Qualys
11 6 (1.59%) Dell
11 6 (1.59%) Juniper
11 6 (1.59%) SAP