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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 400 432
Rank change year-on-year +35 +32 +15
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 377 226 471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the General category 0.92% 0.81% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 262 155 402
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £26,025
25th Percentile £39,813 £40,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £84,875
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £51,850
% change year-on-year -1.82% +6.08% -13.58%

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 40,936 27,841 50,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 49.21% 72.70% 58.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,003 13,608 35,901
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -25 90 £75,000 +19.05% 57
North of England +2 85 £45,000 +8.43% 18
South East +24 77 £52,500 -22.22% 50
Midlands -10 53 £55,500 -5.53% 12
North West +25 42 £51,772 -5.87% 13
Yorkshire -39 35 £34,000 -18.07% 3
East of England -6 34 £42,500 -15.00% 17
South West -39 34 £37,500 -6.25% 17
East Midlands -13 27 £55,000 +29.41% 1
West Midlands -35 26 £60,000 +1.69% 11
North East -31 8 £45,000 +55.17% 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 20 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.59%) Confluence
3 6 (1.59%) IIS
4 5 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 40 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.53%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.80%) SAP CO
1 3 (0.80%) SAP FI
1 3 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.53%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.53%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.27%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.27%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 113 (29.97%) Azure
2 81 (21.49%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 36 (9.55%) Entra ID
5 32 (8.49%) AWS
6 25 (6.63%) SaaS
7 23 (6.10%) Power Automate
8 16 (4.24%) dbt
9 10 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (2.65%) PaaS
9 10 (2.65%) PowerApps
10 9 (2.39%) GitHub
10 9 (2.39%) IaaS
11 8 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (1.59%) Azure Stack
13 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.41%) DNS
1 43 (11.41%) Firewall
2 36 (9.55%) VPN
3 33 (8.75%) DHCP
4 27 (7.16%) TCP/IP
5 24 (6.37%) VLAN
6 20 (5.31%) WAN
7 19 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (3.45%) Network Security
9 12 (3.18%) VoIP
10 9 (2.39%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (2.39%) LAN
11 7 (1.86%) SD-WAN
11 7 (1.86%) Wireless
12 6 (1.59%) BGP
12 6 (1.59%) NAS
12 6 (1.59%) OSPF
13 5 (1.33%) DMZ
13 5 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.33%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.75%) Power BI
2 22 (5.84%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.39%) Metabase
5 7 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.59%) Looker
6 6 (1.59%) Metadata
6 6 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.80%) Big Data
8 3 (0.80%) MySQL
8 3 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.80%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.53%) Power Query
10 1 (0.27%) Flink
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (5.84%) JIRA
2 14 (3.71%) Git
3 12 (3.18%) GitLab
3 12 (3.18%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.06%) Subversion
6 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.53%) Postman
6 2 (0.53%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.27%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.27%) JMeter
7 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 207 (54.91%) Social Skills
2 81 (21.49%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (18.30%) Finance
4 32 (8.49%) Manufacturing
5 27 (7.16%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (6.90%) Retail
7 21 (5.57%) Law
8 18 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.51%) Telecoms
10 16 (4.24%) Electronics
11 15 (3.98%) Banking
12 14 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (3.45%) Legal
14 10 (2.65%) Marketing
15 8 (2.12%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.86%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.86%) Front Office
17 5 (1.33%) Advertising
17 5 (1.33%) Automotive
17 5 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (20.42%) Analyst
2 45 (11.94%) IT Support
3 43 (11.41%) Support Analyst
4 30 (7.96%) Senior
5 28 (7.43%) Architect
6 23 (6.10%) Lead
7 22 (5.84%) Systems Engineer
8 21 (5.57%) Consultant
8 21 (5.57%) Systems Analyst
9 20 (5.31%) IT Analyst
10 19 (5.04%) Security Engineer
10 19 (5.04%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.51%) Systems Support
11 17 (4.51%) Systems Support Analyst
12 16 (4.24%) IT Support Analyst
13 15 (3.98%) Business Analyst
14 14 (3.71%) Applications Support
15 13 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.45%) Network Engineer
16 12 (3.18%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.12%) ARM Templates
1 8 (2.12%) REST
2 5 (1.33%) .NET
2 5 (1.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (1.33%) CSS
2 5 (1.33%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (1.33%) HTML
2 5 (1.33%) Jinja
2 5 (1.33%) JSON
2 5 (1.33%) Node.js
2 5 (1.33%) YAML
3 4 (1.06%) SOAP
4 3 (0.80%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.80%) ASP.NET
4 3 (0.80%) Middleware
4 3 (0.80%) PySpark
5 2 (0.53%) WPF
6 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.27%) jQuery
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.37%) Driving Licence
2 22 (5.84%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (3.98%) CCTV
5 14 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.18%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.65%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.12%) CMDB
9 7 (1.86%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.59%) Blog
10 6 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.33%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 77 (20.42%) Windows
2 51 (13.53%) Windows Server
3 36 (9.55%) Linux
4 9 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.86%) CentOS
5 7 (1.86%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.86%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.33%) Debian
7 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.06%) VMS
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 48 (12.73%) Agile
4 46 (12.20%) ITIL
5 39 (10.34%) Project Delivery
6 38 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
7 36 (9.55%) Analytics
7 36 (9.55%) Incident Management
8 35 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
9 34 (9.02%) CI/CD
9 34 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (8.49%) AI
10 32 (8.49%) ERP
11 31 (8.22%) Change Management
12 25 (6.63%) DevOps
13 24 (6.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (6.10%) Customer Service
15 22 (5.84%) Asset Management
15 22 (5.84%) Root Cause Analysis
16 21 (5.57%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 72 (19.10%) SQL
2 50 (13.26%) Python
3 45 (11.94%) PowerShell
4 19 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.98%) Bash
6 8 (2.12%) C#
7 7 (1.86%) Java
8 5 (1.33%) C++
8 5 (1.33%) PHP
9 4 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.53%) ABAP
11 2 (0.53%) Bicep
11 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.53%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) C
12 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.27%) VB
12 1 (0.27%) VB6
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (16.98%) Degree
2 49 (13.00%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.18%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.86%) CISSP
7 7 (1.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.33%) CEH
9 5 (1.33%) IIBA
9 5 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.33%) PMP
10 4 (1.06%) CCNA
10 4 (1.06%) CCNP
10 4 (1.06%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.06%) CISM
10 4 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 19 (5.04%) SLA
4 17 (4.51%) QA
5 7 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.86%) GRC
5 7 (1.86%) NIST
6 6 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.59%) GDPR
7 5 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.06%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.80%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.80%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.80%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.53%) COBIT
10 2 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.45%) Docker
4 11 (2.92%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.59%) Firmware
5 6 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.59%) vSphere
6 3 (0.80%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.80%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (5.04%) Terraform
2 16 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.39%) Ansible
4 9 (2.39%) Nagios
5 8 (2.12%) SCCM
6 6 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.59%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.33%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.33%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.33%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (1.06%) Podman
8 4 (1.06%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.53%) Argo
9 2 (0.53%) CASB
9 2 (0.53%) Grafana
9 2 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 124 (32.89%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.28%) Cisco
3 31 (8.22%) VMware
4 20 (5.31%) SAP
5 17 (4.51%) Citrix
5 17 (4.51%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.65%) Fortinet
6 10 (2.65%) SolarWinds
7 9 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.86%) Google
8 7 (1.86%) Splunk
8 7 (1.86%) UiPath
8 7 (1.86%) Veeam
9 6 (1.59%) Alteryx
9 6 (1.59%) Databricks
9 6 (1.59%) iManage
9 6 (1.59%) Pega
10 5 (1.33%) Adobe
10 5 (1.33%) Epicor
10 5 (1.33%) Red Hat