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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 254 271
Rank change year-on-year +41 +17 -17
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 105 30 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.66% 0.35% 0.55%
As % of the General category 1.49% 0.52% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 72 22 66
10th Percentile £31,775 £41,250 £29,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £63,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +49.48% -3.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £78,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,550 £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 7,063 5,772 8,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 44.32% 66.94% 54.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,587 2,544 5,196
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,043
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,125
% change year-on-year - +1.62% -9.79%

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 21 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 21 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 +56 43 £50,000 +11.11% 19
Surrey 0 29 £47,500 -32.14% 10
Berkshire +47 28 £57,500 +27.78% 3
Hampshire -19 24 £50,000 -35.48% 11
Buckinghamshire - 11 £36,500 - 5
Kent -19 9 £47,500 +58.33% 4
Oxfordshire -11 4 £52,500 - 11
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 19 (18.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (12.38%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.95%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.48%) Azure
2 28 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (10.48%) Entra ID
4 10 (9.52%) SaaS
5 9 (8.57%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.62%) AWS
7 7 (6.67%) Azure Stack
8 6 (5.71%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.76%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.81%) ClickUp
10 4 (3.81%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.86%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.95%) GCP
12 1 (0.95%) GitHub
12 1 (0.95%) Route 53
12 1 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.00%) Firewall
2 17 (16.19%) VPN
3 16 (15.24%) DNS
4 10 (9.52%) LAN
4 10 (9.52%) Network Security
4 10 (9.52%) WAN
4 10 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (9.52%) Wireless
5 9 (8.57%) VLAN
6 7 (6.67%) DHCP
6 7 (6.67%) SD-WAN
7 6 (5.71%) VoIP
8 5 (4.76%) BGP
8 5 (4.76%) NAS
8 5 (4.76%) OSPF
8 5 (4.76%) TCP/IP
9 4 (3.81%) SAN
10 3 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (2.86%) IPsec
10 3 (2.86%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.71%) Power BI
3 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.95%) Metadata
3 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Git
2 12 (11.43%) GitLab
3 8 (7.62%) JIRA
4 2 (1.90%) Rational DOORS
General
1 67 (63.81%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (10.48%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.62%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.81%) Electronics
7 4 (3.81%) Finance
7 4 (3.81%) Retail
8 3 (2.86%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Legal
10 1 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 24 (22.86%) Analyst
2 16 (15.24%) IT Support
2 16 (15.24%) Support Analyst
3 14 (13.33%) IT Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) Support Engineer
5 12 (11.43%) Applications Support
5 12 (11.43%) Applications Support Analyst
5 12 (11.43%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (9.52%) Network Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Senior
8 8 (7.62%) Consultant
8 8 (7.62%) Lead
9 7 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (6.67%) Senior IT Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Senior IT Support
9 7 (6.67%) Senior Support Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Site Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.76%) Jinja
2 5 (4.76%) JSON
2 5 (4.76%) YAML
3 3 (2.86%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (0.95%) .NET
4 1 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.95%) Kafka
4 1 (0.95%) Node.js
4 1 (0.95%) OLE
4 1 (0.95%) React
4 1 (0.95%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) PKI
2 8 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.81%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.81%) Wiki
6 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.86%) IoT
6 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.95%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.95%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.95%) Life Science
8 1 (0.95%) LIMS
8 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (40.95%) Windows
2 32 (30.48%) Windows Server
3 18 (17.14%) Linux
4 9 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (6.67%) CentOS
5 7 (6.67%) Ubuntu
6 6 (5.71%) Windows 10
7 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.86%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (27.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (20.95%) Change Management
4 18 (17.14%) ITIL
5 16 (15.24%) Agile
6 15 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (14.29%) ITSM
7 14 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 13 (12.38%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (11.43%) Incident Management
9 12 (11.43%) Task Automation
10 11 (10.48%) DevOps
10 11 (10.48%) Process Improvement
11 10 (9.52%) Customer Service
11 10 (9.52%) Project Delivery
12 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.57%) Presales
13 8 (7.62%) API Integration
13 8 (7.62%) Root Cause Analysis
14 7 (6.67%) Data Centre Operations
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.05%) Python
2 14 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.62%) Bash
4 5 (4.76%) C
4 5 (4.76%) C++
4 5 (4.76%) PHP
4 5 (4.76%) SQL
5 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.95%) ABAP
7 1 (0.95%) Ada
7 1 (0.95%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.38%) Degree
3 5 (4.76%) CCNA
3 5 (4.76%) CCNP
3 5 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.86%) HND
5 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (9.52%) SLA
2 5 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.86%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (1.90%) GDPR
4 2 (1.90%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.90%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.90%) NCSC
4 2 (1.90%) NIST
4 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.90%) QA
5 1 (0.95%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 16 (15.24%) Hyper-V
3 11 (10.48%) Docker
4 6 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.81%) Firmware
6 3 (2.86%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.86%) Terminal Services
6 3 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.90%) vSphere
8 1 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (10.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.57%) Terraform
3 8 (7.62%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.67%) Ansible
4 7 (6.67%) Nagios
5 5 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (4.76%) FortiGate
5 5 (4.76%) Podman
6 4 (3.81%) Backup Exec
6 4 (3.81%) ZABBIX
7 3 (2.86%) SCCM
7 3 (2.86%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.95%) Netcool
8 1 (0.95%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 36 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.29%) Cisco
3 14 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 8 (7.62%) Aruba
4 8 (7.62%) Juniper
4 8 (7.62%) VMware
5 7 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 7 (6.67%) Sophos
5 7 (6.67%) Splunk
6 6 (5.71%) Veeam
7 5 (4.76%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.81%) Barracuda Networks
8 4 (3.81%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.86%) Symantec
9 3 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (1.90%) Citrix
10 2 (1.90%) IBM
10 2 (1.90%) NetApp
10 2 (1.90%) Salesforce