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 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 336 484
Rank change year-on-year -56 +148 -72
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 427 346 287
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.79% 0.40%
As % of the General category 0.97% 1.16% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 276 242 193
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £28,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -7.83% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £88,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -3.51%

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 43,993 29,823 40,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 45.30% 68.14% 57.06%
Number of salaries quoted 28,364 15,981 23,084
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,750 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,000 £99,736
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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
South East +5 95 £50,000 -23.08% 72
London -77 93 £70,000 +3.70% 154
North of England -38 77 £55,000 +29.41% 54
Midlands -39 61 £55,000 +27.26% 33
South West -30 60 £42,500 +6.25% 30
North West +7 53 £55,000 +29.41% 30
West Midlands -23 39 £54,000 +8.00% 23
East of England -8 38 £55,000 +4.76% 26
East Midlands -16 22 £60,000 +41.18% 10
Yorkshire -54 21 £57,500 +35.29% 17
North East -61 3 £37,250 +49.00% 8
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 38 (8.90%) SharePoint
2 26 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.51%) Confluence
4 11 (2.58%) IIS
5 5 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 34 (7.96%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.58%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.17%) CorelDRAW
6 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.47%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.64%) SAP CO
1 7 (1.64%) SAP FI
1 7 (1.64%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (1.17%) Infor CloudSuite
2 5 (1.17%) Infor LN
2 5 (1.17%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.94%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.70%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.70%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.23%) C-CURE
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (27.17%) Azure
2 81 (18.97%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (10.54%) Entra ID
3 45 (10.54%) Power Platform
4 44 (10.30%) AWS
5 28 (6.56%) SaaS
6 15 (3.51%) Power Automate
7 12 (2.81%) GitHub
8 11 (2.58%) dbt
8 11 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (2.11%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.87%) Azure Stack
12 7 (1.64%) Boomi
12 7 (1.64%) Lucidchart
13 6 (1.41%) GCP
13 6 (1.41%) iPaaS
13 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.41%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 56 (13.11%) Firewall
2 45 (10.54%) DNS
2 45 (10.54%) VPN
3 29 (6.79%) TCP/IP
4 27 (6.32%) DHCP
5 24 (5.62%) WAN
6 19 (4.45%) Network Security
6 19 (4.45%) VLAN
6 19 (4.45%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (4.22%) Wireless
8 15 (3.51%) LAN
9 10 (2.34%) SD-WAN
10 9 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (1.87%) BGP
11 8 (1.87%) HTTP
11 8 (1.87%) OSPF
12 7 (1.64%) SAN
12 7 (1.64%) VoIP
13 5 (1.17%) Internet
14 4 (0.94%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.67%) Power BI
2 18 (4.22%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.87%) Metadata
4 6 (1.41%) Looker
5 4 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.47%) EDMS
7 2 (0.47%) Metabase
7 2 (0.47%) Redis
8 1 (0.23%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.23%) Big Data
8 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.23%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.23%) Power Query
8 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (6.09%) JIRA
2 11 (2.58%) Git
3 9 (2.11%) GitLab
4 4 (0.94%) Postman
5 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.23%) Hudson
7 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.23%) JMeter
7 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 231 (54.10%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (17.33%) Finance
4 44 (10.30%) Manufacturing
5 37 (8.67%) Organisational Skills
6 29 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (5.62%) Law
7 24 (5.62%) Legal
8 22 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (5.15%) Retail
9 18 (4.22%) Telecoms
10 13 (3.04%) Aerospace
10 13 (3.04%) Electronics
10 13 (3.04%) Marketing
11 12 (2.81%) Banking
12 10 (2.34%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.64%) Front Office
14 6 (1.41%) Military
15 5 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 94 (22.01%) Analyst
2 43 (10.07%) Senior
2 43 (10.07%) Support Analyst
3 41 (9.60%) Support Engineer
4 37 (8.67%) Consultant
5 34 (7.96%) IT Support
6 27 (6.32%) Lead
7 26 (6.09%) Business Analyst
8 24 (5.62%) Applications Support
8 24 (5.62%) Architect
9 21 (4.92%) IT Engineer
10 19 (4.45%) Systems Engineer
11 18 (4.22%) IT Support Engineer
11 18 (4.22%) Systems Analyst
12 17 (3.98%) Security Engineer
13 16 (3.75%) Systems Support
14 15 (3.51%) IT Analyst
15 14 (3.28%) Applications Support Analyst
15 14 (3.28%) Developer
16 13 (3.04%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.98%) REST
1 17 (3.98%) Terraform
2 8 (1.87%) Middleware
