Documentation Skills Job Trends in London

Documentation Skills
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 348 325
Rank change year-on-year +95 -23 +65
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 122 79 143
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 0.51% 0.75%
As % of the General category 1.28% 0.70% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 73 42 123
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,625 £46,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £94,235 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £56,324
% change year-on-year -12.00% +10.97% -6.13%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,496 11,350 12,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 66.74% 73.46% 65.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 6,007 9,678
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,650 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +1.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% -8.00%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Documentation Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in London

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in London over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in London

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the London region over the 6 months to 19 January 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
Central London +53 31 £80,000 +12.28% 8
East London - 5 £77,500 -
South London +29 1 £75,000 +3.45% 6
West London - 1 £52,500 - 1
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.28%) Confluence
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.82%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (13.93%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (9.02%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.64%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.82%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.82%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.82%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (40.16%) Azure
2 20 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (16.39%) Power Platform
3 15 (12.30%) AWS
4 12 (9.84%) Power Automate
5 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Copilot
6 10 (8.20%) ChatGPT
7 9 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (7.38%) SaaS
8 8 (6.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (6.56%) PaaS
8 8 (6.56%) PowerApps
9 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.10%) dbt
10 4 (3.28%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.30%) Firewall
1 15 (12.30%) LAN
2 7 (5.74%) Network Security
3 5 (4.10%) WAN
4 4 (3.28%) BGP
4 4 (3.28%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (3.28%) OSPF
4 4 (3.28%) VPN
4 4 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.46%) NX-OS
6 2 (1.64%) DNS
6 2 (1.64%) Intranet
6 2 (1.64%) Multicast
6 2 (1.64%) Wireless
7 1 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.82%) DHCP
7 1 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.82%) VLAN
7 1 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.75%) Power BI
2 10 (8.20%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.10%) Metabase
4 5 (4.10%) Metadata
5 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.82%) Big Data
7 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.64%) Git
2 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.64%) Selenium
2 2 (1.64%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.82%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.82%) JIRA
General
1 66 (54.10%) Social Skills
2 59 (48.36%) Finance
3 23 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (18.85%) Banking
4 20 (16.39%) Legal
5 13 (10.66%) Retail
6 9 (7.38%) Law
7 5 (4.10%) Advertising
8 4 (3.28%) Back Office
8 4 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.46%) Publishing
9 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.64%) Billing
10 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.64%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.82%) Front Office
11 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (28.69%) Analyst
2 18 (14.75%) Lead
3 17 (13.93%) Business Analyst
4 14 (11.48%) Network Engineer
5 13 (10.66%) Architect
6 12 (9.84%) IT Analyst
6 12 (9.84%) Senior
7 10 (8.20%) Project Manager
8 8 (6.56%) Designer
8 8 (6.56%) Lead Designer
8 8 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (6.56%) Solutions Designer
9 7 (5.74%) Business IT Analyst
9 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) IT Business Analyst
9 7 (5.74%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.74%) Support Analyst
9 7 (5.74%) Support Manager
10 6 (4.92%) Deployment Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.64%) JSON
1 2 (1.64%) Kafka
1 2 (1.64%) Middleware
1 2 (1.64%) REST
1 2 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (1.64%) XML
2 1 (0.82%) EDI
2 1 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.82%) Google JAX
2 1 (0.82%) HTML
2 1 (0.82%) JAX
2 1 (0.82%) JMS
2 1 (0.82%) NumPy
2 1 (0.82%) Pandas
2 1 (0.82%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.82%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.20%) Low-Code
1 10 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.56%) AI Agents
2 8 (6.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (6.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (4.92%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.10%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.46%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.64%) CMDB
7 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.64%) Replication
8 1 (0.82%) AS400
8 1 (0.82%) Equities
8 1 (0.82%) iPhone
8 1 (0.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.28%) Linux
2 3 (2.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.82%) VMS
3 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 28 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (22.13%) Agile
4 23 (18.85%) Project Management
5 22 (18.03%) Change Management
5 22 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (16.39%) Analytics
6 20 (16.39%) Business Analysis
6 20 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (13.93%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (13.93%) Data Analysis
9 16 (13.11%) AI
9 16 (13.11%) Process Improvement
9 16 (13.11%) Roadmaps
10 14 (11.48%) Decision-Making
10 14 (11.48%) User Stories
11 13 (10.66%) Security Architecture
11 13 (10.66%) SIEM
11 13 (10.66%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.30%) SQL
2 9 (7.38%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.92%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (4.10%) Python
5 4 (3.28%) Java
5 4 (3.28%) VBA
6 2 (1.64%) C#
6 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.82%) C
7 1 (0.82%) C++
7 1 (0.82%) Go
7 1 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.82%) PHP
7 1 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (30.33%) Degree
2 19 (15.57%) CISSP
3 12 (9.84%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (9.84%) CISM
4 11 (9.02%) CCNP
5 9 (7.38%) CCIE
6 8 (6.56%) IIBA
6 8 (6.56%) PMI Certification
6 8 (6.56%) PMP
7 7 (5.74%) CCSA
7 7 (5.74%) CCSE
8 4 (3.28%) CEH
8 4 (3.28%) CISA
8 4 (3.28%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.46%) MBA
9 3 (2.46%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.64%) Novell Certification
10 2 (1.64%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.74%) SLA
3 6 (4.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (4.10%) GRC
4 5 (4.10%) MiFID
4 5 (4.10%) NIST
4 5 (4.10%) PMO
5 4 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.46%) GDPR
6 3 (2.46%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.82%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (1.64%) CSIRT
2 2 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (27.05%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.84%) Cisco
3 11 (9.02%) ServiceNow
4 10 (8.20%) CheckPoint
4 10 (8.20%) F5
5 8 (6.56%) Alteryx
5 8 (6.56%) Anaplan
6 7 (5.74%) iManage
6 7 (5.74%) UiPath
7 5 (4.10%) GoldenSource
7 5 (4.10%) Intapp
8 4 (3.28%) Arista
8 4 (3.28%) Blue Prism
8 4 (3.28%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.28%) Pega
8 4 (3.28%) Qualys
8 4 (3.28%) SAP
9 3 (2.46%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.46%) Darktrace
9 3 (2.46%) Oracle