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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 324 339
Rank change year-on-year +55 +15 +29
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 128 77 148
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.75% 0.58% 0.68%
As % of the General category 1.21% 0.77% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 79 42 123
10th Percentile £46,000 £48,144 £42,650
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,438 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,750 £63,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.83% -10.00% +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,500 £89,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 10,551 10,019 14,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 61.63% 75.60% 66.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,515 5,612 11,043
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -12.20%

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 March 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 March 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 +29 34 £85,000 +23.64% 16
East London - 3 £78,750 - 1
South London +35 2 £38,500 -46.90% 1
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 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.91%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.78%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.78%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.78%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.78%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 61 (47.66%) Azure
2 29 (22.66%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (19.53%) Power Platform
4 19 (14.84%) Power Automate
5 17 (13.28%) AWS
6 12 (9.38%) dbt
7 11 (8.59%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (7.81%) ChatGPT
9 9 (7.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (6.25%) Entra ID
10 8 (6.25%) PaaS
10 8 (6.25%) PowerApps
10 8 (6.25%) SaaS
11 3 (2.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.56%) GCP
12 2 (1.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.59%) LAN
2 10 (7.81%) Firewall
3 8 (6.25%) WAN
4 7 (5.47%) Network Security
5 5 (3.91%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.34%) VPN
7 2 (1.56%) BGP
7 2 (1.56%) DHCP
7 2 (1.56%) DNS
7 2 (1.56%) Intranet
7 2 (1.56%) Multicast
7 2 (1.56%) OSPF
7 2 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.56%) VLAN
7 2 (1.56%) Wireless
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.78%) NAS
8 1 (0.78%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.97%) Power BI
2 13 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (9.38%) Metabase
3 12 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.59%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.91%) Metadata
6 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.78%) Big Data
7 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.78%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.78%) Power Query
7 1 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.13%) Git
3 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.56%) Selenium
3 2 (1.56%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.78%) GitLab
4 1 (0.78%) JIRA
General
1 77 (60.16%) Social Skills
2 53 (41.41%) Finance
3 35 (27.34%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.63%) Banking
5 18 (14.06%) Legal
6 14 (10.94%) Retail
7 9 (7.03%) Law
8 4 (3.13%) Back Office
9 3 (2.34%) Billing
9 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.56%) Advertising
10 2 (1.56%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.78%) Front Office
11 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (30.47%) Analyst
2 19 (14.84%) Lead
3 17 (13.28%) Business Analyst
3 17 (13.28%) IT Analyst
4 16 (12.50%) Architect
5 14 (10.94%) Financial Analyst
6 13 (10.16%) Senior
7 12 (9.38%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 12 (9.38%) IT Support
7 12 (9.38%) IT Support Analyst
7 12 (9.38%) Support Analyst
7 12 (9.38%) Systems Analyst
7 12 (9.38%) Systems Support
7 12 (9.38%) Systems Support Analyst
8 10 (7.81%) Project Manager
9 9 (7.03%) Designer
10 8 (6.25%) Lead Designer
10 8 (6.25%) Security Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.34%) Middleware
2 2 (1.56%) JSON
2 2 (1.56%) REST
3 1 (0.78%) EDI
3 1 (0.78%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.78%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.78%) HTML
3 1 (0.78%) JAX
3 1 (0.78%) JMS
3 1 (0.78%) Kafka
3 1 (0.78%) NumPy
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.78%) Pandas
3 1 (0.78%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.78%) XGBoost
3 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (8.59%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.81%) Low-Code
4 8 (6.25%) AI Agents
4 8 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (5.47%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.91%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.91%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.91%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.34%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.56%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.78%) IoT
9 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.13%) Windows
2 3 (2.34%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.78%) Android
3 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.78%) CentOS
3 1 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
2 35 (27.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (19.53%) Agile
5 24 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (18.75%) Data Analysis
6 21 (16.41%) Project Management
7 20 (15.63%) Change Management
7 20 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (14.84%) AI
8 19 (14.84%) Analytics
8 19 (14.84%) Business Analysis
9 17 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 16 (12.50%) Security Architecture
11 14 (10.94%) Data Modelling
11 14 (10.94%) Decision-Making
11 14 (10.94%) Process Improvement
11 14 (10.94%) User Stories
12 13 (10.16%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.97%) SQL
2 9 (7.03%) Python
3 8 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.69%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (3.91%) Java
6 4 (3.13%) VBA
7 1 (0.78%) Bash
7 1 (0.78%) C#
7 1 (0.78%) C++
7 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.78%) Go
7 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.78%) PHP
7 1 (0.78%) R
7 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (21.09%) Degree
2 18 (14.06%) CISSP
3 10 (7.81%) CISM
4 8 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (6.25%) IIBA
4 8 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 8 (6.25%) PMP
5 7 (5.47%) CEH
6 6 (4.69%) CCIE
7 4 (3.13%) CCNP
7 4 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.13%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.34%) MBA
9 2 (1.56%) CCDE
9 2 (1.56%) CCSA
9 2 (1.56%) CCSE
9 2 (1.56%) CISA
9 2 (1.56%) FFIEC
9 2 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 7 (5.47%) SLA
4 5 (3.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.91%) MiFID
5 4 (3.13%) GRC
5 4 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.34%) GDPR
6 3 (2.34%) NIST
7 2 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.56%) PMO
7 2 (1.56%) QA
8 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.78%) IFRS
8 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) Docker
3 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.78%) KVM
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.34%) Terraform
4 2 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.56%) Argo
4 2 (1.56%) Grafana
4 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.56%) SCCM
5 1 (0.78%) Ansible
5 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.78%) Nagios
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) Puppet
5 1 (0.78%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.38%) ServiceNow
3 10 (7.81%) iManage
4 8 (6.25%) Alteryx
4 8 (6.25%) Anaplan
4 8 (6.25%) Cisco
5 7 (5.47%) UiPath
6 5 (3.91%) GoldenSource
7 4 (3.13%) Blue Prism
7 4 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.13%) Pega
7 4 (3.13%) SAP
8 3 (2.34%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.34%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.34%) F5
8 3 (2.34%) Intapp
8 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.34%) VMware
9 2 (1.56%) Ariba
9 2 (1.56%) BMC