3 7 (1.64%) JSON
4 6 (1.41%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.41%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.41%) CSS
4 6 (1.41%) HTML
4 6 (1.41%) Node.js
4 6 (1.41%) SOAP
5 5 (1.17%) EDI
6 4 (0.94%) .NET
6 4 (0.94%) Playwright
7 3 (0.70%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.70%) Jinja
7 3 (0.70%) XML
7 3 (0.70%) YAML
8 2 (0.47%) React
8 2 (0.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.43%) Driving Licence
2 35 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (3.51%) CCTV
5 13 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.11%) Client/Server
7 9 (2.11%) PKI
8 8 (1.87%) CMDB
8 8 (1.87%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.87%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.64%) IoT
10 6 (1.41%) Blog
11 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.17%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 90 (21.08%) Windows
2 47 (11.01%) Windows Server
3 26 (6.09%) Linux
4 14 (3.28%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.81%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.87%) CentOS
6 8 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.94%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.70%) Android
9 3 (0.70%) Rocky
9 3 (0.70%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.47%) Unix
11 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.23%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.23%) Solaris
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (26.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 107 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (13.58%) Agile
4 54 (12.65%) ITIL
5 48 (11.24%) Business Analysis
6 47 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (10.30%) Root Cause Analysis
8 43 (10.07%) ERP
9 40 (9.37%) Business Intelligence
9 40 (9.37%) Change Management
9 40 (9.37%) Project Delivery
10 39 (9.13%) DevOps
11 37 (8.67%) Customer Service
11 37 (8.67%) Validation
12 36 (8.43%) AI
13 35 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 34 (7.96%) Requirements Gathering
15 33 (7.73%) Process Improvement
16 32 (7.49%) Analytics
16 32 (7.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 93 (21.78%) SQL
2 48 (11.24%) PowerShell
3 36 (8.43%) Python
4 19 (4.45%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.11%) Bash
6 8 (1.87%) C++
6 8 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.41%) C
7 6 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.17%) C#
8 5 (1.17%) Java
8 5 (1.17%) PHP
9 2 (0.47%) Bicep
9 2 (0.47%) Go
9 2 (0.47%) Groovy
9 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.47%) VBA
10 1 (0.23%) ABAP
10 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 56 (13.11%) Degree
2 50 (11.71%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.85%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.81%) HND
6 11 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.11%) CCNA
7 9 (2.11%) CCNP
7 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.87%) SAP Certification
9 7 (1.64%) CISSP
9 7 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.17%) ACCA
10 5 (1.17%) HNC
11 4 (0.94%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.94%) CIMA
11 4 (0.94%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 29 (6.79%) QA
2 20 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.98%) GDPR
4 13 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (1.87%) SLA
8 7 (1.64%) NIST
8 7 (1.64%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.17%) GRC
9 5 (1.17%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.94%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.94%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.94%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 2 (0.47%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (12.41%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.85%) Hyper-V
3 23 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.51%) Firmware
5 10 (2.34%) Docker
6 7 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.17%) vSphere
8 4 (0.94%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.70%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.70%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.23%) KVM
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.58%) Ansible
2 11 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (2.11%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.87%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.64%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.94%) Nagios
7 4 (0.94%) Podman
7 4 (0.94%) SCCM
7 4 (0.94%) VxRail
8 3 (0.70%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.47%) Puppet
10 1 (0.23%) Argo
10 1 (0.23%) Grafana
10 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.23%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 144 (33.72%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.96%) Cisco
3 29 (6.79%) VMware
4 22 (5.15%) SAP
5 20 (4.68%) Fortinet
6 15 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.04%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.81%) JD Edwards
8 12 (2.81%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.34%) Dell
9 10 (2.34%) Veeam
10 9 (2.11%) Aruba
10 9 (2.11%) Google
11 8 (1.87%) Juniper
12 7 (1.64%) Sophos
13 6 (1.41%) Citrix
13 6 (1.41%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.17%) iManage
14 5 (1.17%) Infor
14 5 (1.17%) Sage