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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 336 458
Rank change year-on-year -33 +122 -34
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 445 346 317
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.79% 0.44%
As % of the General category 1.03% 1.15% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 288 241 240
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £88,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -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 43,393 30,077 41,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 46.50% 69.02% 57.19%
Number of salaries quoted 27,719 16,004 25,310
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +33 109 £50,000 -33.33% 64
London -72 95 £70,000 +7.69% 97
North of England -33 82 £53,750 +26.47% 46
Midlands -16 63 £55,000 +29.41% 25
South West -33 54 £42,500 +6.25% 22
North West +22 53 £55,000 +29.41% 29
East of England -15 39 £52,500 -1.41% 20
West Midlands -19 39 £54,500 +9.00% 15
East Midlands -14 24 £60,000 +54.84% 10
Yorkshire -51 23 £55,000 +29.41% 13
North East -50 6 £45,000 +80.00% 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 39 (8.76%) SharePoint
2 30 (6.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.92%) IIS
4 12 (2.70%) Confluence
5 5 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 39 (8.76%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.12%) CorelDRAW
6 4 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.45%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.80%) SAP CO
1 8 (1.80%) SAP FI
1 8 (1.80%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.90%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite
3 4 (0.90%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.45%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.45%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.22%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 121 (27.19%) Azure
2 88 (19.78%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (9.89%) Entra ID
4 43 (9.66%) AWS
5 41 (9.21%) Power Platform
6 29 (6.52%) SaaS
7 16 (3.60%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.15%) GitHub
9 12 (2.70%) dbt
9 12 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.02%) Azure Stack
10 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (2.02%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.57%) Boomi
12 7 (1.57%) Lucidchart
13 6 (1.35%) iPaaS
13 6 (1.35%) Mimecast
13 6 (1.35%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.35%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 58 (13.03%) Firewall
2 49 (11.01%) DNS
3 46 (10.34%) VPN
4 31 (6.97%) TCP/IP
5 30 (6.74%) DHCP
6 25 (5.62%) WAN
7 21 (4.72%) VLAN
8 19 (4.27%) Network Security
8 19 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (3.60%) Wireless
10 15 (3.37%) LAN
11 10 (2.25%) SD-WAN
11 10 (2.25%) VoIP
12 9 (2.02%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (1.80%) BGP
13 8 (1.80%) OSPF
13 8 (1.80%) SAN
14 6 (1.35%) NAS
15 5 (1.12%) HTTP
16 4 (0.90%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.42%) Power BI
2 24 (5.39%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.57%) Metadata
5 6 (1.35%) Looker
6 5 (1.12%) Metabase
7 4 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.45%) EDMS
9 2 (0.45%) Power Query
9 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.22%) Redis
10 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.22%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (5.84%) JIRA
2 16 (3.60%) Git
3 14 (3.15%) GitLab
4 6 (1.35%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.90%) Postman
6 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.22%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.22%) Hudson
8 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.22%) JMeter
8 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 244 (54.83%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (16.63%) Finance
4 47 (10.56%) Manufacturing
5 36 (8.09%) Organisational Skills
6 29 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (5.84%) Retail
8 23 (5.17%) Law
9 20 (4.49%) Legal
10 18 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (3.82%) Telecoms
12 15 (3.37%) Electronics
13 13 (2.92%) Marketing
14 11 (2.47%) Aerospace
14 11 (2.47%) Public Sector
15 9 (2.02%) Banking
16 7 (1.57%) Front Office
17 6 (1.35%) Military
18 5 (1.12%) Advertising
18 5 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 99 (22.25%) Analyst
2 51 (11.46%) Support Analyst
3 42 (9.44%) Support Engineer
4 41 (9.21%) IT Support
5 40 (8.99%) Senior
6 38 (8.54%) Consultant
7 31 (6.97%) Lead
8 26 (5.84%) Architect
9 25 (5.62%) Applications Support
10 23 (5.17%) Business Analyst
11 21 (4.72%) Systems Engineer
12 20 (4.49%) IT Engineer
13 19 (4.27%) Systems Analyst
14 18 (4.04%) IT Analyst
14 18 (4.04%) IT Support Engineer
14 18 (4.04%) Security Engineer
14 18 (4.04%) Systems Support
15 17 (3.82%) Applications Support Analyst
16 15 (3.37%) IT Support Analyst
16 15 (3.37%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.70%) REST
2 9 (2.02%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.80%) Middleware
4 7 (1.57%) SOAP
5 6 (1.35%) JSON
5 6 (1.35%) Node.js
