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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 478 397
Rank change year-on-year +160 -81 +82
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 376 184 418
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 0.43% 0.63%
As % of the General category 1.09% 0.63% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 259 96 373
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,875 £42,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +7.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £54,125 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.48% +6.36% -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 general skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 34,338 29,293 40,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 55.81% 68.75% 60.88%
Number of salaries quoted 19,178 13,841 30,874
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 £83,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,273 £107,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -9.84%

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 27 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 27 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 +64 121 £75,000 +7.14% 54
South East +63 80 £47,500 +2.70% 55
Midlands +28 63 £55,000 +10.00% 28
North of England +11 49 £45,000 +9.76% 33
East of England +33 35 £31,435 -30.34% 8
West Midlands +24 32 £60,000 +20.00% 19
East Midlands -7 30 £45,000 - 9
South West +9 26 £48,000 +52.38% 16
North West +5 23 £45,000 -0.84% 18
Yorkshire -22 20 £34,000 -19.05% 13
North East -2 6 £45,000 +42.86% 2
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 26 (6.91%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.60%) Confluence
4 4 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.06%) IIS
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.53%) WordPress
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 54 (14.36%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.13%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Abaqus
6 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.53%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 142 (37.77%) Azure
2 77 (20.48%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (9.31%) AWS
4 32 (8.51%) Power Platform
5 31 (8.24%) Entra ID
6 26 (6.91%) SaaS
7 23 (6.12%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (3.72%) PaaS
9 13 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.19%) GCP
10 12 (3.19%) IaaS
10 12 (3.19%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (2.66%) ChatGPT
12 10 (2.66%) dbt
13 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.60%) iPaaS
16 5 (1.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 47 (12.50%) Firewall
2 42 (11.17%) DNS
3 38 (10.11%) DHCP
4 31 (8.24%) TCP/IP
5 30 (7.98%) VPN
6 28 (7.45%) VLAN
7 15 (3.99%) LAN
8 13 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (3.19%) Network Security
9 12 (3.19%) WAN
10 10 (2.66%) SAN
11 6 (1.60%) BGP
11 6 (1.60%) DMZ
11 6 (1.60%) VoIP
11 6 (1.60%) Wireless
12 5 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.33%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.33%) STUN
13 4 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.12%) Power BI
3 13 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.19%) Metadata
5 11 (2.93%) Data Lake
6 10 (2.66%) Metabase
7 6 (1.60%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.06%) Big Data
9 4 (1.06%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (1.06%) MySQL
10 3 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.53%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.53%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (3.72%) JIRA
2 12 (3.19%) Git
2 12 (3.19%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.60%) GitLab
3 6 (1.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.33%) Postman
4 5 (1.33%) Subversion
5 3 (0.80%) Selenium
6 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.53%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 215 (57.18%) Social Skills
2 86 (22.87%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (19.68%) Finance
4 36 (9.57%) Legal
5 29 (7.71%) Banking
6 28 (7.45%) Retail
7 25 (6.65%) Manufacturing
8 23 (6.12%) Law
9 16 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (3.46%) German Language
10 13 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.39%) Electronics
12 9 (2.39%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.13%) Automotive
14 7 (1.86%) Advertising
15 6 (1.60%) Billing
15 6 (1.60%) Public Sector
16 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 73 (19.41%) Analyst
2 60 (15.96%) Senior
3 44 (11.70%) IT Support
4 32 (8.51%) Architect
5 28 (7.45%) Lead
6 27 (7.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (6.12%) Business Analyst
8 20 (5.32%) IT Analyst
8 20 (5.32%) Support Analyst
8 20 (5.32%) Support Engineer
9 15 (3.99%) Infrastructure Support
9 15 (3.99%) Network Engineer
9 15 (3.99%) Security Engineer
9 15 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.46%) IT Support Analyst
11 12 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.19%) Consultant
11 12 (3.19%) Service Analyst
12 11 (2.93%) Data Engineer
12 11 (2.93%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.39%) REST
2 7 (1.86%) .NET
3 6 (1.60%) PySpark
4 5 (1.33%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.33%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.33%) Middleware
5 4 (1.06%) HTML
5 4 (1.06%) JSON
5 4 (1.06%) React
5 4 (1.06%) SOAP
6 3 (0.80%) CSS
6 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (0.80%) OAuth
6 3 (0.80%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.80%) OpenID
6 3 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.80%) SAML
6 3 (0.80%) XML
7 2 (0.53%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (4.52%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.72%) Low-Code
4 14 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.46%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.19%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.93%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.66%) Life Science
8 10 (2.66%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.39%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.13%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.13%) Clustering
10 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.33%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.06%) CCTV
13 4 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.88%) Windows
2 52 (13.83%) Windows Server
3 24 (6.38%) Linux
4 5 (1.33%) Debian
4 5 (1.33%) VMS
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.80%) CentOS
6 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.80%) Unix
7 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (27.39%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 66 (17.55%) Agile
4 50 (13.30%) ITIL
5 47 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 45 (11.97%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (10.90%) AI
8 36 (9.57%) Change Management
9 31 (8.24%) Analytics
9 31 (8.24%) ERP
10 30 (7.98%) Project Delivery
11 29 (7.71%) Data Analysis
11 29 (7.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 27 (7.18%) Process Improvement
13 27 (7.18%) Roadmaps
14 25 (6.65%) Business Analysis
14 25 (6.65%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (6.38%) Generative AI
15 24 (6.38%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.56%) SQL
2 39 (10.37%) PowerShell
3 38 (10.11%) Python
4 13 (3.46%) C#
5 11 (2.93%) Bash
6 10 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.60%) Java
7 6 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.60%) VBA
8 5 (1.33%) PHP
9 4 (1.06%) C++
10 2 (0.53%) Bicep
10 2 (0.53%) Go
11 1 (0.27%) ABAP
11 1 (0.27%) C
11 1 (0.27%) Perl
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.27%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (23.67%) Degree
2 34 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (5.85%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.59%) CISSP
6 16 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (3.46%) CISM
8 13 (3.46%) Numerate Degree
9 10 (2.66%) CCNP
10 9 (2.39%) CEH
10 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.13%) IIBA
11 8 (2.13%) PMI Certification
11 8 (2.13%) PMP
12 7 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.86%) HNC
12 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.33%) CCIE
13 5 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.78%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.32%) QA
3 20 (5.32%) SLA
4 18 (4.79%) GDPR
5 10 (2.66%) NIST
6 7 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.86%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.60%) GRC
7 6 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.60%) SOC 2
8 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (1.33%) MiFID
9 3 (0.80%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.53%) COBIT
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.53%) PMO
11 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 67 (17.82%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.52%) Hyper-V
3 13 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.13%) Docker
5 6 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.06%) Firmware
6 4 (1.06%) vSphere
7 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.27%) Ceph
8 1 (0.27%) Lustre
8 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.27%) vCloud
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (3.99%) Terraform
2 13 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (3.19%) SCCM
4 11 (2.93%) Kubernetes
5 10 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (1.60%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.33%) Ansible
7 5 (1.33%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.33%) Nagios
8 4 (1.06%) Dell DRAC
8 4 (1.06%) Grafana
8 4 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.06%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (0.80%) Argo
9 3 (0.80%) cPanel
9 3 (0.80%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.80%) Plesk
9 3 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 130 (34.57%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.45%) VMware
3 24 (6.38%) Cisco
4 19 (5.05%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.26%) SAP
6 14 (3.72%) Citrix
6 14 (3.72%) SolarWinds
6 14 (3.72%) Veeam
7 12 (3.19%) Pega
8 9 (2.39%) Alteryx
8 9 (2.39%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.39%) UiPath
9 8 (2.13%) Anaplan
9 8 (2.13%) Blue Prism
9 8 (2.13%) Databricks
9 8 (2.13%) iManage
9 8 (2.13%) Oracle
10 7 (1.86%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.33%) MuleSoft