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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 302 349
Rank change year-on-year +33 +47 +11
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 130 89 156
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.66% 0.69% 0.67%
As % of the General category 1.14% 0.91% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 77 53 133
10th Percentile £44,950 £50,000 £42,650
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,750 £60,000
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 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £96,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -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 11,399 9,757 15,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 58.12% 76.01% 67.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,990 5,649 11,334
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,975 £36,250
25th Percentile £54,250 £56,250 £51,027
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 £125,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.87%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +30 38 £75,000 -1.64% 6
East London - 2 £80,000 - 2
South London - 2 £38,500 -
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 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.77%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.77%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.77%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.77%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.77%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.77%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.77%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (48.46%) Azure
2 33 (25.38%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 19 (14.62%) Power Automate
5 16 (12.31%) dbt
6 14 (10.77%) AWS
7 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (7.69%) ChatGPT
8 10 (7.69%) Entra ID
9 9 (6.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (6.92%) PowerApps
10 8 (6.15%) PaaS
10 8 (6.15%) SaaS
11 3 (2.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.54%) GitHub
12 2 (1.54%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.92%) LAN
2 8 (6.15%) Firewall
3 7 (5.38%) WAN
4 6 (4.62%) Network Security
5 5 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (3.08%) DHCP
6 4 (3.08%) DNS
6 4 (3.08%) VLAN
7 2 (1.54%) Intranet
7 2 (1.54%) Multicast
7 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.54%) VPN
8 1 (0.77%) BGP
8 1 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.77%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.77%) NAS
8 1 (0.77%) OSPF
8 1 (0.77%) SAN
8 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.69%) Power BI
2 13 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (9.23%) Metabase
3 12 (9.23%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.46%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.62%) Metadata
6 4 (3.08%) Looker
7 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.77%) Big Data
8 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.77%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.77%) Power Query
8 1 (0.77%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (9.23%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.08%) Git
3 2 (1.54%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.54%) Selenium
3 2 (1.54%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.77%) GitLab
4 1 (0.77%) JIRA
General
1 73 (56.15%) Social Skills
2 55 (42.31%) Finance
3 30 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (18.46%) Banking
5 18 (13.85%) Retail
6 17 (13.08%) Legal
7 14 (10.77%) Law
8 9 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.08%) Back Office
9 4 (3.08%) Front Office
10 3 (2.31%) Billing
10 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.54%) Advertising
11 2 (1.54%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (27.69%) Analyst
2 20 (15.38%) Lead
3 17 (13.08%) IT Analyst
4 16 (12.31%) Architect
5 14 (10.77%) Business Analyst
5 14 (10.77%) Financial Analyst
6 13 (10.00%) Senior
7 12 (9.23%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 12 (9.23%) IT Support
7 12 (9.23%) IT Support Analyst
7 12 (9.23%) Support Analyst
7 12 (9.23%) Systems Analyst
7 12 (9.23%) Systems Support
7 12 (9.23%) Systems Support Analyst
8 9 (6.92%) Designer
8 9 (6.92%) Project Manager
8 9 (6.92%) Security Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) Consultant
9 8 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (6.15%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.31%) Middleware
2 2 (1.54%) JSON
2 2 (1.54%) REST
3 1 (0.77%) .NET
3 1 (0.77%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.77%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.77%) JAX
3 1 (0.77%) JMS
3 1 (0.77%) Kafka
3 1 (0.77%) NumPy
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.77%) Pandas
3 1 (0.77%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.77%) XGBoost
3 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (7.69%) Low-Code
3 8 (6.15%) AI Agents
3 8 (6.15%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.15%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.62%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.08%) Blog
6 4 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.08%) Equities
7 3 (2.31%) Derivative
7 3 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.54%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.54%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.38%) Windows
2 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.77%) Android
3 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.77%) CentOS
3 1 (0.77%) Linux
3 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 34 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (18.46%) Business Intelligence
5 22 (16.92%) Data Analysis
6 21 (16.15%) Analytics
7 20 (15.38%) Agile
8 19 (14.62%) Change Management
8 19 (14.62%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (13.85%) AI
10 17 (13.08%) Business Analysis
10 17 (13.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (12.31%) Data Modelling
12 15 (11.54%) Project Management
12 15 (11.54%) Security Architecture
13 14 (10.77%) Roadmaps
14 13 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (10.00%) ERP
14 13 (10.00%) Facilities Management
15 12 (9.23%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.08%) SQL
2 10 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.38%) Python
4 6 (4.62%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (3.85%) Java
6 4 (3.08%) VBA
7 1 (0.77%) Bash
7 1 (0.77%) C++
7 1 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.77%) R
7 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (18.46%) Degree
2 17 (13.08%) CISSP
3 10 (7.69%) CISM
4 8 (6.15%) IIBA
4 8 (6.15%) PMI Certification
4 8 (6.15%) PMP
5 7 (5.38%) CEH
6 5 (3.85%) CCIE
6 5 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.08%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.08%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.31%) MBA
9 2 (1.54%) CCDE
9 2 (1.54%) CCNP
9 2 (1.54%) CCSA
9 2 (1.54%) CCSE
9 2 (1.54%) CISA
9 2 (1.54%) FFIEC
9 2 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 7 (5.38%) SLA
3 6 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.08%) GRC
4 4 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.31%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.31%) MiFID
5 3 (2.31%) NIST
6 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.54%) QA
7 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.77%) GDPR
7 1 (0.77%) IFRS
7 1 (0.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (9.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.77%) KVM
3 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (3.85%) SCCM
3 4 (3.08%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.31%) Terraform
5 2 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.54%) Argo
5 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.77%) Ansible
6 1 (0.77%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.77%) Grafana
6 1 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.77%) Nagios
6 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.77%) Puppet
6 1 (0.77%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.46%) ServiceNow
3 10 (7.69%) iManage
4 8 (6.15%) Alteryx
4 8 (6.15%) Anaplan
5 7 (5.38%) UiPath
6 6 (4.62%) Cisco
7 4 (3.08%) Bloomberg
7 4 (3.08%) Blue Prism
7 4 (3.08%) Citrix
7 4 (3.08%) Nexthink
7 4 (3.08%) Pega
7 4 (3.08%) SAP
8 3 (2.31%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.31%) GoldenSource
8 3 (2.31%) Intapp
8 3 (2.31%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.31%) VMware
9 2 (1.54%) CheckPoint