Documentation Skills Job Trends in Scotland

Documentation Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 145 167
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 +16
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 10 4 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.37% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.64% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £49,000 £30,634
25th Percentile £33,500 £51,250 £35,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £57,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +35.29% -29.17%
75th Percentile £36,500 £63,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - £66,000 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.06% +16.36% -8.33%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,559 1,871 2,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 57.44% 67.23% 76.64%
Number of salaries quoted 688 794 1,374
10th Percentile £25,659 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Scotland

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Edinburgh - 6 £35,000 - 3
Glasgow +22 4 - - 2
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) 802.11
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) HSRP
1 1 (10.00%) IPsec
1 1 (10.00%) OSPF
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Retail
3 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) Legal
4 2 (20.00%) Back Office
5 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 2 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Designer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics NAV Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Designer
3 2 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) NHS
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) OOP
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) C
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) CISM
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) CCNA
4 1 (10.00%) CCNP
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) ISO 9001
2 2 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Blue Prism
2 2 (20.00%) Pega
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco