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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 508 383
Rank change year-on-year +228 -125 +115
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 389 211 310
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.83% 0.36% 0.68%
As % of the General category 1.34% 0.59% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 255 110 266
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,912 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £64,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% +16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £78,438
90th Percentile £91,500 £85,235 £90,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.80% +13.64% -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 29,015 35,942 29,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 61.73% 61.29% 64.81%
Number of salaries quoted 17,068 17,378 22,028
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £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 30 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 30 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 +99 136 £77,500 +6.90% 60
South East +106 77 £48,500 +21.25% 58
Midlands +81 72 £45,000 - 19
North of England +75 56 £47,500 -9.52% 20
West Midlands +68 40 £52,500 -17.65% 17
East Midlands +38 31 £42,500 +3.03% 2
North West +56 28 £42,500 -16.67% 12
East of England +52 26 £32,500 -19.25% 10
Yorkshire +29 25 £47,500 -9.52% 7
South West +38 17 £55,000 +48.65% 17
North East +11 3 £25,000 -42.20% 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 28 (7.20%) SharePoint
2 24 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.34%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) WordPress
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 61 (15.68%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.60%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (2.06%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.29%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (1.29%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.03%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.77%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Endur
6 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.26%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 125 (32.13%) Azure
2 65 (16.71%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (9.25%) AWS
4 34 (8.74%) SaaS
5 31 (7.97%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.91%) Entra ID
7 20 (5.14%) IaaS
8 16 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (4.11%) PaaS
9 13 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.08%) GCP
11 11 (2.83%) GitHub
12 9 (2.31%) Power Automate
12 9 (2.31%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.54%) iPaaS
14 6 (1.54%) OneDrive
15 5 (1.29%) ChatGPT
15 5 (1.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.31%) Firewall
2 33 (8.48%) DNS
3 28 (7.20%) DHCP
4 26 (6.68%) VPN
5 25 (6.43%) TCP/IP
6 21 (5.40%) LAN
7 17 (4.37%) Network Security
8 16 (4.11%) VLAN
9 13 (3.34%) BGP
10 10 (2.57%) OSPF
10 10 (2.57%) WAN
11 9 (2.31%) SAN
12 6 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.54%) DMZ
12 6 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (1.54%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.54%) VoIP
12 6 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.54%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.29%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.97%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.66%) Power BI
3 16 (4.11%) Tableau
4 15 (3.86%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.06%) Metadata
6 6 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.29%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.03%) Metabase
8 4 (1.03%) Metadata Repository
8 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.51%) MySQL
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.26%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (3.86%) JIRA
2 6 (1.54%) Git
3 4 (1.03%) Postman
3 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.51%) GitLab
5 2 (0.51%) Selenium
5 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.51%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.26%) Subversion
6 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 193 (49.61%) Social Skills
2 95 (24.42%) Finance
3 74 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.57%) Legal
5 28 (7.20%) Banking
6 27 (6.94%) Law
7 23 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (5.14%) Manufacturing
8 20 (5.14%) Retail
9 17 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (3.34%) Telecoms
11 12 (3.08%) Advertising
11 12 (3.08%) Back Office
12 9 (2.31%) German Language
12 9 (2.31%) Public Sector
13 8 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.80%) Marketing
15 5 (1.29%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.29%) Publishing
16 4 (1.03%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 104 (26.74%) Analyst
2 64 (16.45%) Senior
3 31 (7.97%) Business Analyst
4 28 (7.20%) Lead
5 27 (6.94%) Architect
6 24 (6.17%) Network Engineer
7 21 (5.40%) Support Engineer
8 20 (5.14%) Data Analyst
8 20 (5.14%) Service Analyst
9 19 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (4.88%) IT Support
