Documentation Skills Job Trends in the South East

Documentation Skills
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 264 287
Rank change year-on-year +54 +23 -40
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 111 31 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.69% 0.36% 0.48%
As % of the General category 1.54% 0.53% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 75 22 52
10th Percentile £34,100 £41,250 £28,775
25th Percentile £43,750 £63,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +70.59% -15.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £78,438 £66,563
90th Percentile £69,950 £93,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -12.28%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 7,197 5,804 7,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 44.51% 66.84% 53.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,670 2,614 4,762
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,313 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,881
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.77% -4.99%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £79,625 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the South East

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Thames Valley +45 44 £52,500 +16.67% 13
Surrey -2 33 £47,500 -32.14% 10
Berkshire +46 28 £57,500 +27.78% 4
Hampshire -27 25 £50,000 -35.48% 14
Buckinghamshire - 11 £36,500 - 3
Kent -21 10 £50,000 +66.67% 5
Oxfordshire -11 5 £52,500 - 6
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.90%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.90%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.43%) Azure
2 27 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (10.81%) SaaS
4 10 (9.01%) Entra ID
5 9 (8.11%) AWS
5 9 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.21%) Azure Stack
7 6 (5.41%) Power Automate
8 5 (4.50%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.60%) ClickUp
9 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (3.60%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.70%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.90%) GCP
12 1 (0.90%) GitHub
12 1 (0.90%) Route 53
12 1 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.82%) Firewall
2 17 (15.32%) VPN
3 16 (14.41%) DNS
4 11 (9.91%) LAN
4 11 (9.91%) Network Security
4 11 (9.91%) WAN
4 11 (9.91%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (9.91%) Wireless
5 9 (8.11%) VLAN
6 8 (7.21%) SD-WAN
7 7 (6.31%) DHCP
8 6 (5.41%) BGP
8 6 (5.41%) OSPF
8 6 (5.41%) TCP/IP
8 6 (5.41%) VoIP
9 5 (4.50%) NAS
10 4 (3.60%) SAN
11 3 (2.70%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (2.70%) IPsec
11 3 (2.70%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.21%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.41%) Power BI
3 2 (1.80%) Metadata
4 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Git
2 12 (10.81%) GitLab
3 9 (8.11%) JIRA
4 2 (1.80%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.90%) Postman
General
1 73 (65.77%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.71%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Telecoms
5 9 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.41%) Finance
7 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.50%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.60%) Electronics
8 4 (3.60%) Retail
9 3 (2.70%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Legal
11 1 (0.90%) Automotive
11 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Analyst
2 16 (14.41%) Support Analyst
3 15 (13.51%) IT Support
4 14 (12.61%) IT Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) Support Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) Applications Support
6 12 (10.81%) Applications Support Analyst
6 12 (10.81%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (9.91%) Network Engineer
8 10 (9.01%) Lead
8 10 (9.01%) Senior
9 9 (8.11%) Consultant
10 7 (6.31%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (6.31%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Senior IT Support
10 7 (6.31%) Senior Support Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Site Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.50%) Jinja
2 5 (4.50%) JSON
2 5 (4.50%) YAML
3 3 (2.70%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (0.90%) .NET
4 1 (0.90%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.90%) Kafka
4 1 (0.90%) Node.js
4 1 (0.90%) OLE
4 1 (0.90%) React
4 1 (0.90%) REST
4 1 (0.90%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) PKI
2 8 (7.21%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.31%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.31%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.60%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.60%) IoT
5 4 (3.60%) Wiki
6 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.90%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.90%) CCTV
8 1 (0.90%) Clustering
8 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.90%) Life Science
8 1 (0.90%) LIMS
8 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (38.74%) Windows
2 32 (28.83%) Windows Server
3 18 (16.22%) Linux
4 9 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (6.31%) CentOS
5 7 (6.31%) Ubuntu
6 6 (5.41%) Windows 10
7 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.70%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (27.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (20.72%) Change Management
4 19 (17.12%) ITIL
5 17 (15.32%) Agile
6 16 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (14.41%) ITSM
7 15 (13.51%) CI/CD
8 13 (11.71%) DevOps
9 12 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (10.81%) Incident Management
9 12 (10.81%) Task Automation
10 11 (9.91%) Process Improvement
10 11 (9.91%) Project Delivery
11 10 (9.01%) Customer Service
11 10 (9.01%) Presales
11 10 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (7.21%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.02%) Python
2 15 (13.51%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.21%) Bash
4 6 (5.41%) SQL
5 5 (4.50%) C
5 5 (4.50%) C++
5 5 (4.50%) PHP
6 4 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.90%) ABAP
8 1 (0.90%) Ada
8 1 (0.90%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.61%) Degree
3 6 (5.41%) CCNA
3 6 (5.41%) CCNP
3 6 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.70%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.70%) HND
7 1 (0.90%) ACCA
7 1 (0.90%) CBAP
7 1 (0.90%) CIMA
7 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (9.01%) SLA
2 6 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.70%) Def Stans
5 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (2.70%) QA
6 2 (1.80%) GDPR
6 2 (1.80%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.80%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.80%) NCSC
6 2 (1.80%) NIST
6 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.90%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (26.13%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.51%) Hyper-V
3 11 (9.91%) Docker
4 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (5.41%) Firmware
6 4 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.70%) BitLocker
7 3 (2.70%) Terminal Services
7 3 (2.70%) vSphere
8 1 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.11%) Terraform
3 8 (7.21%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.31%) Ansible
4 7 (6.31%) Nagios
5 6 (5.41%) FortiGate
6 5 (4.50%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (4.50%) Podman
7 4 (3.60%) vCenter Server
7 4 (3.60%) ZABBIX
8 3 (2.70%) Backup Exec
8 3 (2.70%) SCCM
9 1 (0.90%) Netcool
9 1 (0.90%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.41%) Cisco
3 15 (13.51%) Fortinet
4 9 (8.11%) VMware
5 8 (7.21%) Aruba
5 8 (7.21%) Juniper
6 7 (6.31%) Palo Alto
6 7 (6.31%) Sophos
6 7 (6.31%) Splunk
7 6 (5.41%) Veeam
8 5 (4.50%) Red Hat
9 4 (3.60%) Barracuda Networks
9 4 (3.60%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.70%) Symantec
10 3 (2.70%) Ubiquiti
11 2 (1.80%) Databricks
11 2 (1.80%) NetApp
11 2 (1.80%) Workday