Documentation Skills Job Trends in the Midlands

Documentation Skills
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 183 238
Rank change year-on-year -8 +55 -15
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 64 52 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.44% 0.90% 0.58%
As % of the General category 1.01% 1.40% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 47 32 58
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £23,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £25,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,313 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £69,750 £66,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 6,346 3,715 5,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.02% 64.64% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,048 2,131 3,117
10th Percentile £28,710 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,437 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £62,750 £62,500 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Documentation Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the Midlands

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
West Midlands -18 39 £54,500 +11.22% 25
East Midlands -11 25 £60,000 +54.84% 13
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 7 (10.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.56%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (4.69%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (4.69%) Infor LN
2 3 (4.69%) Infor M3
2 3 (4.69%) Sage X3
3 1 (1.56%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.19%) SaaS
2 10 (15.63%) Azure
3 7 (10.94%) Boomi
4 6 (9.38%) iPaaS
4 6 (9.38%) Lucidchart
4 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.38%) Workato
5 4 (6.25%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.56%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.56%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) DNS
1 5 (7.81%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.25%) VPN
3 3 (4.69%) DHCP
3 3 (4.69%) Firewall
3 3 (4.69%) VLAN
4 2 (3.13%) BGP
4 2 (3.13%) OSPF
4 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.13%) WAN
5 1 (1.56%) Network Security
5 1 (1.56%) NGFW
5 1 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.56%) SAN
5 1 (1.56%) SMS
5 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Bugzilla
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.56%) Hudson
2 1 (1.56%) JMeter
2 1 (1.56%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (64.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.44%) Manufacturing
3 13 (20.31%) Finance
4 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (14.06%) Legal
6 7 (10.94%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (9.38%) Aerospace
8 5 (7.81%) Advertising
8 5 (7.81%) Marketing
9 4 (6.25%) Front Office
9 4 (6.25%) Military
10 3 (4.69%) Law
10 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.56%) Electronics
12 1 (1.56%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 11 (17.19%) Analyst
2 10 (15.63%) Senior
3 7 (10.94%) Applications Support
3 7 (10.94%) Applications Support Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) ERP Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) ERP Support
3 7 (10.94%) Support Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Junior
4 6 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Junior Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Junior Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Support Technician
6 4 (6.25%) Service Manager
7 3 (4.69%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) REST
2 6 (9.38%) SOAP
3 3 (4.69%) EDI
4 1 (1.56%) .NET
4 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (7.81%) Mobile Computing
3 4 (6.25%) CMDB
3 4 (6.25%) Culture of Ownership
3 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.69%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.69%) FMCG
4 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) CCTV
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.56%) EPoS
5 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Windows
2 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (23.44%) Agile
4 11 (17.19%) ITIL
5 10 (15.63%) ERP
5 10 (15.63%) Requirements Gathering
6 9 (14.06%) Presales
7 8 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (10.94%) Business Analysis
8 7 (10.94%) Data Governance
8 7 (10.94%) Event-Driven
8 7 (10.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (10.94%) Incident Management
8 7 (10.94%) Service Delivery
9 6 (9.38%) API Design
9 6 (9.38%) Data Transformation
9 6 (9.38%) Mentoring
9 6 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
1 3 (4.69%) SQL
2 2 (3.13%) Bash
2 2 (3.13%) Bicep
2 2 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (1.56%) C
3 1 (1.56%) C#
3 1 (1.56%) Groovy
3 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.56%) PHP
3 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.56%) VB
3 1 (1.56%) VB6
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Degree
2 11 (17.19%) Security Cleared
3 9 (14.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.69%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.56%) CCNA
7 1 (1.56%) CCNP
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CISM
7 1 (1.56%) CISSP
7 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.56%) HND
7 1 (1.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.56%) GDPR
1 1 (1.56%) GRC
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Firmware
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Terraform
2 2 (3.13%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Argo
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.19%) SAP
3 6 (9.38%) MuleSoft
3 6 (9.38%) Salesforce
3 6 (9.38%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.25%) Google
4 4 (6.25%) HubSpot
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle
4 4 (6.25%) VMware
5 3 (4.69%) Epicor
5 3 (4.69%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.69%) IFS
5 3 (4.69%) Infor
5 3 (4.69%) QAD
5 3 (4.69%) Sage
5 3 (4.69%) SYSPRO
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco
6 2 (3.13%) Dell
7 1 (1.56%) New Relic
7 1 (1.56%) Veeam