10 17 (4.37%) Data Quality Analyst
10 17 (4.37%) Quality Analyst
11 16 (4.11%) Developer
11 16 (4.11%) IT Analyst
12 15 (3.86%) Service Desk Analyst
13 14 (3.60%) Consultant
13 14 (3.60%) Infrastructure Support
13 14 (3.60%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.08%) XML
2 7 (1.80%) .NET
3 5 (1.29%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.29%) HTML
3 5 (1.29%) React
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.03%) OAuth
4 4 (1.03%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.03%) OpenID
4 4 (1.03%) REST
4 4 (1.03%) SAML
5 3 (0.77%) CSS
5 3 (0.77%) JSON
5 3 (0.77%) Kafka
5 3 (0.77%) PySpark
6 2 (0.51%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.51%) Laravel
6 2 (0.51%) Middleware
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.63%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.34%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.08%) NHS
6 11 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.57%) CMDB
7 10 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.57%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.31%) Life Science
8 9 (2.31%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.80%) Clustering
11 5 (1.29%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.29%) IoT
11 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.29%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 69 (17.74%) Windows
2 32 (8.23%) Windows Server
3 25 (6.43%) Linux
4 5 (1.29%) Debian
4 5 (1.29%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.29%) Unix
5 4 (1.03%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.51%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (17.99%) Agile
3 61 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (13.88%) ITIL
5 48 (12.34%) Cybersecurity
5 48 (12.34%) Validation
6 40 (10.28%) Migration
7 37 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (8.74%) DevOps
9 31 (7.97%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (7.71%) Project Delivery
11 28 (7.20%) Change Management
11 28 (7.20%) Customer Service
11 28 (7.20%) Incident Response
11 28 (7.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (6.94%) Analytics
12 27 (6.94%) Computer Science
13 26 (6.68%) Business Analysis
13 26 (6.68%) Project Management
14 25 (6.43%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 63 (16.20%) SQL
2 33 (8.48%) Python
3 29 (7.46%) PowerShell
4 17 (4.37%) C#
5 13 (3.34%) Java
6 9 (2.31%) C
7 8 (2.06%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.54%) Bash
8 6 (1.54%) PHP
8 6 (1.54%) VBA
9 3 (0.77%) Bicep
9 3 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.51%) C++
10 2 (0.51%) Go
10 2 (0.51%) Perl
11 1 (0.26%) R
11 1 (0.26%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 97 (24.94%) Degree
2 48 (12.34%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (6.94%) CISSP
5 25 (6.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (5.66%) CCNP
7 18 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.11%) CISM
9 15 (3.86%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.86%) Numerate Degree
10 13 (3.34%) CCIE
11 11 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (2.06%) Azure Certification
12 8 (2.06%) CCSA
12 8 (2.06%) CCSE
13 7 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.80%) HNC
14 6 (1.54%) CEH
15 5 (1.29%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.54%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.86%) GDPR
3 15 (3.86%) NIST
3 15 (3.86%) SLA
4 13 (3.34%) ISO 9001
5 12 (3.08%) QA
6 11 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (2.06%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.80%) MiFID
9 5 (1.29%) GRC
9 5 (1.29%) PMO
10 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (1.03%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.51%) UCITS
13 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (14.14%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.40%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.54%) Firmware
5 5 (1.29%) Docker
5 5 (1.29%) Kamailio
5 5 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.26%) Ceph
7 1 (0.26%) Lustre
7 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.26%) vCloud
7 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (4.11%) SCCM
2 14 (3.60%) Terraform
3 13 (3.34%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.80%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.29%) Ansible
6 5 (1.29%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 4 (1.03%) CSIRT
7 4 (1.03%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (1.03%) Grafana
8 3 (0.77%) cPanel
8 3 (0.77%) Nessus
8 3 (0.77%) Plesk
9 2 (0.51%) Nagios
10 1 (0.26%) Netcool
10 1 (0.26%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.26%) SCOM
10 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 130 (33.42%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.94%) Cisco
3 25 (6.43%) VMware
4 15 (3.86%) Oracle
5 14 (3.60%) CheckPoint
5 14 (3.60%) F5
6 9 (2.31%) Fortinet
6 9 (2.31%) iManage
6 9 (2.31%) SolarWinds
7 8 (2.06%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.06%) Veeam
8 7 (1.80%) Blue Prism
8 7 (1.80%) Intapp
8 7 (1.80%) Pega
8 7 (1.80%) Qualys
8 7 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.54%) Citrix
9 6 (1.54%) Juniper
10 5 (1.29%) Dell