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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 316 350
Rank change year-on-year +27 +34 -8
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 113 88 153
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.56% 0.69% 0.66%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.90% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 73 52 130
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,500 £41,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -10.00% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £96,250 £91,650
England median annual salary £54,500 £54,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.46% +3.33% -12.50%

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 11,380 9,732 15,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 56.63% 76.36% 67.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,996 5,600 11,343
10th Percentile £38,675 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,188 £50,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £125,125 £117,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -12.50%

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 4 May 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 4 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
Central London +13 25 £80,000 +4.92% 17
South London - 2 £38,500 -
East London - 2 £80,000 -
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 7 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.88%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.88%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.88%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.88%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (48.67%) Azure
2 31 (27.43%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (23.01%) Power Platform
4 19 (16.81%) Power Automate
5 16 (14.16%) dbt
6 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (8.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (8.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (8.85%) ChatGPT
7 10 (8.85%) Entra ID
8 9 (7.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (7.96%) PowerApps
9 8 (7.08%) PaaS
9 8 (7.08%) SaaS
10 6 (5.31%) AWS
11 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.77%) GitHub
12 2 (1.77%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.08%) Firewall
2 7 (6.19%) LAN
3 6 (5.31%) Network Security
3 6 (5.31%) WAN
4 4 (3.54%) DHCP
4 4 (3.54%) DNS
4 4 (3.54%) VLAN
4 4 (3.54%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.77%) VPN
6 1 (0.88%) BGP
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.88%) Intranet
6 1 (0.88%) Multicast
6 1 (0.88%) NAS
6 1 (0.88%) OSPF
6 1 (0.88%) SAN
6 1 (0.88%) Wireless
6 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.24%) Power BI
2 13 (11.50%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (10.62%) Metabase
3 12 (10.62%) SQL Server
4 11 (9.73%) Data Lake
5 6 (5.31%) Metadata
6 4 (3.54%) Looker
7 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.77%) Power Query
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.88%) Big Data
9 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.54%) Git
3 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.77%) Selenium
3 2 (1.77%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.88%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 62 (54.87%) Social Skills
2 44 (38.94%) Finance
3 27 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.50%) Law
5 10 (8.85%) Banking
6 9 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.31%) Retail
8 4 (3.54%) Front Office
9 3 (2.65%) Back Office
9 3 (2.65%) Billing
9 3 (2.65%) Legal
9 3 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.65%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.77%) Advertising
10 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.88%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (25.66%) Analyst
2 17 (15.04%) IT Analyst
3 15 (13.27%) Architect
4 13 (11.50%) Business Analyst
4 13 (11.50%) Financial Analyst
5 12 (10.62%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 12 (10.62%) IT Support
5 12 (10.62%) IT Support Analyst
5 12 (10.62%) Lead
5 12 (10.62%) Support Analyst
5 12 (10.62%) Systems Analyst
5 12 (10.62%) Systems Support
5 12 (10.62%) Systems Support Analyst
6 9 (7.96%) Project Manager
6 9 (7.96%) Security Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Consultant
7 8 (7.08%) Senior
8 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.19%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) Middleware
2 2 (1.77%) REST
3 1 (0.88%) .NET
3 1 (0.88%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.88%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.88%) JAX
3 1 (0.88%) JMS
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
3 1 (0.88%) Kafka
3 1 (0.88%) NumPy
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.88%) Pandas
3 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.88%) XGBoost
3 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (7.96%) Low-Code
3 8 (7.08%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.08%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (7.08%) Security Posture
4 7 (6.19%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.42%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.54%) Blog
6 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.54%) Equities
7 3 (2.65%) Derivative
7 3 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.77%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.77%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.19%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.88%) Android
3 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.88%) CentOS
3 1 (0.88%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 33 (29.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (22.12%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.58%) Analytics
4 21 (18.58%) Data Analysis
5 20 (17.70%) Agile
6 18 (15.93%) AI
7 17 (15.04%) Change Management
8 16 (14.16%) Business Analysis
8 16 (14.16%) Data Modelling
9 15 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (11.50%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (11.50%) ERP
10 13 (11.50%) Facilities Management
10 13 (11.50%) Project Management
10 13 (11.50%) Roadmaps
11 12 (10.62%) Data Management
11 12 (10.62%) Data Transformation
11 12 (10.62%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.55%) SQL
2 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.19%) Kusto Query Language
3 7 (6.19%) Python
4 5 (4.42%) Java
5 2 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.88%) Bash
6 1 (0.88%) C++
6 1 (0.88%) R
6 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (17.70%) Degree
2 8 (7.08%) CISSP
2 8 (7.08%) IIBA
2 8 (7.08%) PMI Certification
2 8 (7.08%) PMP
3 7 (6.19%) CEH
4 4 (3.54%) CCIE
4 4 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.54%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.54%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.65%) MBA
6 2 (1.77%) CCDE
6 2 (1.77%) FFIEC
6 2 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) City & Guilds
7 1 (0.88%) CRISC
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 7 (6.19%) SLA
2 5 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.65%) GRC
3 3 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.77%) MiFID
4 2 (1.77%) NIST
4 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.77%) QA
5 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) IFRS
System Software
1 12 (10.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.88%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (5.31%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (4.42%) SCCM
3 4 (3.54%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.65%) Terraform
5 2 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.77%) Argo
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.88%) Ansible
6 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.88%) Grafana
6 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.88%) Nagios
6 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.88%) Puppet
6 1 (0.88%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (33.63%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.96%) iManage
4 8 (7.08%) Alteryx
4 8 (7.08%) Anaplan
5 7 (6.19%) UiPath
6 5 (4.42%) Cisco
7 4 (3.54%) Bloomberg
7 4 (3.54%) Citrix
7 4 (3.54%) Nexthink
7 4 (3.54%) SAP
8 3 (2.65%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.65%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.65%) VMware
9 2 (1.77%) Aderant
9 2 (1.77%) Concur
9 2 (1.77%) Intapp
9 2 (1.77%) Splunk
9 2 (1.77%) Thales