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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 357 318
Rank change year-on-year +100 -39 +67
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 124 81 147
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 0.53% 0.72%
As % of the General category 1.27% 0.71% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 74 42 126
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,625 £42,375
25th Percentile £52,813 £59,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,125 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £94,235 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 9,732 11,386 13,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 66.21% 73.93% 65.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,938 5,934 10,490
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,881 £38,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,264 £75,450 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +3.36% -2.01%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 27 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 27 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 +44 29 £80,000 +12.28% 7
East London - 5 £77,500 -
South London +33 3 £38,500 -46.90% 4
West London - 1 £52,500 - 2
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 11 (8.87%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.23%) Confluence
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (13.71%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (8.87%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.81%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.81%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.81%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (41.94%) Azure
2 23 (18.55%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (15.32%) Power Platform
4 15 (12.10%) AWS
5 13 (10.48%) Power Automate
6 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (8.06%) ChatGPT
8 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (7.26%) SaaS
9 8 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (6.45%) PaaS
9 8 (6.45%) PowerApps
10 7 (5.65%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.84%) dbt
12 5 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 2 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.10%) Firewall
1 15 (12.10%) LAN
2 7 (5.65%) Network Security
3 5 (4.03%) WAN
4 4 (3.23%) BGP
4 4 (3.23%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (3.23%) OSPF
4 4 (3.23%) VPN
4 4 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.42%) NX-OS
6 2 (1.61%) DNS
6 2 (1.61%) Intranet
6 2 (1.61%) Multicast
6 2 (1.61%) Wireless
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.81%) DHCP
7 1 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.81%) VLAN
7 1 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.71%) Power BI
2 10 (8.06%) Data Lake
3 7 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.65%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.84%) Metabase
5 5 (4.03%) Metadata
6 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.81%) Big Data
7 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.61%) Git
2 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.61%) Selenium
2 2 (1.61%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.81%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 69 (55.65%) Social Skills
2 58 (46.77%) Finance
3 25 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (18.55%) Banking
5 19 (15.32%) Legal
6 14 (11.29%) Retail
7 7 (5.65%) Law
8 5 (4.03%) Back Office
9 4 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.42%) Advertising
10 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.42%) Publishing
10 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.61%) Billing
11 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.61%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.81%) Front Office
12 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (27.42%) Analyst
2 16 (12.90%) Business Analyst
2 16 (12.90%) Lead
3 14 (11.29%) Architect
3 14 (11.29%) Network Engineer
3 14 (11.29%) Senior
4 13 (10.48%) IT Analyst
5 10 (8.06%) Project Manager
6 9 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.45%) Designer
7 8 (6.45%) Lead Designer
7 8 (6.45%) Solutions Designer
8 7 (5.65%) Business IT Analyst
8 7 (5.65%) Financial Analyst
8 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) IT Business Analyst
8 7 (5.65%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (5.65%) Support Analyst
8 7 (5.65%) Support Manager
9 6 (4.84%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.42%) Middleware
2 2 (1.61%) JSON
2 2 (1.61%) Kafka
2 2 (1.61%) REST
2 2 (1.61%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.61%) XML
3 1 (0.81%) EDI
3 1 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.81%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.81%) HTML
3 1 (0.81%) JAX
3 1 (0.81%) JMS
3 1 (0.81%) NumPy
3 1 (0.81%) Pandas
3 1 (0.81%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.81%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Low-Code
1 10 (8.06%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (6.45%) AI Agents
3 8 (6.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 5 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.03%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.42%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.61%) CMDB
8 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.61%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.84%) Windows
2 3 (2.42%) Linux
2 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (35.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 29 (23.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (20.16%) Agile
4 23 (18.55%) Project Management
5 22 (17.74%) Change Management
5 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (16.13%) Analytics
6 20 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (15.32%) Business Analysis
7 19 (15.32%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (14.52%) Data Analysis
9 17 (13.71%) AI
9 17 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (12.90%) Process Improvement
10 16 (12.90%) Roadmaps
11 14 (11.29%) Decision-Making
12 13 (10.48%) Inventory Management
12 13 (10.48%) Security Architecture
12 13 (10.48%) SIEM
12 13 (10.48%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.90%) SQL
2 9 (7.26%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.84%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (4.84%) Python
4 5 (4.03%) Java
5 4 (3.23%) VBA
6 2 (1.61%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) C
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) Go
7 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) PHP
7 1 (0.81%) R
7 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (31.45%) Degree
2 19 (15.32%) CISSP
3 12 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (9.68%) CISM
4 11 (8.87%) CCNP
5 9 (7.26%) CCIE
6 8 (6.45%) IIBA
6 8 (6.45%) PMI Certification
6 8 (6.45%) PMP
7 7 (5.65%) CCSA
7 7 (5.65%) CCSE
8 4 (3.23%) CEH
8 4 (3.23%) CISA
8 4 (3.23%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.42%) MBA
9 3 (2.42%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.61%) Security Cleared
10 2 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.65%) SLA
3 6 (4.84%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (4.03%) GRC
4 5 (4.03%) MiFID
4 5 (4.03%) NIST
4 5 (4.03%) PMO
5 4 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.42%) GDPR
6 3 (2.42%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.03%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.61%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (1.61%) CSIRT
2 2 (1.61%) Grafana
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.61%) SCCM
3 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (29.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.68%) Cisco
3 11 (8.87%) ServiceNow
4 10 (8.06%) CheckPoint
4 10 (8.06%) F5
5 8 (6.45%) Alteryx
5 8 (6.45%) Anaplan
6 7 (5.65%) iManage
6 7 (5.65%) UiPath
7 5 (4.03%) GoldenSource
7 5 (4.03%) SAP
8 4 (3.23%) Arista
8 4 (3.23%) Blue Prism
8 4 (3.23%) Intapp
8 4 (3.23%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.23%) Pega
8 4 (3.23%) Qualys
9 3 (2.42%) Carbon Black
9 3 (2.42%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.42%) Darktrace