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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 345 325
Rank change year-on-year +101 -20 +104
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 134 98 133
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.01% 0.58% 0.72%
As % of the General category 1.43% 0.81% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 74 61 115
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £45,500
25th Percentile £56,563 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £89,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -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 common skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,338 12,101 12,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 70.65% 71.59% 67.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,707 6,893 9,810
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -0.83%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +64 35 £80,000 +10.34% 7
East London - 5 £77,500 -
South London +22 2 £77,500 +6.90% 4
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 (5.97%) Confluence
1 8 (5.97%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
Applications
1 21 (15.67%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (10.45%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.24%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.49%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) Endur
4 1 (0.75%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.58%) Azure
2 18 (13.43%) Power Platform
3 17 (12.69%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (11.94%) AWS
5 8 (5.97%) SaaS
6 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.48%) ChatGPT
7 6 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (4.48%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.99%) dbt
9 4 (2.99%) GitHub
9 4 (2.99%) PaaS
10 3 (2.24%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.24%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.43%) Firewall
2 17 (12.69%) LAN
3 11 (8.21%) Network Security
4 6 (4.48%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (3.73%) BGP
5 5 (3.73%) NX-OS
5 5 (3.73%) OSPF
6 4 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.99%) WAN
7 3 (2.24%) Intranet
8 2 (1.49%) DNS
8 2 (1.49%) Multicast
8 2 (1.49%) VPN
8 2 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.75%) DHCP
9 1 (0.75%) Junos
9 1 (0.75%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.75%) VLAN
9 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.94%) Power BI
2 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.48%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.99%) Metabase
6 2 (1.49%) Metadata
6 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.75%) Big Data
7 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.75%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (6.72%) JIRA
2 4 (2.99%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.49%) Git
3 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.49%) Selenium
3 2 (1.49%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.75%) Burp Suite
General
1 66 (49.25%) Finance
2 65 (48.51%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.67%) Legal
5 20 (14.93%) Banking
6 12 (8.96%) Retail
7 11 (8.21%) Advertising
8 9 (6.72%) Law
9 8 (5.97%) Back Office
10 7 (5.22%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.99%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.99%) Marketing
11 4 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.24%) Publishing
13 2 (1.49%) Front Office
13 2 (1.49%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.75%) Billing
14 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (31.34%) Analyst
2 23 (17.16%) Business Analyst
3 21 (15.67%) Lead
4 17 (12.69%) Network Engineer
5 14 (10.45%) Senior
6 13 (9.70%) Architect
7 12 (8.96%) IT Analyst
8 9 (6.72%) Designer
9 8 (5.97%) Business IT Analyst
9 8 (5.97%) Deployment Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) IT Business Analyst
9 8 (5.97%) Lead Designer
9 8 (5.97%) Network Deployment Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Security Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Solutions Designer
10 7 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.48%) Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Project Manager
11 6 (4.48%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) XML
2 2 (1.49%) JSON
2 2 (1.49%) Kafka
2 2 (1.49%) Middleware
2 2 (1.49%) REST
2 2 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.75%) EDI
3 1 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.75%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.75%) HTML
3 1 (0.75%) JAX
3 1 (0.75%) JMS
3 1 (0.75%) NumPy
3 1 (0.75%) Pandas
3 1 (0.75%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.75%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) CMDB
2 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (5.22%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.22%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.73%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.99%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.99%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.99%) NHS
7 3 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.24%) Digital Media
7 3 (2.24%) IoT
7 3 (2.24%) Replication
7 3 (2.24%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.22%) Linux
2 5 (3.73%) Windows
3 2 (1.49%) Unix
4 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 32 (23.88%) Agile
3 24 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (15.67%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (15.67%) Change Management
4 21 (15.67%) Inventory Management
5 20 (14.93%) Business Analysis
6 19 (14.18%) Analytics
6 19 (14.18%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (14.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 18 (13.43%) Project Management
8 17 (12.69%) User Stories
9 16 (11.94%) Incident Response
9 16 (11.94%) Roadmaps
9 16 (11.94%) Security Architecture
9 16 (11.94%) Validation
10 14 (10.45%) Data Analysis
10 14 (10.45%) Migration
10 14 (10.45%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.45%) SQL
2 7 (5.22%) Java
3 6 (4.48%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.73%) C#
4 5 (3.73%) Python
5 4 (2.99%) C
5 4 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.99%) VBA
6 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.49%) PHP
8 1 (0.75%) C++
8 1 (0.75%) Go
8 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (29.10%) Degree
2 22 (16.42%) CISSP
3 16 (11.94%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (10.45%) CCNP
5 13 (9.70%) CISM
6 12 (8.96%) CCIE
7 8 (5.97%) CCSA
7 8 (5.97%) CCSE
8 5 (3.73%) CISA
8 5 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.73%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (2.99%) CEH
9 4 (2.99%) IIBA
9 4 (2.99%) Novell Certification
9 4 (2.99%) PMI Certification
9 4 (2.99%) PMP
10 3 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.49%) CFA
11 2 (1.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (5.97%) NIST
4 7 (5.22%) MiFID
5 6 (4.48%) SOC 2
6 5 (3.73%) PMO
7 4 (2.99%) ISO 9001
7 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (2.24%) GDPR
8 3 (2.24%) GRC
8 3 (2.24%) QA
9 2 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.49%) UCITS
10 1 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.75%) PERC
10 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.75%) Docker
3 1 (0.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.99%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 4 (2.99%) CSIRT
1 4 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.24%) Grafana
3 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.19%) Cisco
3 13 (9.70%) CheckPoint
3 13 (9.70%) F5
4 7 (5.22%) iManage
5 5 (3.73%) Arista
5 5 (3.73%) Carbon Black
5 5 (3.73%) Darktrace
5 5 (3.73%) GoldenSource
5 5 (3.73%) Intapp
5 5 (3.73%) Qualys
5 5 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.99%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.99%) Anaplan
6 4 (2.99%) Blue Prism
6 4 (2.99%) BMC
6 4 (2.99%) Oracle
6 4 (2.99%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.99%) Pega
6 4 (2.99%) SAP