6 5 (1.12%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.12%) CSS
6 5 (1.12%) HTML
6 5 (1.12%) Jinja
6 5 (1.12%) YAML
7 4 (0.90%) EDI
8 3 (0.67%) .NET
8 3 (0.67%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.67%) FreeSWITCH
9 2 (0.45%) Kafka
9 2 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.87%) Onboarding
2 34 (7.64%) Driving Licence
3 17 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (3.60%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.15%) CCTV
7 13 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.70%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.02%) PKI
11 8 (1.80%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.80%) CMDB
11 8 (1.80%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.57%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.35%) Blog
14 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.12%) IoT
14 5 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
14 5 (1.12%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 100 (22.47%) Windows
2 56 (12.58%) Windows Server
3 35 (7.87%) Linux
4 14 (3.15%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.47%) Apple iOS
6 11 (2.47%) CentOS
7 9 (2.02%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.90%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.67%) Debian
10 3 (0.67%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.45%) Android
11 2 (0.45%) Rocky
11 2 (0.45%) Unix
12 1 (0.22%) Solaris
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (26.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 61 (13.71%) Agile
4 53 (11.91%) ITIL
5 47 (10.56%) Project Delivery
6 46 (10.34%) ERP
7 44 (9.89%) Change Management
8 42 (9.44%) Business Analysis
9 41 (9.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 41 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (8.99%) DevOps
11 38 (8.54%) Customer Service
12 36 (8.09%) AI
12 36 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (7.87%) CI/CD
14 33 (7.42%) Analytics
14 33 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
15 31 (6.97%) Process Improvement
16 30 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
16 30 (6.74%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 95 (21.35%) SQL
2 49 (11.01%) PowerShell
3 48 (10.79%) Python
4 19 (4.27%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.60%) Bash
6 10 (2.25%) C++
7 6 (1.35%) C
7 6 (1.35%) C#
7 6 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.35%) PHP
8 5 (1.12%) Java
9 4 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.45%) Bicep
10 2 (0.45%) Groovy
10 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.45%) VBA
11 1 (0.22%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.22%) VB6
Qualifications
1 64 (14.38%) Degree
2 50 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.70%) HND
6 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.80%) CCNA
7 8 (1.80%) CCNP
7 8 (1.80%) CISSP
7 8 (1.80%) SAP Certification
8 7 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.12%) ACCA
10 5 (1.12%) HNC
11 4 (0.90%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.90%) CIMA
11 4 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (5.39%) QA
3 19 (4.27%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (2.92%) GDPR
6 11 (2.47%) SLA
7 10 (2.25%) Accessibility
7 10 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.35%) ISO 9001
8 6 (1.35%) NIST
8 6 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.12%) GRC
9 5 (1.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.90%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.90%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.67%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.45%) NCSC
12 2 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (14.16%) Active Directory
2 27 (6.07%) Hyper-V
3 21 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.37%) Docker
5 11 (2.47%) Firmware
6 5 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.90%) vSphere
8 3 (0.67%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.67%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.45%) KVM
9 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (4.94%) Terraform
3 16 (3.60%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.92%) Ansible
5 9 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.80%) FortiGate
6 8 (1.80%) Nagios
7 6 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.12%) Podman
8 5 (1.12%) SCCM
8 5 (1.12%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.90%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.67%) Argo
10 3 (0.67%) Puppet
11 2 (0.45%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.45%) Grafana
11 2 (0.45%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.45%) VxRail
12 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 149 (33.48%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.76%) Cisco
3 29 (6.52%) VMware
4 22 (4.94%) SAP
5 21 (4.72%) Fortinet
6 15 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.25%) JD Edwards
9 9 (2.02%) Citrix
9 9 (2.02%) Google
9 9 (2.02%) Veeam
10 8 (1.80%) Aruba
10 8 (1.80%) Dell
10 8 (1.80%) Juniper
10 8 (1.80%) Sophos
11 7 (1.57%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.57%) Splunk
12 6 (1.35%) iManage
12 6 (1.35%) Red Hat