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 14 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 255 294
Rank change year-on-year +30 +39 -44
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 102 39 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.60% 0.44% 0.40%
As % of the General category 1.33% 0.66% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 68 24 41
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,275 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £59,625 £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 £79,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £93,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -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 general skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 7,643 5,879 7,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 44.77% 66.75% 53.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,992 2,685 4,222
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £64,703
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £78,750
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 14 August 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 14 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
Thames Valley +42 41 £50,000 -41.18% 13
Surrey -5 32 £47,500 -29.63% 7
Berkshire - 25 £56,250 - 4
Hampshire -33 23 £50,000 -35.48% 12
Buckinghamshire +11 11 £36,500 -57.06% 8
Kent -23 7 £52,500 +75.00% 4
Oxfordshire -18 5 £52,500 - 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 13 (12.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.31%) Azure
2 21 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (10.78%) SaaS
4 10 (9.80%) AWS
5 9 (8.82%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.84%) Azure Stack
7 7 (6.86%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.88%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (3.92%) Mimecast
9 4 (3.92%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.94%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.96%) ClickUp
11 2 (1.96%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.98%) GCP
12 1 (0.98%) GitHub
12 1 (0.98%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.59%) Firewall
2 14 (13.73%) VPN
3 13 (12.75%) DNS
4 11 (10.78%) LAN
4 11 (10.78%) Network Security
4 11 (10.78%) WAN
4 11 (10.78%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (10.78%) Wireless
5 8 (7.84%) SD-WAN
6 6 (5.88%) BGP
6 6 (5.88%) OSPF
6 6 (5.88%) TCP/IP
6 6 (5.88%) VLAN
6 6 (5.88%) VoIP
7 5 (4.90%) NAS
8 4 (3.92%) DHCP
8 4 (3.92%) SAN
9 3 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (2.94%) IPsec
9 3 (2.94%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.88%) Power BI
3 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.96%) Metadata
4 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (10.78%) Git
2 10 (9.80%) GitLab
3 9 (8.82%) JIRA
4 2 (1.96%) Postman
4 2 (1.96%) Rational DOORS
General
1 68 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.75%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (9.80%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (8.82%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.88%) Finance
8 5 (4.90%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.92%) Electronics
10 3 (2.94%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.96%) Legal
11 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.96%) Retail
12 1 (0.98%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 22 (21.57%) Analyst
2 14 (13.73%) IT Engineer
2 14 (13.73%) Support Analyst
3 13 (12.75%) Support Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) IT Support
4 12 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 11 (10.78%) Lead
5 11 (10.78%) Senior
6 10 (9.80%) Applications Support
6 10 (9.80%) Applications Support Analyst
6 10 (9.80%) Network Engineer
7 9 (8.82%) Consultant
8 7 (6.86%) Senior IT Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Senior IT Support
8 7 (6.86%) Senior Support Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Administrator
9 6 (5.88%) Site Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.92%) Jinja
2 4 (3.92%) JSON
2 4 (3.92%) YAML
3 3 (2.94%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.94%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (1.96%) REST
5 1 (0.98%) .NET
5 1 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.98%) Kafka
5 1 (0.98%) Node.js
5 1 (0.98%) OLE
5 1 (0.98%) React
5 1 (0.98%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) PKI
2 8 (7.84%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.86%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.90%) IoT
5 5 (4.90%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.92%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.96%) CCTV
8 2 (1.96%) Clustering
8 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.96%) Wiki
9 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.98%) Life Science
9 1 (0.98%) LIMS
9 1 (0.98%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.98%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 37 (36.27%) Windows
2 27 (26.47%) Windows Server
3 15 (14.71%) Linux
4 8 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.88%) CentOS
5 6 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 6 (5.88%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.94%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 29 (28.43%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (20.59%) Change Management
4 17 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 16 (15.69%) ITIL
6 14 (13.73%) Agile
6 14 (13.73%) CI/CD
6 14 (13.73%) ITSM
7 13 (12.75%) DevOps
8 11 (10.78%) Presales
8 11 (10.78%) Process Improvement
8 11 (10.78%) Project Delivery
8 11 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (10.78%) Task Automation
9 10 (9.80%) Incident Management
10 9 (8.82%) Customer Service
10 9 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (6.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.65%) Python
2 15 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.86%) Bash
3 7 (6.86%) SQL
4 5 (4.90%) C
4 5 (4.90%) C++
5 4 (3.92%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.92%) PHP
6 2 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.98%) Ada
7 1 (0.98%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.75%) Degree
3 6 (5.88%) CCNA
3 6 (5.88%) CCNP
3 6 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.94%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.94%) HND
6 2 (1.96%) ACCA
6 2 (1.96%) CIMA
7 1 (0.98%) CBAP
7 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (8.82%) SLA
3 6 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.94%) Def Stans
6 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (2.94%) QA
7 2 (1.96%) GDPR
7 2 (1.96%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.96%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.96%) NCSC
7 2 (1.96%) NIST
7 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.98%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (22.55%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 10 (9.80%) Docker
4 8 (7.84%) Firmware
4 8 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.92%) vSphere
7 3 (2.94%) BitLocker
7 3 (2.94%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (7.84%) Terraform
3 7 (6.86%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.88%) Ansible
4 6 (5.88%) FortiGate
4 6 (5.88%) Nagios
5 5 (4.90%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.92%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (3.92%) Podman
7 2 (1.96%) SCCM
7 2 (1.96%) VxRail
7 2 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.71%) Cisco
2 15 (14.71%) Fortinet
3 10 (9.80%) VMware
4 8 (7.84%) Aruba
4 8 (7.84%) Juniper
5 7 (6.86%) Palo Alto
5 7 (6.86%) Sophos
6 6 (5.88%) Splunk
7 4 (3.92%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (3.92%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.92%) Veeam
8 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.94%) Symantec
8 3 (2.94%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (1.96%) Adaptive Insights
9 2 (1.96%) Databricks
9 2 (1.96%) NetApp
9 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.96%) Workday