Documentation Skills Job Trends in the North of England

Documentation Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 230 288
Rank change year-on-year -46 +58 +7
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 81 72 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.36% 0.75% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.88% 1.11% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 50 63 33
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,750 -
25th Percentile £34,813 £35,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +15.65% -18.33%
75th Percentile £58,750 £48,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £76,875 £62,000 £57,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%

All General Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,249 6,490 8,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 41.57% 67.31% 54.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,190 2,883 4,895
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £27,270
25th Percentile £36,685 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the North of England

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the North of England

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West +21 56 £55,000 +29.41% 19
Yorkshire -50 21 £57,500 +35.29% 5
North East -64 4 £45,000 +80.00% 3
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (9.88%) IIS
2 6 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (2.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.47%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (2.47%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (2.47%) Infor LN
3 1 (1.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.23%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.23%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.33%) Azure
2 18 (22.22%) AWS
3 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.35%) Entra ID
5 7 (8.64%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (7.41%) GitHub
7 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.47%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.47%) Route 53
8 2 (2.47%) SaaS
9 1 (1.23%) dbt
9 1 (1.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.75%) DNS
2 14 (17.28%) DHCP
2 14 (17.28%) TCP/IP
3 11 (13.58%) Firewall
4 10 (12.35%) VPN
5 9 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (6.17%) HTTP
7 1 (1.23%) DMZ
7 1 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.23%) STUN
7 1 (1.23%) VLAN
7 1 (1.23%) VoIP
7 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.64%) Power BI
3 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.47%) Redis
5 1 (1.23%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.23%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Postman
2 2 (2.47%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) Selenium
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 40 (49.38%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.41%) Marketing
4 4 (4.94%) Finance
4 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Law
6 2 (2.47%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.47%) Electronics
6 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Banking
7 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Analyst
2 15 (18.52%) Senior
3 14 (17.28%) Support Engineer
3 14 (17.28%) Systems Analyst
4 11 (13.58%) Support Analyst
5 10 (12.35%) Systems Support
5 10 (12.35%) Systems Support Analyst
6 9 (11.11%) Security Engineer
6 9 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
6 9 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 9 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) HR Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) IT Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) IT Support
7 5 (6.17%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Lead
8 4 (4.94%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Pensions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) Middleware
2 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
2 5 (6.17%) CSS
2 5 (6.17%) HTML
2 5 (6.17%) Node.js
3 2 (2.47%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.47%) REST
3 2 (2.47%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.23%) Blazor
4 1 (1.23%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (1.23%) SAML
4 1 (1.23%) Web Services
4 1 (1.23%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Driving Licence
2 12 (14.81%) Onboarding
3 9 (11.11%) CCTV
4 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
6 5 (6.17%) Management Information System
6 5 (6.17%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (6.17%) Online Gambling
6 5 (6.17%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.23%) Life Science
8 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) Windows
2 10 (12.35%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.17%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.94%) Linux
5 2 (2.47%) Android
5 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.47%) Unix
6 1 (1.23%) CentOS
6 1 (1.23%) Debian
6 1 (1.23%) Solaris
6 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (17.28%) High Availability
3 14 (17.28%) Validation
4 12 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (13.58%) Analytics
5 11 (13.58%) Information Security
6 10 (12.35%) Business Continuity
7 9 (11.11%) Agile
7 9 (11.11%) Change Management
7 9 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 9 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 9 (11.11%) Migration
7 9 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
7 9 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 9 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (9.88%) Data Cleansing
8 8 (9.88%) Server Monitoring
8 8 (9.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.86%) SQL
2 14 (17.28%) PowerShell
3 11 (13.58%) Python
4 5 (6.17%) Java
4 5 (6.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.47%) Bash
5 2 (2.47%) Go
5 2 (2.47%) VBA
6 1 (1.23%) ABAP
6 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.23%) Groovy
6 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (7.41%) Degree
2 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.47%) AAT
3 2 (2.47%) ACCA
3 2 (2.47%) CIMA
3 2 (2.47%) ICAEW
3 2 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.23%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.23%) HND
4 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.23%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.23%) RHCE
4 1 (1.23%) RHCSA
4 1 (1.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 9 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.23%) Docker
4 1 (1.23%) KVM
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.23%) Puppet
2 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.35%) Cisco
2 10 (12.35%) VMware
3 5 (6.17%) Adobe
4 3 (3.70%) SAP
5 2 (2.47%) Infor
5 2 (2.47%) Sage
6 1 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.23%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.23%) Epicor
6 1 (1.23%) Freshdesk
6 1 (1.23%) Pega
6 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.23%) Thales