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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 522 390
Rank change year-on-year +236 -132 +130
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 402 212 323
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.87% 0.35% 0.69%
As % of the General category 1.37% 0.58% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 267 109 271
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% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,348 £90,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £62,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.94% +14.09% -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 common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 29,315 36,459 30,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 63.27% 59.48% 64.83%
Number of salaries quoted 17,297 17,696 22,463
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £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 22 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 22 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 +98 136 £77,500 +6.90% 157
South East +100 79 £48,500 +21.25% 76
Midlands +97 73 £45,000 - 35
North of England +75 61 £47,500 -8.21% 46
West Midlands +73 42 £52,500 -17.65% 31
East Midlands +42 30 £42,500 +6.25% 3
North West +57 29 £42,500 -16.67% 33
Yorkshire +32 28 £47,500 -9.52% 11
East of England +41 27 £35,000 -13.04% 14
South West +41 19 £55,000 +29.41% 25
North East +19 4 £25,000 -26.47% 4
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 30 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 25 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.23%) Confluence
4 2 (0.50%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 61 (15.17%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.73%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (1.99%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (1.74%) Oracle Cash Management
2 7 (1.74%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.24%) Oracle Assets
4 5 (1.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.00%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.75%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 129 (32.09%) Azure
2 65 (16.17%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (10.20%) AWS
4 34 (8.46%) Power Platform
5 33 (8.21%) SaaS
6 25 (6.22%) Entra ID
7 20 (4.98%) IaaS
8 17 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (3.73%) PaaS
11 14 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (3.48%) GCP
12 11 (2.74%) GitHub
13 10 (2.49%) PowerApps
14 9 (2.24%) Power Automate
15 7 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.74%) OCI
16 6 (1.49%) iPaaS
16 6 (1.49%) OneDrive
17 5 (1.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.94%) Firewall
2 36 (8.96%) DNS
3 30 (7.46%) DHCP
4 28 (6.97%) VPN
5 26 (6.47%) TCP/IP
6 22 (5.47%) LAN
7 17 (4.23%) Network Security
8 16 (3.98%) BGP
8 16 (3.98%) VLAN
9 12 (2.99%) OSPF
10 11 (2.74%) WAN
11 8 (1.99%) MPLS
11 8 (1.99%) SAN
12 7 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.49%) DMZ
13 6 (1.49%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (1.49%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.49%) VoIP
13 6 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.47%) Power BI
3 16 (3.98%) Tableau
4 15 (3.73%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.74%) Metadata
6 6 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.00%) MySQL
9 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.75%) CockroachDB
9 3 (0.75%) Metabase
9 3 (0.75%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.25%) Big Data
11 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (3.98%) JIRA
2 4 (1.00%) Git
2 4 (1.00%) Postman
3 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.50%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 203 (50.50%) Social Skills
2 100 (24.88%) Finance
3 71 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.19%) Legal
5 32 (7.96%) Banking
6 30 (7.46%) Law
7 25 (6.22%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (4.98%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.98%) Retail
9 18 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.48%) Advertising
10 14 (3.48%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.99%) Back Office
12 10 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.49%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.99%) German Language
14 7 (1.74%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.74%) Marketing
15 5 (1.24%) Publishing
16 4 (1.00%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 109 (27.11%) Analyst
2 67 (16.67%) Senior
3 31 (7.71%) Business Analyst
4 28 (6.97%) Lead
5 27 (6.72%) Network Engineer
6 26 (6.47%) Architect
7 22 (5.47%) Data Analyst
8 21 (5.22%) Service Analyst
9 20 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (4.98%) Support Engineer
10 19 (4.73%) Developer
10 19 (4.73%) IT Support
10 19 (4.73%) Quality Analyst
11 18 (4.48%) Data Quality Analyst
12 17 (4.23%) Consultant
13 16 (3.98%) Service Desk Analyst
