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 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 289 211
Rank change year-on-year +89 -78 +142
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 71 22 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.81% 0.20% 0.87%
As % of the General category 1.29% 0.36% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45 5 51
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,050 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £25,500 £37,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £51,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £61,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -4.35%

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 common skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,494 6,112 4,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 62.87% 54.27% 61.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,074 2,684 3,064
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,825 £28,530
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,887 £54,918 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +4.60% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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
Surrey +49 31 £45,000 -5.26% 13
Hampshire +55 19 £54,250 +112.75% 19
Thames Valley +13 13 £47,500 -26.92% 65
Berkshire +3 10 £35,000 - 51
Kent +19 6 £51,250 +97.12% 1
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £76,250 - 9
Oxfordshire +27 1 - - 5
East Sussex +14 1 £70,000 +75.00% 4
Middlesex - 1 - -
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 8 (11.27%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.23%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) IIS
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.41%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (21.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) SAP EHS
1 3 (4.23%) SAP IBP
1 3 (4.23%) SAP PP
1 3 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.82%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (19.72%) Azure
3 7 (9.86%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.63%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.23%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.41%) IaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) VPN
2 4 (5.63%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (5.63%) Firewall
3 3 (4.23%) BGP
3 3 (4.23%) MPLS
3 3 (4.23%) Wireless
3 3 (4.23%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.82%) DNS
5 1 (1.41%) DHCP
5 1 (1.41%) Internet
5 1 (1.41%) LAN
5 1 (1.41%) NAS
5 1 (1.41%) PBX
5 1 (1.41%) SAN
5 1 (1.41%) SMTP
5 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.41%) VLAN
5 1 (1.41%) VoIP
5 1 (1.41%) WAN
5 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Postman
2 3 (4.23%) JIRA
General
1 33 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (7.04%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.63%) Avionics
5 4 (5.63%) Finance
5 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.23%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.23%) Retail
7 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Advertising
8 1 (1.41%) Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Games
8 1 (1.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (36.62%) Analyst
2 12 (16.90%) Service Analyst
2 12 (16.90%) Service Desk Analyst
3 11 (15.49%) Senior
4 6 (8.45%) Consultant
4 6 (8.45%) Service Manager
4 6 (8.45%) Technical Manager
4 6 (8.45%) Technical Services Manager
5 5 (7.04%) 1st Line Support
5 5 (7.04%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Lead
5 5 (7.04%) Security Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Hardware Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) IT Support
6 4 (5.63%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) QA Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Security Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Graph
1 4 (5.63%) OAuth
1 4 (5.63%) OAuth2
1 4 (5.63%) OpenID
1 4 (5.63%) SAML
2 1 (1.41%) .NET
2 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.41%) OpenAPI
2 1 (1.41%) REST
2 1 (1.41%) Swagger
2 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.63%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.82%) IoT
5 2 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.41%) FPGA
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.41%) PCIe
6 1 (1.41%) PKI
6 1 (1.41%) Smart City
6 1 (1.41%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.76%) Windows
2 4 (5.63%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.41%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.41%) Unix
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) ITIL
2 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (19.72%) Agile
4 13 (18.31%) Customer Service
5 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (14.08%) Service Delivery
6 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (11.27%) ITSM
8 7 (9.86%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.45%) Incident Response
9 6 (8.45%) Logistics
9 6 (8.45%) Validation
9 6 (8.45%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (7.04%) CI/CD
10 5 (7.04%) CRM
10 5 (7.04%) Project Delivery
10 5 (7.04%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (7.04%) Test Strategy
11 4 (5.63%) Scrum
11 4 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.04%) C#
3 4 (5.63%) SQL
4 2 (2.82%) Python
5 1 (1.41%) Bash
5 1 (1.41%) Bicep
5 1 (1.41%) Perl
5 1 (1.41%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) DV Cleared
3 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.63%) HNC
5 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.23%) Degree
6 2 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.82%) CISM
6 2 (2.82%) CISSP
6 2 (2.82%) CRISC
6 2 (2.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (2.82%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.41%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.31%) SLA
2 7 (9.86%) QA
3 5 (7.04%) GDPR
4 4 (5.63%) JSP 440
5 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.82%) GRC
6 2 (2.82%) NIST
6 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.41%) PMO
7 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (30.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (18.31%) SCCM
2 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.23%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.41%) AirWatch
5 1 (1.41%) Ansible
5 1 (1.41%) Nessus
5 1 (1.41%) Netcool
5 1 (1.41%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (1.41%) SCOM
5 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (38.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) Cisco
2 5 (7.04%) Juniper
3 4 (5.63%) Fortinet
4 3 (4.23%) Aruba
4 3 (4.23%) SAP
5 2 (2.82%) Blue Prism
5 2 (2.82%) Pega
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.82%) VMware
5 2 (2.82%) Workday
6 1 (1.41%) Commvault
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) Mitel
6 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.41%) Veeam
6 1 (1.41%) Veritas