14 15 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (3.48%) Infrastructure Support
15 14 (3.48%) IT Analyst
15 14 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.99%) XML
2 8 (1.99%) .NET
3 7 (1.74%) React
4 5 (1.24%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.24%) HTML
4 5 (1.24%) Kafka
4 5 (1.24%) REST
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.00%) OAuth
5 4 (1.00%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.00%) OpenID
5 4 (1.00%) SAML
6 3 (0.75%) CSS
6 3 (0.75%) JSON
6 3 (0.75%) PySpark
6 3 (0.75%) Spring
6 3 (0.75%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.50%) Laravel
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.48%) Data Centre
2 16 (3.98%) Onboarding
2 16 (3.98%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.48%) Driving Licence
5 13 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.99%) NHS
7 11 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.49%) CMDB
8 10 (2.49%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.49%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.24%) Life Science
9 9 (2.24%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.49%) Clustering
12 5 (1.24%) IoT
12 5 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.91%) Windows
2 33 (8.21%) Windows Server
3 24 (5.97%) Linux
4 5 (1.24%) Debian
4 5 (1.24%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.24%) Unix
5 4 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.50%) 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 81 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (17.66%) Agile
3 62 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (13.68%) ITIL
5 51 (12.69%) Validation
6 49 (12.19%) Cybersecurity
7 44 (10.95%) Migration
8 36 (8.96%) DevOps
9 33 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (7.96%) Project Delivery
11 30 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (7.21%) Customer Service
12 29 (7.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (6.97%) Computer Science
13 28 (6.97%) Incident Response
14 27 (6.72%) Change Management
14 27 (6.72%) ERP
14 27 (6.72%) Project Management
15 26 (6.47%) Incident Management
16 25 (6.22%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (16.67%) SQL
2 35 (8.71%) Python
3 29 (7.21%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.48%) C#
5 13 (3.23%) Java
6 11 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.24%) C
8 8 (1.99%) Bash
8 8 (1.99%) PHP
9 6 (1.49%) VBA
10 3 (0.75%) Bicep
10 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.50%) C++
11 2 (0.50%) Go
11 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.50%) Perl
12 1 (0.25%) R
12 1 (0.25%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 96 (23.88%) Degree
2 51 (12.69%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.21%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (6.47%) CISSP
6 25 (6.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (5.97%) CCNP
8 18 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (3.98%) CISM
9 16 (3.98%) DV Cleared
10 15 (3.73%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (3.23%) CCIE
12 11 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.99%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.99%) CCSA
13 8 (1.99%) CCSE
14 7 (1.74%) CCNA
14 7 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (1.74%) HNC
15 5 (1.24%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.70%) Data Quality
2 36 (8.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (3.98%) GDPR
4 15 (3.73%) NIST
5 14 (3.48%) SLA
6 13 (3.23%) ISO 9001
7 12 (2.99%) QA
8 11 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.99%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (1.74%) MiFID
10 7 (1.74%) PMO
11 5 (1.24%) GRC
12 4 (1.00%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.50%) UCITS
15 1 (0.25%) GxP
System Software
1 57 (14.18%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.47%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.74%) Docker
4 7 (1.74%) Firmware
5 5 (1.24%) Kamailio
5 5 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.25%) Ceph
7 1 (0.25%) Lustre
7 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 17 (4.23%) SCCM
2 15 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.73%) Terraform
3 7 (1.74%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.49%) Ansible
5 5 (1.24%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (1.00%) CSIRT
6 4 (1.00%) Grafana
6 4 (1.00%) Nagios
6 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.75%) cPanel
7 3 (0.75%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (0.75%) Nessus
7 3 (0.75%) Plesk
8 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 134 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.21%) Cisco
3 27 (6.72%) VMware
4 19 (4.73%) Oracle
5 14 (3.48%) CheckPoint
5 14 (3.48%) F5
6 11 (2.74%) SolarWinds
7 9 (2.24%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.99%) Juniper
8 8 (1.99%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.74%) Blue Prism
9 7 (1.74%) iManage
9 7 (1.74%) Pega
9 7 (1.74%) Qualys
9 7 (1.74%) Veeam
10 6 (1.49%) Citrix
10 6 (1.49%) Intapp
11 5 (1.24%) Carbon Black